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I think the decision to make the U21/23 rather than a reserve league has actually been detrimental to development. It's basically mollycoddling the players and they don't have experience of competitive first team football and so making that jump up is much harder. What do most clubs do with a...

It's something I really can't get my head around. Our crowds are pretty decent for the division yet our wage spending is always one of the lowest because we can't afford to spend more. So how come others can then? I think chances are most are spending beyond their means but then why aren't they...

They're non-league, but they're not part-time.

While I agree he isn't a great finisher and is quite predictable in how he plays, he is bloody good at what he does. I'd be fuming for less than £15m and would hope for £20m + sell-ons

Fair play to Wrexham. They had a go and didn't just sit back once they took the lead. They did the old gamesmaship of having cramp and timewasting near the end, which annoys you as afan on the opposite side but are livid if your own team don't do exactly that in the same position. They had...

It shows that a massive clearout is on the cards, but it's likely to be in the summer rather than now. Can't see any teams wanting to take on the contracts of players even if we let them leave for free. Even if the takeover happens, I think the amount of money available will be pretty minimal...

Didn't make much of an impact during his time on the pitch but feel for him with the injury. As soon as he went down I thought he'd done his achilles and that's got to really hamper someone who's main asset is their pace. He really needed a loan out to L2 or something to play regularly this...

I think it shows we need to have a massive squad overhaul in the summer. Kelly just isn't up to it anymore. Waghorn as well isn't having enough of an effect on games, certainly at his purported wages. Dabo I wonder if he'll ever be fully fit again and if he's not at peak fitness he's not good...

Well given our defending from set plays you can hardly blame him for thinking he'd seen definitive proof of fairies.

Fair play to them. For the first half and a bit I thought they looked the more dangerous side (partly because of our inability to defend) and they came to have a proper go. They didn't just score and sit back. Only when we'd pretty much got our first team on and they were getting tired did they...

This is the thing that people fail to take on board when they highlight the success of private medical care. These businesses deliberately limit their remit to particular specialist areas and pick and choose their clients/patients to extract the largest profit. If someone has a difficult or...

We tax things like smoking and alcohol quite heavily. For a similar reason I'd like to see many drugs legalised and heavily regulated and taxed. The problem is that that money is not ringfenced for health services to treat the problems it causes. We could argue we should add tax onto things...

Probably. And if you're carrying a minor knock and playing through the chances of that becoming a major knock increase massively as other structures are having to make up for the weakness caused by the minor injury.

Think it's on a permanent basis, so would be looking longer term. Wouldn't help with this season but good future planning. Could them use some of Gyok's fee for a more immediate replacement, either perm or on loan for the rest of the season.

I sort of agree, as we saw from Wrexham yesterday how effective having strikers in the box and decent delivery into them can cause problems. Vik likes to drift out wide and run at players, but doesn't tend to look up or try and play others in, so a strike partner is likely to not get a great...

It's far from perfect but I think overall it's better than it was a few years ago. A lot of the problems it has are just as bad as any other city/town. It could be better, but it could also be worse.

I didn't like that MR rested the likes of Gyok and Hamer at the start - I'd rather he start strong, get control of the game and then be able to rest them. But to use it as a means to say he should be fired immediately given what has happened overall in the last five years is utterly ludicrous...

Quite a lot of an NFL squad are seen as entirely dispensable. Don't know if they'd still be there the following week as they could just be cut. Even the big names can just be traded to whoever the team likes at a moments notice and the player has to just up sticks and get on with it. It's...

Bit easy when the answer is above each one. Though not sure how they all make Smash.

'Cos he's shit?