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This is the type of game that in the past I'd dread. We're on a decent run, they're on a bad one with injury problems etc - it'd all point to us being complacent, a poor performance and them winning. This season, not so much. The grit of the team is much stronger than I've seen it in decades...

As long as we fight until it is that's fine by me

Yep. I often find that team that do well are those that've largely stayed injury free. Of course we've had major injuries to Jobello, Jones hasn't played a part etc and the rest have been to U23/bit part players. Arguably this is an advantage compared to a series of short-term two-three weeks...

They're open to offers all the time. It's what a buyer is willing to pay and what SISU want. The two are never, and very unlikely ever will be, anywhere near each other. If we go up SISU's price will go up accordingly and buyers will baulk at it. Especially given the stadium situation. If SISU...

Yes, but a lot of that is in interest and accounting smoke and mirrors. What they're owed as actual cash they've put in is a lot less than that.

I agree that they need to spend more time focusing on solutions that just protests. Of course when you start telling people what to do they don't tend to like it. It's not like we've not heard these things from others before (inc. the governments they criticise so much). Whether they'd have...

That's been in there for sometime, caveated with the promise by the owners to put in additional funds if necessary. Just saying that if they don't the club is unlikely to be able to meet it's commitments, which is true and the auditors are duty bound to say as such in their report.

Yeah, really popular apparently. The phones are always buzzing. I'll get my coat.

One of my long term proposals is that you set your percentage of income that you can spend on wages etc so that larger teams with bigger revenues can spend more heavily and thus afford 'better' players on higher wages). Every player on a pro contract gets a basic wage based around 'fixed'...

'SISU' are topping up the cash year on year as necessary. If they stop, we go pop and their investment is worth nothing. When they've got investors on board, either in general or specifically for us, they'd have said a baseline RoI for them. So if they sell, they've got to meet those RoI's or...

Accounts are full of paper figures. Amortisation is literally just a paper figure used to represent assets falling in value over time rather than it being one massive hit when they're sold. TBH Profit/loss isn't an important figure in terms of performance - so many things you can change in...

Given his injury record he may as well base his moves on money rather than actual playing time. You don't bother showing him the training facilities or stadium - just the standard of the physio's room.

Wouldn't surprise me, but can't confirm or deny. Personally, I'd say with each standard the one that's 'higher' is the one that should be adhered to. Shows a bit of give and take on both sides while neither side has to reduce their standards. Of course, it can be difficult to do that as...

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Although will always be welcomed back by me (even though I was never his biggest fan I can admire he gave his all) whether I'd have him back as a coach would depend on how good a coach he turned out to be.

He's scored goals at other clubs in the past too, so it's not like he's unproven as a goalscorer. If we go up that level is another kettle of fish and he may end up as more of a back-up depending on who we can afford to bring in. There are games he can be ineffective, even with the workrate...

No, that's usually just kept in house and the condensed version made publically available. Guess it gives a hint of more transparency (EDIT: ) or as has been pointed out it's an error.

He could probably do with one, but he is that experienced head in the centre. Hopefully no midweek game will give him time to recover. It would be nice if we could actually see out a game comfortably to have the choice to rest him later on, probably by bringing Allen back and having Shipley...

Wonder when MR's Fake Taxi episode will be released ;)

While I also would've left him out due to wanting to play the box formation (I reckon MR's main reasoning too rather than Biamou's abilities), it's impossible for you to say Biamou would've been awful. Fadz isn't renowned for his pace and was immense. Parkinson teams are strong, physical and...