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But you’re never going to carry a squad with Wright, BTA, Simms and Bassette for one role. Offload Bassette and Simms then maybe. Otherwise we go as we are.

Needs to get done so that we have time to react.

BTA is aware. I take you back to the final game of the season. Wright completely fails to play BTA in. Next play BTA wins on the half way line and puts Rudoni in for the comfort goal

But the fact is we are. And will continue to be. A new stadium is 100% not happening.

Exactly. We don’t need lots of names. Just the right ones.

He’s not changed his mind. He’s just floated this stadium nonsense as it’s the only sliver of a bargaining chip he has. We’ve just got to hope Frasers offer something reasonable.

No idea how much he wants to put it up to if he does at all. Currently we pay around £1.5m which is not a lot. My point is even if he puts it up to £2m that’s the deal we should be pursuing rather than ownership.

I think it’s more likely to be they want him 100% for when the real stuff starts

BTA is definitely good enough given a run. The problem is we have Wright and EMC who we want to start with but prefer the same position. Injuries will solve that to an extent but Lampard has to be brave and play one of the left siders rather than trying to shoehorn both in.

This is exactly the sort of window we need. Wind back a few seasons and the scenario by now would be the likes of Thomas, Wright, Rudoni and anyone else of value would be gone and we’d have some cheap pick ups coming in far from guaranteed to come off. Ironically the one position we are really...

I did. And he did have a good game. I’d love to be proven wrong. We’ll see.

We pay a small rent. We take a % of food and beverages. We get ticket sales. The upkeep is Frasers. They can’t do anything with it for 30-40 days when we play. All of the statutory upkeep is theirs. Tours? That will be an absolute pittance in the scheme of things. I’m not saying it’s an issue...

How so? When you knock off lost revenue for when we play there, then the cost of upkeep so we can play and then deduct the share of revenues we take there will be nothing left of note.

There is no plan B. Frasers know that. They also know they don’t need football there as it makes no cash for them. It’s not a good combination for us.

Has he? He’s barely played. Unfortunately he’s two yards too slow. He can create the odd thing but his overall impact is patchy.

And the year before? In this division? For us? Or does that not count.

Yes, they are good enough. Yes, you can always improve. No, we don’t have the cash to improve everywhere

Crikey, the pedantry. OK, to be clear Simms and Wright got nearly 20 goals each in this division. Fact. Also fact is that for two seasons we’ve conceded ridiculously poor goals on a very consistent basis. Our forwards might not be Messi and Ronaldo but they aren’t our biggest issue.

The reality is that the Arena is a millstone. We shouldn’t want to own it. Leasing is a great position for us to be in. Hopefully this nonsense talk of stadium building is merely a game of cat and mouse.

King better get negotiating with Ashley. No stadium of 40,000 goes from nothing to built in anything even closely resembling 3 years. Construction of that order would be mired in red tape for at least that time before any ground was broken