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The problem started with the PL being formed and it's all gone from there. Wonder what the % of English / home nation players was in the last season of the old Division 1. They've created their own problem and are now going a really weird way about trying to fix it which can best be summed up as...

It's almost as if they're trying to get people to keep going to the website and boost the ad revenue!

Don't forget that it wasn't long ago the FL clubs were essentially forced to accept lower payments for young players or the PL would cut off their share of revenues so we're actually moving away from more money for lower clubs. If this follows anything like Germany and Holland where this has...

Isn't that what we had before the PL started?

I think that got scrapped as clubs were moaning there was too many games they had to field a side for and the cost of running two sides wasn't sustainable! Saw some cracking reserve games at HR, you used to get random top players pop up as they were on their way back from injury. Remember a...

This is a joke. They basically want the whole FL to be a feeder system for Prem clubs. Just sort out the loan system. Instead of letting the big clubs sign up every player they can sign limit the number of kids they can have, encourage them to loan them out (without charging a fee) to get game...

From the last set of SCG minutes

No one is saying the people doing the work aren't doing a good job, they are saying it's not the club that are doing it and / or funding it. If the JSB area is run by volunteers and subsidised by the SCG why have the club been given an award? If the award had gone to Pat there wouldn't be any...

Indeed we did but how much of that was spent on HR, probably not much. Obviously if you're dealing with an older stadium it would be fair to expect higher maintenance bills. I know Pompey are having to spend £400K a season just to patch the ground up to pass H&S, no idea if that's a typical...

Do any reports or accounts that we wouldn't have previously seen get published at the end of the process?

I wonder if you look back at those 105 years how many years we were paying for financing of HR and / or large maintenance bills. Would be interesting to know exactly how owning your ground compares to renting it.

Its great that they do a lot for the kids who are there but isn't the overriding point those that aren't there due to us being in Northampton? Also a question of how much is actually done by the club and how much by volunteers. Wasn't it said that the JSB Xmas party was not organised by the club...

This is odd, how can you give an award like this to a club that's moved 35 miles away from families that want to go. How many can no longer attend? On top of that in the last SCG minutes it said they had to have a whip round to keep the JSBs going, hardly sounds like the club deserve an award...

Would have been wise of the FL to say it had to be paid prior to the first game of the season. If it's not paid now they've backed themselves into a corner, what do they do? Do nothing and they look weaker than they already are.

Peru game for me as well then sat on the sofa watching the World Cup. Have been losing interest in cricket the last few years so probably won't bother with that, the form of the England team and the change to Birmingham Bears I think are the final straws for me.

Sounds very familiar. I have never been to so few games and I will probably go to even less next season. A lot of my time used to revolve around being a supporter, the first thing I would do in the morning would be check for any news. Would rush home on Friday for the phone in. Weekends were...

It has never been clear to me why the delay is liquidating the old Ltd company led to a delay in making this payment. It was a condition of Otium being issued the share that this was paid, Otium is, technically, a different company to one being liquidated so shouldn't they have just got on and...

When Sepalla became a bit more public and did the interview in the CET I though she might get shot of Fisher and put all the blame onto him. Easy way to move things forward really, just say the way he was behaving was not in line with SISU and she wants to talk with CCC and / or ACL. Think the...

I think another issue is we pay so much attention to what is going on with our club and the discussions around it we know all about everyone disagreeing. You don't tend to hear that about other clubs as we don't pay that much attention to them and just get the bigger picture. Having lived...

If you're making the argument that distance is a factor wouldn't you need to account for how far away a ground is? Stands to reason that if distance is a critical factor the further away the bigger the impact. You would also have to account for ticket availability, have any of our away games...