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QPR fans I know seem to think there's a chance they don't re-sign Yoann Barbet. I would happily throw Waghorn-money at him if he could be persuaded to join.

Honestly incredible work all season, we are lucky to count someone with your talent among our fans.

Would love it if Badlan comes back and suggests there's this new lad from Zwolle he thinks we should sign, because he'll be far too good for this league

I’d prioritise first team experience over an U23 cup game every time, but to each their own.

Why are we supposedly pulling young players from first team duty for this meaningless game?

Having been forced out of her job by a Labour mayor who is roundly despised by the rank and file officers, Cressida Dick had no choice but to mobilise the entire Met behind Operation Oust Big Dog in the hope of a Labour government.

Have you ever seen the reaction in the crowd when we bring Tavares on?

Watching you and O'Day drunkenly go toe-to-toe on incoherent spellings all afternoon while both pretending to be sober/working is a true privyledge.

Has it helped Reading or Sunderland? Ten years ago they were your classic yo-yo teams ruining competition and hoarding resources - now they're nowhere. Good, I say. The growing influence of billionaires on football is commensurate with their growing influence on society as a whole. I'm not sure...

Well a relegated PL club is almost always going to have a substantially higher chance of promotion, but as I said, we all agree there are changes that can be made there - I just don't share your view that the PL has already become a closed shop. Europe is a different story, but there have...

So that just leaves Tavares and Howley who won't feature then?

I assume we're not going to be resting players with an actual chance of making the first team next season for the sake of a meaningless U23 league playoff?

As I said, the parachute payment system is ridiculous and needs an overhaul. But I think it's telling that even with such a gross distortion built into the system, there's still enough competitive variety in who wins promotion. Today's yo-yo clubs are tomorrow's also-rans (Birmingham, Reading...

Was there ever an era of professional football where clubs didn't have to gamble financially to reach the big time? The avenues to playing EPL football are surely changing, but they still exist. The number of different teams who have played in the EPL over the last 10 years is the same as it...

I don't know. Has it meant that a smaller number of clubs are getting access to Premier League football than before?

How can you both be this hammered this early on a Friday?

Think parachute payments are in dire need of an overhaul, but again, rhetoric like this is massively overblown. The EPL is far from a closed shop, yo-yo clubs are not a modern phenomenon, and there are plenty of them who snap out of it anyway.

I think if you have a look at the Bank of England's forecasts yesterday you can see that there is an incredible amount of economic pain coming this country's way. Whoever takes the flak for that has a long way to drop yet.

Yeah it was Germany - so is their wealth distribution system overall more or less progressive than the EPL’s?

I think it’s ridiculous hyperbole to say that elite football has been “destroyed” by football’s wealth distribution problems (which have existed in some shape or form for decades now). I won’t pretend that the Champions League interests me all that much, but the quality is undeniable and the...