Jerseybean

Often a friendly with a premiership team is announced after a player has been transferred to them, we have, however, decided to do it the other way around.

RIP Lady Mary Wilson (Harold’s wife) aged 102

RIP Peter Stringfellow

Vacancy filled: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44381777

Them and Villa in a pickle then https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44376099

Seems he got the ring back. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5699911/Mark-Little-gives-Bolton-fan-coat-leaves-wedding-ring-inside.html

Mark Little’s wedding maybe

Certainly seems his business life is going well. https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/business/2018/05/08/ravenscroft-adds-more-than-15-bn-to-assets/

So now we know how the final six games actually played out. Wolves 13 points from last six games Cardiff 10 points “ “ “ “ Fulham 13 points Villa 10 points Derby 7 points Boro 13 points City 5 points Millwall 10 points Sheffield Utd 7 points PNE 13 points Brentford 11 points What a massive disappointment! We lost each of the three ‘huge games’ mentioneD in the original post.

As the roller coaster, that is BCFC, takes a break , at least on the pitch, it’s a chance to look back and forward. Today’s game pretty much summed up our season - one of two very different halves, Although we have experienced a season of two starkly contrasting halves at the end of the season the table does not lie. Last season we managed 15 wins and 9 draws giving us 54 points. This campaign we have achieved 17 wins and 16 draws which resulted in 67 points. So that is certainly an improvement. However, based on the last two seasons, in order to get promoted automatically circa 93 + points are needed. We remain well short of that. Looking to further progress next season and be in with a chance of gaining 90 + points what would you hope for? My top hopes would be we: Strengthen the squad, particularly with a couple of experienced/proven players who would have the right personality to positively enhance our youngish squad. In LJ’s end of season RB interview he just spoke about recruiting leaders and communicators. Revert to the identity/style of play that served us well in the first half of the season and stick to it Cultivate a ‘harder edge’ (I don’t mean just physically but also mentally) which makes us much more resilient and far more difficult to beat. LJ also mentioned, in the same RB interview, recruiting ‘some steel’ There is every likelihood that two or three of our best players will be moving on so the need to appropriately replace Reid, Bryan and Flint will be key What more (I’m assuming that LJ remains in post) would you you want to see?

LJ also mentioned the need to recruit leaders, ‘some steel’ and communicators.

Someone obviously forgot to tell Sheffield Utd that this game was a dead rubber and we weren’t bothered. Plus it appears that as well as our team not being bothered, many fans aren’t bothered enough to attend today and even the live match centre ain’t bothered, with an error code inside of any coverage. Forever looking forward so......second half we just need to do a Sunderland!

Can anybody get the match centre link to work ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43446164

Thanks to those who have posted thoughts on this. Looking forward to next season my own top three hopes would be we: Strengthen the squad, particularly with a couple of experienced/proven players who would have the right personality to positively enhance our youngish squad Revert to the identity/style of play that served us well in the first half of the season and stick to it Cultivate a ‘harder edge’ (I don’t mean physically but mentally) which makes us much more resilient and far more difficult to beat