Kid in the Riot

He's our highest performing player of the season, according to Whoscored.com It's going to be interesting to see if he can really kick-on next season, and remain injury-free. Could be the next one to be worth rather a lot of money.

Not good. But in mitigation. The first one dipped just in front of him and you can't expect him to save the second, a downward header from 6 yards out. As for number 3 though, no idea what he's doing there ?

Unbelievable recruitment again from Liverpool. Already looks a snip at £37.5m.

Unai Emery is some manager. Everywhere he's been over the past 10 years, other than Arsenal, he's delivered trophy upon trophy. Surely in line for the Real or Barca job at some point.

Pure sporting genius.

He'll definitely want 8. He's got his running, and has been through drug and alcohol addiction a long time ago, so I think he'll be OK . He split up with his long term missus a few months ago, which doesn't seem to have caused him any issues in this tournament.

The Kenny is great. Been a few times and booked a private room upstairs. Table service, and you can play your own music on their speakers. Rose of Denmark is good for a roast, as is the Greedy Goose at Gatcombe Farm, out by Long Ashton. All local produce.

Can't think of too many sports where it's so cut and dry as to who the greatest player of all-time is....

Dunno, definitely seen Ronnie play better. Positional play and long potting hasn't been great. Trump has been so bad. That shot a few frames ago which he missed by about a foot was dreadful. If he turns up tomorrow and plays like that then Ronnie will knock off another 7 frames in the afternoon session and we won't get an evening session.

Lovely century from Ronnie there. Leads 7-4. Trump needs to find some form quickly.

Just don't think you can bet against Ronnie. He's won 6 of his 7 Crucible finals. Plus he's been mic'd up for this Netflix documentary all tournament, so he can't lose or it'll ruin the programme ?

Went Marmo last year, and it had the feel of a place still finding its feet for me. Fried pigs head starter (moulded in the shape of a pigs head) was memorable but the rest of the meal was a bit hit and miss. Pretty unusual menu too. I'd say it's Italian inspired food, as opposed to traditional/modern Italian cuisine. One to watch though.

Yep, just posted similar on the "Ashton's Neglect" thread!

Just saw this, below, from Abi Harrison on twitter. She's Bristol City WFC top scorer this season, and as you'll see it backs up what I said last year (above) about Pearson's influence on the WFC. Compare & contrast Pearson's involvement with the WFC, whilst managing the men's first team, with Mark Ashton's complete disregard for the WFC, and it's like chalk and cheese. We're heading in the right direction off-field under Nige.

It's true that English players behave in this way now too. However, diving/play-acting is definitely a South American import to the European and English game.

Taunton's winner for anyone interested. Lovely no-look pass, and then a nice left-footed finish.

£10m gets his left testicle, now they just need to cough up another £20m for the rest of him.

Yeah, that would be a good plan. Fury would either tag Usyk or tie him up with his ridiculously long arms, as he did with Whyte last night.

Fury has always been a very good boxer but have to say SugarHill does seem to have taken him to another level. A lot less wastage in his work, and has definitely added some much needed power and timing to his shots. Fury of a few years ago v Wallin for example, lots of eye catching shots but you never thought he was in any danger of knocking him out. Even the first Wilder fight too. Currently I think we can say he is definitely the best Heavyweight of this era. There's only one fight left to properly cement that - AJ/Usyk. But as of now, he'd be a heavy favourite against either. Even with Usyk's brilliant footwork and movement, he'd struggle against the physicality of Fury I think. A good little one against a good big one and all that... AJ has the size and tools to beat him, but does he have the mindset?

Yeah, I think I'd forgotten how bad Whyte is in terms of boxing ability. What was coming out southpaw all about too? Trying to be too clever.

Not great this...Fury comfortably ahead. Atmosphere sounds terrible for 90,000+

Yep. As I said previously it's a very south east centric league. Taunton are the furthest team west, before you get to Chippenham. So they'll be logistics issues for starters with games in Herts and then also at the likes of Ebbsfleet. That's obviously increased cost but also potentially overnight stays for part-time players. I'm not sure if any teams are considered fully pro at this level, but certainly you get teams like Dulwich who have adopted daytime training to become more professional. Taunton won't be able to adapt to anything like that I wouldn't have thought. So yeah, lots of challenges. I'm sure season one goal will be survival. An opportunity for City to send a loan player or two? Taunton and Bath have already benefitted from City loans over the years, so sure that'll happen.

From what I've seen of Taunton they are a bit of a shithouse outfit. They don't really play through the phases, and certainly not out from the back, like say Weston do. I think it's fair to say their style is more "pragmatic", and direct. Whenever the ball got into a dangerous area v Yate a strong tackle was put in, or the ball was booted down the line. They clearly have a fair bit of quality in the final third though and have scored some great goals this season. Be fascinating to see how they get on next season in the Nat League. Hopefully they have a suitable level of investment to compete.

Victory over Hull at AG next Saturday would confirm a 17th place finish, two better than last season's 19th.

Taunton beat Farnborough 2-1 to win the league and confirm promotion to National League South - what an achievement. Just over 2,300 fans at Wordsworth Dr today! Crazy form in second half of the season.