Lrrr

And I’d agree with not selling if the player in question (Conway) didn’t only have 1 year left on his contract after this season, we won’t want to lose him for compensation as it’s highly unlikely we’d be in position to compete for play offs next season so gambling and keeping Tommy is unlikely to do anything other than lose us a good few million we could reinvest.

Point being though Conway staying is not the difference to put us in a position to challenge for top 6, then we don’t want to lose him for just compensation, so it points to selling him in the summer, if he had 2 seasons left sure don’t sell him but he doesn’t

Weirdly we have to sell players to meet FFP restrictions unless you want us to significantly decrease our wage budget

We were never holding onto Scott, you deny him a move to the PL given the level of interest he had and the fees we would have been offered you'd have pissed him off no end, I don't think Alex would have been the type to down tools but you run that risk, equally his sale put a good cushion in our finances which obviously would have been nice for Nige to have been allowed to spend but was equally almost neccessary, Conway you don't have the length of contract that Scott had and I don't see the squad in a position where keeping Conway around (regardless of who head coach is) that pushes us into being a top 6 team. Also how well would our medical department have dealt with Alex's injury he had early season?

Realism is a thing, if we want to get a fee for Conway, rather than compensation which won’t be much and minimal if he went to Scotland, then he needs to be sold this summer as he won’t be signing a new deal

the greater good...

There was never an intention of him ever stepping on a pitch for us he was a training keeper who did some coaching as well, therefore there was no way he could block a pathway for us. Johnson always wanted 4 goalkeepers for every session, this often meant academy keepers being involved however this would often see them miss match days for 18’s/21’s just to be in sessions, which is more pointless hiring a keeper to fill that gap or stop your young keepers getting game time? My guess is it won’t be proportionally too different to what the rest of the wage bills were comparatively, it was just a case of where we as a club and football in general was at the time

Can we get our points back?

Its an issue in hockey atm, schools/leisure centres wanting to lay 3g pitches maximising football income but meaning hockey wouldn't be able to be played there any more.

He was primarily recruited because he's an on the grass coach. The play style bit also is obviously a big factor but we could have recruited an on the grass coach with different styles of play but we chose Manning with his style.

He did exactly what we was signed for, provide an extra keeper for training and then coach in the academy

You don't recruit a head coach as fixed in their way as Manning if you're not comfortable with them bringing their style of football with them as well, regardless of whether it being the on the grass style coach that is the main point you want.

What just over half a second separating 1st and 9th? Max didn't even have the quickest lap in the 3 sessions, his lead in Q3 would have been the slipstream off Piastri he got starting his lap. I will say I'll be very disappointed if Ferrari don't have this blasting out, horny Horner it seems

Why would he bend his style? He was brought in for his style

Thought Tommy's answer to the contract question was absolutely fine, personally I don't think he will sign but he's not going to commit one way or another to a question mid season so he batted it away comfortably.

Its a game by the looks of it, if the player miscontrols it and the ball goes out of the lines they’re eliminated, the risk for the passer is too much power over control and you risk passing outside the lines and you’re eliminated. So the game focuses on the how quickly/accurately can you pass the ball as well as your ability to receive heavy passes under pressure

Why would we send someone to Weston over Bath if Bath want them? Jerry Gill has been very good for a lot of our younger players and he's in a promotion push rather than a season thats fizzling out.

He certainly wasn't doing it in U21's games when he was given the chance to impress Frankly he needed those seasons in L1 to improve himself, only thing we could have said was for us to loan him out instead of sell.

He can always return from the loan at Bath, for the here and now he gets competitive first team minutes.

Think he will after scoring in his first start

He won’t get minutes for our first team in any game where we don’t use wingers so you kill the amount of minutes he may get instantly anyway

Objectively it’s a great move for Yeboah, playing at a standard where he has a real chance to have a big effect on games, he’s at Bath at a younger age then Conway was for reference.

Pearson wasn't sacked for performance though regardless what was said in public