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Just shows we should never listen to the people on here when choosing new managers, another one people wanted was Paul Cook who's due for the chop at Ipswich if things don't improve

We've had a lot more in Div 3 than in Div 2, eg between 1932 and 1965 we were in div 3 in all but 2 seasons, and in the time between Alan Dicks leaving (1980) and Gary Johnson's promotion team (2007) we only had 5 seasons in the 2nd tier, the rest were in the lower divisions. Why do people on here have it in for the Lansdowns after all they've done for the club, they're by far the best owners in the 50+ years I've been watching the team?

We're a league higher, we were in L1 when he took over and the Championship was just a dream so we must have overtaken a lot more than have overtaken us

Only 3 players cost them money, the rest were freebies and loans. I see Wes Burns was one of the new signings and they got rid of Cole Skuse and James Wilson. Some Ipswich fans are saying they have "the best squad in L1 history" and hope to get 100 points this season, they actually mention our title season and they hope to emulate that. Trouble is they've had no pre-season with most of the players so could take them until Christmas to work out their best eleven.

Southampton went into administration because they could not repay their mortgage on the new statdium, nothing to do with the EFL. As for Derby there's a whole thread about lack of suitable punishment. Although they are a big club they are up for sale and financially very weak so unlikely to threat the EFL with an expensive legal case. The problem with EFL's FFP is that there are lots of grey areas (like stadium ownership), that's why court cases keep popping up.

I believe Reading's foreign owners are well-financed, a bit different than dealing with, say Cheltenham Town or Newport County

The EFL are fearful of legal action when dealing with the bigger clubs so tread more carefully

Weimann has 3 already in 4.5 games

I think we have to forget the end of last season with all the injuries and judge NP from now

NP has said he's happy with the squad

Can't see it happening again, hopefully learnt our lesson

Boro fans worried that with wide players Watmore and Tavernier both injured they will struggle going forward and be reliant on set pieces for goals, also apparently a very weak bench

I think the reason any penalty is generally applied the following season is because if the penalised club appeals to the law courts the case can run over to the start of the next season, if the result of the case affected which league they were in the league fixtures for the two leagues in question would be chaos, in fact they may not even be able to start until the appeal had been concluded.

They loved him though when they had the long unbeaten run, and if they win the play-offs will love him again. It's one extreme or the other up there.

If I was him I wouldn't come back here with all the negative vibes from many going back to his playing days, better to go somewhere where he starts with a clean slate (as with Sunderland). When he came here before he wanted to establish himself at Championship level, he achieved that. The only way he'd come back if he was offered a job here and we were in the Prem, but can't ever see that happening.

Cotts has already been sacked once by Sunderland when he was assistant to Howard Wilkinson

A few weeks ago quite a few on here said he should replace DH!

I think those panels blew out in 1971 or 72 so that photo must have been taken soon after the stand was completed in 1970.

Semenyo looked tired in the Reading match as did one or two others. However he's worth his place as a striker, he will score more as he plays more games and has time to improve. In any case he's got 2 this season already, that's the same as Martin and one more than Diedhiou and has 4 assists (equal top with Martin) so I don't know what this thread's about.

My wife and I both had an illness similar to COVID over a year ago (Jan 2019), I was ill for about 3 days then my wife started off the same as me and it turned into pneumonia and she was very ill for weeks and also had other symptoms associated with COVID, I'm hoping we'll get an antibody test at some stage then we'll know more. When they investigate this once it's over I think they'll find it's been around for ages but people would have thought they'd had some sort of flu, maybe it mutated at some stage so it became easier to catch and that's when it got noticed.

I don't think they've discussed it in detail yet but I imagine that if there's no fans there's not much advantage in being at home although I'm sure we'd have to play some games away from AG

I'm sure it would be behind closed doors, it would make it easier to televise the games if there are only a few venues

In the paper today it said EFL are considering playing all remaining EFL matches at 10 to 15 Championship grounds with 3 to 4 matches being played each day. I would have thought if that happens we would be one of those since we're the only club in this area and we have an advanced pitch capable of supporting that number of games, could mean the Gas playing their remaining fixtures at AG?

I think it would benefit the away teams in general not having a crowd but as others have said can't see it happening for some time.

Re the finances I think the same applies to most Championship clubs, matchday income pays the players wages. In the Prem it could run just on TV money but would those highly-paid players be willing to put themselves at risk? The only way most EFL clubs can survive is if football is suspended until 21/22 season and they can be put into temporary adminstration with employees wages/contracts deferred until the restart, not sure if this is possible legally but the alternative is nearly all clubs going bust other than a few like ours with billionaire owners who can make up the deficit (FFP laws would not apply during this period)