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Announce Twine, Twiney, Scottie, Twinesy and Twiniesta for half of them!

It’s called choosing your moment isn’t? LM is smart to know when he can use these comments or not. Nige used to also. On a good run, it’s exactly the time to push home what you want. Like you I think it’s the 9 and 10 in, and everything else is a reaction to outgoings. But the size of squad won’t be massive.

19….20 next week!

I’m sure he does.

Come off it Ross…How many Dickie POTS threads have their been, how many Jason Knight threads, Haydon Roberts threads? All crediting recruitment, how great a deal they were financially. So, no, there isn’t just a focus on the negative, there’s more than plenty of positivity about recruitment, it certainly outweighs one thread on Mebude, and some. Within these 9 pages there is credit for recruitment.

Imho Matty James has far from “had his day”, but that’s not that I expect to see him here next season.

Between us we’ve covered most, not always in loads of detail, depends what he’s said. I have made notes on every LM interview, pre and post-match, club or media. I started doing it with Nige to jog my memory of what he said and when he said it. For LM I was trying to build an emerging view of him and his team over that initial 20 game period I’d given myself, so as not to jump to conclusions. FWIW I’m not fussed by the tone of his voice, Nige wasn’t much different either in his delivery, more interested in what he says. Generally I like the detail he gives. I don’t think he’s a bluffer, I’ve always said that…I think he has good foundations. Most of my issues with him were translating those foundations onto the pitch at Championship level.

I do like the thought of the 15 second down idea though. If you’re down that long feigning it, you are effectively gonna have to have 2 mins off the pitch.

Isn’t that the lesson though? They went overboard in their comments when signing a young player. How many of us would’ve minded had they said, “we think he’s a talented boy, but he’s struggled over in Belgium for x reasons, so we are taking a look at him. If he does well, we’ve agreed a deal with Westerlo, because we want to protect ourselves”. That type of thing. But we got a load of spin, and in some cases lies. Spin is ok, lies is unacceptable imho. It hasn’t worked out, but it’s also cost us a few quid to find out. I’m generally ok with that, because I doubt it cost us too much (few quid in last sentence). There is another intangible cost, re it’s possibly cost an academy player some experience of the match day set up. And it’s possible to view a window / multiple windows overall yet still critique an individual signing. You’re making out because it’s been generally decent (agree, I’ve been a big advocate of recruitment improvement over 2.5 years) we mustn’t call out individual deals. And nobody expects it to be successful every deal, but just like we can say how good a signing Dickie was, why shouldn’t we say how bad a signing Mebude was. OTIB has been fine being critical of individual signings in the past.

Will be interesting to see, with Saturday being the last home game, whether there are any sentimental team selections? Could be James, King and Williams last time in front of the AG crowd???

Nice interview as he leaves The Shots.

That is clear.

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That made my notes! Laying his cards on the table.

I heard it as he picked up back “issue” at the weekend, and this was a “test” that he was ok??? Haha, must be aimed at the players and the press, because he doesn’t read social media. +++++ 2+2=4 we are gonna try everything to sign Twine! They read OTIB, twitter, etc.

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I kinda think that was what had me replying to Mozo and thinking similarly. I think we know our targets (plural), but executing the deals is the hard bit.

Haha, was just thinking very similar. Finish the season strongly, even though it has little bearing on next, and go into the summer optimistic. With LM saying every day of preseason is planned already, and our general approach to trying to get signings done early (which we’ve done on the main), it would be nice to have contracts sorted too. Hopefully a stable summer ahead. So let’s thump Rotherham first up.

This is an old breakdown for reference @Numero Uno not broken down by stand, but useful nonetheless.

Part of me wonders whether some fans with kids in SS thought that with the potential for no opportunity to get back into SS that they might be best biting the bullet and staying where they are, even if it costs them more. Would be good to get a breakdown by stand and age group (not that I think we will). If that it the case, then club have done a good job (for the club) in pricing it as they have.

Concept good, but 5x is hardly a cap is it, if the only team over it is Chelsea!

Just seen. I thought he had that rattyness about him to have an EFL career. Think he was a bit loose technically / with the ball, but he’d get it back for you. Hope he finds a new club and can kick his career back off. Guessing Sam Pearson waiting to see what offers he is gonna get.

Yep, that’s good sales, especially with uncertainty re tv games and how many will change and how spread across the weekend they’ll be.