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Just shows what intent, passion and smart recruitment can do. Not a team full of world beaters, no Summervilles or Dewsbury-Halls, but key traits in key positions that lets them play a certain style of football that matches their squad. And play it well. Will be interesting to see what happens if they go up, think Leif Davies will go and that won’t be an easy replacement. Wouldn’t be surprised if another club try’s to get Mckenna either. Think if they start losing a few it could all fall apart but that’s just a guess.

Balon D’or worthy season from HK, sadly would be very surprised if he wins it.

Regress? We’ve factually progressed under LM? We are going to finish 3-6 points better off than last year. Is that the amount of progress most wanted or expected? Probably not, personally feel it was achievable and fair to say we should do an extra 5 points better off. But given the fact it’s his first season at this level, which he came in part way through, any progress on last season is positive imo. I don’t see any point arguing whether someone else should’ve been brought in because they weren’t. And that won’t change. There are some external factors that have marred the start of LMs campaign, JLs comments to the quite toxic environment he entered in november but I don’t see anything incorrect in saying we’ve had a relatively promising season under him. Have there been mistakes/faults? Obviously. But I also think LM has learnt from his mistakes and ended our season very well. Leeds (H): Completely dominated across the park, looked like children v men Southampton/Leicester (H): 6 points and 2 very good performances, although admittedly we rode our luck/max turnt into Lev Yashin for the Leicester game. 17th Feb-2nd March: Lost to 3 teams below us consecutively. 10th March-Now: 13/15 points against teams below us, mostly in quite a comprehensive fashion. Now in the end I might look like a numpty for having faith in LM, or you might for stating he will regress us. Either could happen, I just don’t understand the need to say it again and again when we are on a positive trend and our performances are getting better.

That was his server at the Popeyes obviously, keep up.

Scotty Murray doing gods work in Conways instagram comment section

The best strikers miss the most chances because they get the most opportunities. For his age TC has very good positional awareness and run timing. And it’s improved since LM has come imo. Pens? Still gotta score them and he had every single time. I could quite easily see him go for above 5m tbh as he’s still only 21, he’s still got 5 years to work on his craft before reaching his “prime”.

Bristol city Middlesborough Coventry Preston Cardiff Swansea Watford Sunderland Millwall QPR Stoke Sheffield Wednesday (Unless all hell breaks loose) Sheffield United Portsmouth Derby 15/24 confirmed for next season! If one of Leeds or Southampton don’t go up I think they’ll coast it next year but couldn’t tell you the rest of the top 6 for the life of me.

Yes, seeing as he was waving to his family in the Lansdown stand.

Very good point to be fair, the season as a whole can quite rightly be taken both ways. But saying our last 10 have been easy fixture is a tad misleading, average position of the teams we’ve faced is 13th and we are a midtable side.

Twine, Williams and Conway all making signature gestures. Interesting to say the least

Lovely free kick, no clue how he gets that amount of dip on the ball!

Standard of crossing is incredibly poor especially when a decent majority are unchallenged.

Replay shows GK touching tommys knee as he goes round him, more of a premier league penalty then a championship one if that makes sense.

James/Williams bring food structure and defensive solidity together, but yes in this kind of game does make us seem more passive, less forward thinking. However disagree about Twine, thought he was our best player that half to be honest.

Really liked the look of Twine so far, this is more of what I was expecting when he arrived.

If he was it would make the Mebude transfer even more strange. He would obviously replace one of the attacking options on the bench and it wouldn’t be nakhi/cornick etc the only person he could replace is Adire. Either way hopefully one, or more, of the youngens get some minutes tomorrow.

Oh didn’t know that, fair enough then. Worked out well both of them as well (disregarding rotherham’s campaign this season )

Or as soon as semenyo left HPC “get Ogbenes number now!”

If “no one can convince you otherwise” what’s the point in bringing it up? This forum is used for among many things debate, would be hard to do that if you can’t let opinions change at all. I would agree off plain numbers i’d expect us to finish 5 points better, top 10. That’s what i said pre-season before scott’s sale. Since then, we’ve sold our best player, not reinvested it. Had a major injury crisis forcing us to name a defence with 1 player in the right position for at least 1 game. A change of manager. An extremely toxic club environment. Having to name the same centre back pairing for what 30 games straight. We haven’t exactly been the most fortunate? For the multitude of games we should’ve/could’ve won there’s probably a relatively close number of games we didn’t expect anything from that we won. Was it a sensational season? No. But it wasn’t bad either, and considering what’s gone on this campaign that’s not too bad imo. Don’t see a problem with people celebrating our recent upwards trend in results and performance.

Is a very interesting situation , I agree and most, including the club, probably do as well that a #10 and #9 are most important for the summer. Sadly wanting someone to augment tommy is just out of the clubs hands now, down to TC. And tbh I would be very disappointed if we bring in two if TC leaves, would harshly limit SPHs opportunity to prove himself at this level which I feel he’s deserved after this campaign. Another interesting situation with Twine as well, certainly hasn’t set the place on fire like some thought he would, but has he been given much of an opportunity to do so? As it is, we’ve yet to lose a game he’s started, and whilst his in game play can be a bit physically weak at times, I’d be tempted to sign him based off his set piece ability alone. Not worth £4m but if we could get him for £2-2.5m? I’d go for it personally.

With them supposedly prioritising POTD, wouldn’t it be safe to assume they are very optimistic about next season? If they prioritised potd and next season we just stuck around 12th-18th the entire season the attendance/atmosphere would plummet off a cliff. Surely prioritising it this way suggests they have optimism about our actual performance in the league next year? (I could be just reading into this too much) Could suggest a multitude of things, their feelings on LM, prepared for the summer window? I don’t really know but is certainly an interesting shift.

True but if 12000 have already renewed then the “drop” that we end up with will probably be inconsequential to them. I can’t remember how many we had last year but guessing it was 14-15k total. I can’t see more the a 1-1.5k drop happening from this point. And there’s a lot of reasons not to get a season ticket atm other than unhappiness with the club. Financial reasons, waryness of the new tv schedule etc. Assume losing 1000 season tickets would just be written off mostly due to those two things and the Lansdowns won’t worry themselves.

Haven’t ever watched this podcast before but it’s just come up on my twitter. Their guest for this week will be Nige! Pretty sure it’ll be his first interview since leaving in the autumn (correct me if i’m wrong).Will be very interesting to hear what he has to say! Edit: Didn’t see the other topic on this already my bad, mods please delete

Will be very sad to see James go as he’s been the backbone of our side the past couple of years, but If i had to pick between the two I would go with Williams as well. Looking like the player we thought we signed, if not better as of late.