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What chance Derby lose at home and Bolton win by 4 at Peterborough ? Yeah , shame though. Pompey Derby Plus , I think , P'boro or Bolton , that is a tough call . I think P'boro could nick it. So to sum up and allowing for my prediction record. Oxford nailed on.

I think it could be the Concourse that's the main issue. That said there are always work arounds . Big away following isn't the problem. When you get 1000 in a 3,500 stand is when you lose money , or potential money. The balance is spend Vs gain . How many times a year do we get small followings for a game that would sell out ? They could probably put in a movable wall for segregating the Concourse, but it has to be cost effective , they wont do anything just for fun or atmosphere.

Early days of Ashton I thought he started to do what he did here, not that I watched too closely but it did seem like the owners may have reeled him in and there was better focus after. I do wonder if he/we/the Club focused on buying for the first team he might have been ok here. Trouble is he was given total freedom and it turned into a mess.

Just saw an interesting Tweet conversation. Basically saying that tonights result could earn Wimbledon £1m . I had to think, but I guess it's an add on in the Al-Hamadi transfer. That's how you want them to work , 4 months and Bingo.

I didn't realise there were 28 Cat 1 Academies . Is that across the age groups ? It works out 28 players per academy every year and I'd love to know how many they let go every year. I found overall numbers . This is all academies and Football schools apparently . Of those entering the game aged 16, two years down the line, 50% will be outside professional football. If we look at the same cohort at 21, the attrition rate is 75% or above. It's a tough game. Yep, misread an old article .

Yep, and thinking about it, if the loan would have covered the playoff games then he's still registered for them . Ah well , Mebude it is then

Getting your way so far

I would have watched Huddersfield Vs Brum if it didn't KO the same time as us. Hoping for a home win.

My assumption was he's only played for Aldershot and their season has finished , the loan is over . I thought he would be available. As for Morrison , I wondered if he might be involved when he appeared so prominent in the Video.

I hope he's on the bench tomorrow , I doubt he will be but it would add some interest .

Not much on Transfermarkt. Tommy Backwell is OOC this summer 30th June Ben Acey and Omar Taylor - Clark are out this summer too , signed extensions Oct '22. Struggling to find much else TBH.

I will have to go and listen again as I took it to mean they wanted to sell more than last year , to get over 15k at the start of the season . I didn't think they wanted to limit it to just over 15k They have to hold a certain % back for PotD , but you would think that having a guaranteed 18k every week would be preferable , then you would be near sell out every game if the PotD interest kept up.

Fixed it for you

On a lighter note hearing the "Wolf" story for his own mouth was great. We have laughed about it but man you can tell it was scary .

Gerry Gow, Vyner (loan) , David Noble ,Richard O'Donnell, Tony Thorpe , Martin Scott and Norman Hunter managed them

I still think 99% of the problem lays with the Club, they could have done this in a much better way but the poor relationship , and poor leadership meant it didn't happen. Pearson was on crutches at the training ground, but he didn't take sessions as far as I'm aware, he liked others to take responsibility . That's why he seemed to take a lot of care choosing staff. As long as he could watch sessions I'm not sure it made a lot of difference to what happened, though I doubt it was helping his situation. What should/could have happened is, the approach him and try and talk him into taking gardening leave to have the OP. He was OOC in the summer , so unless they really thought that another Coach/Manager could really take them to the Playoffs there was no rush to change things. IMO the summer was the time to make changes Because they ( I think it was Tinnion ) suggested the change would be seamless and was done to make a top 6 push, it does make it adversarial , it's football fans after all it's what we do. All the bluff that came after was just trying to save face and make excuses , again not Mannings fault but he was always going to get some stick as the face of the Club. Tinnion then came out and said he ( Manning) was learning on the Job, the opposite of what was suggested when he came in. They couldn't sack him for health issues , but if they had managed to get him on Gardening leave and had Flemming in charge for the rest of the season , at least the fans would have seen reason. Then we start with a new manager/coach who gets a proper pre season. It's just down to poor leadership of the Club at the very top. For one brief minute we looked like we were on to something , we had a strong Manager and a top CEO. Going back to an inexperienced Chairman and a shared CEO and a TD we look like a rudderless ship.

It's arrived Only just started listening, but one thing that made me laugh. When asked "are confidentiality clauses forever " Nine replies "ask me in 12 months time"

Called us Bristol .... he's dead to me

Bloody hell if that's right ... That's about a Red every 4 games and an average of around 5 yellows a game , what's he been Reffing, the WWF ??

I don't think there was a change in demeanour with results, but there seemed a definite change in attitude by Pearson. I found him a bit tetchy even adversarial at times to start, but he definitely relaxed as time went on , which is interesting in someone so experienced. I think he may even have mentioned relaxing himself. Manning is different , this is his biggest job and he's still relatively young and inexperienced . I don't enjoy them ATM , I find them quite dull and repetitive , TBH that could be the same for any Presser . That's why I appreciate your bullet point posts. With luck and time he will relax and they will become better, even enjoyable. But trying to come up with new things to say , new phrases etc is almost impossible , but it's the information that is key .

Yep , I didn't even think about it until last year when I read the Norwich had sold out. They sold 21,000 Sts and the ground holds 27,359.

Klopp's farewell tour going well then

Thanks Silvio , I do struggle to stay with these Pressers so appreciate your work.

I hadn't seen anything about either. 12k sounds reasonable , I guess we will get a better idea by Monday. What was the total last year at the start of the season ? With the fixtures I assumed they would do the same as they do currently . At least there will be warning for most of the games.

Looks like it's risen it head again. I thought that was all over, but I guess there is no end to their money making ideas. First I saw this ... Then a little search gave me this. The Prem is a soulless pit of money grabbing, self serving narcissists . They wont be happy even if they had all the money and there was no relegation and promotion . The fans stopped this once , they stopped the Super League , they wont stop these sort of ideas popping up every year or so.