The Bard

No. COD is dropped. All day long.

1. The masses don't all think the same 2. The masses used to (mostly) think that witch bobbing showed if a woman was a witch. Were they right?

No no no. Shame the ******. Show the world what he is.

I think one of our younger players will have to be sold to have any chance. That would loosen the financial straitjacket a bit and allow smart investment where needed. Likely to be HNM unless he signs a contract.

No we won't. We'd have to self-report breaking FFP between 1st July and the start of the season which is about 5 weeks. Issue will be the season after..

Yeah. We'li miss out on that important 12th place and finish 14th. I know I'm being flippant but we're a mid table team going through transition with a young group of players. They will make mistakes but what matters then is they learn from them. Best go make a load this season and benefit from the experience next season.

Interesting how people see this. Bentley is more prone to absolute clangers but at the same time can pull off world class saves. O'Leary is much better with the ball at his feet (or at least has been this season). I have no problem with them being given runs of games each like they have so that at the end of the season both have had a proper go in goal. We are in a bit of a nothing season so it must be utilised so there is clarity ongoing. Do we look to offload Bentley in the summer to recoup some transfer fee, reduce our wage bill and replace from League 1 for example? That is essentially what we are doing in other positions. I think this is the most likely scenario so at some point Bentley will come back into the team to stick him in the shop window. Dealing with crosses is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario. Is Max indecisive because of the frankly shocking defending in front of him or has his indecisiveness fed forward to the defenders? Is this inability to deal with crosses an unintended consequence of playing a looser style of football? That is what Nige and the coaches will be thinking about. It feels to me that changing Max now would be counterproductive for 2 reasons. 1. Scapegoating Max for a problem in front of him that a change of keeper will do nothing to solve. 2. Negatively impact on our style of play as Bentley simply isn't as good as Max at this. The solution to this is a lot of very boring repetitive training on defending corners and hoping we can get more dominant players into the team soon.

Unless of course Bentley leaves..

There's been a lot of criticism of MOL for this goal but that shows how much is down to the shambles in front of him.

Disagree. He has to improve collecting crosses but he's young for a keeper and as a number 2 is more than adequate. We need a dominant CB most importantly. That's the real issue

He has earlier this season. It's about recovery time. He looks less energetic to me compared to Saturday.

Yep. He can't play at that level 3 times in a week. It's proven and I don't get why we don't rotate when we have midweek games.

****. O'Leary stuck to the line there...

If I went up to you on the street and behaved like that you would have every right to deck me.

Charlie Austin had barely kicked the ball and been completely ignored by our support, but chose to stand in front of the South Stand shouting at people. He wasn't giving anything back he was inviting it

Perhaps the FA should consider telling players not to deliberately incite and provoke opposition crowds? The Huddersfield incident was unacceptable as this didn't really happen. However, if Charlie Austin had been hit by a bottle he would got what he asked for.

1800 people 3 bottles. Have a word with yourself.

It's simple. He's well known by a lot of people who think he should be given a pro contract but aren't really qualified to make that decision. I trust the people we have in charge now to get that decision right.

They'll throw the bottle back though...

Those sort of puns are part and parsley of every day life

We probably won't but if the manager has some budget for wages it needs to go in this position.

Sorry William's was an excellent signing. Brunt a shocking one. We need to replace Baker urgently

Unrealistic wage expectations?

Unfortunately we have not been well run. We needed an experienced man like Pearson in charge precisely because our version of Dan Ashworth was a complete bluffer. Thankfully he's now working his magic at Ipswich.

That is the perfect description of our season. It will do me..