Mr Popodopolous

That's all done with now I thought unless less advanced grounds, clubs cannot cope with the legacy of this.

I've read a little more about it apparently their initial reduction was due to SAG (insert jokes here) related issues. They certainly had to play with a reduced capacity following a pitch invasion or 2 early season. Safety Advisory Group weren't happy with certain issues, however this is above and beyond, and a club led initiative.

Expect so although in a stand that is empty?? Health and Safety is obviously highly important but it seems mad to me, in this instance on a highly sunny well lit day etc. Especially in a stand that is empty.

I sometimes go to the rugby. Different sport yes but at the same time could not believe the electricity wastage. Hot sunny day, afternoon kick off- lights on in all in stands- don't mean the concourses but the srand itself- the bright hot sunny day, and the fact it was the afternoon, I would say easy enough to see and navigate with minimal stand lights on. Even the Atyeo which is shut for most rugby games as it was that day, had them on throughout!! Different sport but same venue!

Didn't know this was a thing. Congratulations to the club.

Worse than that, his predecessor was also an internal appointment. ? Even Mick McCarthy although external was interim to permanent to sacked within 6 months.

They have been moving a bit towards austerity in the last season and this although some of that will be imposed too by a combination of FFP and Parachute Payments coming to an end.

Plus. https://theathletic.com/3469735/2022/08/04/watford-medical-emergency-efl/ It could be the case that the law is an ass but a lot of people demanding the game was stopped, well I don't know how accurate that view was. I suspect that this snippet would explain a few things.. I wonder of the Safety officer encouraged all to play on as the risk of a suspended game, highly charged atmosphere, goal recently etc outweighed or was perceived to outweigh that of swift treatment for the individual who had the medical emergency?

Reading online and finding something else, was interested after a bit more research. https://www.efl.com/-more/governance/crowd-medical-emergencies/#:~:text=If a supporter becomes unwell,that appropriate care is provided. Seems that back in the Spring, the automatic stoppage for medical emergencies on the crowd was quietly shelved or indeed modified. Possibly we followed procedure as a club, debatable but possible. Not seen this statement before but was from late March. I would therefore query, whether those shouting to the linesman etc were technically correct.

They've been heading that way for a while now. November 2019...Warnock out, Harris in. January 2021 I think, Harris out McCarthy in as interim manager. Summer 2021, McCarthy given a longer contract. Autumn 2021- McCarthy out, Morison in (temp again). Unsure when but Morison got the gig full time. September or October 2022, Morison out, Hudson in temporarily. November 2022- Hudson gets the full time job... A sliding scale of calibre and experience, although McCarthy sits above Harris of course.

Tend to agree. Was having a think about it earlier and came to a roughly similar conclusion. In a fully functioning market Diedhiou is the obvious and we may well have got more for Nagy and Eliasson but it still seems ropey overall to me, certainly the £30m figure.

That's true, would be kinda disappointing if not in particular the transfer add-back bit. If I was to hazard a guess. Total Net revenue loss ie after cost savings across the two Covid seasons- £15m. Obviously £2.5m last season. Transfer add-backs...£30m was mentioned early on. £10m in each of Covid seasons and a further £10m last season? Therefore takes us to £35m in total. T-2= £1.5m loss T-1= £10.5m loss T...well we can make a P&S Loss of £27m this season. Mix of pure guesswork and media mentioned numbers. Or maybe? All £30m of lost transfer add-backs in the 2 Covid seasons. Add that to the whole £5m x 2 for FFP and the same again for Covid. T-2= £1m FFP profit T-1= £20.5m FFP loss Therefore the target for 'T' is an FFP Loss not exceeding £19.5m...yes the £2.5m 2021-22 Covid allowance drops off so maybe a little to do.

That's true enough and yeah I wouldn't expect an in-season breach even if the worst did happen- it would be unprecedented. I'm just keen as always to see how much we have allocated or sought to allocate to transfer add-backs. Definitely our verifiable Covid losses will exceed £5m x 2 and £2.5-m...£15-20m in the combined Covid period and £2.5m last season maybe.

I restate my case, if all is well and all is signed off definitively or at least as far as possible with the Football League. For want of a better term, publish and be damned. Can't be that bad, have an idea of the losses and have an idea of our argument pertaining to transfer market add-backs.

Checked the site and CH just now. We still have another 106 days but no movement as yet. I definitely won't update daily ? but kinda starting to give up on seeing them this side of December. I rather assumed that they would have been out within a fortnight of the Fans Forum (which was on Thursday 27th October 2022). In a truly idealistic scenario, before the Fans Forum so that fans could in fact have raised more specific points but there are limits.

Was there no contact on Wells? Watched it back a couple of times... Indirect free kick at the very least no? What about the defender, should he have been carded.

That may well have been the EastEnd in its latter years.

Excellent work again @Olé Although some of these sides and their stats might have taken place in PL and League 1? Different standard's, thresholds levels of dominance etc.. The Championship perennials well that could be like a sub-table or graph would probably state our case further ie those in the Championship from 2020-21 to present.

We all knew it was on the cards but congrats to Semenyo for sure. Hope he makes his mark- a competitive but not impossible group to do so. Thought was decent Saturday, a sceptic may say he was looking to sharpen up a little before the Ghana squad finalised however I think he should come back better. Worth noting too, that he has had not one but two medium term injuries in the last 12-18 months.

A return to Sporting Lisbon with a massive pay cut needed could be a good move, that is where he started, the club who gave him his big break.

Says that England might be playing a WC QF same day, so future-proofing I guess.

As per the thread title. Dunno why it says follow on that share as I definitely follow us on Twitter.

He's always been a a bit of an arrogant preening tosser, hasn't he. For most of his career anyway, last 10-15 years perhaps since he really got big.

Not just penalties denied either. This season alone, the one at Hull- plus... 1) The failure to send Bennett off at Wigan... 2) ..The failure to either send off Freeman or before that, call a foul on Sykes when he was sandwiched just before he saw red- if that foul was called, Sykes wouldn't have flown into the tackle. 3) Potentially, although not so certain the Dieng handball outside the box- although it's possible he was just inside. 4) Sheffield United, was there a foul or an offside in the build-up to their winner? 5) Sheffield United Part 2- Norwood on Williams. For balance , how many have gone in our favour this season. Not penalties of course but how many big "Phew, got away with that one" have we had...can't think of any right now but there must be some. Ah and forgot, checked- one of the QPR goals was potentially offside. Now, I recall Palmer scored a goal that shouldn't have been at home v Fulham in September 2021 but at the same time, Chalobah was it, should have received the 2nd yellow at 0-0 in 1st half- he did not and was substituted.

Totally get that yeah, don't disagree either. We might still have dropped points in some of those games but play like we did vs Sheffield United, yesterday and even v Swansea in a lot of ways and we would have more points I'm sure. Our point v Coventry at the time was a bit of two dropped, now doesn't look so bad- they are now absolutely flying form wise in recent weeks. They were always in a bit of a false position I thought, but I digress more consistency of baseline performance- and this is really important for me, the baseline performance that we have seen in some of these games where we were so flat or felt like we were asleep and we would IMO have more points. Plus when I refer to baseline performance, I don't just mean technically or shots wise but teamwork, cohesiveness, energy and endeavour. We really need that every match as a starting point.