They are among the dumbest animals you’ll ever see.

RK - Some on the forum I use are guessing it's an escaped pet, yes, but who knows? When I lived in Basingstoke, my place backed onto a wood. Loads of pheasant there. If I left the back gate open we'd have 2 or 3 in our garden in no time. They were common pheasant, native to this country. This one is a bit of a mystery though.

Wonder how it go here - maybe someone keeping it as an exotic pet? Well done if it flew all the way and evaded Putin's and Trump's missiles ...

Evidently it's been roaming around this area for a couple of weeks now, if all the reports are accurate. No idea of any why's or wherefores, Trigger.

A peasant from Taiwan? On the lose in southwest London?

A Swinhoe's pheasant, from Taiwan, on the loose somewhere in SM4 [Link]

Bushmonkey I thought that as well but checked and it’s not the case. Outside the EFL there is scope for recalls.

Bush Woble &CW that was what I was wondering. I know he had a long injury in the past. And he was viewed as good enough for us to give him a pair of 2 year contracts. But at this point he’s already proved himself at NLS level, presumably Tonbridge would at least be interested, so worth him pushing on elsewhere.

I believe that loans in the top 6 divisions can only start and end in an active transfer window? Tonbridge are in Step 6 and W&H at Step 7. Might be why we've recalled Horan and not Sutcliffe?

Cadiz is a nice ground to visit, nice old town and the ground is 50m from the beach front.

Sutcliffe needs regular football and if we can’t give it to him we need to let him move on

Lurker - don't think Horan is out of contract in the summer. He only signed his first pro contract last summer (same time as Nkeng). I think Sutcliffe has already said he's leaving us at the end of the season. Unsurprising as he's 22 and never got close to the 1st team.

That’s just it Tonbridge are bang in mid table with nothing riding on their games

Preston - In our situation we can't afford to be fair to other clubs . If any loaned out players can be of help to us, recall them, surely.

Preston’s they’re mid table with 2 games left. 15 points above relegation and 16 below the play offs. (My first thought was do they have anything to play for - the answer is no).

Walton and Hersham are already promoted- think Tonbridge still have stuff to play for.

Never knew Kieron Somers was a Rastafarian

Horan and Surcliffe situation is weird. Walton and Hersham have won promotion already (apparently) so you could argue they don’t need Horan for the last couple of games. But then Tonbridge have nothing to play for in the last couple of games. Also Sutcliffe is 22 and has spent the bulk of the last 3 seasons on loan at Tonbridge, in the same league. So it’s weird that he wasn’t recalled. Both are put of contract in the summer. Maybe Sutcliffe is already planned to move on? (Pure speculation based on the above, I have no idea).

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Afternoon all (well, it will be by the time this gets posted). Terry Brown often said about having bodies available, and Riley Horan is somebody to have on the bench...

It would make more sense to recall Ethan Sutcliffe from Tonbridge but perhaps we have a no recall deal with them

She not ride her bike anymore then

Agreed WTID. I think CC's note was to the point and informative but effectively said "there's no help coming we have to sort this out with what we have available."

Actually the Guardian - dreadful paper ;) - was misleading me, she died a couple of years ago .

And Melanie has died in a bad time for music. RIP