Wox: I've wondered at times whether a management of team of four, plus DoF, is quite a luxury in a very constrained budgetary environment.

Stu the roped off area was for the players and reps from women’s team as Far as I could see. I was on a table at the front but just from sheer luck . But we never seem to get these things right. I hope everyone who wanted ti see the awards got in but I imagine not (not read back) . Think the only fair way to do them is on the pitch , or a ballot held in advance.

Jackson, Skiverton, Deddington and Bayes all had contracts extended in oct25 - AFCW were then in 5th spot

Alan, when I was on dialysis there, I often spotted patients with Oxford shirts ...

Alan iow I was at the beer festival at haven street station yesterday got over 30 beers going fiver a pint still on today and tom pity rain came down great day out and also a pop up bar at pier head station selling gin vodka and rum from mermaid distillery rum was fantastic guy looked like Neil warnock selling the stuff

Could be a decent clear out in the summer. Anyone who isn’t a nailed on starter should be up for an exit unless they’re cheap (McDonnell is probably a bargain keeper and decent back up). Players like Maycock will surely be out the door which will be a shame as he’s generally performed well for us but he’s obviously not a fit for JJ and he’ll probably gamble on someone else. Hopefully we can retain Tilley and Seddon. Then there’s those that we will have to shift to balance the books eg Browne, maybe Smith (I could see another league one team seeing his potential), and maybe Lewis.

Alan IoW - it's basically a squad that needs tearing apart and rebuilding now. And that's fine, because it got us to where we wanted to be.

Watching the league 2 highlights, Salford had an absolute stonewall penalty turned down which would avert given them promotion, wonder what Karl Robinson made of that

Being operated on in Oxford sometime in the next season will be excuse enough to wear my Dons shirts during my stay there. Who better better if there's a win to celebrate at their expense.

CW - true but less so where each of them play, particularly Oxford.

My only real problem with JJ is that he failed to help Maycock achieve his potential until he finally got him in the side in late Jan/Feb when we got the points needed to stay up, apart from that he has done a decent job but you could understand if he leaves for a better job

Well Watford have sacked another manager after less than 3 months. Wonder if jackson is on their radar 🤔

Cambridge and Oxford are interesting places to visit

My guess on JJ's future depends on the budget he's offered. I think that he respects the time given here and the fans support generally. He proved the bookies wrong and got the job done. The Big part of the promotion squad was both a help and hindrance. Help, as Rob points out in his blog that the short time to sign people will have lessened the work to get a side together. The problem with that, is that players who have got you promoted, have a history, but they aren't signed necessarily because they are capable. Last seasons squad were sum of their parts, this season, many were exposed as barely league 1 quality.

I would have allowed the sponsors to stay in the room and all others asked to leave by 6pm and then start filling up the room from the ‘normal fan’ via the queue outside the autograph zone. Would have put more seating at the front and looked at getting another stage at the front for the players to sit on as nobody could see them as people were standing up in front of the, I would have had no roped off area because that just cries out privilege.

Omar is never going to score you many goals and his blatant nudges in the backs of defenders and giving needless free kicks away is frustrating. But he is the only player we've got or can seemingly afford who wins any headers and bring others into play. When he's not on the pitch the long balls forward are basically giving the ball away. Unless we can get better value for what he brings elsewhere then what do you do?

Going back to yesterday’s discussion on the POTY awards it left me even more convinced we are nothing like a fan owned club anymore. Everywhere you look now you can pay for privilege. Wristbands for sponsors and important people, sponsors presenting awards on first name terms when they wouldn’t even know the name of most in the room. I don’t blame the club staff as anyone in commerical is targeted against income so we sponsor everything we can. The comms was so wrong about it when it said the 650 in hospitality get first dibs for entry and it only held 400. Lots wouldn’t have even bothered to try to get in.A roped off are at the front was a symbol of privilege and I saw people I know trying there best to be close to the ‘normal fan’ and others who looked like they liked being important.

If Omar still lives deepest sussex, . It's obvious Crawley is the team for him. Especially as when he was at sutton he didn't enjoy the travelling to Gander green.

By the way, does anyone else have difficulties with this site on Microsoft Edge? I've had to switch to Chrome to post.

In case of interest to anyone, I calculate that our average attendance for home league matches this season was 8,394, which is 4.8% higher than last season's 8,008 (excluding play-off semi). A compound growth rate of 2.1% per annum compared to 7,717 in 2021/22 (first season of admitting fans post-Covid). If yesterday's crowd had turned up for a final match of the season in our Kingsmeadow days, we'd have had to turn away 3,934 of them.

Think England footy fans in general have a bias in favour of big centre forwards, so not massively surprised at how Omar is respected

Loving those fox videos Trigg 🦊☺️

6M 👏

Paddington - most people haven’t even been to the Serpentine Gallery, even though it’s free - I went with 3 friends recently and it was the first time any of them had visited it… I hadn’t been for years in truth, but will go more often now - also worth going to the Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, it’s another free one… [Link]

Your occasional reminder that genuinely moneyed people never need to talk about how much money they have