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

Your were rude to me Galt but you have a selective or bad memory, especially when it comes to responding to challenges about what you have posted. You don't let facts get in the way of your repetitive, tedious, ramblings about money either. Yesterday, again, you just posted about money. No comment on the game, end of season awards, who you'd like to stay or leave, the poor run we've been on, the win at Wigan, etc. You never join in any conversations you did not start. You never reminisce about grounds you've visited or games that you saw. There are a myriad of non-football topics that get discussed on here. You ignore them all. Now you've surfaced again, what do you post about? Your pleasure about some art gallery charging full prices for everyone, even though it seems you got that wrong too.

I think Omar will go and will probably find himself at home with a Gillingham or a Bristol Rovers. He works hard but if we're putting him in the category of one of our better players then that is a stark admission of where the squad is at. I won't miss seeing him commit sly fouls when he should be trying to win a header.

Morning all. SW19 on the last game of the season now up - [Link]

Bugiel: A goal every 4.5 matches for us in L1 this/last season.One of our better players but hardly irreplaceable.

A team that we might beat?

[Link] and at play at night.

Re yesterday, think one team treated it as an early pre-season friendly and the other didn't. Just seen the att on flashcards as 8,784 - i think this is a record, and judging by the number of fans disguised as blue seats for the second half, the catering brought in a few zlotys

Bugiel given captains armband surely means he’s leaving?

[Link] For any nature lovers - used my trailcam in some woods on Friday night as I'd spotted what I thought was a badgers' sett - turns out it's a fox den with five beautiful cubs.

Did Haydon's magnificent marathon get a mention at the end of season awards?

It was a helper to the DTB who got called shitforbrains. The post was left but I also think LD should be allowed his slight misinterpretation without persecution.

I'm not going to the World Cup so at least I won't be paying more so that the already rich can extract even more money from the average fan. [Link]

40 years today was on the coach with my schoolmate heading to Huddersfield. Promotion to the top league in the thunderstorms .