The Nottingham Forest post on Twitter is, er, interesting

I see the fix is in for Everton as usual. How do they get it every time?

Good news for mine and Carshalton player of the year 😂[Link]

Rob - it seems to me it is the EFL's fault if they set March 1st and then don't stick to it. "March 2nd? Tough, come back next year". Sometimes meeting criteria involves expense so pre-season might be discouraging.

OI - except we've already got "after the season" issues because it's affected the playoffs. Perhaps clubs should have it sorted out before the beginning of the next season? Or at the least an earlier cut off date

Doobs just reached Half Way mark and doing really well time wise. Current pace has him finishing before 5pm but would be stunning if he achieved that in his first Marathon. I'm guessing he won't have run many times much over Half Marathon distance. Go Doobs.

I presume the March 1st deadline is to avoid "after the season" issues. The problem is that there have been a month and a half of appeals, proposals and arbitrations since. Maybe the EFL should stick to March 1st or an immediate appeal that is decided by mid-March. Would Gateshead have performed worse if they knew they couldn't be in the playoffs? Would that affect the inetgrity of the whole competition?

RK - Doobs still going; it's a Marathon not a Sprint! Last checkpoint was 9.32 Miles so has quite a few hours to go. Hope he's having fun.

Sorry, "entry criteria"

Gateshead’s ground is good enough but they don’t have a 10 year lease apparently which is an EFL requirement

Bromley play off game next sun and on tnt by the looks of it

Gateshead not allowed to play in the National League playoffs because their ground doesn't meet EFL standards - [Link]

RK - the idea that we are losing £2 million a year is a fallacy. The previous year the loss was £0.8 million. We do not have the information to know if the £2 million was a one off or the norm. We have to wait until next year's figures to determine that.

Trouble is talk is cheap. Many , myself included, have spoken about this or that and aren't held to account, let alone it not actuallly being evidence driven. There's only one opinion that really matters, it is JJs and even then it's subject to interpretation and delivery from the players he pick.. By that same standard, he's the one who'll be rewarded, sacked or poached.....

Wonder how many EFL teams try for a break even figure? I know Chalton lose £190k a week 10 million a year.

Does anyone k ow what time Doobs got (if he's finished)

Think we'll be lucky to be mid-table next season, unless i'm missing something. The current level of spending is not sustainable given near £2m losses before fee income. Michele has said getting a breakeven performance is a high priority so something has to go. Fingers crossed, we'll get more income, but don't hold your breathe.

silk-exactly,Bugiel is decent in the air but can’t do it all himself otherwise he will be knackered

LI - Why not have two strong centre forwards feeding the likes of Kelly who make runs from wide to central? Like our first goal yesterday.

I think we're perhaps an overperformimg non league club actually

Can’t just lie down and accept mediocrity. Attendance wise we should be a playoff team in L2 and a bottom half team in L1. We’re underperforming, consistently. Accept that and we may as well switch the funding to the women’s team so at least some fans can enjoy games from January onwards.

Is Omar bugiel not our strong CF signing? 🤔

I have just seen the goals. Their first two is rank bad defending from us. The first is coming from playing a centre back at right back. It is not helping Balmer at all. Their third is what I have been talking about. A ball to their strong CF who holds it up for their quicker, more skillful forward to run on to. Kelly's first also is what I have been talking about. He starts off on the left makes a run across the defenders that is hard to mark, a decent ball from Omar and he finishes it. His second is getting to the knock down first.

We can't afford good managers and players v

And 90%of the current starting line ups are JJ signings