Nick I’ve viewed it as no Sasu wouldn’t be on loan. He should have gone on loans last season, one before that and one before that. He didn’t which says they don’t see him gaining anything from a loan. Thing is he’s quick, tall, actually has decent skills for our level. He just seems to drift out of things too often. Which may well be because he didn’t get the loans he needed in the past.

Considering Hackford’s age I’m not sure a loan has any point now. He’s handy off the bench to run in behind slow defences late on and score the odd goal. But I’ve yet to see anything to suggest more game time would fix the weaknesses to his game. If he moves on he’s probably best moving on.

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STD - why would we have loaned Hackford out last season?! And who is suggesting we should have?!

Glad we didn't loan hackford last season what with his relegation saving goal at wigan :-)

SW - I do wonder how Stevens’s injury has changed things. Would Sasu (ideally) or Hackford be out on loan otherwise? Unless we get another forward in it seems unlikely we can get either of them out whilst Stevens remains a question mark.

Talking of staff - where's Skiverton? Thought he had ankle surgery months ago, but he's not back on the touchline

That missing money isn’t coming back. Best supporters can hope for is for one day to understand who benefited from it.

I am now at the point of feeling sorry for Sasu and angry with Jackson. He isn't being coached well and not been played to any of his strengths. Last night, we should have been popping balls over the top for him to run onto but we just never do that (partly cause Bishop's kicking can't get over the halfway line). He needed to go out on loan 2 years ago and never got the chance and has looked out of his depth. He could be a good winger but we have never seen him play there. I would get him out on loan ASAP.

TM - do his staff go with him, that adds to the bill? We are getting relegated this season with JJ or without JJ unless there is a sudden surge of investment and as Silk points out that after a certain figure only half the investment can go to the squad. The question is whether the replacement, or second replacement, will be better than JJ at keeping us in League 2, stabilising us in League 2 and eventually getting us promoted out of League 2.

OI, your comment 28th Aug 2026 08:45:26 and the tintac for JJ is something I agree with you, or that a L" make and approach to us for. In short I'm not convince he'll be here for the last game of the season. Nothing to do with last-night, but I'm fearing that he's in the last season of Ardley mode. NA was a stickler for the formation that saw unexciting football, and other than the Great Escape, we've remained that way since by and large. I'm not sure what the answer is, but hanging your hopes on Sasu becoming some kind of machine isn't going to help. I know he's young and obviously have talent, but its not working. There comes a point when you say, for the sake of the player as much as anything, we need to rethink this and change something. But here's the rub, JJ isn't that type, he's stubborn he's the type to stick to a principle to make a point, regardless of the evidence on games coming and going without sufficient reward. The crowd were turning towards the end of last season but got the fillip of staying up, a stay of execution if you like, but I don't things will improve anytime soon, and the seasons early reset on new hope is already showing tangible waning with some fans.

Airsy - indeed.

OI - Jackson has a contract running until July 2027 so another 10 months. It's unlikely we would sack this side of xmas so lets say 6 months max of payoff - average lG1 manager gets c£180k per year, we are cheap so he prob gets £140k per year - so perhaps a max c£70k pay off. in the scheme of things, peanuts, esp when there's £400k somewhere that we might get back?

All eyes now on our next two games. If we come out of them pointless and goal-less then we know the sort of season we can expect.

Also (A4E). one more win (either from a draw or defeat turning around) would have had Fulham in Europe this season.

They had to move the games because the authorities would take a 2 day gap for 'first team' matches as a precedent and neither the clubs or the PFA are going to be happy with that.

Charlton (from the division above the one we are almost bottom of) lost 5-1 on Wednesday at Spurs (a team who very nearly got relegated from the Premier League last season) - maybe our defeat to a team who only just missed out on a top half Premier League finish on goal difference last season isn’t as terrible as some think…

Trebor - I totally get what you're saying, but I think this is now a consequence of the gap that has now developed between the Prem and everyone else. Not one Prem team was knocked out by a lower league side this week. Our finances (and injuries) in particular gave us few options last night, and had we been more open, as the last five mins showed, it would have been murder and a heavy, heavy defeat is not easy to shake off.

Jackson will probably be happy with a three goal defeat, along the lines of "we'd have lost by more if we'd been more open at the back". The gulf in thinking between "professional" managers who want to mitigate damage and hope, and supporters who like to dream. Never the twain shall meet.

I did see a cockatiel yesterday along the river.

Watched the first half on telly last night. The commentary team were praising Wimbledon's patience. But I've never quite been able to get my head around managers who set their team up to be on the back foot. It's like: "OK, we're likely to get beaten, but maybe if we invite them onto us they somehow won't score, even though we're inevitably inviting them to pressure us, and maybe if we get lucky in defence we may also get lucky in attack and sneak a goal." OK, they're professionals and so they're more inclined to play the percentages. It's just that whole "they have a potent attack so we'll invite them to attack" logic that I don't get.

I do understand the irony of me saying this - as I have enjoyed and endured arguments on here before about sacking managers vs “who could do better?” attitudes. But I really don’t think the manager is our issue. I’m not exactly his biggest fan and I do accept that when results reach a certain stage it’s the obvious thing to do to change the manager. I was disappointed with the starting XI last night but with the game out of the way I’d rather have the 3 points available against Wigan on Sunday - if that’s possible.

Well 1 win in 15 league and cup games is sackable, but if we get no wins in next 6 winnable games ,then no choice but bye bye!

FWIW when I've done Fulham in the past, they are a bit louder. But not significantly so.

The fact that both Fulham and Chelsea made wholesale changes to their starting XI last night makes a mockery of having to move the game from Wednesday evening. Both ourselves and Luton have been majorly inconvenienced by the subsequent changes but was it really necessary to move the game?