Morning all. DunD - "Our backroom staff must be bigger than ever before: DoF, Manager, three coaches. Is that more than most clubs?". Think it's pretty standard these days, certainly at this level, and if anything it might be smaller than a lot of other clubs.

WUP is unofficial. Discord is the official two way channel for DT members so more important (out of interest how many of the 320 post on it each week?). It should be open to criticism precisely because the people on Proboards asked to have some involvement in deciding on a replacement but George and Reece said that they knew best and would decide on their own and present the DTB with a single recommendation.

"For every Ryan Reynolds you have 99 Sam Hammam and Charlie Koppell... No, thanks." 100%, Wags. I love what we've got. Would hate to regress to the perpetual pass-the-parcel treadmill of potential dodgy owner to potential dodgy owner. (Let's also see how the Hollywood experiment actually ends.)

You ok Stu?

And if we are classing this as one of the popular GB’s. I reckon we have no more than 100 unique posters during a week, so again Discord is a success if this is classed as a success.

And the 99:1 ration on bad owners vs bad is simply silly. No proof in it and if it was the case, the other 90 clubs should be fucked by now!

300+ is more than treble the attendance of meetings at PL.

Here here Nick. Agree re Discord stuff too.

Alan - it is never going to be admitted as a problem. The most we'd ever get is "It is possible some people may have had issues signing up to Discord, which we are sorry about".

Just reading back and wanted to say that I totally agreed with OI’s post of 22:07 last night (notable that TBK, who is generally ready with a response to most things, somehow couldn’t dent the impeccable logic of OI’s post).

A bit sad that there seems to be no mention or news item from Walsall on their defender who apparently did his ACL at Wembley. He is out of contract, maybe of his own volition, and out for most of next season so he is not in a good place.

Doh! Missing a " drop to" 35% of PB

JAW, from 900 odd on proboards.... unless it's something like reduction in crime or unnecessary spending, its hard to see how around a 35% is a success.

Trigg - that’s an incredibly short account of the final considering they have (I think) only appeared once before at Wembley (losing to Bristol City in the Trophy final in front of 72,000). I think it’s pretty disrespectful of the club to write so little - I imagine the players are at least half decent and did try their best, and the manager is OK too. Yes they bottled it, but we almost did too (we had autos in our own hands on several occasions and then lost that advantage…). One thing I would say is that I didn’t really see Walsall as being as much of a diving rolling around team as quite a few other “northern” sides we played this season… No hard feelings - good luck to them next season (and, of course, to us!!). I saw a Derby fan yesterday wishing all the best to Nathaniel Mendez-Laing on his move to MK, and hoping they did well with him there - I couldn’t resist telling them that he could always have joined a proper club rather than a club stealing franchise… 😬

What a "by the numbers" report that is, Trigs!

A perfect example of the board not knowing what the newer members want is the move from Proboards to Discord. Still only 321 members, less than 5% of members. Yet they continue to double down and think it’s a great success.

SB, the prices are already set matey. Repeat where do these "necessary resources" you waffle on about come from?

An understandably dispassionate report of Monday’s game from Walsall [Link]

One final thought before I head off for the day... Our backroom staff must be bigger than ever before: DoF, Manager, three coaches. Is that more than most clubs?

Regardless of whether one thinks... (I wasn't aiming that comment at Hash).

Don't know, Hash, but it is daunting just how many players we need to sign (and perhaps re-sign and release) in such a short space of time. Cope is going to earn his keep over the next two months if he's going to assemble a squad capable of competing in League One. We previously went up with a pretty strong squad. This time around, regardless of whether you think our players of the past season are good enough or not, there is a lot more work to be done.

We have a better club now compared to our last promotion helped by the new stadium. We now have great off-field people to complement on-field success.

Release/retain/contract offered announcement day today or is everyone still celebrating so its too soon?

Our fortuitous promotion in 2016 meant we were a division 4 club in division 3 at the limited KM. Since 2022 we've probably been a division 3 club in division 4 with the larger and better facilities of PL.

99:1 ratio of bad to good owners? U sure?