Morecambe gave both slipped badly

Before the match I popped into see the Lucien Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery before it closes tomorrow. Entry was a flat £25 with no subsidies or hand-outs. I thought the exhibition was poor but at least I wasn’t having to pay more so that others could pay less!!

6MDM: You have disagreed with just about every idea or thought that I have ever posted, but have at least given me credit for my lack of “rudeness”. Quite why I would need to be rude (let alone be rude to a member of our Club Community) – I have never comprehended. It’s therefore a shame to see you lowering yourself to name calling. I will rise above it.

Naz (@ 19.28.02), totally agree. With the cards he has been dealt with, JJ has done a really good job. I for one hope he stays but you have to wonder that if he gets tapped up by a club offering a better and bigger squad to work with, he could be tempted to try his luck and move on, whatever division that might be in. You feel his heart is in SW19 though. His post match interview after Wigan brought a tear to the eye.

Spit, yours and Bert's response were screenshotted.

Lol, hadn't realised I was so popular;-)

I haven't looked at the scum forum for many a year but apparently they still look here for sticks to beat us with. Example 1. Spit explaining a post and Bert's response explaining why it had been deleted. 2. An unfortunate sexist post by Kentish which was missed. He's been banned anyway. 3. A screenshot of A4e welcoming the reduction of racism, homophobia etc.

I share Nick D's despondency about how football in this country continues to evolve. The genesis for what we have now was Sky Sports, their money and their influence. I much preferred it in the Division One to Division Four days, when games kicked off at 3.00 pm or 7.45 pm. Now instead of looking forward to players joining and progressing, many think about what profit we can sell them for. What is the point? Then there is the guestbook idiot (who thankfully has crawled back under his rock for the last few weeks) who talks about nothing else but money and would happily price people out of being able to afford to attend. Why? What is the point? If supporters cannot afford to attend then it is just 22 blokes (sorry, people) on a pitch in front of a privileged few who see it as like going to the cinema or the opera, i.e. no emotionally attachment. Chasing dreams has resulted in salaries for transient, mediocre, players spiraling out of control. What do some clubs do? Pay more. It can't go on but I've been hearing this for 50 years and it just gets worse year after year.

On a day that was supposed to be a celebration of retaining our League One status for another 12 month's, it's not turned out too well. I know it didn't matter but to get hammered 4-0 at home by a team that had nothing to play for either and who could easily have doubled that score was pathetic. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was an insult to the paying public but that set the tone for dampening people's spirits as it is hard celebrate after that.

And also Leddy - again if Reece Wally Absolute Wally had moderated Discord at all let alone properly then it wouldn’t need to be shut down. But after threatening Wup with legal action they got threatened themselves with actual legal action and look who’s going.

Well when discord goes this place will be swelled by about 25 new people … let’s see…

You did say a board member was called shit for brains and you declined to answer when pressed for which board member.

For the record I never said criticism should be banned. I like the moderators light touch on here and think they do a difficult job very well. The point I was making earlier was they let stuff stay on here that many other forums would have removed.

Ipswich were Premier League last season and will be again next season. We just scraped L1. Not really a like for like comparison. Ipswich don’t claim to have fan ownership values.

Well said, $6m. For the few, not the many. LD - that's yet more evidence about what football has become.

Sorry, just checked the OS. At least I was right.

But if people are queueing up to get into an empty room how much revenue are we taking from the empty bar and how much profit do we make from that anyway given we have an outsourced corporate contract?

Was it Seddon and Nkeng?

As an example of what other clubs do this is what Ipswich Town do for their end of season awards: [Link]

Hopefully if JJ leaves Foxy comes in again to save us and takes on the trio plc DTb manager role

I'm not particularly fussed about POTY stuff, given the transient nature of players. I did vote this year for a change (but only for the men's POTY and YPOTY as I didn't feel informed enough to vote for anything else) as it was simple to and I see both my picks won their categories. Whilst Seddon has continued to remain solid, despite being played out of position and wasted as a CB, Nkeng seems to have struggled in the last few months since breaking into the team. I don't think he has beaten a player for quite a few games, never mind put a cross in or score. He's young and a decent pre-season will hopefully get him back on track because we will need him next season.

Although more's the point - does every decision have to be done on the basis of money?

CW - I reckon the people likely to stay for EOS awards would be the ones who usually stay anyway. A few more on top but not many.

Common sense would dictate do it after the match in a bar to maximise alcohol sales, we need all the cash we can get

I'm a broken record on this and said it again on the podcast this week, but the end-of-season awards are something we have never got right. Just do it on the pitch before kick-off. Maximise the audience that can give the players their approval and recognition. This insistence on doing it post-match is odd.