JJ ,will be gone at the end of the season, lets just hope we can ride the rudderless tatics and selections without relegation this season.

Just watched the highlights and can't see why our goal was disallowed. I couldn't see anyone offside at the point where the ball was first headed and it went straight in without, as far as I could see, any physical contact that could be deemed a foul.

Who was pitching for each side Silk? The worst team in baseball can quite easily beat the best depending on match ups and a few key plays.

Of course JJ has flaws, actually Guardiola and Arteta have flaws. If we get rid of JJ, I'd think it likely we'd get a worse manager and he'd get a better job. Maybe kind to let him go.

League goals*

Nick, I don't think people are bemoaning the result, more the manner of it. We didn't show up, were slow, nieve and wouldn't have scored even if we were still playing. A horrible stat for you, Orse has a better goal record than that of the great hope Sasu. 60 games i think and no goals isn't someone we should place trust in to dig us out of this hole. Omar wasn't remotely prolific, but you can see what he had to offer the team, not so Sasu. Sure he has pace and lots of energy, but with that he should be at least a 1 goal in 5 game player. Yes he's young, and yes he was given the diservice of not getting a good loan move first, but Nkeng is young too, and raw but at least looked threatening. May Sasu out on loan to a conference side to get some goals and a return in January. But I fear he's going to be a jaffa in this side atm.

Silk - there are numerous legitimate criticisms or observations that can be made, absolutely. But the bottom line is that given the disparity of resources, there will be times when whatever we do just won't be good enough. Huddersfield are an excellent example as they've battered us three times (it was a miraculous 3-3 last season - the stats should have resulted in a mauling). We all know we are a bottomg six side and nothing that happens at Huddersfield changes that. Lose 3-0 at Bromley or Burton and that's when we think 'uh-oh'.

Anybody who witnessed how we struggled at home to a poor Newport side last week (that barely stayed in the EFL last season, only signed lower non-league players in the summer and now have a rookie manager) and that we went with the same starting 11 against a side that gubbed us 4-0 at home in our previous league game cannot have been surprised by yesterday. If it were not for the sending off I dread to think what the scoreline could have been. Huddersfield had 10 men for over an hour and were still comfortable but they are simply far superior. More my concern is how our better players from last season have started this. If Johnson, Seddon, Hippolyte and Browne have gone backwards (age does that) then managers and formations become irrelevant as we don't have the squad depth. We can tinker with a couple of players starting (like Stockley and Maycock) but that's all it will be.

My ranting is that despite the finance gap we do not make it easier for ourselves by making bad selection choices. Sasu instead of Stockley, Nelson ahead of Maycock, Tilley at RWB when we signed a perfect good one in Sessingnon. That would free up Tilley to play as an attacking CM - his better position. Why are we playing a back five when we consistently have to move Seddon to LCB to accommodate it. JJ's flaws/limitations are being brushed under the carpet because of the DTs ones. But that doesn't mean he should get a free ride. Why did we sign players like Hackford and Sasu who require perfect service even more than Browne and Stevens when we cannot afford those players that will provide it?

What is this slowing the game down bollocks? We are a poor side financially for this division and it is football suicide for poor teams to try and slow the game down. It has nothing to do with the reason we re losing games. The reason why we are losing games is that our first choice front two, Sasu and Browne, are not suited to being part of a front two. We need to play long balls for strong forwards to fight for and pick up the front two. Having someone in midfield who can slow things down will not change the fact that our front two are not the strongest either in or outside possession. The warning signs were there in the Newport and the manager did not address it despite how poorly we played.

We spend our lives bemoaning the increasing gap between haves and have nots in this division. We get beaten by a team that has far bigger resources than us and the squad to match. And then we act surprised that we lost and moan it’s not good enough.

Browne plays better as a false nine picking up scraps from the front two rather than carrying the workload in a front two and that may show as a lack of interest. Need Stevens back to play off Stockley with Browne in behind them really

Definitely need to fill the Reeves gap if he goes. Whilst we may still have conceded the first yesterday (possibly not*), we probably wouldn't have conceded the second as he'd likely have slowed the game down after the first

The final of The Hundred today at Lords. Sunrisers Hyderabad (Leeds) v Lucknow (Manchester) Super Giants.

Community Shield gate receipts and match programme sales are collected by The Football Association and distributed to the 124 clubs that compete in the FA Cup from the first round onward. These clubs then pass the funds on to local charities and community projects of their choice

I said to mates I've never heard of that band The weeknd, only 1 out of 5 of us had:-)

Bangladesh beat Australia by 9 wickets, not a bad result

Think they should just do away with the community shield tbh - once it’s on TNT you know no one’s interested

I see today's Community Shield is being played in Cardiff and not Wembley. The reason for this is The Weeknd.

Padds - a wise decision on your part I suspect but the trouble is all the fans suffer from the lack of funds and the unwillingness of those 'in power' to accept the position we are in. I suspect any deal we do will come with a (commercially confidential) Pre Pack Administration on the shelf to protect the investors. The true believers would be upset by that but it may actually look good to most of us as we'd have had a say of sorts in the future.

[Link] Fair play for doing the interview but also what a bowl of bull “pride ourselves on trying not to get countered” it happened umpteen times against Newport.

Investment best case scenario would hopefully mean some cash to spend in Jan so we need to stay reasonably afloat until then and not be out of it.

It's actually a relief not to have any involvement at all, having left the DT.

Some rumours around that some encouraging financial news is around the corner.

The appeal pulled in nearly 100K for the bond but the momentum now seems to be slowing. Getting it to 1 million looks like being an achievement, which leaves a 700K gap in the plan and that is assuming RK is wrong about the level of redemptions. The budgets are going to get worse not better unless there is an influx of 'working capital'.