JJ has his Hi Tec's on

That Skiverton’s a tactical genius

Playing a 3-5-2 formation. That’s a turn up for the books.

Given that it’s Liverpool v Real Madrid tomorrow, wonder how many Real fans are doing a Merseyside double tonight

I reckon a 1-1 draw

Prenton Park doesn't look packed

Any update/ rumours about Reeves’s return?

I fancy a 1-0 win tonight seeing as they don't score many and our defence is fairly tight.

I wonder if back in the day in the centre of Yeovil's defence, whilst his team mates were fighting for clean sheets, Terry was shouting "give him space to shoot from distance, it keeps their XG down" - unless it resulted in a Tilley screamer.

We have another player in the Academy system who has been called up by England. Another goalkeeper. I know little more than he is a pretty good shot stopper. Early days on his level, but it's a tricky postion to get any opportunity in the first team before a bigger club jumps in.

Skiv out. Professional football coaches shouldn’t be focusing on XG. Make him Treasurer and he can talk about X£.

And as Scotty pointed out the best ones generally won’t be left with us long enough anyway. They’re targeted specifically before they get to the point where they’ll cost more.

Terry Skiverton

Laurence @12:33 are you suggesting we should put advertising what are predominantly non league players in the first team ahead of actually trying to win league 2 games? Because otherwise what’s the point of what you’re saying ?

TS = ?

The who.e academy thing was dreamt up when we were non league and it was feasible. It’s bullshit these days because to achieve the target, which from memory was about the majority being from our youth structure, would mean we have one if the best academies in the world. We don’t. But we are producing at the rate a good academy should, which is 1 player a year might be up to first team squad level.

No Smith in tonight's squad - must be injured.

I’m not as down on Johnson as others. I think the squad are putting in a shift each game even if the performances against the better clubs are lacking a little. Tonight will be an interesting one because we should be looking to win but must be feeling leggy across the squad.

Nicely written nicander and does read clearly that it relates to the procees and appropriatness and is not personal about Michele.

Back to footy- Johnson still captain.

Alan, Its a tricky one. I've had some bad "personal" results voting in the Elections. i.e. voting for those who don't get in. The problem I found with voting for my less favoured candidates is it helped push them past my must haves. Those I didn't want sailed in anyway. So I'm not keen to vote for 7th/8th type preferences to find they pip my favourites. To an extent as long as my favourites get in, I'm not desperate as to who else get in as I believe we will have a functioning DTB anyway.

I think, but am not sure, that only one of those roles is “normally” a paid role and reportedly* no salary is being taken for it. But I’d argue that an experienced FD, maybe even part time to save costs given the amount of time ML must be able to throw at that role currently and without any previous emotional connection to the club and without a large amount of money invested into it (🤷‍♂️) would be a great use of funds and would probably deliver and ROI year after year. Just have them report into the Chairman role and be protected from the DTB bullshit. That way they can achieve results that the current set up will find impossible because of all the conflicts of interest and personal favours/loyalties which overshadow doing the right thing.

To be honest, the board's consistent refusal to acknowledge this as a conflict has made me question their judgement, because it just plainly is one.

It's difficult to discuss Michele's roles because of the danger of it sounding like a personal attack, which I don't think most intend it as. But I still don't think it is appropriate for the DT treasurer and the vice-chair of the plc board to be the same person. I know the board disagree about this but it is a conflict - marking one's own homework. The DTB's role is to oversee the plc and it cannot be right for the main financial voice advising the DTB to be the person responsible for plc financial performance. There is also the issue, as there was with Kris, that there hasn't afaik been any open recruitment for these roles. I'm sure we are saving money through Michele being in these roles, but that is only valid if we are certain noone else could be driving significant improvement and we cannot be certain of that if we haven't looked.

Thanks Scotty.