Maycock has the potential to be one of our best players but don’t think JJ sees it that way.As I said to someone at the time if Bugiel or Hackford had had that chance at Port Vale they would have tried to smash it and the game would have been 0-0 but Maycock has such composure he didn’t panic and just passed the ball in which is the mark of a good player IMO

I think what helped yesterday was our midfield three was made of two attacking midfielders and one defensive one. We normally play with two defensive ones. BTW Maycock is better than some think isn't he?

What action is appropriate Laurence, other than the obvious of having a worked out Plan B, in the event Plan A doesn't work? The bond is being reopened, we don't know where we are with shareholdings until 50%+1 is sorted and the various groups of potential investors have stated what they need to invest. Begging bowl has started failing as you would expect with sums in the millions. As you pretty much accepted people participate in rights issue because they expect the company to be making a profit now or before long. So calls to action are good but what are our actions?

REPD - good write up, and you offered: 'One thing that has long irritated me over this whole side of things is that we don’t need to be poor.' Yes agreed, and the rumours engineered last week may have boosted numbers at the meeting, but they were rumours only, not based on fact. Those rumours don't sit well with maturer supporters based on a couple conversations yesterday at Plough Lane and elsewhere online. The younger supporters might lap it up?

Bert - Ah ha!

Not me Laurence, too busy making AI look silly ;)

Bert - are you looking after this Wiki, please? Or someone at the club? [Link]

Is anyone else getting this when visiting: Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access wimbledonheritage.co.uk

Anyway, here's SW19 on yesterday - [Link]

CW - true 😬☺️

The alignment of the crowd and the goal looks odd in OTD. They don't look at right angles or opposite each other.

Morning all. Hash - heard it at Port Vale and I remember "We won't go up, we might go down, Peter Winkleman's a fucking clown" but forgot the rest. It's to Vanity Fare's "Hitchin A Ride", I believe

thither

Buxton is lovely. Worth staying a bit longer. Excellent pubs,as has been said- the Cheshire Cheese in Higher Buxton has Titanic. Some marvellous buildings. Proper stalagmitey/stalactitey caves. It's a very hilly town so be prepared for a lot of upping and downing. It is also very cold because of its altitude. The staff at the Prem are really nice but they don't seem to get first dibs on breakfast supplies.

Yeah early goal made a huge difference to the atmosphere but there was definitely something different about the performance yesterday. Even when they equalised it looked like we could score again which was different to the usual 'this game could go on for the next 756 years and we still won't score' feeling. So crowd got behind players.

A4e-actually scoring goals helps with that

We should have enough to stay up, both through the impact of Tilley and Browne, and also the change in confidence and belief. Sounds like reasons to be a little less despairing off the pitch too.

The atmosphere yesterday was far more positive than in most home games this season - apart from the nervous parts when Reading looked as if they might take control, the crowd were properly behind the team, and I think it did help the players…

As someone who is never too reluctant to point out things that aren't well run at the club, I just wanted to mention that I just bought a ticket for the cup game on Tuesday and I thought that the whole process was unbelievably efficient and smooth. From logging in to receiving the ticket probably took no more than 2 minutes. We certainly have got a really good system for that.

Not sure if this was a repeat, but I watched a bit of this last night, and Rick Astley came across as a really genuine nice guy - the final bit where he did The Smiths songs at Glastonbury with the Stockport band Blossoms is so good ☺️👏 [Link]

Kite 🤪😂😂😂 that’s so naughty 😂 I was going to point out what a great header that was considering the ball is on the ground 5 yards away from him… 😂

The OTD is closer to 1920 than 2020. Spotted OI in the crowd

Oh, Buxton. I was heading to an event near Stockport in 2007/8 when my car broke down not far from Buxton. Green Flag took us to our hotel then got us back to Mitcham the following day.

RK. I'm big into my walking so generally try to stay within 5 miles or so of a stadium so I can walk to and from it so I don't have to worry about my car, which I leave at the hotel. Also, with semi-flexible rates you can cancel or amend bookings. If Stockport get chosen for TV because of their promotion push or the weather is dodgy that is very useful to have. I once did over 600 consecutive first team league games, home and away (from Combined Counties right up to League One) but now I pick and choose the away ones as I go to take in the local areas for a few days as well, not just the games. I'm one of the few that actually liked Barrow as your could walk around Walney Island and Roa Island, as well as stay in a Travelodge across the roaf from the stadium with a Domino's and Costa Coffee next door. I still get well into double figures per season for away games but don't do them all anymore. The last time I went to Stockport it never stopped raining and it doesn't have that much to see.

Also has good pubs and restaurants