been

At least the the Brighton beach rapists have found guilty.

re Epsom: That was another occasion when we expats took more notice of hints from you ladies and gents on the GB than we did of the press.

Agree, Trigs. I'd join you in that scotch too :-)

Could nick's post about Haydon running in the London marathon be made a sticky, dear gimps?

Not really a surprise

Oh [Link]

Yeah. Still would enjoy a very large and expensive scotch if they ever went out of existence, but I’m not going to spend any effort hoping it happens.

And yes, Winkie's departure is a big part of that. He was such a Bogeyman for so many years

I agree Trigs - I don't really care either. Suspect more and more people feel that way all the time. After all, 2002 was 24 years ago.

It’s Salford v Bromley tonight. If Salford win there’s a slight chance they might combine with Cambridge to knock the frannis out of the automatic spots by the final day. But there’s also a chance they might kick on and become champions instead.

Fair enough Nick but if anyone at the club is reading, the notice was about a month ago, how about another before Sunday?

It appears that I missed it [Link] Sponsor Haydon if you are able.

Like you OI I have not seen anything from the club promoting our mascots fund raising efforts. His biggest cheer leader seems to be Aaron Paul the BBC London morning presenter.

Thanks for the link Nick. I hadn't seen any club publicity fot him so gald you mentioned it (That doesn't mean there hasn't been club publicity but it hasn't reached me)

TF - like so much other programmes falling by the wayside, FF was of its time. It was pretty redundant when the 12h30 kickoffs came in, and I bet that's what most people now watch.

Ah that’s a real shame but at the same time I can’t remember the last time I sat down to watch it so maybe the time is right.

RIP Football Focus

Did anyone on here go to the Wolfpack thing last Thursday? I haven’t seen any talk about it and the club’s social media posts on the evening are getting no traction at all. I thought it looked like it could be a really good evening but couldn’t attend myself.

Whether we stay up or go down, the Club need a fairly hard-nosed review of its costs, player and non-player

TS-it’s the same with all the smaller teams like us one bad run of injuries can scupper the whole season

That's the crux of our problem, we can field a decent side from 14 or so but after that we struggle.

Given we've lost 6 on the spin, conceded more goals than any other L1 team and will either go down or stay up by a whisker, I suggest it is unlikely that there will be a queue round the block to sign ANY of our squad - in or out of contract. Some of our squad I would keep for L2 but not L1. We have maybe 10 1st team squad players (inc. loanees) I'd like to keep, plus maybe 2 more if we are in L2. That leaves about ten who can go - sadly a fair few of these are contracted for next season.

It’s a hypothesis that the recruitment in the summer (and January) was heavily influenced by our budget or specifically lack of budget. Craig Cope and team did wonders last season L2 but can’t be expected to pull rabbits out of hats when they’re up against other L1/L2 clubs offering better deals.

Had a lovely break in Yorkshire, Dales & Moors, last summer. Was rather nice and the Nth York Moor railway Pickering-Whitby is probably the best railway line in England