Laurence/OI - that was a hell of a quick break, I’m not sure if anyone has timed it, but probably only about 5 seconds from us taking the corner to them scoring…

Kite - thanks for the places-to-visit tips, all welcomed 👍

OI - Reeves went missing on the edge of the D, which gave them licence to break from our corner for their breakaway goal. Also missing Ali Smith, who is usually good at corners and thus stopping early clearances.

I’m shocked to realise that Malcolm Macdonald is less than a decade older than me…. Amazing that he was in the same year group at school as Steve Hackett from Genesis 🎸

Trig - I doubt Bromley will have a problem. Them and MK Shite will be above us at the end of the season. We will do extremely well to avoid the relegation that our budget will result in.

Talking of counter attacking play, Huddersfield scored one of their goals through leaving somebody up when we had a corner. Disrupted our corner formation and then we were outnumbered when they broke quickly. I've never seen any research that shows you concede fewer by bringing everyone back.

Changing - you’re correct, it should probably have said “in a final at Wembley”…

Changing Man - correct - [Link]

OTD- I think Malcom Macdonald scored with four headers from his five goals v Cyprus in the mid 70s. Sorry Eddie

a4e, you can easily stay in Matlock for Sheff Wed, plus Notts Co/Chesterfield should they get promoted, plus Buxton for Stockport, should they stay in Lge One. All by train links

*Most (not Must) 🤪

Basically, if we can manage to finish where we did this season or a place higher, that will be an absolute result!! Must looking forward to a small number of away trips to grounds I’ve never been to - can’t manage too many, but hopefully Leicester, Wednesday, and maybe even Blackpool… I don’t really care how shit the ground is or how poor the atmosphere, it’s just for the experience - even better if I can grab 2 or 3 days or more in the area to look around (Peak District, Lake District, etc…) 🥳

Gaity, Yes an interesting set of stats. Turnover probably £11m+ this year 25/26. Totally agree that we need a hard look at the non-player bit which last year was £5m COS and £4.2m Admin

It’s an interesting question as to whether or not we are a big or small club in L1? Depends I guess on how you measure it. Last season’s playing budget of £3.6m was the 2nd or 3rd smallest. However, our revenue of £10m put us in the top 10 and was nearly 40% higher than some of the smallest revenue producing clubs. Interestingly the ratio of our playing budget to revenue was the lowest by nearly 30% and our % spend on non-playing budget expenditure items was the highest.

Silk - maybe us defending set pieces (or at the very least not conceding goals from our own ones) would be a good move next season too. FWIW, we were a L2 level squad in the campaign just gone, and they did well to get us over the line

From OTD - Eddie Reynolds "remains to this day the only man to have headed four goals beneath the twin towers". This is a record that can never be beaten now, since the Twin Towers are no longer there.

Play 4-3-3. Have a big lump up front and fast guys either side of him and play either balls to the lump in the air or low balls down the flanks for the fast guys with two workhorses either side of a goal scoring midfielder. Nothing fancy just effective. 4-3-3 in attack and 4-5-1 in defence.

RK - perhaps we'll raid the PFA training camp again?

REPD, yes my hunch is just that plus fingers-crossed that we won't run into an injury crisis like this season

We got 25 points more than I was expecting this season., so I see as agood season.even if only February was the only month of sexy excitement entertaining football.

Morning all. Perhaps the squad will have a small (or rather not as big as it should be) nucleus of L1 level players, a few from last season like Stevens and the rest a mix of "promising" youngsters?

I think we'll get the retained/released list by the end of the week. Will be an early insight into what the budget will look like

Nonsense headline of the day won by the i paper. "State pension triple lock under threat if UK goes to war with Putin". Yeah like all us old fogies will be worried about a few £££s whilst sheltering from nukes

I’m only worked up for selfish reasons- we have a better chance of survival if someone starts in negative territory ! Also, we’re trying so hard to do things the “right” way, but poor owners and overspending overlooked here..

I’m pleased for the Wednesday fans they’ve shown some real character through this season. Just makes it harder for us.