Reckon we’ll get a new signing today.

Spit, that's been doing the rumours for weeks. Good luck to him.

I've not followed the music charts for years. My radio stations of choice are Greatest hits radio or Absolute. The Sam Fender/Olivia Dean collaboration is just bland. Maybe it's because I'm 64?

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A few too many you knows but a pretty eloquent interview with Stockley. I don't care how many goals he scores providing he gives the service that Omar did. Can he defend?

Dun - yes it’s grand there, I took my sons on the UFO walk in Rendlesham Forest a few weekends back hoping they’d get abducted by aliens but no luck

Great link Bad Egg. Probably the best outcome for Robbo and for football in general. He’s clearly got a skill for developing youth talent and premier league clubs don’t really (really) care about that these days.

That song is beyond dreary.

DD, Woodbridge is lovely. I was going to watch our women play Ipswich at Felixstowe so booked a room for a couple of nights on the outskirts of Ipswich. I took a wander around Woodbridge before going to watch Woodbridge Town. Walk along Felixstowe beach on the Sunday morning.

Stockley is the target man we need.

Re Sam Fender and Olivia Dean. Back in the day you had to buy a physical copy of the song. Whether you then played it once or a thousand times had no bearing on the charts, now it does. They need to have a system where the charts are based on the number of different people in the UK who are listening to the song not the total number of streams.

Evening all. The 9yrspodcast is back for the new season: Stu and I look at a couple of the new signings, lament a couple of departures, and pick who we think might also be on their way out before the summer transfer window closes. There’s talk of kits and bonds, sponsors and coaches, as well as the introduction of a new feature, and, of course, a new game! All completed with a look ahead to the League Cup tie with Newport this weekend. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube via [Link]

Currently on holiday in your neck of the woods, Bad Egg, just outside Woodbridge. Lovely part of the world.

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Stockley totally bullied Lewis when P Vale won here to clinch promotion. Maybe that's why he's fucked off as he couldn't face it happening in training every week😁

I'm more optimistic that I was, we won't be relegated before March and probably not till April.

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We are fine. People are always doom mongering about us getting relegated. Its only happened once in a quarter of a century. If you go back to our previous incarnation we got relegated in 99/00 and then you have to go back to 1981 so actually its only happened twice in nearly half a century

I reckon we've had some decent (re)signings that will do a job should they stay fit. WE need Matty to get and stay fit and a couple of proven defenders, and we'll get our highest league position as AFCW

I wonder how that Port Vales managers system worked for them...

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Let’s hope we don’t need a goalkeeper. I’m happy with Bishop and see to see that some aren’t. Trust in CC to make the right call given on his injury and our budget.

Trigger - Still have my old welding headshield. Shade 11. Should do the trick next week.

The question is will he be better than Bugiel, about the same or worse? The stats suggest he will be better and Vale fans seem sad to see him go (as we were mostly with Omar). Also it seems he didn't fit the managers system at Vale which is why he wasn't getting as much opportunity.

His goal stats certainly suggest he’s not gonna be the messiah but hopefully he’ll fill the Bugiel gap and score a similar amount of goals* He scored almost one in two at Exeter but that’s 7-9 years ago now so he’s obviously got decent player in him but nobody keeps that going forever. I’m happy enough with the height and experience this side of kick off.