It's actually a relief not to have any involvement at all, having left the DT.

Some rumours around that some encouraging financial news is around the corner.

The appeal pulled in nearly 100K for the bond but the momentum now seems to be slowing. Getting it to 1 million looks like being an achievement, which leaves a 700K gap in the plan and that is assuming RK is wrong about the level of redemptions. The budgets are going to get worse not better unless there is an influx of 'working capital'.

Morning all. SW19 on yesterday now up, if you feel you want to - [Link]

Sorry to repeat myself but this season 26/27 is when the financial difficulties really kick in. Bond repayments probably upwards of the £1.7m from the survey earlier this year and (almost certainly) very little cash around. If we do get £1m or so for Nkeng, I know where it will go.

Spit - me as well. Similar to when Robbo lost his Chelsea coach, and the season catapulted to failure.

Probably David Reddington leaving is the biggest blow to us this season... the newport and Huddersfield matches suggest that to me. .

Yeah I doubt he’ll go on to manage England but he’s trying to compete in L1 with an ever decreasing L2 budget.

I would have more sympathy for JJ if he wasn't so bloody obdurate on certain matters

Yeah that’s why I said “most of” - at least the number of happy clappers seems to be decreasing with each shenanigan, every lie, every communication channel shut down and every day that goes by without communication around our financial future.

Trigger - do not forget, some don't care about what league (non-league) we are in just so long as they can have a beer with their mates whilst watching "their" club

DO, Spring forward! We play the game at such a slow pace most teams have organised their defence before we cross the half way line. No pace in the side. Maybe play Sasu as an out an out winger although that would be the last spin of the dice for his football league career.

At least 3 more quality signings needed to compete. The Likes of Browne, Hippolyte and Johnson all showed what seems like a lack of desire to play for the club, Along with Seddon who had a nightmare of a game and the prodigy of Sasu firing blanks we were 5 players down compared with Huddersfield before the game even started.

Papers and Spit are both right - we need to be able to slow the game down when required and spring forward quickly and attack when required. No team is fit enough to attack oppo for 90 mins solid.

Well done to the GB teams winning gold in both the men’s and women’s 4 x 100m relays last night :)

Never fear, Reading shipped 4 goals at home yesterday, so there’s always that hope to cling on to…

Morning all. Can’t remember a first game of the season as bad as that. We looked like a Sunday league team in the first half and conceded against ten men who didn’t need to take risks in the second. Pressure is well and truly on to show that we are a viable team next Saturday at Plough Lane.

Fuck the opposition, take the game to these teams ,attacking and only passing forward.slow the game down and we will be asleep along with some of the players:-)

OI has it right - we need Reeves or a player like Reeves in midfield - someone who can hold on to the ball and slow the game down in the opening 30 minutes against the better sides

ED -Kanu didn’t play for Charlton in any of preseason - so wherever he ends up he will not be match fit or a while

Triggerfish - At least after next week v Reading I’m flying back to the other side of the world, you poor sods have to stay a suffer that, I really hope we can find a miracle from somewhere because what I saw today struck me as more than just a bad day at the office, the only positives I saw were Sessingnon looking to take on his man & create something & Stockley put himself about but the rest of the squad were awful, If Sweeney is better than Bauer than I’m a Dutchman & Johnson was absolutely woeful. Our midfield was non existent, dare I say it but we missed Reeves experience in my opinion

I still haven't forgiven Batsford for losing 2-0 to Nuneaton Boro in 1974-75. What a crap season that turned out to be!

Just to get some perspective we won on opening day in 1970(away to Nuneaton) but didn’t win again on the first day till 1984 a mere 14 years later

Apparently Kanu didn’t feature at all for Charlton today.

I hope Harrison is the Reeves replacement necause neither Smith nor Nelson are. But nobody seemed interested in giving him the ball when he made space today.