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We generally have faith in our management to spot players with potential who will improve with the right coaching and support - Mullin, Iredale, Ironside, Smith, Jones were all players we were told weren't good enough for League Two, but all did pretty well. Stevens may let us down, our...

Huge six-point promotion thriller at the Abbey!!

Deservedly 2-0 up at Fleetwood - hopefully we can hang on to this lead and bag a second win...

Fleetwood away - if we play like last Saturday we will be in with a chance…

2-0 up v Oxford and well deserved. Oxford are passing the ball around quite nicely but the real U’s have been far more incisive and created more and clearer chances. It’s been quite fun watching the relegation-favourites playing some pretty decent football. Still 45 to go (well 50-something...

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I've looked at all Cambridge's hires compared to this time last season and pretty much every one is an upgrade. We are still one striker and possibly a back-up right back/midfielder short of the final squad yet (no replacement for Smith so far is the only real worry) but it has generally been...

Of the last 60 teams promoted into League One, 10 have been relegated in their first season, one has gone bust, and four have been promoted straight into the Championship. Forty-five out of sixty (75%) have remained in League One after their first season. Of the last 45 teams relegated into...

Cambridge play Spurs U23 tomorrow as well

Fejiri Okenabirhie has also signed an extension at Cambridge; just Paul Digby and Ryan Bennett to settle, plus the new hires (minimum a keeper, a centre mid and two strikers, plus replacements for Digby and Bennett if they don't sign). I'm not expecting Bennett to stay but hopeful for Digby...

When we dropped out of the FL in 2005 our entire youth cohort (one of the best in the bottom two divisions) became free agents and were pillaged, mostly by Southend - it took us many, many years to recover. In the last few years, now our youth scheme is ion good nick again, we've also lost...

Harrison Dunk has signed - now the sixth longest serving professional in English football…

Ipswich (H) 22nd July Barnet (A) 29th July Two decent tests…

True - it still leaves a world of practical problems…

If Wigan's playing budget was £18m last season, I believe even a 65% reduction will leave it as a top half budget next year...

Lots of happy U’s tonight…

These playoffs are very simple IMHO: - League One, anyone but Borough - League Two, anyone but Salford

Roughly 100 matches of time for U23s is way too low by our standards. We've not had many good quality youngsters through lately - Bennett is looking good and likely to be the regular right back next season but Worman, Okadina and Simper have not kicked on as hoped, and Ibsen-Rossi (who looked...

Chants of ‘Albion, Albion’ at the Abbey…

United playing some decent stuff - I’m hoping for another goal second half. It’s odd being totally dependent on results elsewhere though…