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Just seems like we've got a bit of a lull incoming with graduates and that's not exactly encouraging for us as it means we need to get our recruitment in future absolutely spot on to avoid a repeat of 21-22. Luckily, the best years of Williams, Tabiner, Holicek and hopefully Lunt and Agius are...

With the exceptions of CBR and Long I'm happy with the list. But it exposes the fact that the rumours back in 2022 were true that Artell did indeed give Richards a 3 year contract. Possibly one of the worst contracts given out in club history. Can't see CBR staying whatever happens as he'll...

Yep and it's amazing how quick it's happened in League One but it's inevitable as many lower league mainstays have struck it lucky and now become top two tier sides which pushes poorly run bigger clubs down the food chain. We always have a chance of shithousing a good season in L1 with a strong...

It's genuinely a thing. Last two times we've gone up we've been on the fringes of a playoff challenge in our first season only to regress second season. First time around we only lost Luke Murphy for a sizable fee and retained everyone else but a preseason incident and a load of bad eggs signed...

Can't see Evans signing 87 players again though tbf. The emergency loan market that he benefited heavily from back in the day was scrapped in 2016.

Also add in the fact that when we were in our golden era, our manager turned down Benfica! If we were Top 6 in League One anytime soon, which is unlikely, I'm convinced our manager would be off to Barnsley if offered the job there! And that's the big difference these days.

I think it's much more complex than that and it goes beyond the club and football itself. I think it's the same reason owners in the 70s, 80s and 90s got involved. They didn't give a shit about the football, they just wanted the land the stadium was on so they could sell it off and make a ton...

I was hoping we'd be in for him if we got promoted so we could've had both the Powell brothers. But there's no way he's dropping to League Two.

Think Huddersfield will do significantly better than Bolton next season with their new owner who is keen to invest significantly into the club. Rhys Healey is an excellent striker for this level too and could be an outsider for the golden boot I feel. I certainly don't feel it's the weakest it's...

But League One really is a split league. It's an aggregation of failed PL/failed regular Championship clubs, clubs that have bounced between L1 and L2 for decades with the odd few seasons in the Championship or non league and plucky little non league minnows who have made it to that level...

I was under the impression that that was the average for each club, which is a decent size amount for a club like us that's reliant on these TV deals to fund our Academy costs without owners putting money from their own pockets into it. It's also £300K more than any non league club is getting. I...

Wigan and Reading gone full circle from the days of Whelan and Madejski. Blackpool, Barnsley, Charlton and Bolton regular L1 sides now. Blues and Huddersfield down after long stints in the upper tiers. Posh always an L1 contender and Rotherham the ultimate yo yo club. And that's before you even...

Be an even bigger gulf starting this season with the new TV deal kicking in. But the benefit of that is that there'll be an even bigger gulf between this level and the National League too. I think we're not too far from a promoted NL side going straight back down soon as the TV money in the NL...

Unfortunately we had a significant injury crisis in the middle of the park this season which arguably denied us of our three most creative midfield talents for the majority of the season. Barely played a settled midfield and we went from controlling games and being free scoring to just being a...

2 wins, 2 defeats in the final and 3 semi-final exits for us. Had we won yesterday we'd have won 3 consecutive playoff campaigns so I'm not exactly a critic of the playoffs myself.

Polar opposite of our playoff final vs Cheltenham 12 years ago from our point of view. We went into that game back then very confident we'd see the job through which is what we did with relevant ease whereas yesterday I wasn't confident at all given we weren't the footballing side that we were...

Problem for the Southern clubs in L1/L2 is that the former mainstay lower league clubs have either gone to pot and find themselves in non league (Torquay, Aldershot, Southend) or they've been bankrolled to a higher level (Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Swansea). I think that's why we're...

Believe it or not I'm over it already. I've mentioned before 2 years we were a total aberration of a football club which cost Artell his job and even 18 months ago we were a state with the wrong man in charge in Alex Morris. If you told me when we were getting schooled by Barrow 3-0 in October...

Fantastic manager who has been through a lot in life let alone football. Late bloomer to the management scene but deserves all the success and I have no doubt that one day a bigger club will come calling and he'll prosper there. Sadly it was at our expense but can't fault the bloke and he...

Disappointed but like I've always maintained won't begrudge Crawley one bit. They turned up and we didn't it's as simple as that. Not calling for sackings or players to be shown the door like some entitled fanbases do in this situation. We just weren't good enough and we'll go again next season...