Tewksbury

We have a number of individually talented players such as Bannan, Windass, Johnson. The issue is they're mavericks, roamers who don't fit into a rigid tactical system or the discipline or will to do so. The change should have happened in L1, hopefully Chansiri has learned his lesson and allows it to happen. We've recruited for it since relegation, just haven't implemented it in a meaningful way.

What indication is there that he can't keep DR, or fund next season?

Don't think his body can keep up with the pace of the Champ. Didn't need to be as fit when you had the opposition penned in their own box for 69 minutes per game, now we're the ones chasing shadows. Good player but always a yard behind this season, which made him frustrated and led to errors. I can see a meltdown in the press and on social media in 4 weeks when the released lists are out, can see a few favourites going, possibly Luongo style, where they are on massively reduced contracts and get cut while looking at other teams.

At the time, we were playing Palmer in midfield, beat Hull and weee looking OK. We had Bannan, Palmer, Vaulks, Byers, Diaby coming back, and Hendrick. With Bannan being auto start, that's a lot of competition for one spot. Even now, does he get in before Vaulks?

Rohl said in an interview that Byers wanted more minutes and as he was only going to play a 2 man midfield, he agreed to let Byers go on loan as he had 5 or 6 players for that position at the time.

West Brom need another 3 points to guarantee playoffs and have Preston after us. Hull have 3 games remaining and Coventry 4, so can both hit 75 if they win out.

By playing in a style to accommodate Gregory and making the entire squad play to his strengths, rather than dropping Gregory and playing to the strengths of the squad as a whole. There's a reason there was a massive disparity in results when he started v when he didn't over both seasons, because the team as a whole worked better without him, still does. Every 3 or more win streak over the 2 years bar last 3 games of last season coincided with him not starting. Every 2 loss streak had him playing.

No, he fucked our first season in League One and cost us promotion. Almost fucked the second too.

We recruited round pegs for round holes. DM couldn't fit our 2 square pegs, Bannan and Gregory in so he changed to the square board. Look at a 4231/433/3421 with the players from the 2 League One years minus those two players and it all makes sense.

Don't know, could see a couple going for top end L2 if the option is that or lower end L1. Most of them don't do well on the back foot.

How many of our out of contract players will be with him at PV next season?

He's going to keep us up, isn't he.

Just flicking through X and saw this from Port Vale:

Calm down, I'm not defending the bloke. Can't stand him and think he's caused more damage to this club than any manager I can remember. That's what I'm saying. He knew it was a shitshow and jumped, presumably thought he was going to WBA, hence asking for the Monday announcement, then it fell thorough that afternoon, so his agent had to come up with a story about why he left, as he now needed a job, which did the rounds and triggered the Palmer incident and the shitshow of a summer. The worst part of it was that Chansiri thought he'd done his penance for relegation by getting us back up despite DM, then the media and vocal fanbase sided with DM and finally broke whatever relationship he still had with the fans.

Love to know who the ones from other teams were and what the plan actually was. DM got us up by pandering to the senior players and still think he knew we were fucked and any plan was unworkable because of said players so jumped ship.