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The one change that would improve the domestic game is change European qualification. Leave the top 4 CL spots, but award 3 points for a cup win and 1 for a draw when working out the others, so while you can qualify for the conference league by finishing 7th, a team in 10th could overtake you with good cup runs and would make the cups much more competitive and important for mid EPL teams.

The season when the bottom 5 get relegated would be a blinder.

My issue with that is that the jump from National League to L2 is brutal. Every team in the 72 is there on merit. L1 and 2 already have the FA trophy with group stages to pkay in in top, so reducing the Championship load is a bit unfair.

What percentage of total salaries goes on player wages? So if we spent £14 million last year on total wages and salaries, up £4 million from the year before, how much of that was on first team playing staff? Surely it's more than 2/3 of it, and we must be paying more this season as we kept all of our high earners, so it will be higher than the Capology thing?

Seems that whether the top few teams score is much more on how they play than what their opponents did. More about whether they're up for it or not, or just not hitting the target. The teams down here, it's more like League One, who makes the fewest mistakes wins. Goals come more from defensive mistakes than good attacking play. Watching some teams recently Birmingham, Boro, Stoke, 91% of Blackburn, they could be playing all weekend and not create a goal, there was a thing on the Welsh Derby that showed the percentage if set piece goals, it was about 40% for lower teams. Reducing the games played to 42 would mean the EPL having to play less overseas friendlies and mess up their P&S. Can't have that. Klopp would stay on another year at Liverpool just to whine about it every day.

The biggest take is that if what Chansiri said is true, and DM was spreading an alternate view, then the off-season debacle can be laid squarely at DM's feet. Who's going to sign for a club that can't fund the season, then sacks a promotion winning manager for pushing back about it? How far over the odds did we have to pay to get the ones who would?

Week 38. Despite the loss, we're still doing well on PPG and sitting better on the adjusted as we were expected to lose anyway. All in all, not a bad couple of games, still in the mix with an arguable easier run in than our rivals. Blackburn, Birmingham and Huddersfield looking really shaky, with a couple of others not out of it yet.

He did, on a phone interview with the Star, after spending all summer telling everyone he met it was bollocks. Some lass on X went to the 'Evening with' thing a couple of days before and posted that he told her it wasn't true a couple of days before. Think it was deleted as I couldn't find it again.

Speaking of this, whatever happened to that little shithouse ballboy we had in the T1/Lep corner last season? He took the piss in most games last season.

The problem is that most of the protesting was based on Darren Moore getting us promoted despite Chansiri not backing him and Chansiri lying about his exit, because DM is 'too honourable' to lie about it. So now, with the accounts out and DM's subsequent performances, that the first isn't true and the fact that DM seems to have lied on at least two recent job applications making the latter look increasingly untrue too, maybe Chansiri deserves a little credit for supporting him with everything needed for promotion and maybe he was telling the truth about DM's exit.

Because it's not as bad in comparison to draws with Rotherham, Sunderland and Middlesborough or losses v Watford, Preston and Norwich.

I'm convinced DR has written these top 4-5 games off and uses them for training and concentrates on the winnable games. Every single one we have an interesting of not downright experimental lineup before reverting to a more balanced setup against the easier teams. Anyways, we're still well on the way to staying up, yesterday's results put us in a stringer position despite the loss.

Their 0-0 with Huddersfield was far more important to us than keeping the goal difference down v Ipswich.

Thanks. Not really tried fully audio stuff, tried a couple of audiobooks in the car a while ago but couldn't really follow them, mainly because of the same voice for most of the characters. Done most of the English TV now as well as a lot of the dubbed Korean and Scandinavian stuff. Dipping my toe in dubbed Indian dramas now. The Korean crime dramas are mental, like an unholy combination of Criminal Minds darkness and the Chuckle Brothers slapstick. The Scandanavian slow burn crime dramas are much better than the English ones, but that may be because the British ones all seem to follow the same storyline.

Don't know. It's more about whether the ones brought in on a waiver can be upgraded to a full work permit so we can get another 4 on waivers. They'd need 1656 minutes for the 40% required for 15 points to get a work permit, but is it different if you're already here? As it stands Gassama and Momo wouldn't qualify, so would they need to stay on waiver, or is there something in place for players already here?

Haven't we been playing first goal winner for a while now? That's been 90% of our games for a couple of years.

Is the change required or preferred? In/out polls do very little when it's not a binary question. Have you tried one with a question such as minimum for Chansiri to leave among those Chansiri outers? With a scale of options such as admin, phoenix club, any new owner, ashley type owner, investment fund, international multiclub owner, nation state? You'd get a much more accurate view on where people stand as I'd say most will take Chansiri out if it's a multiclub or above but will be much more wary of the other options.

Does anyone know what the rules are for the work permit waivers? What are the work permit rules once players are already here? Will the players on them last season now qualify for work permits this year, allowing us another 4 or will they still be on the waivers. Any player playing 40% of minutes for us this season auto qualifies for a permit with 15 points, bit what happens to the likes of Delgado, who will lose his international autopsy due to injury or Momo who won't get the 40%?

The stumbling block is reasonable value. His overexaggerated price is because the money down as loans exists as an asset somewhere, probably in one of his other businesses. Writing that off takes the equivalent from the other business, which could then potentially go under. Why the fuck would he give the club away at a massive loss just because you think someone else could do better? The club is in no danger, if it was it would have happened 2 years ago. Even on relegation, the odds, based on previous actions, would indicate another promotion push. There is nothing to suggest that funding is in danger, as he said himself, funding and cashflow are 2 separate things. I think you need to delve a bit deeper into other Championship and League One clubs, we are nowhere near the bottom in terms of ownership. And as for this constant "Het a DOF/CEO, half the clubs with decent ownership are struggling because the DOF/CEO has fucked up. Look at why Beale was put in at Sunderland.

I'd say it would be more 10-70-20. The main issue is that the current narrative is that the funding from Chansiri isn't there and that we're 2 minutes to Reading, pushing a lot more into the first category who don't really belong there. On another note, inserting Wednesday into Reading's very real issues at every opportunity is bang out of order. Your Kinnock 80s throwback LARPing saviour complex munchausens fantasy isn't helping them in the slightest.

My biggest question @bazapeps is about integrity. On your first statement, it said that protests would be held if Chansiri didn't speak to buyers. i asked if this had been communicated to the club in the first Q&A on X, it hadn't and the protest went ahead anyway. How are your demands going to be met when he doesn't even know them? You can't say I'll do X if you don't do Y without giving them a chance to respond. Then, by your own admission, Chansiri has met with investors, therefore fulfilling your demands. Immediately, the group wanted in and to be a part of this discussion, as this wasn't seen as enough. Why? He's done what you demanded in your initial statement. So why does the group still exist? It's achieved it's aims. Job well done. This is where the integrity bit comes in. You've now moved the goalposts and are, with the points on the flyers just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks with regards to complaints against him as nothing will satisfy you. So, why would Chansiri ever engage with you. You've operated in bad faith from the start, moved the goalposts and escalated regardless of anything Chansiri has done. You have no integrity. Anything he concedes will just be met by more demands, so why concede anything at all?

The same people kicking off about all that would take full Redbull rebranding in a second.

The membership is too high. With it you need about 10 games to see a benefit, by then you're in earlybird territory.

The idea of the earlybird is to make it cheaper to those who are going whatever happens. If you're going to wait till the end of the season, or longer to get a better idea of the outcome of the season, yes, you're going to pay a premium. The fact is, if tickets were all at phase one, which the majority already are, then that's most of the club's income stream gone or they'd have to be priced higher. Sitting on another stand is choice, not necessity, so the lowest price absolutely is the benchmark when you're campaigning on people being priced out. I can't afford to sit in the boxes, doesn't mean I'm priced out. PotG prices is another one. It worked out cheaper last season for me with an earlybird even if you only go to 10-11 games. If you're going to less than that, then it goes from being a regular thing to occasional and again commands a premium, as all occasional entertainment does these days.

Do the phases really matter though? Literally everyone I know was ready and waiting by December to get their tickets, so the vast majority if earlybird purchasers will still be in phase one. Plus the options of V12 and PayPal 4 months interest free, there's no real reason to buy in any other phase. This has been going for over a decade, if you're still surprised by it, you have bigger things to worry about than season tickets. The only potential buyers I can see who missed out are the ones who fell for the campaign to not buy them and starve Chansiri’s funding. As for Kop being the only comparable cheap option, when talking about pricing people out, only the lower band matters. I want to sit with Big Chans in the comfy seats, but I can't afford it so I make do and sit with my own family.