Tewksbury

Non league with Frckley Athletic v Tadcaster Albion.

People will take photos with him outside the South and they'll all go into meltdown for a few days.

Still horrible though.

Well done Nike. I didn't think it was possible to make a bad Croatia home kit, but they've managed it.

Where's the snide digs? Sorry, forgot it was in Euros, not much difference anyway. Troyes signed him in 2022 for €3,000,000 from Grenke, coming off 6 goals in 25 games. After this season, if he scores enough to keep us up, they'll want a lot more than they paid.

Think we'll be priced out on both. Troyes are part of City Group, so they will know of his value, potentially trying for a better loan to a bigger club or to another City Group club to get more return on the 3 million they paid in the summer. Poveda will also probably be offered more than we can realistically pay. If we can get them for a reasonable outlay, then definitely sign them, just don't think it will happen. Same goes for a lot of the other players out of contract, if they can stay for backup money, Vaulks, Iorfa, Palmer, Bannan are all worth keeping around.

Doesn't really mean anything these days, whatever fee you'd pay is just rolled into signing bonus and wages. Which we'd also have to pay to keep any of our out of contract players. We need to get out of the mindset of should we keep a player and change it to should we sign this player? Would you sign them if they weren't already here and could we get better, more suitable players for cheaper from elsewhere?

I have Wilks, James and Brennan over the Star. Can see us being priced out of Ugbo and Poveda. Can't see Bernard signing either. The only one I'd keep is Vaulks. Iorfa always injured, Neymarv and Bernard are OK when you're on top but both fall apart when the pressure's on. Rohl won't keep Neymarv, he'll be a priority for replacement.

Here's a list of the players we have and when they're contracted to(as far as I know), divided into out of contract, in contract and the loans. It also has their ages at the start of next season. It's worth remembering that most will be a year older than that come the end of the season. So, despite the doom merchants, what do you think about where we stand? Does anyone have any changes to this list as they're reporting 18 including loans but I have 21? Is it me or are we in a pretty good position regarding rejuvenating the squad?

Paid him in spins.

Staying up

The keepers names sound like they're straight from a Bob Mortimer story on would I lie to you.

Thought that was implied to be fair.

Can I just clarify that I in no way endorse these statements. They're just what I see and hear. @TylluanSoory, can't post on there, I'm banned from posting.

He won't be an assistant again.

Just quoting what they were telling me, and are still saying. Apparently, if a regulator comes in, Chansiri’s their top target too.

Didn't believe it, but I was told that's because I'm deluded. I'll admit I have shit missing upstairs, but I'm not that far gone. It usually comes just before "We're the next Reading" and "There won't be a club soon"

I've been told a few times that we were a solid, debt free, midtable Championship club prior to Chansiri.

Xisco said he was hammering them on fitness, but he only had about 7-8 players for the full preseason and first few games. Once the season started he was fucked as we were playing too many games with an unfit squad, most of the players who are performing for Rohl weren't ready or available at the start, Pol, Gassama etc. He went zonal because we were too unfit to press as he wanted, and couldn't play 90 minutes anyway at a high tempo, so he defended the box, which, as much as people say it was shite, it was effective, until their heads dropped, same as now. Almost every game we competed for 60 minutes, then conceded a set piece and fell apart. Same as we do with Rohl. We just couldn't get the first goal, despite having the chances, Windass had enough chances to win 2-3 of those games himself. Xisco's biggest issue was he didn't get the players onside so they fucked him as they knew he was off after 10 games, same as Pulis. They openly admitted to not following instructions numerous times. He had to be doing fitness as Rohl would have took even longer to get them playing as they were miles off at the start of the season. Xisco had to go, he failed, but anyone coming in would have had the same reception, Rohl included and would have been hammered by the fans and press, who to this day thing DM would have us in a better position.

Same could be said for Xisco. Turned up, straight to Spain with half a squad and the u21s, back a week and straight in. Probably wouldn't have signed the English loans either with more time. That's the joy of hindsight.

Tell me he would have had a winning start with the players and fixtures available at the start of the season. Then tell me that the DM lovers and press wouldn't have crucified him as a way of getting at DC for sacking DM, especially with it being his first job. Then go on and tell me 'His' recruitment would have been much different, even though we only started 11 days before the season started and most player movement had already happened, leaving us with not a lot more than what we signed available. Then we'll see who's talking shit.

He'd have been sacked after a few games due to DM leaving us with an unfit aging group of weak willed players who didn't understand basic modern tactics. If anyone thinks he would have survived the 'Giz Darren Back' campaign on his first full manager job they are sadly mistaken. He'd have been gone before 'his' players ever got to full match fitness, same as Xisco.

It's already for sale on DHgate for £13.

Rowett in talks with Birmingham.