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I'd also think it will be a while before those offers come in tbh. Obviously he's doing well at the moment but so far what's he really got on his CV? One good run to the edge of the League One playoffs. No championships, promotions etc at all. From the point of view of a Championship club he...

We are staying up say we are staying up. ;)

Wealdstone have some longstanding issues with pitch drainage I think - they lose games to waterlogging quite easily and obviously there's been a lot of rain recently.

Can't agree with this at all. I think a lot of the issues that have come up are as a result of the constant demands for consistency where you can't ever have it. There's just too much variability in situations to have consistency, and it rules out the ref letting the game flow or reading the...

Should just change it to 'no goal hanging' as adjudicated by a shout of at least four players.

Yeah in general the climate around refereeing makes the job impossible doesn't it. Managers pundits etc want 'consistency' but then they also want the ref to understand, let the game flow and so on. You can't have both but that doesn't matter, the ref is furiously damned if he does and damned if...

It's just ripped straight off transfermarkt isn't it? I wouldn't really see it as journalism really. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/lincoln-city/kader/verein/1198/saison_id/2023 Here's the data btw. Not sure there's much relation to reality here (and includes the loan players too).

Here's a slightly random one. I've been vaguely considering getting a bit fitter, and in my extensive research programme (Googling a bit and not actually doing anything) I've discovered you can get personal training from Ollie Ryan at PureGym Millhouses in Sheffield.

Do players ever sign up to pay as you play deals? Just curious really as it's often suggested on forums but I don't know if they're really a thing. Actually is it even legal (or ethical) - if someone is obliged to turn up to training isn't that a 'job' they should be paid for.

'They're celebrating too much' has become a staple of the dumber online football banter types over the last couple of years. Like it's some sort of brilliant withering putdown not the petty sour grapes it always comes across as.

I don't really see why FGR would want to go for that to be honest. If he's one of their better players and they've paid out heavily to sign him why would they loan him out with an option to buy? Selling on at a profit yes but that surely doesn't make sense.

Yeah I think he would have definitely got game time for them. I guess it was our good fortune that they saw the value of a full season as an automatic starter over getting sub appearances here and there in a higher division.

That was pretty much the perfect loan wasn't it. We got a brilliant, committed young player who brought a huge amount to the team, he got the experience he needed (and seems to have had a great time) and Forest got him back absolutely on fire and have subsequently got promoted and made a load of...

Yeah I think for a modern systems type coach (which for better or worse is what the board want from him) a lot of it is as much about the players supporting the position as the player himself isn't it. So for a wing back in a formation like that if you can get the left CB or the DM slotting in...

I'd guess he found himself out of a club and went there on a 'playing is better than not' basis. Seems unlikely he'd go from that to having a whole load of clubs chasing him doesn't it. Probably agent hype.