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Yes it seems odd and surprisingly underhand.  Not having a dig at DC because it is his choice whether to throw more money at this.  Lower expectations = lower season ticket revenue? 

when DC sells us to the right people that understand sustainable growth.  What we need ideally is a local self-made man with loads of cash to burn.  Someone we can trust to stay with us through thick and thin, what could go wrong?

hit and hope

Really, has anyone heard of this bloke before, or seen him play. I am reading a lot on here about what wonderful news this is, and yet he has started 5 games in the last 2 seasons. 

what are these EFL restrictions?  Nobody seems to know.  Maybe they exist maybe they don't but DCFC have said that the EFL agreed the budget the club had prepared.  So it is our budget, perhaps they prepared it in anticipation of what the EFL would expect and next year we will be able to spend more?  If we are still in Div1 and we have continued to make the losses recently announced I very much doubt it.

starting to wonder whether 352 only works with our captain on  the bench

As soon as that happens we'll be Morris dancing all the way to the premier league.

No. We put our business plan to the EFL and they agreed with our wishes.

Play offs. No way will we finish in the automatics. Then it’s a lottery but seeing how we are so great at winning crunch matches I’m not at all confident

So you believe DC is itching to throw more money at the club?  I am not convinced but time will tell

You indicated financial restrictions end at the end but of the season.  I am yet to be persuaded the budget will not change much.

You indicated financial restrictions end at the end but of the season.  I am yet to be persuaded the budget will not change much.

Given the crowd trouble I can see the efl will blame us in that case

Our approach since the takeover has been incredibly short-term from a first team point of view. Clowes hired Warne on his ability to get teams out of league one, nothing more, and got rid of a very promising coach to facilitate that move. 
I understand that some of the transfers have needed to be short-term, but if we aren’t promoted this season then I would endeavour him reconsider his own approach. 
I’m in no doubt we would be in a much better shape, in almost every single aspect, had we gone with Rosenior - who was already well respected within the building, recruited really well despite strict budgets and had shown a lot of promise. The move isn’t unsurprising for a new owner of a club, who went for the CV of a manager who had ‘been there and done it’ over a guy who had a lot of promise.
For the record, I don’t blame him and I (with a lot of people) could see the logic but in hindsight I don’t think it was right. We don’t get to see what happens behind the scenes but I think this Mark Thomas has also been a big waste of money, or at least isn’t having an impact, because the recruitment has been poor. We’ve probably made Sonny Bradley the highest paid player in the division and dropped him after a couple of games - a long list of them with injury records have unsurprisingly spent the season injured. It’s a massive mess, whether that’s down to Thomas or Warne, I’m not sure, but certainly no creative approach has been taken. We almost exclusively signed players with Championship experience in the summer, deciding on paying out bigger wages for players on the downswing of their careers, over properly researching and scouting players on the upswing of their career. 
You also have a coaching staff who aren’t really recognised with coaching players, so maybe the short-term, experienced professional approach we take is because we can’t trust these guys to coach up players in the first place? I don’t know. Either way you look at it, I don’t think it’s a setup for a successful football club. 

I’ll leave it there. We clearly fundamentally disagree about Warne and the players. I think they’ve done well in the circumstances

Agreed that was the first time 3 and the back seemed to work but like you say it was just not cheltenham.  I actually thought it worked due to our captain being withdrawn and the consequential appearance of Bird who was any anonymous before then

You could flip it the other way and say that Warne is hampering the scouting dept by shunning their suggestions to the point that these are the only available players.
Whatever the truth is the football recruitment needs addressing. We're looking subpar and old fashioned.

What is the point in our scouting department? What do they actually do all year?

Given the crowd trouble I can see the efl will blame us in that case

I think we all get the points argument, some of us want a sense that we are going in the right direction as evidenced by entertaining performances 

I think we all get the points argument, some of us want a sense that we are going in the right direction as evidenced by entertaining performances 

Almost all the prosecutions were outside the remit of the Crown Prosecution Service. They were brought privately by the Post Office, as it weirdly has the right to do.

We never play well! Wigan was good for an hour and Oxford good. Since then been pretty rank in six games? 
 
call some fans awful if you like but the team were booed at half time, and warne even said he should’ve booed himself. If you are happy with first half yesterday then fair enough. But feel you’re in the minority.
not writing Blackett Taylor off at all but has been pretty uninspiring so far, in close to 1 1/2 games has achieved very little. That’s all that’s pointed out. 

I’d agree with most of your post but would just say that while “you can’t play well every week”, you can play badly every week and it seems to be becoming a habit. Warne’s anti-football is utterly horrible to watch - and as was shown after he made the substitutions, we do have players that can make a difference if the manager wasn’t so damn stubborn in his approach…

I'll drop my opinions about Warne and how garbage the performance was for 70 minutes of that match.
Collo's goal was superb. He had zero service the entire game, ran his nuts into the ground yet again. One good cross and he got that brilliant volley in. What a player. I thought he'd be a broken man by now with that constant chasing down and battling. He got his rewards. Superb striker.