Ghost of Clough

Ward on for Cashin. Ward RWB, Wilson LWB, Elder LCB

And now 343 with Sibley and Barkhuizen supporting Collins

It was more like 4231 woth Bird AM. Now 352 with Barkhuizen and Collins CF

That assist was Mendez-Laing's 24th goal contribution of the season in all competitions. His previous best was 23 back in 16/17 when playing for Rochdale

What a goal! Brilliant!!!

Mendez-Laing from another Bird assist 🔥

Looks like Collins will be off with an injury

Was that when he was fouled after he had crossed the ball?

Adams - pushed to the ground at the weekend and gets booked. Now fouled in the corner and gets a talking to. L1 refs are shocking

3 points off top with a game in hand as results stand Edit: or not 😬

Adams now has 3 yellows in 3 games 😅

Arms all over Collins yet again

Mendez-Laing ran out of play and crossed the ball. Lino THEN flagged, followed by the ref's whistle. Mendez-Laing yellow. Whatever happened to "play to the whistle" 😅

This link gives a reasonable estimate for non playing staff wages for a similar size club. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/money-go-hidden-costs-running-15860716.amp

Bird in the form of his life now!

Laptop with HDMI will always work. I usually just watch in on my firestick using the default Internet browser. If you're only getting audio, it'll be because you're in the UK for an overseas only fixture. Try taking a trip abroad.

45% player wages is still a significant operating loss each season - £5m minimum, more likely around thr £7.5m mark

Yes. I have had it on 2 TVs, my laptop, and my phone at the same time 😉

Or 631?

Isn't that just player wages? That'll take us to £9.5m on just the players - a figure which will be higher than all but 4 other clubs' total wage bill. We had a total wage bill close to £14m last season (£1.5m of that was Bielik). Our total this season will be close to that.

What's he able to publicly take responsibility for when it's covered by an NDA?

DRobinson and DBrown are closest to the first team and should have had more minutes this season to help them transition from youth football to men's. JThompson is my man of the match most weeks now. He's an excellent shot stopper and calm when playing out from the back. I really like Cox who is perfectly suited to Warne's LCB role. Versitile enough to play LB or LWB too. Eventually I'd like to see him at LCB with Cashin moved central. Gill was a regular at LB for the U18s last season despite being an U16 player. He's now being introdcued to U21 football. Hawkins is another who was fast tracked. 17 U18 games when still an U16 player, then 16 games at U21 when a first year scholar. Earlier in the season I stated he needed to start adding end product to his game, which he has started to do over the past coiple of months. He's a simialr type of player to Bird, is currently a DM but could be moved further forward eventually, just like Warne's done with Bird. Allen is a special player. He was introduced to the U18s late last season and scored 2 goals in 4 apps. Since the summer he has really kicked on. He's scored 3 goals in 343 mins for Wales U17 and 7 goal contributions in 719 minuts for our U18s. He's recently stepped up to the U21s too (scoring on his only start) He's also an excellent freekick taker. Mainly an AM but can play anywhere in midfield or on the wings. He's still only 16.

You'll probably find pretty much everything SP did whilst working under Mel is now covered by an NDA

You don't know what's incldued in the NDA, so you can't claim there are things he can talk about but chooses to avoid.

Bird wanted to move on, Warne was happy with it being a sale with loan back