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I’ve been saying this for a while. Then again it is ‘Warneball’

Over the Easter fixtures were starting to see why we brought CBT in. Completely nothing to do with football, but is it just me or does shirt look a bit too big for him

Personally, I hope he stays on loan at Gateshead for the rest of this season. While he is on a good run of form recently with his goal scoring recently; the standard of defending in the National League this year has been pathetic. I've seen a number of Chesterfield games in the division this year and I've been surprised with the lack of ability in the division this year. Usually, the national league is fairly strong, which is seen with teams doing well the following year in League 2, but this year its not surprising that 12 teams are still in a relegation battle with a couple of weeks of the season left. I'd say the best thing for Dajaune's development would be a loan spell to a League 2 team next season. Maybe at a team like Notts County, Chesterfield or Mansfield if they don't go up. While I'm sure that Dajaune has the ability to be a key part of our 1st team in the future, I see it being too much of a step up in quality with so few games left for us this season.

If it is Puma from next season, I'd love to see a retro range similar to what Umbro have done this year.

If you want to look for a positive, Sonny Bradley did get his head on the end of something.

If we get anymore injuries to strikers could we not try him as a false 9? He has some of the key attributes: footballing intelligence; passing ability; first touch; shooting from range. This would give more space for the likes of NML, CBT, Barkhuizen and Wilson. It also allows Hourihane to pick them out with through balls, with them already running at goal.

I think it's just part of the injury that he suffered. It's scary how quickly people can lose muscle in the legs where they suffered ACL injuries, you just need to look at the picture of Tyrone Sings going round atm.

After the Bolton game I finally started to feel confident. So confident I went straight home to get tickets to see us lift the trophy as champions against Carlisle. Now I've seen the words 'play offs', that confidence has gone.

If I was to guess it might be to compare 2 fanbases.

I'm glad I saw this. I'll definitely be tuning in, as previously I was planning on listening to it while watching Chesterfield on TNT. And yes the Saturday 3pm blackout is only for non international weekends.

What we should be trying to do with our recruitment is using a data led scouting approach, similar to what Brentford have used. I'm not totally sure about how our recruitment team work, but that's probably down to me not paying enough attention to what the club are putting out. By using a data led approach I'm sure we could unearth a few gems. If we look at the LA Rams NFL team, they used data about players' physical stats (speed, runs, times etc) to find undervalued players. By doing this they found a player called Pika Nacua, who went from a late round draft pick straight to a key player for them. By looking at the data they found that he had the physical attributes that can't be coached and worked on refining his technical skills. There's also the famous Oakland A's baseball team, who were the team featured in the film Moneyball. They essentially looked at the specific stats they believed would lead to a winning team and signed players based on their findings. It's fair to say our fanbase is in agreeable that Ebou Adams should be one of the targets for the summer, but why can't the club plug in his stats and see if there is anyone who is similar to him. Leading to Ebou Adams and Edou Adams 2.0 playing either side of a holding player like CH. Similarly, we need another striker so we could look to see if there is anyone with impressive finishing stats (on top of others) who is within our price range.

Of course. I forgot he’d gone out on loan.

What about Lawrence Shankland from Hearts. 20 goals this season, 21 last. About 80 in the last 5

Some interesting names in there. I'd love Callum O'Hare, but I presume he'll be in high demand. Ivan Sunjic alongside Ebou Adams (on a permanent) would be handy.

Had quite a bit of spare time today, so I thought I'd look at how teams promoted from League 1 get on the next season (in case we go up). On average, over the last 10 seasons, the teams to get promoted finish in 16.07 place in the championship. Also, teams score 0.56 goals less per game, while conceding 0.46 more goals per game. If we carry on at our current rate this season will finish with 81 goals scored and 40 goals conceded this season. Meaning that next season we would score 56, while conceding 61. This would give us a win probability of 45% (21 wins). Therefore, I would agree with those who want the club to bring in a striker. Here's a few of my suggestions: - Jay Stansfield (on loan from Fulham, currently at Birmingham) - Ike Ugbo (on loan from Troyes, currently at Sheffield Wednesday) - Liam Delap (on loan from Man City, currently at Hull City) - Alfie May (from Charlton) - Dion Charles (from Bolton if they don't go up)

Having seen the success that Dajaune has had; it makes me wonder why we don't loan out some of our other youngsters to give them experience. Yes some have been loaned out in recent times, such as Callum Moore to Matlock, Harry Evans to Barwell was it and Harrison Solomon to Belper last year, but some that are closer to the first team would surely benefit. The likes of Fapetu, Lindsay and Weston would surely benefit from spells in the National League or National League N/S.

It could help us get him next season if we're in the championship, so that he can play at the next level up

There's certainly players from our promotion rivals i'd go for if we go up and they dont. Peterborough: LB - Burrows CM - Kyprianou CM - Collins RW - Poku Bolton: CB - Santos CM - Morley CM - Sheehan LB - Ogbeta (on loan from Swansea) Barnsley: CM - Kane CM - Connell

While this is an interesting statistic, I think its important to look at who partnered him in midfield like @Ghost of Clough said. I've always thought that we're at our best when only 1 of Hourihane or Bird are playing, not both. At least his transfer has sort of forced Warne's hand from next season. Having had a look at CH this season, we have won 5; drawn 3; and only lost to Charlton when Hourihane hasn't played or only played a 20 minutes or so. So again we have a winning record when CH hasn't played (or played very little).

Absolutely. I’m couldn’t give any realistic names. Will Hughes, Alex Mowatt, John Lundstram maybe, but i doubt we’ll pay the wages they’d want

Would we be able to reduce the size of the away end? From my seat on Saturday it looked like the away end had been extended and closed off with stewards and police. If this was the case surely we could reduce the size if Blackpool don’t want their full allocation.

The Northampton game is an important one psychologically for us. Win and we’re 2 points behind Portsmouth and 7 in front of Bolton. This could pressurise both teams as 1 slip up from Portsmouth could leave them in second place, and a slip up from Bolton could finish off their promotion push. Yes they’ll have a game in hand, but there are very few easy games left for Portsmouth and Bolton already have to rely on us dropping points and them gaining them.

I think that if you want to get the most out of CH, you need to have an Ebou Adams either side of him to do the running.

Didn’t Warne say that Ward was more of a precaution, whereas Barkhuizen was more of an injury?

At the game 1Wildsmith - 8.5 - looked very good with his hands, a few crucial saves, but did look a bit nervy with his feet at times 35Nelson - 8 - just another solid game 3Forsyth - 9 - quality performance 6Cashin - 9 - dominant in the air, good on the floor, covered Sibley well down the left 23Ward - 7 - thought he had a decent first half, looked good going forward 2Wilson - 8 - had the better of the Bolton left side after coming on and won the header for the goal 32Adams - 9 - was everywhere, another performance which made me hope we get him permanently in the summer 4Hourihane - 6.5 - slightly above average, but his legs seem to have gone now and lacks any pace. Really struggled against a more mobile midfield 16Thompson - 7.5 - the opposite to Hourihane physically, while he doesn’t seem to be a quick player in the nml or cbt style he was able to accelerate to get away from or close down opposition and his agility made it even harder for Bolton to win the ball off him. 17Sibley - 7 - I thought he was slightly above average, but ended up out of position a few times and was taken off just in time imo 20Elder - 6 - didn’t do too much to stand out after coming on, but more importantly he did nothing wrong 7Barkhuizen - 7 - made some decent runs and did pretty well without scoring or creating big chances 10Waghorn - 6.5 - like elder didn’t do nothing wrong and used his experience to finish the game off 25Gayle - 6.5 - looked like he was making some decent runs, but often lacked the service and was never going to win anything in the air against their CB 12Smith - 6.5 - another who didn’t do anything amazing, but importantly didn’t make any mistakes. I’m probably being a bit harsh with his rating 11Méndez-Laing - 8 - yet another good performance and was probably our biggest threat (minus Wilson) going forward