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I don't think any of us actually know - we haven't seen the actual agreement, so we only have second hand newspaper reports to go on.  It would not surprise me if there's some clause about renegotiating it if circumstances change, because you could make the opposite argument - what if we were to go down again? Would the EFL be happy with an £8m budget in League 2?

DC: "So we've got a limit of £X per week in the 1st division. How much more can we spend in the Championship if we get promoted?"
EFL: "The same"
DC: "But surely if we have a bigger income we're allowed to spend more?"
EFL: "No"
DC: "But how can that be?"
EFL: "Because if you don't agree to it we'll refuse you the Golden Ticket"

AFAIK The business plan isn't directly related to payments to creditors.  We've effectively agreed to pay creditors all up front (barring the payments for Bielik which aren't even due yet).  There's probably something like a 30-day invoice payment window on it or something, which is why it hasn't all been paid yet.  But beyond this initial payment there shouldn't be anything overdue to creditors.
The business plan is an EFL requirement, to stop clubs lurching from one admin into another. They basically don't want us coming out of admin and immediately splashing a load of cash on players and ending up back in admin in 6 months time.  Obviously it's not that relevant in our case, as Clowes seems fairly sensible (which probably explains the fact that our agreed wage cap is apparently higher now than it was last season in a higher league).  But more unscrupulous owners might be tempted to throw a bit of cash at a cheap club coming out of admin, and then run if it doesn't work out.
Obviously if we had agreed to pay creditors over time, then the business plan would have this factored in.

Because we are on a business/payment plan. So until that plan is finished and all payments made to creditors who agreed to that plan to come out of administration we are under certain limitations. 

You heard ? 

My husband said that (I didn't get to games that early). 
Nearly all males, but there was none of this abuse, just getting behind your team. 
And I do go to games home and away, just don't see why I should have to put up with the abusive stuff. 

Excuse me?
 
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I agree with a lot of what you say but I do feel the reason why the women aren’t rolling around on the floor is simply because they haven’t had to endure tackles with any great force.
Men are naturally more athletic. They are much stronger, quicker, aggressive and forceful. Don’t get me wrong some players roll around on the floor from barely a scratch. But the reason why the men’s game has more injuries (and injury stoppages) is the same reason why men’s boxing has more knockouts.
Women’s football definitely has a more family feel. The crowd aren’t aggressive. You can hear during the goal celebrations where it’s a ‘roar’ and often overzealous behavior during men’s football while in the women’s game you can hear it’s more of an excited squeal. It’s great families can feel safer.
As for the officials. I think again it has a family type culture. Way more respect.

Tactically and style wise it's more of an evolution than a complete change. We still intend on building out from the back, getting on the ball and looking to have a good share of possession. Style wise it will more or less stay the same with some tactical shifts. 
Last season we primarily played a 4231 where both full backs pushed up high and wide, the 2 DMs mostly sat and acted as a double pivot and the attacking 3 came narrow infield. This was mostly to get the best out of Lawrence and perhaps Morrison in my opinion. 
This season the overarching plan seems to be no matter the starting formation or our defensive shape we want to shape up as 2-3-2-3 on the ball. With the lines being; centre backs, deep midfield, attacking midfield, forwards (with the two wide players here very split). 
So far we've had varying degrees of success which has mostly be down to personal available. (I'll focus mostly on the first halves of games).
Hertha Berlin was the game it inarguably was the most effective. More or less looking like 
       Chester Davies 
  Knight    Bird    Roberts
    Hourihane McGoldrick 
NML         Collins         Barkhuizen 
This illustrates the plan well. The plan is for that 3 of Knight, Bird and Roberts being the start of play really getting it out of the centre backs as quick as we can. They can either play forwards into the half spaces to McGoldrick or Hourihane or wide to the wingers hugging the touchline or straight into Collins. Bird is critical here because of his ability to keep possession under pressure and break the lines.
McGoldrick (so far) has been the second key. It's really important that those more advanced midfielders actively look to find space and get on the ball, which he is excellent at it in a way that's perhaps missing a little in the squad on the whole.
When it hasn't worked its been entirely down to the balance of the deep and attacking midfield not working. The best example being against Stevenage where we more looked something like (it's a little fuzzier)
        Davies Cashin 
Oduruh Hourihane Thompson
          Knight     Sibley 
NML           Collins       Forsyth
See the issue here is there is a lot more shifting from start position mostly to accommodate that left side as well as people not being suited to playing in certain places. Hourihane looked uncomfortable that deep, Thompson looked crowded on the left and couldn't use his knack for getting into space for little pop passes. Neither Knight or Sibley are particularly great at linking play. And an aging Fozzy has to move from left back to a very advanced position to provide width and get him out of the way of the build up play. 
The positives are I think if we have the 11 that played Berlin available it will be really effective but we really need to think about what we do without McGoldrick. And weirdly if Bird gets injured (and bielik isn't fit) I think it's going to be severely hampered as a system. 
So going into Oxford what do we do ?
Here is what we can probably guess
     Chester*  Davies 
    ?          Bird     Roberts 
   Hourihane/?   ?/Hourihane 
  NML      Collins   Barkhuizen
So the question is who comes into one of those "advanced" positions. Personally I'd be picking between Thompson and Knight I think. Both are energetic which I think is needed; Thompson is excellent at getting into space and is the better of the two at linking things together whereas Knight probably carries more goal threat, can carry the ball and has that knack of getting free kicks. Either way I'd do it with a base formation of a 433. Then Knight at RB if not in midfield or else Oduruh/Smith.
*Personally would swap for Cashin to have a left footer and I think Cashin might be better on the ball.

Our experience at the back should enable us to play out pretty safely once the players get to know each other  - so far it looks like the GK might be the least effective. As for our own press, we used a high press well last season but only for a game or two  (Plange, Knight and Tommo were the most effective I think). But most of last season involved a lot of wasted energy as players raced around in an uncoordinated, headless chicken half press which rarely troubled anyone.
Havent watched much div 1 football for a long time but I’d think few teams will manage a good, coordinated press against us. And that if we can organise one well - in midfield or high - it will cause chaos. But I think it’s hard to do especially if you’ve got a few senior citizens on the pitch 

All of the above plus forest get less than 11 points 

Hypocrisy.
 
The powers that be won’t take strong measures to rule out swearing by players, aggression, dissent, cheating,  all of which have a profound social effect, especially on kids who love the game and on fans. And the reason they won’t take strong measures is that their revenues rely on the ‘passion’. 
And then they pump this out 
Of course they should act against criminality. But they should also act against the causes of it 

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Robson lad impressed me tonight played well desevse that goal but on a whole a little bit concerning these lads been thrown togather so going to take time to gel.
But on little bad note some little idouts teenage lads outside the ground terrace bit trying claim In but stewards stopped them but at half time start throwing stones and dog poo bags but after great big branch of a tree threw it into the stand that could really really badly hurt somebody but steward threw back over loads people said why did throw back over but did not come back over.
But one bloody stones hit me not very big but bloody hurt me.

Mentioned this before in a fashion.  Sharp squaring up to some old bloke at his team coach, Austin with his crying pose etc, Malone with his general twatishness .  All these things provoke pissed of behaviour.   Very surprised  with the situation at the time that Austin didn't get someone running on and clocking him.  You get t**** but you also get a built up reaction caused by events. 

All of the above plus forest get less than 11 points 

Hypocrisy.
 
The powers that be won’t take strong measures to rule out swearing by players, aggression, dissent, cheating,  all of which have a profound social effect, especially on kids who love the game and on fans. And the reason they won’t take strong measures is that their revenues rely on the ‘passion’. 
And then they pump this out 
Of course they should act against criminality. But they should also act against the causes of it 

Good to hear. Most people say they
...like watching just the men 
the women are getting  so much better  Would like to see dcfc invest more on the women’s side.  Not least because it’s becoming big business 

Hypocrisy.
 
The powers that be won’t take strong measures to rule out swearing by players, aggression, dissent, cheating,  all of which have a profound social effect, especially on kids who love the game and on fans. And the reason they won’t take strong measures is that their revenues rely on the ‘passion’. 
And then they pump this out 
Of course they should act against criminality. But they should also act against the causes of it 

I think a slow start till the team starts to gel and results will get better from November onwards with a top 6 finish and a win in the playoff final. 

John McGovern.

I see what you did there ? Scarlet Pimpernel, a master in the art of deception.
Hmmm , oh yes I agree.  He’s overrated and a massive gamble. Nothing to see here. Move along ???

Anyone who watched that game last night and didn't enjoy it, either doesn't like football or is a stubborn idiot who refuses to admit they were wrong.
Well done girls ?

Good to hear. Most people say they
...like watching just the men 
the women are getting  so much better  Would like to see dcfc invest more on the women’s side.  Not least because it’s becoming big business 

I get that but Bogle sometimes looked like the best player on the pitch when Mount, Wilson and Tomori were on the pitch.
Obviously not as consistent, hence it only being “sometimes” but if push came to shove, I’d take Bogle over Byrne.