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For those who care about this cup or love a good cup draw it's on Friday on Sky Sports News at 6.30
It's still a North/South split so we could get:
Blackpool
Doncaster
Bradford
Accrington/Lincoln
Bolton
Burton
Wigan/Stockport
Matches played around week commencing Jan 4th
Who do we want then? 
It will be interesting to see if teams fully put out their best XI from now on let's say if we draw Bolton or Blackpool

For those who care about this cup or love a good cup draw it's on Friday on Sky Sports News at 6.30
It's still a North/South split so we could get:
Blackpool
Doncaster
Bradford
Accrington/Lincoln
Bolton
Burton
Wigan/Stockport
Matches played around week commencing Jan 4th
Who do we want then? 
It will be interesting to see if teams fully put out their best XI from now on let's say if we draw Bolton or Blackpool

Blame Trevor Birch for that! 😂 I found the info off the EFL site https://www.efl.com/news/2023/december/05/bristol-street-motors-trophy-round-of-16-draw/ 
From what it looks like if we go on to win the entire thing the club accumulates £260k in winnings + I guess half the Wembley gate receipts
 

For those who care about this cup or love a good cup draw it's on Friday on Sky Sports News at 6.30
It's still a North/South split so we could get:
Blackpool
Doncaster
Bradford
Accrington/Lincoln
Bolton
Burton
Wigan/Stockport
Matches played around week commencing Jan 4th
Who do we want then? 
It will be interesting to see if teams fully put out their best XI from now on let's say if we draw Bolton or Blackpool

No he didn't try to make them first team regulars, he was forced to play them because of injuries. Without the misfortune for the other players, Thompson and Rooney wouldn't have had a sniff of a game. It was the same last season when Warne oversaw a long unbeaten run, but the reality is that he was forced to change the formation, because of injuries. He had been trying to play 3 at the back, and it was proving disastrous, but was forced to go 4 or 5 at the back, and the good run resulted from that exact circumstance. But as soon as he got the chance he leapt back to 3 at the back, curiously at the same time that the good run came to an end. Funny, that!
It is no surprise that there are loads of questions being asked of Warne, because there are loads of questions that need to be asked.

Knowing how difficult it is to sign players in the January window will the criticism carry much weight if Warne does not address any of the short term needs in this upcoming window? Didn't Warne quite some time ago (can't remember if it was this summer or last Jan window) say along the lines of 'the Jan window is only for those who failed in the summer' yet with him recently publicly saying he wants more players it just feels that the he's setting himself up for another fall soon. 
Also it's a bit worrying that we haven't really started to address any of the 14 out of contract players because even though collectively they not pulling up any trees at the moment do we really expect to challenge for promotion next year with another huge turnover of playing staff? 

Knowing how difficult it is to sign players in the January window will the criticism carry much weight if Warne does not address any of the short term needs in this upcoming window? Didn't Warne quite some time ago (can't remember if it was this summer or last Jan window) say along the lines of 'the Jan window is only for those who failed in the summer' yet with him recently publicly saying he wants more players it just feels that the he's setting himself up for another fall soon. 
Also it's a bit worrying that we haven't really started to address any of the 14 out of contract players because even though collectively they not pulling up any trees at the moment do we really expect to challenge for promotion next year with another huge turnover of playing staff? 

Here’s the problem, we have a good number of players out of contract in the summer, but who trusts Warne with a major squad rebuild at this point? I don’t.

Can't believe he outlasted her. Genuinely.

Well it's pretty f****** obvious that it's Paul Warne who is Mel's inside man.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/southampton-and-derby-county-keeping-tabs-on-midfielder/
Adam Murphy - Centre mid plays as a 8/10  St Patricks Athletic - 18 years old played through all the youth ranks of ROI so far
Report says he could be as cheap as £200k but quite a few clubs inc Man City are looking at him.
We do have a good reputation with young irish players and as the report suggests probably an easier pathway.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/southampton-and-derby-county-keeping-tabs-on-midfielder/
Adam Murphy - Centre mid plays as a 8/10  St Patricks Athletic - 18 years old played through all the youth ranks of ROI so far
Report says he could be as cheap as £200k but quite a few clubs inc Man City are looking at him.
We do have a good reputation with young irish players and as the report suggests probably an easier pathway.

Which game was he watching?

Warne making sure there's no additional cup prize or TV money that could help Clowes sack him

The thought of him getting another go in the upcoming transfer window is frightening.

Playing through the middle has been thoroughly coached out of these players. Sack him tonight please.

I’m not precious about us being in this league for another couple of seasons. I could live with that if the football was decent and progressive, but it isn’t. It’s absolutely awful, the same thing week in week out. I want to be entertained, to watch creative exciting football, but instead I have to endure Warne’s repetitive hoofball at places like Stevenage where I spent my hard earned yet again to watch the same failings. The mate I was there with was at Shrewsbury the week before watching the same thing again. He’s going through a divorce and money is tight but he goes to matches for a bit of a break from the strain of it all. My dad has terminal cancer and like my friend watching the Rams is a break from the strain of that. This is the point I think some of Warne’s adherents fail to see; football is meant to be entertaining, but Warne’s football philosophy is sucking the life out of the club and turning a lot of Rams fans away. In an era where the cost of living dictates what people spend their money on, the club have to be careful that the unconditional backing of Warne doesn’t cost them revenue that will be badly needed at this level of football going forward. 

I'm not sure you can call Waghorn his signing. Yes technically it's under his tenure but he was openly candid how he stubbornly didn't rate him whatsoever and if it wasn't for his idiotic stubbornness which led to a lack of numbers up front during preseason. We can only thank Forsyth for that. I'd love to know a list of players Mark Thomas or the newly formed scouting team have recommended and he rejected over this summer. 

I agree but it won’t be happening based on an Athletic article I read yesterday morning. Pearce and Clowes scoffed at the idea when Matt Slater raised it to them on Tuesday evening. I think the plan is to get more football knowledge on to the board as NED’s but I would worry these would be sentimental appointments.
It seems crazy to me that you would not have football people in charge of football decisions but what do I know

A short term caretaker for the rest of the season option no matter who it is (preferably an experienced coach) whilst Clowes resets the clubs bearings is probably the wisest move. Once we sack Warne it really does rubberstamp this season as a free hit and i think now you have to in order to cull the toxicity it's creating. I wouldn't want to bring Buxton into the first team or any of the academy lot to fill in because who will then fill in for the academy. It's a right pickle!