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Worked well to date but if and when we find any decent sides on the horizon Kone might be better employed as an out and out centre forward, not least if Chair and Poku ever get fit.
Well the bulk of 2025 has felt a lot better than the previous ten years.
If nothing else, it feels like the club is being run from the top now rather than it was with Les, essentially being run from the bottom up. A disaster waiting to happen in any organisation.
On the pitch November/December will be the barometer, tough games before Christmas. We will slip down the league but I think this lot might be resilient enough to bounce back next year.
To my shame I eventually started to fall for that spiel that was prevalent on here, what now appears to have been a load of old bollocks, and questioned whether perhaps Marti had been some victim of uncontrollable pressure from above.
Consequently judged that JS was of a softer personality and was destined to a very short future here.
A life lesson here, one I thought I’d mastered by now. Always trust your own instincts.
Teams that come from nice parts of the country are desperate to spend some time at home and football is the last thing on their minds.
Those that exist in relative shit holes love the away day experience so much they would be happy playing seven away games in a week, in fact every week.
Hard to say but I’m guessing you will carry on working, in which case probably worth a look whether your decision now, particularly if you take the 25% free of tax in one go, might tip any future withdrawals into a higher tax bracket.
On the other hand, you mention it’s not integral to your future finances, and given the debt level being carried and constantly increasing around this end of the world, it might be worth taking what you can get your hands on now and stick it in gold or under the bed.
Well yes and no, we very nearly made the play offs that year after a horrendous first half of season. Still our best finish in 10 years.
As said, it’s a big IF, but this is a very average league this season and there’s no real reason why the best of this squad can’t aim at a top six spot.
The big if is, how many want it? We were top 3 end of Jan a few years ago and it’s hard to understand how we fell so far so quickly in the last three months of that season.
Belief is massive, the manager has to get them all to buy in to being good enough not only to go up but to compete at the level above. You need hungry players (Burrell/Kone/Saito), players young enough to gamble on the potentials of a step up, the pros who have done it all (Cook/Hayden) and at the same time convince the stalwarts that have been around for years that the comfortable route to paying the mortgage is worth sacrificing for the greater good and a crack at a level perhaps beyond them or finding themselves trying to do the same at Preston North End. That’s the hard bit.
If we find ourselves in that position come January, then any reinforcements will probably need to be costly older pros who can get you over the line and that won’t go well on here.
Bottom line is, if Austin and Johansen hadn’t found themselves starting from 19th place half way through that season rather than 9th place, we’d have made the play offs and things might have turned out altogether different.
Someone’s no doubt pointed out, 4th place if we win tonight, and they’ve promptly shat themselves.
To be honest, if I was on half a mill plus a year and I sensed promotion meant finding another club in the summer or a long spell in the reserves I’d be having serious doubts about the ramifications of that line above 7th.
Not sure what the solution is, I don’t think we’re the only club that has this issue.
I’m still not sure of his actual name, which I think he would probably like, but in a night of unwatchable dross, the only thing keeping me awake was this fellas full on proper left back performance.
Up and down the pitch, right place right time, all done without any razzmatazz.
I’d imagine his wages per annum are nearer the £1m mark than any other significant number and given his whole career has been one injury after another, it’s hard to see he’d have been sold for much profit.
What is certain is we’ll never sell him for anything now and he’s probably contracted well into his 30’s.
On numbers alone it’s hard to understand how anyone at the club thought an extended contract was the answer.
News piece about two new towns proposed to be built in London, citing Enfield golf club and talking to members about losing their course to the development.
My sympathies were initially with them after hearing some considerable moaning about the injustice of it all but the cameras then cut to two members on the green lining up to play their putts at the same time and as if that wasn’t bad enough, one of these bellends then walked straight across the other fellas line as he was putting.
They don’t deserve a golf course, hope they build all over it.
Another plus for my self imposed 100 mile zone. It’s grim up North.
Fair enough putting Burrell up front and Kone in behind when we’re playing the good sides or promoted sides fancying themselves a bit, but these bread and butter games against sides who will likely play a low block, we should be putting Kone up front all day long.
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