Stadt

2 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

"Give them a chance!" 

“They’re good at making small children happy when they drive past and can say loo at them”

“But these heifers are barren and won’t produce anymore”

”This place is so negative, we’re going to be signing young Jersey cows anymore are we?? Get real”

We sign a load of shit but I really don’t how much of that is on Glover, we’re so agent led. If he had any integrity he’d leave though.

Players signed on >= 3 year deals the prior to relegation don’t count towards the SCMP rules and neither do U21s. 
 

Our actual cash flow will be a problem but I didn’t realise how light touch the regs are. 
 

The sales and even a tiny bit of owner funding should put enough cash in to cover the costs for a season. 
 

We have about 15 (including some returning loanees) senior players as of July. Even if Choudhury, Vestergaard, Reid and Thomas stay our wage bill should surely be on stable footing? Provided we don’t go daft (…) on wages offered to new recruits the big cost basis.

I guess the killer and what we don’t know exactly is what transfer instalments we still owe and any loan repayments.

I think most engaged fans have filled it in. It’s not thousands are ignoring it but we simply have small minority who actually give a shit 

Wilson-Brown, Braybrooke, Evans, Alves and Joseph will be involved because they’ve been out on loan.

Gray, Aluko, Otchere probably won’t get as many minutes as they should. We don’t break with our failing habits because nothing changes. Page is probably the exception as he already looks like he’s ready.

1 hour ago, Tielemans63 said:

As well as the men's and women's teams, Rudkin also oversees the KP Polo team.

 

He's made some big signings in pre-season. Interested to see what impact they have

 

Last summer posters on here would have said “They’ll do a job at this level”

3 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Rowett said he's not had conversations yet so they've obviously not made serious headway. It'll be July earliest.

There is no urgency there at all 

It’s fine to fight tooth and nail legally to avoid punishment if we then got the house in order. Instead we got lucky once and presumed we could fight with law fare rather than the mismanagement eventually catching up.

Instead we just carried on spending recklessly. The summer 25 window was delusional and frivolous. The only good permanent signing was El Khannouss and we managed to make a loss!

We’ve been in some degree of financial difficulty since summer 22 and it was only three years later, after a second relegation in three years, we stemmed the transfer spending.

The lack of redundancies, mothballing of Belvoir Dr, maintaining the number of stewards, floating away ID checks and so on means they’re not reconciling with the financial disaster STILL.

On 24/04/2026 at 09:58, Chris_OGrady said:

I seem to remember a few poeple have been to the Holly Bush Inn on here in Makeney. Can you walk there down the river Derwent directly from Duffield station?

I went via the Dead Poets but walked it, didn’t take long but there were some steep hills 

The Soar Point, it’s a shame no TV cameras were there like in the Market Tavern and I think the Local Hero.

Liminal experience in the aftermath of Hazard’s goal, I’d had a bet on him as next goal scorer too which paid for the night. I was expecting to go to Republic so wore some terrible jeans and sheux combo. IIRC a photo of me up a lamppost made it onto BBC news’ article 

Just watched the highlights, two things stood out. Page’s lack of minutes has been scandalous and my word Thomas is shit.

27 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Think the hate of Ayew is a bit unfair. Hate the signing but not the bloke.

 

No f uck him, lazy, greedy, stupid player. QPR’s first said it all 

3 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

not good enough for us apparently 

His third goal of the season, he’s shit

His peak was incredible, for a brief period of

time he actually may have been the best RB in the world. 
 

He’s been nowhere near it the last 24

months but that’s on the club and Rudkin for dishing out stupid deals to an injured player. I wish it could have ended differently but it feels like he wishes that even more.

He would be a bona fide club legend if we hadn’t dished out stupid contracts when he was injured.

25 minutes ago, murphy said:

Yes, some players can fail at some clubs and shine at others, but that's kind of my point.  Jordan Ayew has been shit everywhere. 

Not fair.

He’s excellent at getting relegated

2 minutes ago, bmt said:

God I completely forgot about trey

Don’t Forget About Tre

42 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Need to pick this lad vs Blackburn and strengthen the compensation we will be awarded for his alleged move to Liverpool. 

Did we ever get paid for Nyoni? 

Maybe he will come back one day in a coaching role?

7 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

That said, he did get more than top whack for Maguire and Fofana. Or was that big fat Sue?

Whelan stepped in for Maguire.

Fofana was just an obvious talent, didn’t require much negotiating ability to get that for him.

Jim is ok, he’s shafted and not-my-job-mate’d lots of people. He’s also gone out of his way to help people.

There’s a big culture and process problem 

We’ve seen how good he can be, writing him off when the club has imploded is daft. He’ll go elsewhere and completely flourish - he’ll then move for at least double what we sell

him for.

Put him in a functioning team with an actual striker and he’ll fly.