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I ordered one as well, will post pics when it arrives

I half expect Wrexham to sign with adidas and get their own retro adidas range before we do

What was the timing of your asking for the minutes to be released, and how sternly did you communicate it? There's a world of difference between waiting 6 weeks to send the comms director a friendly "oh, by the way, whenever you get a chance could you please release the minutes from the FCC meeting, ta", and writing within a fortnight to ask why they haven't been released, a hard date for they do plan to release them, what the comms team plan to do in the future to ensure minutes are released in a timely fashion, and (as davieG mentioned above), if the club fail to release the minutes within a certain time period then you will release your own minutes. You really must force the club's hand, because to those outside the trust it's clear that the club just do not respect your position and know they can get away with it.

Maybe I expect better because the bog standard corporate responses prove that the club give zero ****s about the fans Maybe I'm a fool for wanting the club that represents my community to hold themselves to higher standards than this, or maybe I should just be happy that they released the meeting minutes at all, let alone 7 weeks later

He's been without a club for 2 and a half years according to his transfermarkt page, back when he managed to play all of 4 games (two full 90s and two 45 minutes) for RFC Seraing in the Belgian 2nd division Isola Capo Rizzuto play in 5th tier of Italian football - which has 464 teams across 28 regional divisions. Probably equivalent to Step 4 or 5 on our non-league pyramid! So it'd be like (for example) Tom Lawrence or Michael Keane turning up for Barwell or Anstey Nomads

Agree to disagree - IMO every ten years and every 25 years is a worthy milestone to celebrate. It just can get a bit congested with x20, x25, x30 / x70, x75, x80 years

"Recapping on last season, SW expressed the Club’s appreciation from the fans for their support, despite relegation. The structure and standards of the Club didn’t change, there were no staff redundancies, which means the Club is ready to be back in the Premier League." I'll put emphasis on "The structure of the Club didn't change": What a great way to admit, over a year since we were relegated, that nobody in the club has been held accountable for being asleep at the while while they steered us on the path to relegation. Thanks for confirming that the make-believe review was exactly that, Sue! "Digital ticketing conversion wasn’t received as well as the Club had hoped." Then whoever at the club set the expectations for how fans received the news of digital ticketing needs to be sacked. Anyone with an anounce of professional competence could have seen this coming miles off - do they not know a single thing about matchgoing football fans? "AH said the Club were aware of some adverse supporter reaction to the announcement of match ticket prices." "Some" adverse supporter reaction Whelan and Herlihy out, both are absolutely stealing a living

Chelsea have a very ethical front-of-shirt sponsor right now

I remember a rumour of that a few months ago - wouldn't be surprised at all

Irony from the OS's feature on the Ice Kings “We also suggested, years ahead of our time, having a sponsor’s name on the shirt but that was turned down on the grounds that the Club didn’t want to degrade itself by having advertising on the front of the shirts.

Would be early stock from the first batch of orders in early 2023, because we didn't know if we'd be relegated or not and whether that would affect the shirt sponsorship - FBS didn't want to keep paying their PL rate if we were in the Championship so voided the main sponsor agreement, and King Power sponsorship was only finalised late on because the club couldn't find another sponsor willing to pay an "acceptable" rate

Bit of a farce that it took 7 weeks to release this Club doing the bare minimum and then some as usual

Dyche would be proud

Unless you use a comb made out of teeth

Horrific incompetence from his agent Fumbled multiple moves to elite clubs because he's too greedy or too hard to negotiate with

Sources I can find gave the 5th goal to Monga Nice result nonetheless!

Villa scored before the half hour so they didn't have to push for a goal anymore. They could let us have the possession because we're playing Ndidi as a 10 so every attacking move breaks down

Good challenge

Given we didn't target Bentancur at all for the 5+ minutes he was limping like a pensioner, I can't see Cooper deciding to do target Bogarde now

Rudkin out chants 👏👏👏

As long as it would've been like Everton's Broja deal where we don't pay any of his wages if he's injured - even then he's on £190-200k a week so I think we could only afford 1/5 of that at most

In the Premier League and UEFA competitions yeah, I'm not sure if the EFL have followed suit, but if not then it will only matter if Birmingham get promoted back to the PL in those 5 years

They've signed Stansfield to a 7-year contract, so basically £2.8m transfer fee (if add-ons achieved) per year will be in the books

TransferRoom, yeah https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4333076/2023/03/26/inside-transfer-room/

Exeter have a bit of a reputation for being a good place for young players to develop (mostly when their youngsters get poached by big 6 teams), seems like a great loan move for him