Lillehamring

Huge night tonight... I got to see all the wild card games, visiting england, now i'm back to patchy streams and staying up to 5am

Niners broke them

But we still dropped points after their introduction - you can't say they improved the team if we went from a winning position to a draw, regardless of whether they specifically contributed to the goal. If they made the difference you're suggesting then surely we should have gone on to win 2 or 3 nil or at least controlled the game adequately to hold on for 1-0? Just not a very good example of how their influence improves us (which it generally does)

1. What difference does it make how many players ran out their contracts? - whether it's 1 or 8 we can't force players to sign deals, and certainly if the situation is any one's fault, it's BR not Rudkin - there was a reason why none of these players wanted to sign new deals, and a reason why most of them were unwanted by other clubs - the amount of players is purely coincidental, we have a similar contract situation now whilst being in a completely different footballing situation - it's just the nature of the business, the problem just stands out because it happened to be a wave of players rather than just a few. 2. Rudkin couldn't do either of these things - ostensibly for the same reason: FFP and Money - we couldn't back him because we'd be in breach of FFP and sacking him would probably have sent us over too, given how high his compensation was. I firmly believe the club felt there was enough of a chance we'd stay up and then we'd probably be able to offload BR to another club or at least pay less comp. To say Rudkin buried his head in the sand is an easy way of looking at things, we simply don't know what options he had, but i suspect they were all very bad ones. 3. I didn't say he was a pawn to get us relegated, i said he was a pawn to be in that position for a few games until we brought in our real managerial target. He was never going to get the job full time, very few managers would have took that job, as i say above, i believe the club wanted to see the year out with BR but fan pressure left them no choice. 4. At the end of the day a scapegoat, by definition, is seldom the person who is actually responsible, that's why he's a scapegoat.... If you blame rudkin or top for this whole mess, you're destined to be mistaken because the problem was at every level from top down to the fans.

I'm guessing there are some contractual restrictions about sacking a youth team coach maybe they're waiting to see which league we're in next season.... who knows

Thinking about it, i'm not so sure he'd have played against Ipswich - chances are it's going to be a pretty open game, back and forth, and he just doesn't have the pace or the ability to carry the ball for that kind of game. Feel like it will be yunus or maybe even ricardo with hamza playing deeper to give us a bit more defensive solidity.

But he was bought for a different manager and actually started 11 games under him. Hardly fair to class it as an error, same with VK - bought for rodgers but surplus to requirements undo enzo. These aren't mistakes just the ebb and flow of squad building. And certainly not something that can be used to criticise Rudkin - one has to assume that the scouting committee all agreed to these players being the players that they wanted, rudkin simply signed off on it?

Evidence seems to suggest that we've learnt from previous lack of care - and with everton and forest now getting pulled up - there's no way we'll end up in a mess in the future, we've been lucky to come out of the last slump stronger, i can't see them risking it all again, especially with the law now seeming to be upheld.

He's been here for the most successful period of our history, too - on his watch, as you say - this is a business and sometimes in a business you are less successful than others. To continue this obsession that our entire situation right now is one man's fault is absurd - yes our position is weaker now, because we're in the championship after banking on being in europe - and the reasons why we're in the championship is not as simple as 'one man being to blame' - it is for reasons complex and exhaustive.

After which sheffield equalised. Not the strongest argument you've made there.

Newcastle have some pretty shite form, to be fair. Strange that it wasn't at seagrave?

Lost department stores - simpkins & james, Adderleys/marshall & snellgrove, old rackhams Lost theatres - palace, royal opera house, theatre royal, Gaiety Brilliant street names: horsefair street, gallowtree gate, the jetty, butt close lane, humberstone gate brutalist gems - lee circle, st georges tower, attenborough/engineering buildings

Jesus, don't let that put you off - if people - anyone! - listens to it, you've succeeded. Worst thing you can do is to sit on it and do nothing, this, dear boy, is failure. And in the spirit of this sentiment - i, without shame, add the following links: https://skfs.bandcamp.com/ https://greatcentral.bandcamp.com/

Vicky Park/Abbey Park Haymarket centre The 'Lanes' Charles Street The view from the train over Welford Road Cemetery across to the Stadiums Saffron Lane Stadium (before it was destroyed) The Charlotte

Featuring Sid James & Marty Feldman. apparently

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I started it but with supreme irony haven't picked it up since before xmas.... But even in the first few chapters it was opening my eyes.

Akgun has to start converting potential (great) into end product (poor) if he wants to get a deal - the nice thing about him is at worst he's a much better squad player than someone like praet - he can play wide and could be good cover for KDH, but then I can see mcateer in that sort of role, too - and he's already our player.

Atomic Habits, perchance?

Very poor? - what nonsense. no one played badly, certainly not very poorly.

Yunus v Oli Higginson

Ooh... Feel like i have a lot of scope for goals this year: 1. Improve fitness/health 2. Travel 3. More gardening 4. Find a literary agent - if anyone has any contacts, do please let me know - feels like it's closed shop even for published authors. 5. Finish decorating the hall.

The point is if we're going to do it, we might as well do it now and free up a loan space.

I wouldn't count myself as a massive darts fan, but i find it really exciting when games are tight, and i don't really mind who wins (generally)