Good signing for them if he stays fit. Good luck Sam, we'll never know what could have been.

That news is also old.

Isn't that news a week or two old? Talk about milking a minor story.

You don't need to tell someone when it's their opinion btw. They know, because it's their opinion.

I think I'd rather it went under the radar than got attention. Whilst clubs were surely already looking at the likes of Finneran and Tyjon, the Wharton success has probably made them feel more like they can't afford to miss the chance of a bargain. (Sorry, I know you were trying to find positives!)

I don't remember Hyam making a dozen goal-costing mistakes against Bristol. Were a whole bunch of those disallowed or something?

Sammy could stay and we'd still be very likely to go down. Or he could leave and we could replace him with a 25 goal striker and still be very likely to go down. Keeper should be (but won't be) just as much of a priority as striker. You don't care about goalkeepers because it's a criminally underrated position. It's not exciting. But it can absolutely win or cost you points.

The first part of that statement is precisely why it was strange.

Long term loan deals (anything over 3 months) always seem to expire end of June. I think it might be how they have to work, ie part of the rules.

I'm guessing it wasn't serious since I can't find anything about it online.

Then why did they invest a bit when we went down to help us get out of that league last time? Why did they then spend nearly 14 million on strikers when we came back up? Why was the plan to sell Brockhall shelved? Why have they bothered funding losses of nearly 20 million a year? Why haven't they just sold the club then it costs nothing to run? In fact they won't even entertain bidders. The theory that Venkys want us relegated has never made sense. They're utterly inept, disconnected, stubborn, probably corrupt but at the very least empowering people who are, and arrogant. But there doesn't exist a plausible reason to intentionally relegate us other than spite towards the fans, and if that was the case there are cheaper, quicker and easier ways to pull it off, as bad as things have been.

In fairness, for now it's just shadowing to make him ready for that sort of work. There's no indication the work will start with us. But of course, we know how nepotism and cheap salaries work at this club, so it's a potential risk that it could happen. Hopefully he buggers off to get started at Kidderminster or something instead.

Meanwhile, we're still trying to figure out what our new Technical Director does, and replace half our scouts. Let alone the budget approval from Pune.

I dunno, it's a perfect opportunity to learn exactly what not to do!

It was a horror show and well up there, but it can't beat Shane Duffy vs his own defence just before his departure. Two own goals and a red card. He'd had an own goal in the game prior too, which I think someone told me made for 3 own goals in about 60 minutes of football! Which has to be a British record.

It is a major problem, for the people who can't park outside their own property. Are you one of them? Apparently around 70% of UK homeowners have their own off-street parking (finding it a little tricky to get the exact figures). So this means a driveway or a garage. A lot of the rest will be able to park outside their home, but on the street. Meaning they might be able to run a cable (could be a health and safety issue though), or as I said in my other post, charging points can be fitted to lamp-posts, or just built there. They wouldn't generally be super-chargers, so they'd charge slower but cost less than a supercharger, and you could just charge overnight fairly cheaply (but I imagine a bit higher than at your own home). A lot of the people who don't have off-street parking etc are concentrated in the cities, where public transport is often excellent, and plenty of people use that or bikes. Towns and rural areas have less issue with it. That said, I do think it's a problem that could do to be addressed (probably with street chargers, but it'll take time to build enough) by 2035 when all new cars have to be EVs. But it should be noted, this is in no way a game-ender for owning an EV. It just means you can't charge at home. This lowers one of the main advantage of EVs (cheaper 'fuel' and not going to petrol stations), but you can still charge it at charge points. Again, newer technologies are making this quicker all the time, and the cost is usually similar or a bit cheaper than petrol or diesel. And Tesla have it cheaper still for Tesla owners. I notice you didn't reply to any of my extensive points about what makes EVs better, I hope you at least read and digested them. Electric car prices vary just like combustion cars. At the moment, the used market is getting a lot cheaper. At the roughly £8k you mention, there are EVs available. Some I'd recommend, some I wouldn't (I'd swerve a Nissan Leaf). I saw a video where a guy managed to buy one of those 450k mileage Teslas for I think it was just under 9k (he had to negotiate, the asking price was about 11k I think). There didn't seem to be a lot wrong with it and it drove very well. Typically though, a used Tesla about 4 years old seems to sell for about 18k-20k. But there are other brands, I just think Tesla have a very good record for reliability, effiency and charger access, and I know the most about them so I mention them a lot as examples. In 2 years time when you come to change your car, the used market may have shifted again. Especially if cheaper new EVs come along as is expected. I strongly recommend that when you come to choose your next car in 2 years, you assess the market again as you might find a better value EV at that point than any Diesel, and it could save you a fortune in the long run. Perhaps also test drive an EV so you can see what the fuss is about. I haven't yet, but if I could afford one I certainly would, a lot of people rave about their performance.

Then next time you see him, tell him that and let's see how things pan out.

Very different players, depends what the manager wants to do. And Ayari has already said the manager wants him to come back. Whether he'll be seen as a squad player or a regular is another matter.

The first thing you've put there is the top priority to me, as I assume it is to you. And yet I heavily suspect we won't try to get a new number one keeper. The rest...well, I think it's too much to pull off for a dysfunctional club constantly strangled by the owners, still undergoing wholesale changes to our recruitment and scouting department as you mention. Whatever people think of Broughton, we finally got on with contract renewals when he came in. Now it's back to the Waggott model, I expect us to fuck those up. Currently, I'm also still expecting us to go down next season, which has been my view since around March. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Charging at home is currently an issue if you can't park outside your home. Likely in the future there'll be charging points in many places you can park (even a lamp-post can be converted to be able to charge a car too), but you probably won't get the savings you can currently get by charging at home. Although if we invest more in renewables we could bring these costs down. However I'm going to answer your first question on the assumption that a buyer can charge at home. Why are EVs so much better than 'fuel efficient' cars? The average combustion engine is only around 40% efficient (60% of the fuel's energy is wasted in heat, friction and emissions). I'm finding it hard to get a proper figure for the most efficient around, but there's an F1 Mercedes engine (which I can't imagine is available to consumers) with about 50%, and a Wartsila 31 engine that apparently can do a little over this. Electric motors convert 85-95% of the energy into the car's motion. So they're roughly twice as efficient. Instant torque. Because of instant torque, all the sprint records for commercially available cars are held by EVs. In short, they're faster. The Rimac Nevera can do 0-60mph in 1.74 seconds (only 150 made though). The Tesla S Plaid (no production limit) does 0-60mph in 1.98 seconds. Looking at the list of fastest 0-60 on Wiki, you don't find a fully combustion car until 5th place. The ICE cars that do feature on these sorts of lists always need a mega engine that will burn an insane amount of fuel. The fastest quarter mile is held by the Rimac Nevera, at 8.25 seconds, nearly a full second faster than the next two (all electric Lucid Air Sapphire and the ICE supercar Bugatti Chiron Super Sport which I believe has a massive 8 litre engine! Both tied at 9.1 seconds) Less moving parts means less maintenance. Recent research shows that Tesla have the lowest average maintenance costs in the world over both a 5 year and a 10 year period of ownership. When you get a service, a lot less needs doing. Can potentially be powered without any emissions at all, including the electricity you provide to the car. In fact if you get yourself enough solar you'll never have to pay anything again to 'fuel' your car, and even without this you can get clever with flexible tarriffs and charge at off-peak hours and pay very little indeed. If you're not using the car the next day you could even (in some cars) export energy back to the grid at peak times and make a profit! There are Teslas that have clocked in excess of 450,000 miles without needing their battery or drive unit changing. I doubt there are many ICE cars in the world that have gone that many miles without the engine needing changing, at least not without constant care and maintenance. The average lifespan of an ICE car is apparently 133,000 miles. You should check out the videos showing some of these 450k mileage Teslas, they still look in good shape and are basically as fast as the day they were made. There is a guy who has driven over 1.1 million miles in his, though he's had three battery changes (I don't know if they were necessary or he just wanted full range back). They tend to get long warranties. Two of those battery changes I mentioned were provided by the warranty. The technology is still relatively new and will only get better. Batteries with close to a thousand miles of range are theoretically possible with batteries currently under development, better drive units etc. Despite the scare stories, the newer battery chemistries are actually far safer than ICE cars, as in they're far less likely to set on fire. Even newer batteries are being designed to be even safer still. Electricity prices are less dependent on the fluctuating prices of fossil fuels dictated by the whims of Russian and Middle Eastern despots. If we ramp up renewables so we are self sufficient for energy, we can avoid all that instability. I'm barely going to touch on this part because it's well known and the details would take too long, but with these cars being cleaner we can also combat climate change, and even if for some reason you don't care about that, we can all breathe clearer air. Air pollution kills over 7 million people globally each year, including nearly 50,000 in the UK. Getting on for twice the population of Darwen, or globally, more than the population of Denmark. I'm probably forgetting a few things.

Had a stinker at Ewood as has been pointed out, but I heard he was great for them in the league. A league two below ours though. He might will have potential, but the last thing we need is another development keeper. I'm not interested in any goalie who isn't experienced and a safe bet.

2.5 mill probably is him adding a mill on for that Prem money 😆

Very different scenario, if the rumours about that are even true. Venkys had more interest then, plus we knew Manure had obtained details of his min clause implicitly so we managed to get a touch more out of them to avoid a court case and/or forcing the deal to Liverpool through instead (who had offered several million more than we got in the end). Hardly a bargaining masterclass to have given him a clause in the first case when he was already contracted for a decent stretch before it. Also Waggott was nowhere near the club back then.

If it's 10 we really are a joke. 15 is too low tbh. I appreciate it was a 'gamble' for Palace given his experience, but in that case it shouldn't have been too hard to get a 20% sell on.