Meanwhile, some other clubs are snapping up what look like superb freebies. Hopefully we are near on a few. Name names. Who are these freebies we should have been all over? Not sure about whether we should have been all over them, we are on a shoestring budget, but players like Hakeeb Adelakun have...

https://lionofviennasuite.sbnation.com/2018/7/1/17522324/gossip-jorge-mendes-helping-mystery-client-to-buy-bolton-wanderers-cristianp-ronaldo-money-wolves-fl Iles: Official line from #BWFC on report Jorge Mendes is in talks with a mystery client looking to buy club is "we don't comment on speculati...

Since the start of May:

67, 51, 82, 95*, 94*, 39, 14, 67, 80*, 9, 91*, 11, 54*, and now 110*

Jos Buttler is phenomenal.

Oh, and if it wasn't already obvious enough, tonight really highlighted just how much of a f*ck-up it was to have Harry Kane on corner-taking duty at the last tournament.

Everything considered, I thought that was actually pretty positive. Tunisia were cynical and set out to try and spoil it, which is only to be expected, and then did what they could to make it difficult to get through them. That's what lesser teams do. If we hadn't snatched at a few early on, we migh...

I know pretty much nothing of Lowe, but I note that he averages a booking every fifth appearance and yet he hasn't ever been sent for an early bath. That might suggest a certain refinement to his "game management" abilities.

Right, I've just quickly checked the fixtures and six is almost definitely not enough. Nine, though, could just be the magic number. Burton Albion, in the best run of form of the bottom three, still have to play four of the clubs currently in the play-off places, and while Birmingham City and Sunder...

So we end another matchday marginally further away from the bottom three than we were when it started. As we're now at the stage where we can begin debating how many points we need from the remaining fixtures to guarantee safety, will nine do us? Can we even get away with just six if we earn those s...

The ultra-negative style makes sense away from home. At home, against a totally average side, it's tying one hand behind your back. We've only managed to win 3 of our last 7 home games. In those 7 games we've scored 6 goals. Our home form is all we have to keep us up. It's not currently good enough...

The answer for how you get the ball from back to front without hoofing it is "midfield"... We've not got the most talented players in the midfield, but Karachan and Vela can pass a ball and the wingbacks can carry. The idea that it's impossible for the 11 we put out against Preston to do anything o...

There's very little evidence, in my opinion, that our centre-backs and our central midfielders have the required technical ability to do it without hitting it long. And that's more a matter of technique than it is of tactics. I've just re-read what you posted there. So, let me summarise what you ar...

A question for Peter Thompson: by what method would we get the football from Alnwick to Ameobi? I'm not Peter Thompson, so I can't answer for him, but as meself, I'd say that under Parkinson the only answer appears to be hoof the fecker. On the other hand we could get a different manager who might ...

A question for Peter Thompson: if we were to play the style of football that you're advocating, by what method would we get the football from Alnwick to Ameobi? There's very little evidence, in my opinion, that our centre-backs and our central midfielders have the required technical ability to do it...

Obligatory Karl Henry yellow.

If the plan is to invite them onto us and then hit them on the counter, that's a decent enough starting eleven to try it with.

There's one statistic that's acted as both my primary source of faith in these players and my barometer when assessing our chances of staying up or not, and that statistic is the PPG ratio of both ourselves and those around us since the twelfth round of fixtures. The past nineteen results for us, an...