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Great episode as always Phil! Jasper is a really brilliant speaker, very eloquent, clearly loves the club - loved hearing from him. Quickly growing into one of my favourite players and he comes across as a sterling young man - how lucky we are to have him!

I hope when you say next window you mean the summer one.

I hope also that I have the support of @LDF and @OakwoodExile (!) when I say that I don’t understand the use of whom in “whomever comes in” or indeed the random use of whom by @EwanHoosaami in a recent post.

I thought of googling Jakki Degg but decided the excitement might be too much at my age.

I drove past it earlier this year and suspected it would be a nightmare. And yet its location is similar to the Handy Cross option that’s often offered up as the solution.

Until people are prepared to get out of their cars and use alternatives, post match will always be a mess. Out of town sites create traffic jams - no way around that.

To hear that Bolton are losing £6-8 million a year with gates averaging 22,000 is one of the most disturbing things I’ve heard for a long time.

¡RINGING THE BLUES!

Up In The Gods

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It's the final RTB of 2024!

Big thanks for your continued support and a huge thank you to @VitalLen + the Regional Accents Dept + Uri for their invaluable contributions. Also, props to @ProducerLuke_ for making it possible for RTB to be a visual treat as well as an audio invasion each week.

Happy Christmas all and COYB!

Phil

I’m just as worried about losing Low, Taylor, Kone, Fred and Harvie in this window as well.

Humphreys will return to Ipswich in the next window unless we go up and Ipswich stay up.

One of them is replaceable but several of them could really derail us for a few weeks. Let’s hope whomever comes in hits the ground running and wish all the best to those that leave.

I suspect there will be a few surprises this window. Maybe even Jakki Degg on co-comms to cheer old glasshalfempty up!

Dan Rice in his initial interview talked about setting up a “ world class academy “ but he also stated that they want us to into the Championship , become an established club in that league and ultimately the plan was the Premiership!! Assuming Morley wants to stay ( we’ve seen no comment to that effect) , this is a real test of the ownerships ambitions in terms of league status.If we’d been half way down the league, the debate around Morley wouldn’t happen and Morley would go back to Bolton. But we’re in the automatic promotion, so this is a moment of truth for the owners.

I remember when losing Chris Forino was a disaster that we would never recover from. And when relegation beckoned after Mehmeti’s departure.

No one said either of these things.

It looks great from the outside, but an awful soulless identikit stadium once you are in your seat. Going to Doncaster away a few years ago has always made me pray Wycombe never end up in such a hell hole.