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Very positive, a nod to past regimes, respect for the caretaker staff and recognition that it should not need too much change at this stage of the season. It must be quite exciting to think you may oversee a promotion, an FA Cup final and could be coaching in the second tier in your first head coach job.

There are certain unsavoury and soul-sucking aspects to the Prem, but I'll never understand how anyone who loves football can criticise the product on the pitch for entertainment value etc - it's the best league bar none. Wycombe take precedence, obviously, but otherwise I'm watching a Prem game - we're blessed to live in an era of such high-quality football.

Xavier is wearing 7 in the pictures with David Wheeler.

If my maths is correct and Wiki has the figures right, Louis has now clocked up 871 games. I never knew he played for Wrexham 16 years ago and scored 15 goals in a season for them.

Just musing, but I wonder whether it would actually be better for the clubs long-term development NOT to get promoted this year.

(Just to make it clear I really, really want us to be promoted this season!)

But we seem to have developed a strong squad (on paper) that will probably take a little while to gel, particularly with a new head coach.

If we don’t go up, that squad would almost certainly be strong enough to be one of the favourites for promotion next season and I’m thinking it may be a lot easier for the team to come together at the top of League 1 rather than at what is likely to be the lower end of the Championship.

(Although overall there are probably more benefits in going up this year)

Hugo Boss vibes from the interview which is ok at this level but if he wants to get to the top there will have to be a conversation about Moncler in the future.

Luckily for him there is a Moncler outlet in Bicester Village where you can get the stuff at a very reasonable discount.

Luke is a total superstar.

Luke O'Nien is a fan of Mike

I suspect that would have been the initial plan when Lommy took over.

Realistically I don’t think that the owners would have expected promotion straight away, so I imagine the plan would have been to deploy capital over the next few years in League One to build the infrastructure of the club. Then, with more solid foundations, to attack promotion and consolidation in the championship with a pipeline of talent coming through the academy system

The opportunity to go up this season may have resulted in the desire to accelerate the process and throw more money now at players that they hope will cope in the Championship

They are far more benefits going up this season, hence why so much money has been spent in January. I really don’t get your argument!