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I mean, it's not awful...

Sadlier always felt more a solid option before our eyes were widened with the summer signings.

He'll have to go some to match some of the expectations being put on him

Classic gasroom wild conspiracy talk.

It's one thing seeing promotion being derailed by losing key players, that's just life.

But if there really are little issues behind the scenes and they derail us that will be really annoying.

I've never heard "I was a miner..." ringing out from the Valley End (...but i would certainly have enjoyed it!)

Lubala looked fine at CF when he came in last season. I think Kone, Udoh and Lubala are the strongest combination of strikers we've had for a very long period. Peak Bayo and Kashket maybe offered more options but with our style of play (on a good day) I'd expect our current CF options to score more on average.

They might have to AI a crowd at some point...

I bet on MB leaving at 5 to 1. He was gone by half past six.

I think the one thing we can predict relatively confidently is that if Dan Rice gets to appoint a successor to Matt Bloomfield, it won't be the usual suspects who are considered. He'll want someone who is fully aligned to his data-driven model, someone whose training sessions, tactical decisions, team selection and in-game substitutions will be guided by AI and whatever dataset it's being fed, and will probably be someone we've never heard of and with limited (if any) playing pedigree him or herself. It'll be an interesting experiment to watch - but probably a little uncomfortable for many of the players and indeed supporters.

Matt Bloomfield falls out of a plane?