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Realistically Sam Grace won’t be in the mix at all and probably doesn’t want to be. As Flymo says let him crack on with what he’s good at as we kick on with the development teams and academy.

Apart from Schumacher though the other names mentioned all feel quite meh. The Buckingham rumour probably true, he would likely apply for the job. Brentford bloke seems plausible as that would seem to fit our strategy. I imagine the Holden rumour was made up by his agent thankfully and I just can’t see the owners going for a non league manager.

As much as he did wonderfully yesterday (and this week in general), he seems a reluctant manager and I think giving him the no 1 role would be a very bad move indeed.

This whole thread is a miserable reminder of what we’ve lost.

It sounds brilliant.

Just the sort of possible snippets of hand me down in the know stuff.

As the closest Premier League team to Bicester Village I think we know where the new fanbase is coming from, Mr Thumbs down!

As long as you can't read Chinese, you'll be fine.

Top Twenty for the Total Crowd: [7459]

Many congratulations to @Commoner - a close single digit miss, what will be an interesting entry on the Season's Competition Leaderboard and Forecaster of the Week.

Congratulations to @wwfcblue; the data driven Chat gpt (as, I suspect, ably coached by @manchesterchairboy); @LDF; @our_frank and @BSE all of whom were within one hundred.

Our collective average from 35 predictions was 7785 - out by 326.

Top Twenty One for the Away Crowd: [574]

Many congratulations to @micra for being spot on with the weather prediction and only out by one person for the away crowd, top work.

Lots of the top twenty one have congratulations for being inside 5%, which is 28.7.

Congratulations to the who were fairly sure it was going to be around 560 and tied in 2nd - @Twizz, @DJWYC14, @perfidious_albion and @MindlessDrugHoover.

Congratulations to @mooneyman and @BSE who also tied and were within ten of the exact number of Happy Wanderers and congratulations to @MFH_Blue: @silverfox; @robin; @our_frank; @NewburyWanderer; @Mandown; @wwfcblue; @Forest_Blue;@williwycombe and @ryan_w_kirkby2, who were all within 5%. Pats on the back all round.

Our collective average was 597.

Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 6885]

Many congratulations for the first time to @manchesterchairboy and Chatgpt who were the closest with the home crowd. Congratulations to @wwfcblue, @Commoner, @our_frank, @PJS, @ShitcagoWWFC and @BSE who were all within one hundred.

Ouir average for the home crowd was 7188, out by 303.

I should have the 'Tour de Season' updates done and posted and then the Northampton Match thread started today.

Early days but it seems I was totally wrong about Sonny Bradley. He looks like a proper player. Didn’t see yesterday - it was perhaps the first game I haven’t watched all season. What a dreadful game to miss by the sounds of things.

I think we've got to go external for someone with experience. Let Sam G get on with what he's good at.

Yeah I may have been a bit emotional myself when I wrote that, especially the England part. But he reminds me of the old Spectrum footy games where the ball is attached to his foot, he’s that good on the ball!