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In Udoh's defence, he's often played out of position in a wide role

Not that fantastic a backup, statistically at least.

Apologies to @Shev for being unable to squeeze in his full post.

To be fair, without Lubala’s 4 goals in the BS Motors trophy, he, Hanlan and Vokes would all be on a par statistically with Udoh.

Mr Rough is his assistant!

They might have been bigger once, but it's hard to argue that a conference team are bigger than a club top of league 1 that have a billionaire owner and are on the threshold of the championship

York owner responds to zero speculation linking Wycombe with his manager by making less than complimentary remarks about Wycombe!

I have to agree with @micra though your pulling together of data is impressive.

You had a lot of time for MB @glasshalfempty.

I’m right alongside you in the sadness stakes and shed many tears last week but I think we have to move on, however reluctantly.

The squad is interesting in that there are definite segments in relation to the takeover last summer:

GA holdovers: Grimmer, Taffs, Scowen, Wheeler, McCleary, Vokes etc.

Blooms pre-takeover: Leahy, Low, Ravizzoli, Pattenden, Lubala, Kone, Sadlier etc.

Blooms first takeover summer: Udoh, Fred, Harvie, Hartridge etc.

Current window: Bradley, Dane 1, Dane 2, two incoming

I would think that the current regime will not have any attachment to a player brought in before last summer unless they are absolutely in line with the data approach. Even with regards to last summer, there was likely at least a mixed approach if not mostly the old approach, as Scott Mitchell was still with us.

That's not to say players are going to start getting shipped out the door mercilessly in this window, just to point out that this window is the first that really belongs to the new regime. It would not surprise me if the squad looks extremely different by the end of summer 2025 even if we don't go up.

9:47am as I write this!

Good afternoon @Shev.

Morning?!