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We Know How To Hold An Umbrella

• Easter weekend action + reaction
• Declan and George Link link interview
• Super Simon Garner chat
• Gus from a forest in the middle of Alaska
• Jordi from La Media Inglesa on their trip to Wembley

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3akEZBa4Y5OASyKFNmf5ay?si=f37b9a6519204338

This is the last update before the end of the season, and here are the standings:

Overall votes:

1. Scowen - 294
2. Low - 248
3. Potts - 210
4. Sadlier - 163
5. Leahy - 162
6. Vokes - 161
7. McCleary - 150

Votes per start (minimum 10 starts):

1. Scowen - 10.88
2. Low - 9.18
3. Sadlier - 8.57
4. Butcher - 8.54
5. Vokes - 8.47
6. Potts - 7.50
7. McCleary - 6.52

MOTM awards:

1. Scowen - 6
2. Phillips - 5
3. Stryjek - 5
4. Low - 4
5. Potts - 3
6. McCleary - 3
7. Ravizzoli - 3

A few thoughts:

1. If it were not for injury, Scowen would be pushing his normal 400+ votes and leaving everyone else in the dust. As it is, it will be hard for anyone to catch him even if he does not play again this season, with only Joe Low in any kind of striking distance.
2. Sadlier and Butcher would be serious threats for Player of the Season if they had played more. As it is, for me it has to come from Scowen, Low or Potts.
3. Congratulations to Blooms on a good January - if you take the three permanent signings and turn them into a single player called Beryly Kone-Butcher, they would have: 23 starts, 187 votes (which would place 4th), 8.13 votes per start (6th) and 3 MOTM wins (joint 5th). That is quite a composite player to bring in halfway through the season!
4. Butcher places 11th out of 31 in votes despite just 11 starts. Ravizzoli places 14th despite just 7 starts. Kone places 16th despite just 3 starts. Well done those players! Ravizzoli (10.14) and Kone (16.00) are not on the votes per start list just because they do not have the 10 minimum starts.

Liking the EFL Trophy Final official song… https://app.suno.ai/song/a0da2861-f5ac-4602-a0de-babf9a2fb916

What makes me laugh is that when these ‘larger clubs’ get themselves into a mess through massive overspending, fans of other clubs are expected to rally round, show support, put up with protests, put money in buckets.

When they get taken over and can pay bigger wages than everyone else again, it’s all ‘We’ll never play you again’, HMS Piss the League, all other clubs are ‘tinpot’.

Restricts my sympathy really.