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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.

Long time since my last post but here goes.

Mixed feelings on this, but the outrage without knowing the details is premature.

Bearwood looks an incredible facility, but it's a white elephant for a league 1 club with Reading's fanbase, and even more so if they go down to league 2 with further points deductions from not paying wages again (without the money from the sale coming in).

If Couhig's plan is to buy it, then both clubs to share the facility with Reading paying an affordable rent, then surely this is a positive for both clubs in the current situation and the only realistic way outside of a philanthropic billionaire white knight appearing for Reading that Bearwood isn't a huge burden on a league 2 club.

I get their fans want to keep everything, but a category 1 academy with a premier League facility isn't sustainable at this level.

If their owner isn't getting offers for the club that are better than our apparently cut price deal, then he's clearly not getting anything he's going to accept. Selling the training ground could make it easier to find new bidders as you'd need less funds.

With the level of debt it'll almost certainly require administration and debtors losing out, but that looks inevitable unless someone is willing to come in and service the silly debts. Surely HMRC liquidating a club is more likely with a huge asset that they could sell to recover some losses?

If our involvement has knowingly stopped a realistic buy out, I'm dead against it, but there's minimal evidence of that in public.

At the end of the day, it's one or two mega rich people buying it off another one, nothing to do with Wycombe Wanderers as a club or it's fans really, so their fans rage at us is entirely misplaced. I hope they survive, but, as with Derby, our involvement (on current evidence) is a sideshow with an easy scapegoat for their fans.