If I was John, I'd be staying for the first part of the season. After a season blighted by injury, and a dip in form, there will be questions asked if he doesn't hit the ground running at a new club.
Stay here, bang in a few goals in the first half of the season, play himself back into form...
Talk about falling out of a tree and hitting every branch on the way down. Can't recall many players going out on loan from a Premier League club and falling down the divisions with each loan spell.
Next stop National League South.
I know I'm in a very, very small minority of Barnet fans, but that wouldn't disappoint me. Better to get it all out of the way right now, rather than have it hanging over us all next season.
Need a better keeper than Ross, and I can't have any faith in Stephens playing more than 10 games a season, plus two more proper centre backs. I'm prepared to give Sule a chance to fill the ball winning role in midfield, but if he isn't able for one reason or another, that's another hole that...
For what it's worth, these are the players that I would keep if able to:
1???
2Ross
3Brindley
4Vilhete
5Johnson
6Tutonda
7Santos
8???
9???
10???
11Sule
12Sweeney
13J Taylor
14???
15Shomotun
16???
17Akinola
18Nicholls
19Akinde
20Tarpey
21Coulthirst
22Mason-Clark
I remain to be convinced that we'll hit the floor running next year. We've about 35 players that were in or around the match day squad last year (not including Blackman in that list, as he's not a footballer).
A huge job to cut that in half and then bring in three or four players that we need...
Got what we deserved.
Hopefully this works as a wake up call to the chairman. He's done a lot of very good things, but by goodness, he has an awful record of appointing managers which is the most important position in the club.
Hopefully we've planned for relegation, as it's been on the...
So here we are. Final meal has been taken (well liquid breakfast) and still we hope that governor's stay of execution call is about to come through.
Either ourselves or Morecambe are going to be very disappointed come five this evening, but both sets of fans if they are being honest will say...
Of all the things that can happen today, Morecambe scoring a late goal to win 1-0 would be one of the most unlikely.
If they are level heading into the last 15 minutes, they will be defending so deep you could charge them for seats in the stand behind their goal. And your players could wave to...
We usually give the stand behind the goal to the away fans which holds about 1800, but given the increased interest from home fans, that's been given over to us tomorrow. Having just checked now, we've taken a block behind the goal offline for ticket sales, and that would be the block nearest...
Does anyone know definitively how many away seats we've allocated to Chesterfield? Looks from the online ticketing that it is the far end of the main stand and those blocks only hold 608. Not ideal if 7/800 turn up!
Really not looking forward to the tension tomorrow. You'd think we'd be used...
The good news for you is that you have a high quality short list to pick from. Kevin Nugent, Mark McGhee & Graham Westley, all still available I believe. They all have recent experience of this division and all did a very good job in trying to get a team out of this division. In fact McGhee...
And of course, the only game that Chesterfield did get something from was when they came back from two down to draw at Morecambe. Had that also followed the pattern of defeats, we'd be down already.
Seriously - how can it only be Tuesday?!
I have three company month ends that need doing, yet I seem to have prioritised checking our online ticketing to see if the number of seats sold has changed in the last 15 minutes.
Shouldn't be. There is still an incentive for Coventry to win. Although the odds will fall off a cliff from about 60 minutes if still level.
Morecambe are still favourites, but to have any chance going into the last day after the abject performance against Stevenage a few weeks ago is...
I shouldn't be surprised by Cleveland, yet they manage to do it every year it seems.
Happy with Payne as our pick, although I suspect we would have taken Vea if he was still on the board. Addresses our biggest need by far.
Even then we only had one goal to show for it and had to survive a couple of heart stopping moments. So even if we take it to the last game of the season, nothing is being taken for granted. Well almost nothing, Grimsby will get another Rose (pen).
Not a bad couple of results for us, although would have preferred Cambridge to win it, but beggars can't be choosers. Feels very much back in our hands, even though technically it isn't.
Forest Green's draw will really only have some context when we see what Grimsby do against Notts County...