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For our owners that is a scathing goodbye message for Dan. Even the short term loanees normally get more love than that.

Crowley and Nemane had a great understanding playing together down the right. The little slipped through ball inside the full back is a cheat code. Although the flip side is Nemane can’t defend and Crowley won’t defend, so we conceded about 50 goals down that flank last season. I think he’ll do...

I suspect we signed his replacement last week in that Jarvis. Maybe blind optimism, but I’m not sure it affects our chances that much (I’m not that confident either way, but that’s a different discussion). I don’t disagree with the last bit either, but it’s basically unarguable now that his...

£300k is crazy talk for a man out of contract in the summer.

Funny one with Crowley isn’t it. He’s obviously a fantastic player on his day and we’re clearly weaker without him, but he’s very hard to love.

It’ll be free with a sell on clause I guess, so both sort of right. Most logical explanation is that it’s a de facto loan. We’ve taken over the rest of his Everton contract, which will be a decent League Two wage and probably more than he’d get on a longer term deal without ever having played...

Whitaker signed as well, deal until the summer so basically an extended trial.

Makes sense, just hasn’t really worked. Clearly got ability but doesn’t seem to have the hunger to put in a proper shift when he gets the chance.

Signed Zak Johnson on loan from Sunderland. Centre back and another recently on the League of Ireland. Makes sense with Macari and Ness out, needed a bit of cover there.

I didn’t have a problem with the ones on previous days really, you’ve only got a forecast to go on, but the update on Saturday morning was pretty crap. It was only three hours until kick-off, by that point someone should really have had a proper look and been able to say pretty definitively...

It’s incredibly annoying for us, we’ve played them twice and he was absolutely pivotal to two narrow defeats.

Looks like we’re signing Charlie Whitaker. Young attacking midfielder from Everton on a permanent, never had a loan so hard to make any kind of judgment, but feels like pre-replacing Crowley before the summer.

I can be chill about it as we got lucky with the country’s disastrous rail network and never made it out of Sheffield anyway. Would’ve struggled to make kick-off had it been on. Was all very silly. It was obviously really cold and I assume the areas likely to be a worry are also obvious. Why...

Dummett? Why? He’s played eleven league games in the last five years and just got released by Wigan after three games all season. A drop into League Two was the likely outcome, no reason he’d have been made one of the league’s top earners at all.

Fair. It’s Sky’s fault as well, wouldn’t be an issue if it was 3pm. The trains are absolutely horrible with a weird massive gap before one that arrives just after 12:30 so loads are having to set off at about 7am and will be in Clee by not long after nine. It’s got a 10am postponement all over it.

If they call this off while we’re half way there my head is going to fall off. It’s about minus one million degrees out there, if it’s frozen today it isn’t going to thaw.

We got taken in by it as well, but teams seem so obsessed by Crawley last season. They had an amazing run, it happens, but MK have traded in their manager and half a team for replacements from a side who finished lower in the league than them over a full season.

Why do we only ever play you at Blundell Park in the middle of winter? It’s never bloody August or May. Every time I’ve ever been that walk along the seafront from Cleethorpes station is like something from a Lowry painting.

Our attacking signings are either rank bad (we somehow still have Junior Morias under contract!) or the league’s hottest property within six months. No in between.

I pretty much enjoyed our entire time in the National League, but that’s probably because we skipped out the ‘being really shit’ part that seems to be mostly needed for clubs that go down. We’d basically been rubbish for an entire decade and perpetually in ownership crisis or a relegation...