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I'm not sure you can post pictures but this is a graph of squad value against points. Just for clarity, the title's wrong, it's end of season points: Squad value.png It's Transfer Market's estimate of value so probably is pretty rough (and there's a certain amount of endogeneity - leading sides' pla...

Well I wasn't expecting that result ... Nor me, naturally as Professor Pessimist. But that's the benefit of pessimism, you're expecting the worst, so it reduces the disappointment and trauma, but then just sometimes you get pleasantly surprised! So, as long as we avoid any points deductions ... oh,...

Doomed, we're all doomed. I sense woe and catastrophe ... May merit some serious discussion about Rowett: which players has he improved? How effective are the tactics and how much can he alter things to change games that are going wrong? THere's a bit of "he's working with a division one team&q...

On a "glass half empty" basis (and I realise I'm Professor Pessimist) it's still so tight in the bottom half that it'd only take a short run of bad results to be dragged right back in there - and we have to be mindful of our end of season run in (with our last eight games including Middles...

Sadly, I do think we have to accept that this forum has had its day. It's hard to know why - long Covid? ageing membership? - but I suppose these things have their time in the sun and then fade away. It's a shame, though. I suppose as the "other place" became a little more civilised and it...

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

In as far as I could hear the discussion it was argued that (a) it would be easier to enforce covenants if it were a lease not freehold and (b) there was an argument that it protected the club from a separation of the club and the ground owner. It caused a lengthy and slightly worrying delay while t...

Well ... I guess that proves pre-season results are meaningless, then ...

On Jan 1st, there was a thread about us having blown the playoffs and I posted this (I don't know if the html works to make it look like a quote): So you think we're safe from a relegation battle? Do you have any confidence in our strengthening in the January window or in Robinson improving our perf...

So you think we're safe from a relegation battle? Do you have any confidence in our strengthening in the January window or in Robinson improving our performances?

One advantage of being a pessimist is that you're rarely confronted with nasty shocks! Happy New Year all.

Thank you - as an exile who rarely gets to matches now (this may change from October as my ancientness has employment consequences) and is somewhat remote from the local news and rumours, these are the precisely the sorts of issues I'd love to see debated, along with the differing views on games, to...

Other than a couple of "where are they now" posts by Slappy, nothing for ten days. Have people gone elsewhere? Just using "the other place" now it's slightly more civilised? Do forums just run out of energy like a dying sun that's burnt off all its fuel (I'm sure that's not quite...

I was wondering when, if ever, we've been scheduled to start the league season in July? I've always rather resented it starting in August given sports clashes ... Couldn't find a relevant ad hoc query on the RageOn stats pages, can't find my Complete Record and haven't the energy to go through seaso...

Achh, forgot about the early kick off - the Boot's been almost as much of a damp squib as the season ...

So (1) Oxford (false dawn); (2) Sunderland; (3) Sunderland and Plymouth; (4) Sunderland; (5) Oxford, TB 10. The differently proportioned person identifying as female has cleared their throat and warbled.

AColi and Geoff nul points
Radley one point
GPTom four points (and closest on the undeeded TB).