Hope we give it a bit of a go today. Our away form isn't too bad, seem to score quite freely so stick to what works.

It’s shite defence vs shite attack today Tommy - they’ve conceded 15 goals in their last 6 games (2.5 goals per game) and we’ve scored an equally impressive 4 goals in our last 6 games so it’s got 0-0 written all over it but we know that there’s always someone willing to fuck up when we’re in these phases.

Four shark attacks in 48 hours around Sydney. Has someone been watching Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

Rotherham are averaging conceding 3 goals per game in recent games losing them all.

That’s a Wetherspoons, Spit. I don’t do Wetherspoons on away trips as whilst they definitely provide a decent consumer option they don’t give me an insight into the underlying local culture and that’s what I seek.

Get yourself to The Bluecoat, Guinness £2.89. Oakham Bishops farewell £2.10

£3.35 for a pint of Cruzcampo.

Tbh Im suprised the press hasn’t picked up on any of our travails- they’re all over us when we’re chatting shite about let’s just have a beer, but nothing probing ever seems to come out

6M - yes, I think that Lewington was colloquially known as “the ginger fingered one” 😂

Al,it's been a closed shop,in the know for years, . I'm sure everything will come out into the open when it's too late. Bit like the panic money shortfall for the ground build..

Silk - the alternative was almost certainly sanctions on us from the FA so avoidng them seems a major win for 'mediation'.

Totally agree with your view on mediation Silk. All because we didn’t put their name on our scoreboard. Something that’s been done recently at a number of other games in higher divisions.

Spit, I wasn't implying that the mediation was high on the agenda, but mearly that there's so much, owners, are kept out of the loop. So much investment in keeping the boards looking to a type (of person) rather than what outsider owners have to offer. This closed door approach enhances mis-trust[sic] it elevates people to adapt a false sense of importance and it gets on the tit's of those exposing the emperor's new clothes for what they are.

Silk - do you mean Buffalo Bills? Maybe they are owned by John Galt. At the other end of the spectrum a Bolton fan who likes the Dons too was sat next to me recently and said that the latest owner at the Trotters had worked out that someone on state pension alone could not afford a season ticket so prices were reduced accordingly. (Mind you, they have a big stadium with plenty of seats to fill.)

Gareth Graham was actually called 'Ginge', I think. Remember people singing 'strawberry blond, you're having a laugh ' to Alfie Bendle as he was warming up and him grinning up at them.

I never saw the point in mediation. Aren't rivalries/dislikes part of football? Why are they trying to sanitise football? It is bad enough your regular blue-colllar worker struggles to pay the ticket prices so we can overpay the players and agents do we have to take grudges out of the game too? Are we saying Villa/Brum, Celtic/Rangers etc should be friendly matches in spirit now?

In the Combined Counties days wasn't Gareth Graham ginger? Alfie Bendle was another who promised much but produced little before drifting into obscurity.

Lol,think we have more important things happening, than being nosey about the MK mediation 😂 who cares about that when we are right up Shit creek !!!

I kind of see the reason for NDAs. Both sides would have been briefing furiously. The whole process was doomed but it was to our advantage to have it in place as it stopped us being fined or otherwise penalised, which would have happened however unfair you consider it. Best now for the FA to say it has been closed and leave it at that. I suspect both sides have bigger issues to deal with at the moment.

Back in the WFC days fat, useless, Ray Lewington was ginger.

Yep must admit I’ve not got a long list of them. Was Gwillim a redhead?

Trigg - well, there was “Big Fat (you’re not allowed to say that any more…) Ginger Johnny Hartson” for one… 🫚

Trigg - I thought that was Alan Ball on the left at first… 🤪😂

I admire Bert in trusting the process with the AI photos these are early days and he will learn how to prompt to get more accurate representations of the original photos. I also admire his decision to make today’s photo “Ginger hair day” as our strawberry blonde friends are often under-represented in the hairogynistic world of football. Maybe if the original photos were available alongside the completely bastardised AI versions that may help calm the waters a little?

Iirc Erik mentioned the mediation in his book and said they had signed non disclosure agreements and that basically talks had stalled without an agreement. I suspect it has been shelved by the FA or EFL or whoever it was. But yeah would be nice if the club could just tell us that.