That was bloody good, Rob. Can you say the same again for next season?

SB - if you're still lurking, who else predicted what? And what was the most common position?

SB - did I? That was a decent bit of guesswork

Furter to RK's post of 07.57 only one person, out of the 20 who entered, said we would finish 5th -xxxxx REPD xxxxx - TAKE A BOW!!

We really need to score more goals from attacking corners - how many last seasons?

Assuming Kelly is on low money it's probably worth giving him a go in L1 where style of play is very slightly less cloggertastic. May give him more opportunities at playing against higher back lines / with the ball on the floor, which I expect would suit his game better.

4400 season tickets renewed.

Ric - maybe convert him to wing back if 9towns or Tilley leave?

I always thought Kelly looked good out wide. Put him in the middle and he looks lost and one on one with the keeper he is still not good enough.

Shame for Goodman that he didn't make the final cut for the England U21 squad. Especially when his oppo at Wombley did [Link]

NickD - thank you for that. Really helpful.

Trigs - I think Kelly looks good at what he does, our coaches need to expand his repertoire. One of Foyo and Sasu (possibly both, depending on signings) should go out on loan.

Nothing against the lad he's an honest player but I feel like Kelly needs to go out on loan to free up space in the squad. He didn't step up to L2 there's no way he's going to cope at L1.

IIRC Stevens scored loads in FGR's promotion season but not in their Lge One season. Maybe he had an injury too

Pre-season, we need coaches to work hard with Kelly, Stevens, Bugiel, Sasu, Foyo and any new signings. Think outside the box - formations, tactics, everything on the table. We know what each of them does best atm (Stevens-goals*,Bugiel-hold up play, Kelly-link up play, Sasu-pace, Foyo-running at players) , but we need to be greedy - we need more from each of them. Without being complacent, our defence should be okay next season, so the bulk of the work needs to be done on our attack, imho.

TM - haha yep unfortunately it does that on desktop versions. Looks fine on mobiles! Will fix though - thanks.

We will need goals. Fascinated to see who we manage to bring in as a striker.

nickD - you cut off poor old Ryan Johnson's head in the image - looks weird!

What makes us so sure Neuf is off? I don't doubt it's a possibility or even likelihood but he may see that a season of starting all games with us on lower money (with the promise we'll let him go when the right offer comes) might be better than bench warming at a bigger L1 club. He has been an excellent L2 player but, with respect, not Championship quality just yet.

Morning all. The 9yrs web site has resurrected its old 'news update' page - done weekly for the time being. First update is up now: [Link] Feedback welcome!

I sort of did that last time I had one if those strange things (mortgage?). And I won my case lol

Come on Silk, you still have to pay the £80 million to the original club, in fact you probably have paid a lot of it, the £20 million per year is amortisation rather than stage payments on the fee.

If we play our cagy game in league 1 would expect plenty of 1.0.defeats against better strikers and teams.and a bottom 6 finish If we open upa bit and find some fast strikers who might score a few we will finish in the 3rd promotion spot .

Forgot to add 'as Meadow says'

16/17 season we were 12th as late as the 41st game but forgot to score in our last 5 and slipped at the end. Was actually quite a good season overall.