I wish TNT would release its grip on the FA Cup.

If you watched the FM27 pre-launch videos they had Dan Sweeny playing as a defensive midfielders. I wonder whether that would be an option for us. If we could keep a back three of Seddon, Johnson and Ogundere and have him anchoring a midfield three and being the midfield general.

I liked Yiadom at first but I am now starting to see why Reading released him. He makes mistakes every game and in the last two cost us points. At Plymouth his kick was what resulted in their last seconds winner and yesterday his bambino on ice ricket just after they edged in front basically signalling game over with 50 minutes left to play. We've nobody else other than that Brighton kid so we are struggling as we have no control in midfield, only Stockley can score if he gets service and the defence is looking decidedly shakey.

3 goals in 6 minutes for Brighton - just shows what taking shots can result in, a lesson for all teams in there somewhere….

At least we are not Palace fans

"The Emirates FA Cup first round proper draw will be made on Monday 19 October, live on TNT Sports. Hosted by Matt Smith, the draw will be made by Martin Keown and Fara Williams and it will be available to watch on TNT Sports 1, HBO Max, and on the TNT Sports YouTube channel. The show will start at 6.30pm BST and the draw will be made at approximately 6.35pm BST. The first round proper will be played around the weekend of Saturday 7 November." We are ball no. 2

OtD - I would've recognised Roger Connell by his legs alone in that picture 😀. Ps, Kenny Allen later had a decent league career with SwinDon.

Nick D - agree that SW & PA have deeper squads, CU prob similar - but yesterday we had 4 afaic definite starters out - Tilley, Stevens, Ogs & Sweeney plus 3 who would at least be in the bench - Browne, Cornick, Richards - plus some others. That is too many - hopefully some of these 7 will start Tuesday and some be on the bench.

So Brighton realised that they had fucked up, self-reported it and complied with the outcome? Methods that seem ethical to me.

These are the methods that Brighton use: [Link]

Brentford’s bitch club has a nice ring to it!

The hope would be the new owners would be the Benham or Bloom type rather than the Glaziers.

Well done Dazzer. Copied details here: Dates for your diaries 21 October: Member Information evening at Plough Lane (starting at 7pm), where the investor group and their proposal will be introduced to members. This session will be shared online for those unable to make it in person. 21 October: Online voting and questions window opens 29 October: Second Member Information evening at Plough Lane (starting at 7pm) and online 10 November: Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in the evening at Plough Lane and online 17 November: Online Voting closes. 18 November: Formal results announced to members.

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That’s not a comment on the new chair btw they don’t have an official channel to contact all members simultaneously.

I agree with what REPD says below about the Wednesday meeting. Ultimately this will pass because it has to (ie we take this offer or we go into administration and at worst have no club or at best have an acquisition over which we have no control at all). There was a point a couple of years ago when we were in a stronger financial position (or at least were less close to running out of cash) and we could have set meaningful conditions for selling out control, but the DTB let that moment pass, among a lot of nonsense about fan ownership being "non negotiable", and now we find ourselves in a situation where we have no choice.

Yeah they shut down the official discord server but it was continued unofficially and in exactly the same format full name DTB number etc. One DtB member got themselves in a bit of a pickle with a fan last night on Twitter after sharing a screenshot showing the new ESG Chair updating people on that server about election info.

Trig - I thought Discord had been discontinued, don't know of any other. Tbh seems as though Trust has ceased communication that isn't unidirectional or face to face.

I think we'll always be prone to injuries as we're likely to recruit "discounted" players with injuries on their CVs

Nicander are you on the secret discord server? I think some info about the meeting is available on there. I think the new ESG Chair is posting election info on there too.

Nicander, starts at 7pm. Also think the election timeline is dropping tomorrow

I'd argue with Rob about regretting defeating the 50%+1 first time around, not because of that but because of the associated proposal, disastrously upping the votes on some Restricted Actions to 95%(?). If 50%+1 had got through so would that have done, luckily it was put to the second vote but with so little publicity that it failed.

Anyone know anything more about Wednesday eg what time? For the most important meeting in many years, maybe ever, DT doesn't seem very interested in people turning up. Not even listed on their website, no timings in the one email we've had about it. It's in three days lads!

My only counter to the Plymouth and Cambridge games is that both of those teams were also missing key players. Even Wednesday had players out (Barry; the goalkeeper) - but obviously their finances and squad run much deeper.

Silk - when I asked a couple of years ago I was told that the investors buy new shares, maybe something worth confirming on Wednesday.