NW: We'll have to disagree. But I'm quite sure we are both agreed, from reading your posts, that we could as a bare minimum significantly reduce our losses.

TM - would rest Maycock for Saturday if poss.

Think the trophy organisers wanted to remove as many reasons as possible for managers to rest players.

Cup tied rule doesn’t apply in EFL Trophy apparently

JG- it seems that you think that the club can be run profitably if we were just more efficient/ massively increased ticket prices/ got everyone to spend a fortune on food and drink at the ground... I don’t think that there is really any evidence to support that and the Deloitte report which you quote says that the average loss for league 1 clubs is £5.2m, whatever Grimsby may have done. While I would love you to be right that we could be profitable if we just tried harder, I am afraid that I simply don’t believe that to be the case.

How many allowed on the bench anyway ? Maybe Hutch over Johnson & only one of Foyo or Stewart

Nelson is cup tied for the Vertu Trophy having played in the last round, so Tilley over Nkeng on the left for me, Lewis over Seddon if he's fit and probably Maycock not Nelson in the middle 3. Stevens & Hackford to start as a 2 please

OI - quite difficult to undertake a comparative analysis because most League 2 Clubs only publish exempted accounts which don't include a P&L and are in any case unaudited. That said I can see from a brief look at their balance sheets that a number of clubs have made minimal losses or profits over the last couple of years. Grimsby as an example made a £200K+profit in the year ending 2023. But look lets not make excuses to avoid starting the process of losing a few pounds because we are 5 stone over weight!!

6m$ - we know Hutch is good enough, provided he was cheap enough, was a worthwhile gamble that he would recover and get fit. Sadly, thus far not the case.

Hutchinson has been the most pointless resigning since we resigned Darius Charles. If he could get fit we could play him instead of Smith in the holding midfield role.

CW - give him 20 mins at the end?

Hutchison is in the squad apparently, as he never plays he won’t ever be match fit

New blog on Marcus Browne: [Link]

OK - Hackford in for Browne and Sutcliffe in for Seddon?

Yes, what CW says 👏

DO - strong, but I’m not sure I’d want to risk Browne or Seddon picking up any sort of injury - they’re likely to be key for Saturday…

I wouldn’t play Browne, needs a rest, imagine if he got injured in a game like that we would face a proper relegation battle without him

My team for Tonight; Mcdonnell; Asiimwe, Bauer, Ogs, Seddon, Nkeng; Nelson, Reeves, Hippo; Browne, Stewart, Stevens. Foyo on bench if fit.

Don’t forget 7pm kick off tonight for the lucky few who are going

Postie - you’ve waited long enough now, so we all hope it goes ahead for you this time!! 🤞👍

Best of luck with that, Postie.

Yippy after 7 months of waiting hosp have said I’m having me stones out next month as long as they don’t go on strike again

Doobs-brilliant news well done

Spoons opening in Alicante airport if your going to Benidorm bottoms up

A huge THANK YOU to everyone in here who chipped in to our tickets appeal over Xmas. Today, we transferred £428.55 to the AFCW Foundation, which will buy tickets for 30 children/parents from the Foundation’s PL Kicks project to attend a game - these are people who otherwise might not be in a position to come to a game. Who knows, they might become long-term supporters… great job, guys 💙💛