We spend our lives bemoaning the increasing gap between haves and have nots in this division. We get beaten by a team that has far bigger resources than us and the squad to match. And then we act surprised that we lost and moan it’s not good enough.

Browne plays better as a false nine picking up scraps from the front two rather than carrying the workload in a front two and that may show as a lack of interest. Need Stevens back to play off Stockley with Browne in behind them really

Definitely need to fill the Reeves gap if he goes. Whilst we may still have conceded the first yesterday (possibly not*), we probably wouldn't have conceded the second as he'd likely have slowed the game down after the first

The final of The Hundred today at Lords. Sunrisers Hyderabad (Leeds) v Lucknow (Manchester) Super Giants.

Community Shield gate receipts and match programme sales are collected by The Football Association and distributed to the 124 clubs that compete in the FA Cup from the first round onward. These clubs then pass the funds on to local charities and community projects of their choice

I said to mates I've never heard of that band The weeknd, only 1 out of 5 of us had:-)

Bangladesh beat Australia by 9 wickets, not a bad result

Think they should just do away with the community shield tbh - once it’s on TNT you know no one’s interested

I see today's Community Shield is being played in Cardiff and not Wembley. The reason for this is The Weeknd.

Padds - a wise decision on your part I suspect but the trouble is all the fans suffer from the lack of funds and the unwillingness of those 'in power' to accept the position we are in. I suspect any deal we do will come with a (commercially confidential) Pre Pack Administration on the shelf to protect the investors. The true believers would be upset by that but it may actually look good to most of us as we'd have had a say of sorts in the future.

[Link] Fair play for doing the interview but also what a bowl of bull “pride ourselves on trying not to get countered” it happened umpteen times against Newport.

Investment best case scenario would hopefully mean some cash to spend in Jan so we need to stay reasonably afloat until then and not be out of it.

It's actually a relief not to have any involvement at all, having left the DT.

Some rumours around that some encouraging financial news is around the corner.

The appeal pulled in nearly 100K for the bond but the momentum now seems to be slowing. Getting it to 1 million looks like being an achievement, which leaves a 700K gap in the plan and that is assuming RK is wrong about the level of redemptions. The budgets are going to get worse not better unless there is an influx of 'working capital'.

Morning all. SW19 on yesterday now up, if you feel you want to - [Link]

Sorry to repeat myself but this season 26/27 is when the financial difficulties really kick in. Bond repayments probably upwards of the £1.7m from the survey earlier this year and (almost certainly) very little cash around. If we do get £1m or so for Nkeng, I know where it will go.

Spit - me as well. Similar to when Robbo lost his Chelsea coach, and the season catapulted to failure.

Probably David Reddington leaving is the biggest blow to us this season... the newport and Huddersfield matches suggest that to me. .

Yeah I doubt he’ll go on to manage England but he’s trying to compete in L1 with an ever decreasing L2 budget.

I would have more sympathy for JJ if he wasn't so bloody obdurate on certain matters

Yeah that’s why I said “most of” - at least the number of happy clappers seems to be decreasing with each shenanigan, every lie, every communication channel shut down and every day that goes by without communication around our financial future.

Trigger - do not forget, some don't care about what league (non-league) we are in just so long as they can have a beer with their mates whilst watching "their" club

DO, Spring forward! We play the game at such a slow pace most teams have organised their defence before we cross the half way line. No pace in the side. Maybe play Sasu as an out an out winger although that would be the last spin of the dice for his football league career.

At least 3 more quality signings needed to compete. The Likes of Browne, Hippolyte and Johnson all showed what seems like a lack of desire to play for the club, Along with Seddon who had a nightmare of a game and the prodigy of Sasu firing blanks we were 5 players down compared with Huddersfield before the game even started.