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Well done Shevates this is an amazing achievement and the job which you and your group have done is outstanding. As an aside, a thought I was having was could the 500 club potentially help fund electronic advertising boards like other clubs have? I don't know how much they cost but I saw Notts Count...

At one point SImon Keswick was the 9th richest man in English football. He apparently has an net worth of $1.75bn (net worth not necessarily a guarantee of liquidity of course). He's still one of the top 3 shareholders of the club of course. There are rumours he was driven off the board by comments...

No it doesn't but it would give us an asset which we can use short term for car parking space (less traffic on local roads would be favourable to the council I suspect) and it would mean we can build the new stand once funds are secured. I would suggest we can still buy the ground after building the...

I haven't checked the table but I think Wigan are already on 40 points, that means they only need three wins to realistically be safe and with sides below them well out of form I really cannot see them getting sucked into it now.

And what are the chances of us buying the ground from the council...? We tried too but it about 15 years ago but couldn't finance it at the time so ended up with a hundred year lease. Buying Cakebridge place land is far more realistic right now. Obviously the danger with buying the land is the club...

Exeter have played more games than anyone else and have patchy (albeit improved form), if there is a side who get sucked into it they look the best bet right now. Reading vs Port Vale tomorrow night looks a huge game in the context of the relegation battle.

Can anyone confirm that Whaddon Road actually is the smallest ground in League 1? Obviously, it isn't the smallest in the whole league - but is it in our division? Presumably in terms of capacity. Must be ourselves or Stevenage both are around 7000 capacity. Build a new main stand and increase over...

Form wise, we're playoff contenders since DC took over. Miraculous turnaround and just hope we can finish it off. 1.5 ppg until the end of the season would give us 54/55 which should be enough. I stand to be correct but I highly doubt any side has been relegated ever with 55 points. You have to be ...

As they say it’s the hope that kills! Dare we dream? Long way to go still but we might just pull this off :D That win has given me hope at the very least even the bookies are extending our odds as we are now 15/8 for the drop having started the day as evens. Latest odds: Carlsile 1/100 Fleetwood 1/...

Thought Shepherd has improved after looking a bit indifferent versus Wycombe. Would love to keep Ferry but suspect he will get better offers if he's not already agreed a move.

Shows again how desperate we are for that new main stand with that in place we are probably looking at an extra thousand on the gate tomorrow.

Also noticed that Max Mata has been loaned back to Sligo from Shrewsbury Surprised by this - well, not surprised in that he has 1 goal in 20 odd games, but his release clause was significantly more expensive than Keena’s so maybe that’s just a loan to get his confidence back. 2nd most expensive pla...

We don't own the land the stadium is on, I doubt we're going to purchase Cakebridge Place. Are you suggesting that owning the ground would not be a strategic priority for us Si :o I believe we wanted to buy it a while back but settled on the long term lease as we couldn't raise the funds at the tim...

We don't own the land the stadium is on, I doubt we're going to purchase Cakebridge Place. Are you suggesting that owning the ground would not be a strategic priority for us Si :o I believe we wanted to buy it a while back but settled on the long term lease as we couldn't raise the funds at the tim...

I wonder what standard of overall play the league of Ireland is feels more like lower league two top end of national league given some of fringe players go out and do well there.

Surely there is no chance Port Vale are paying anyone £7.5k a week that's Championship wages and they are not a club flush with cash and I would think have one of the lower budgets in this league. Anyway, Saturday for me is a massive game and likely pivotal to our season as a whole. Win and you'd sa...

Well we have filled the Colin farmer with home fans for the port vale game,blocks 7/8 are shaded out as if they were allocated due to a load of youngsters from Tewkesbury footvlball clubs(I think) going in there. Well actually nearly everybseat in the ground is taken which is great news. Shows how ...

The best way to ensure we don’t have away fans in the CF is for us to get home fans in there - if we can build on this form and get the word out that we’re capable of pulling off a legendary escape, then maybe a few hundreds of the casual fans can be convinced to come be a part of it. The Colin Far...

Charlton are stuck in a rut at the moment but given their playing staff I fear once they get that first win a few others will follow soon after. Just look what Reading and Exeter have achieved after being neck and neck with us for ages at the bottom.

Reading have a 3 point suspended deduction hanging over them so any further protests or late salary payments and that would kick in. The fact they have taken ten points from the last four, retained most of their better players like Azeez/Smith and player sales likely helping their cash flow makes me...

Latest relegation odds:
Carlisle 1/50
Fleetwood 1/7
Cheltenham 11/10
Shrewsbury 9/4
Burton 5/2
Charlton 11/4
Port Vale 3/1
Cambridge 5/1

Reading are not currently listed on oddschecker.

Bit of a strange game in that Blackpool were technically better than us with the ball but didn't appear to have the same level of desire or fight especially after the first goal went in. From that point on only excellent goal keeping and pretty poor finishing kept the scoreline down. We played well,...

Unless Exeter stay up and offer him a deal I suspect he stays here one more year to finish his career. He seems settled in Bristol so unlikely to be looking to move so it's us or Newport who pay lower and are perenial relegation battlers inleague 2.

I remember McDonald having lots of pace something we don't really have so I'd welcome that.

Not long back today, we played well and should have had at least a point. Has anyone seen the replay of the 'foul' on Lloyd which looked a cast iron penalty? Ultimately Derby had two chances and scored both, we had four or five and scored only one. Special recognition for Lloyd, Pett, Ferry, Davies...

He could have gone on loan in November when DC made them all available but I felt he was holding out for a league club or his contract being terminated.

Having seen someone say this is the worst window in our history, I thought it would be a good idea to break it down completely: GK: No Change Defence: Out - Josh Williams, Luca D'Auria-Henry, Owen Bevan, Liam Smith In - Jack Shepherd, Andy Smith The only real surprise there is that Liam Smith has b...

I held my tongue/fingers last night but it reaks of poor transfer strategy and last minute panic signings. Taylor could be a good signing, especially if it was a bench option for the remainder of the season. He can score goals at this level and is a finisher something we don't have with Keena so off...

Great move for him. Nearer home and a longer deal. It must have been on the cards which is why we signed Kinsella. One of the m/f would have been in the stand so sensible all round. I liked Curtis ,hopefully Kinsella will be as good. Not sure if you did geography in school Horlick but Grimsby to No...

What happened in August were clearly panic buys. Micky Moore would identify targets well in advance and work on lining them up to sign for the club, read the Rob Street interview, where he says we were speaking to him months before he signed. Last summer when Moore and Ware left we didn't have any t...

Here you go there is ebb and flow but no real tangible shift attendances in this league have always been around 4500 for each season at this level. We had a spell when the club was struggling to average 3000 (this was a low point - in recent times) where we were stuck in the bottom eight of league t...

Great move for him. Nearer home and a longer deal. It must have been on the cards which is why we signed Kinsella. One of the m/f would have been in the stand so sensible all round. I liked Curtis ,hopefully Kinsella will be as good. Not sure if you did geography in school Horlick but Grimsby to No...

25 years ago was, at the time, the most successful in the club's history - it's a bit disingenuous to use it as an example. The year before we struggled to get above 2,000 (a few outliers around Christmas and Easter). Two years before then we had 3 attendances above 1,000, all of which you'd consid...

Do we need another defensive midfielder now or a reflection that Pett and Bonds are first choice and we are happy Kinsella can cover there.

How about having a club or not having a club? The club needs to make money to stay afloat, that means selling our assets when offers that we consider reasonable come in. We do not have a Dale Vince or Max Griggs pumping money in, we do not get home crowds of 27,000. We have to make money. The £400k...

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