I know we only have a small budget, but i dont think  getting players from relegated, or nearly relegated Clubs, or players who cant get into mid table teams is the way to go. Smacks of giving up and accepting we  are  favourites for relegation.

I disagree with this somewhat, even teams that are not decent in the sum of their parts will have decent players with them. When we've been relegated we've lost both Aaron Pierre and Lloyds Jones to League one clubs and neither (in the peak of their powers) would have made us a weaker team if we had been the recipients of signing them.

He's a CEO of a fund management company, who sort of interestingly seem to champion a John-Lewis esque (on a small scale) ethos of share ownership across employees, where the owners have 25% of the company shares. Don't know if that's a coincidence with the amount of equity bought or not.

I remain fully sceptical about a purchase just ahead of redevelopment profits being due from someone who doesn't have any football connection, and we know nothing about.

That said, competing at this level next year will be fundamentally impossible considering that even if we sold out every game, we'd be in the bottom third on attendances and match day revenue next year, so I remain somewhat confused by the news, but also accepting that something had to happen.

I'm sure I read a while ago that sky will be showing all mid week games next season so that will make up a lot of the live games.... Says it it in the article, all mid week and bank holiday games to be shown, so may reduce mid week attendances even more .

5 games in total each weekend across league 1 and league 2 and 5 from the Championship. 

Not sure I particularly like this.

Wouldnt worry too much, Wrexham and Birmingham will be on ever week in League 1, so only will be a couple of our games that will get moved.

You don't ride your luck over a 40 game period. This isn't  September, we deserve to be exactly where we are

Despite the highest attendances in however many years, we're going to slip from 15th to 18th on the attendance table based on who's going up and who's going down, (we'd have been 11th with this figure in 2016, which shows how better supported League 1 is now) and our budget is likely to sink from 18th to 21st, and it's really going to be a tough ask to continue to over achieve against it for the 4th year running.

Great flourish to a 6 months injury lay off followed by a partially botched backflip. Game was utter s***e, though you can blame the rubbish conditons.

The wind is horrible, not going to be a game for the purists.

You can see why they're in the relegation zone. 1-0 up despite playing badly. Lots of defensive mistakes they couldnt took advantage of (minus Guthrie, who's baled us out 2 or 3 times) and plenty of times where we're just camped outside their penalty are with no idea what to do when they'e got all their bodies in the box.

When you're at centreback you're never really gonna have a chance to have many shots at goal. Maybe his future is in the weird lwb/target man hybrid he played today.

I think the missed penalty probably evens out with the obvious foul we got away with for the goal.

Fox has spent so little time on the pitch these last two years, you forget he really would have been one of our 1st choice midfielders.

Appere isnt good enough to be the absolute main striker at the club, but he has more than enough to be a squad player with age on his side to develop. If he leaves, I reckon he ends like Billy Mckay and we miss the upside of the work he's put in now.

McGowan had brought some desire and will back into the team, doing well. Fox has realyl helped defensively at set pieces picking up the 2nd balls and stopping a few attacks. Appere has done a lot of donkey work for the team and had a great assist. And Hoskins has his tail up from the goal.

Solid half.

Great cross and first time finish, but thats a massive obvious foul by Monthe in the build up right?

Sorry Manwork, I completely understand the ability to by cynical, but I'm not trusting a website with absolutely zero sources or any fathomable ability to have an inside information, compared to the EFL Communication being sent around the clubs in November saying we're factually 18th. 

Not only has that argument got its on straw man in it, but it also doesnt consider that the 10th man pays the same as the 3rd for his drink, as he's incorporated off shore and pays himself by taking a loan out on his shares.

A balooning gini coeffecient hasn't led to burgeoning quality of life increases, just property and stock asset bubbles. I would agree with sing that the best thing for the economy would be the lowest 70% holding more disposable income whether that be lower taxes, high wages, higher benefits or a combination of all, as they're the only one that gain dispoable income to be active participants in the economy.

I'd 100% keep Appere. I know he isn't prolific, but he's young, works hard, and has a decent pass in him. Reminds me of Hoskins in that the workrate and application are there, and there's a hint of same talent in him, but the composure isn't quite there yet. He's not as important to the team as Bowie and Leonard and about the same as Simpson, but all three of those are leaving.

I'm going to guess its either a GK or RB, if either Burge and McGowan are out for longer than predicted, as Fox coming back and Gape signing on we're starting to give us a few more options in midfield.

If this works, it starts around 26 minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h57jfx

Thanks for the link. He doesn't sound anyone near as angry as I thought it would sound like. Maybe a bit annoyed at Tim asking obvious questions, and more trying to stress how difficult it is to play against a side with a much higher budget to justify the result than fuming at the lack of spending.

Someone will need to transcibe the comments, as I can't find them on the radio northampton link.

He's got us hitting above budget on 3 consecutive years, two of which were on 80 odds points, there will definitely be some interest, albeit not from anyone at the top of League 1 or above.

Wycombe fans really rate him, he's just horrifically injury prone.

Would nice to see Gape come on. Wycombe fans really rate him despite being made of glass.