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Only first game of the season, so some of this will be distorted a bit, (Like Wigan had a fan day for example), but it is interesting that there's a cluster in the middle between 18th and 10th where the attendance differences (and therefore impact on budget) aren't that great, but you have big drop offs at the bottom and massive increases at the top. Everything above Barnsley, the revenue difference would be too big to be massively competitive, but anything below that then the difference in income can't be that big to make us no hopers.

Dont rise to the bait.

Yeah, that's fair. Second week in a row I've been goaded by it, I think it's easier to be taken in fresh from a loss when you're still a little annoyed.

We're not selling players who we just signed on long contracts over the last 12 months, who just won us promotion from League 2, to a conference team.

Little league two standard hoskinsssssssss

It wasn't on the bbc interview, it was on the all cobblers to me podcast interview for Brady a few weeks ago.

I do believe that there are certain posters who get more enjoyment from being proven right that Cobblers winning. Was going to write a bit more strongly written post a few minutes ago as a reaction to it, but bit my tongue a bit.

He also said the financial disparity from 9th to 2nd bottom is very small, and its only in the top end where the budget plays a big difference.

I think you can place it roughly based on previous accounts being filed, and place us around mid table League 2 and bottom quarter League 1, but beyond that it's all guesswork. Even if you have contacts in the clubs, that knowledge will be based on guess work.

I’ll have one of whatever Dav is drinking!

It's obvious to overstate what you know, and people won't know enough about other League 1 managers to judge them fairly as a comparison ... but are you saying that two seasons of 85+ points consecutively isnt evidence of an effective management?

That's most religions who take a literal definition of how a major power and a world works. If you deeply believe it and someone who deeply believes something different clashes with you, it causes violence. Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian denominations have constantly been at each other throats over 1000s of years.

Anyway, it's a private religious organisation that can do what they want with the money, it's not a public purse. I think wanting to pay back for previous injustices is not exactly against the spirit of the teachings of Jesus, and yes, that website is full of literal vaccine sceptics who hold Bridgen up as a matryr for making deranged statements about very easily disprovable harms. If the BBC is supposed to be biased, god knows what the daily sceptic is.

Youve done it now. Only one person on here deals in stats.

They're not my stats, I'm just quoting! He can keep his specific niche.

There was a really good post on thefootballforum looking at the statistics for promoted and Relegated teams into League 1 and their outcomes.

Of the last 60 teams promoted into League One, 10 have been relegated in their first season, one has gone bust, and four have been promoted straight into the Championship.
Forty-five out of sixty (75%) have remained in League One after their first season.

...

Teams promoted into League One in the last 15 seasons have outcomes as follows:
Relegated/bust after 1 season: 11 out of 60
Relegated after 2 seasons: 8 out of 43
Relegated after 3 seasons: 5 out of 30
Relegated after 4 seasons: 3 out of 22
Relegated after 5 seasons: 7 out of 17 (season five is the most dangerous!)
Relegated after 6 seasons: 2 out of 9
Relegated after 7 seasons: 1 out of 7
Relegated after 9 seasons: 1 out of 5

...

The teams that have the longest stays in league One in the last 15 years are Fleetwood (still here) and Gillingham (relegated 2022) with 9 seasons; Peterborough (promoted 2021) and Colchester (relegated 2017) both managed 8. So stays in League One do tend to be quite brief...

Statistically the three promoted teams next season are likely to include:
- one of Reading, Blackpool and Wigan
- one of Derby, Peterborough and Barnsley

Statistically the relegated teams are likely to include:
- One (but only one) of Northampton, Carlisle, Orient and Stevenage
- One of Exeter, Port Vale and Bristol Rovers
- One of Cambridge, Cheltenham and Bolton
- One surprise, wither one of the long-standing teams (Fleetwood, Shrewsbury, Oxford) or one of the relegated teams (Blackpool, Reading, Wigan)

Of courses, quite often statistics give no useful clues to future behaviour at all, so this might all turn out to be bollocks...

Based on statistics, 3 in 4 chance of staying up based on records of previous promoted teams over the last 20 years. Of course, one of those 10 that went down from the last 60 in the first year was us last time. But we are in a better position in terms of keeping the team together, being a team that got 85+ points each year in the last two years, and not fluking our way through the play-offs with a team that was looking very unlikely to have finished in the top 7 if the season had finished normally. 

I'm sure a hint, maybe for a different player, was an ex-Championship player, but I'm not going to try and do all that exercise again with non Championship teams.

Harrison Neal, Tom Fellows, Mikey O'Neil, Stephen Duke-McKenna, Charlie Kelman, Chanka Zimba, Luke Jephcott, Douglas James-Taylor.

That's all I could fine that was on loan from a club that's in the Championship now, not transferred to a new club, played against us, and in a position we'll be looking at (not defender, goalkeeper).

I think that we'll be playing wing-backs (which I'm not massively a fan of) and therefore wingers aren't a priority in the squad. Based on our injury records, we're almost certaintly going to lose a few midfielders (McWilliams for certain will spend time out), and at 23 on his first pro-contract he'll be relatively cheap in terms of money. I think from watching him play he's already as good as Hondermarck, though the caveat being this is only in a friendly environment and he's untested in first team football, and he's only 23. He grew up in Northampton which obviously adds to the sentimentality. He's played every game of pre-season, and on several occasions particular the second half of Birmingham, he's looked like one of our better players in the team. I think Abimbola will also go out on loan ; he's a year behind Dyche still, and while he's still a long term prospect, I don't think he'll start that many games for us in League one yet. I think he also has a bit more attacking intent than Hondermarck and Sowerby, and certainly more than McWilliams, but those three are obviously better at breaking up the play.

Lastly, wikipedia says he mainly players on the wing anyway 

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and I'm happy if this ends up with having egg on my face, but if we don't sign Lashabela we'll end up regretting it.

So, the next time the players pull on the Claret in front of the crowd, we'll be playing League one football again. We've seen the team, and excluding one or two more surprise signings, we know the squad. There's a few tough decisions to make, and with a few probably not fit enough for the opener in Lintott, Guthre and McWilliams, the decision is a bit easier ahead of Steveange, but picking from a full fit squad, if you were Brady what team would you be putting out?

Burge
Sherring Guthrie Monthe
Lintott Leonard Sowerby Koiki
Pinnock
Hoskins Simpson

Fully fit, I think only Guthrie, Sherring, Leonard and Koiki are guaranteed to start.

One of Bowie, Hoskins, Pinnock, Simpson probably missed out unless we play 4 at a back, and that means that on form Appere comes off the bench as well.
That middle two could be made up of Leonard, Sowerby, McWilliams, Hondermarck even Abimbola if isn't loaned or Lashabela if the club take the hint and give him a contract.

We already have a squad of 24, and there's only 9 teams with bigger. Not doubting you have contacts, but its already not a small squad even with 0 new signings.

Last 5 minutes put some gloss on it. But once Abimbola got his goal we went back to being all over them. Fox willing to put his body on the line despite the injury, and enjoyed the little fist bump after the goal. McGowan looked like he had an armour made of rust to begin with, and got us in trouble a bit at the beginning of the second, but got better as time went by, still has the best cross in the Squad. I really like Lasahabela. Lenoard and Sowerby were maybe are best players outside Pinnock in the 1st half, so I'm maybe beein greedy but i'd love to sign him up. Harrop looks like the injuries have wrecked his mobility.

Leshabela I think may sign

I hope so.