Struggle against those teams right at the top, don't we.

Could be 3 or 4 nil. Despite that, both goals we've conceded are individual errors which Brady would be tearing his hair out about.

Will Tim O stop going on about the playoffs. Walk before you run mate.

Caught my favourite little Tim quote for a while in the post match interviews, "You could call this a truism, but it's something that tends to be true"...

We're on negative GD, lost more than we've won, and even the players are playing it down as impossible. Good form or not, the top 10 will have two to three times our budget, Brady has got us comfortably hitting above our weight, and long may it continue.

Well, there is zero chance of us spending £800k unless we're selling Hoskins for £2m, and even then I think it'd be better just using that money to get better quality free agents and spread it out on 3 or 4 options.

A League One club with the ability to spend almost 6 figures that isn't going for promotion narrows it down a lot. Reading and Wigan might be obvious shouts, maybe Carlisle if they takeover leaves them with a lot of money.

I know I'm an outlier, but I really only care about Peterborough. Everybody else is pretty much the same, in as far that I'm sad when we don't beat them, but I don't really care that much.

The appleton hangover reminds me of a time a Torquay fan got VERY annoyed because a fan on here suggested we should be beating teams like torquay, and used to rant around 'San Sixfields' everytime our name came up.

Loads of actually interesting polling data here; https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/

Long and short of it is that Manworks view is the minority held by around a third of the population and not the majority (if you take out those who don't know either way, it's more negative than positive for those aged 45+). It is still a significant minority, so it's not like nobody holds these views.

British values is such a dumb phrase, I'm assuming that both Manwork and Peter are white British, but do not share a lot of universal values here.

100% in hindsight Goode didn't make the grade, but to Brentford that outlay was worth close to nothing, so worth taking a punt on him. Goode was younger than Hoskins, but you pay a premium for goalscorers in the market.

I personally think £750k for Hoskins would be absolutely garbage deal for us, but I'm pretty confident the club wouldn't be tempted for under a million. If you get near £1.5 - £2m and you're getting close to two thirds of the yearly budget for one player who could be one bad tackle away from being worth nothing to us, you'd probably take it, but because his age we're unlikely to get that amount of interest for him and therefore he's 75% chance likely to stay in my opinion.

Tim was also talking about how the club should probably seriously consider offers of over and above £750k for Hoskins. Peterborough wanted £5m for JCH last window, and he's currently sitting in the table with 7 goals. Even with the extra years JCH has comparatively, I think we should probably at least be looking at breaking our transfer record by a fair bit for the first NTFC player to score 20 in the league since before I was born in the late 80s. He does have some wild opinions at time.
I have nothing much to add other than we know what we want, and hopefully we wait for the right person up front not just any available person, as that has mostly worked out for us so far.

I think the best part of yesterday was Lane coming over to bait the west stand to absolutely non plussed reaction. No-one gave a single s*** at 3-0 down, i'm not sure what the point was.

They've got some great technical footballers, but they are battering us physically. Can't see a way back into one.

Bookies obviously don't rate him to keep it up, 25/1 to be top scorer, while Rhodes and Bishop are even with him on at 11 goals are only 6/1 and Charles who is also even on goals scores is 7/1. Might be worth a go if anyone is feeling brave.

Mark Bonner get's sacked by Cambridge. You wonder if we'd lost that game and the Burton one before it whether that would have been Brady's fate.

Their last league game was getting tonked by Peterborough, so they will be hurting from that and will be desperate to make up for it I'd imagine.

Going to have the 19th highest budget in the league by the end of the year then.

I think maybe a bit telling that almost all the chances we had last night came from either Wyatt's corner or him winning a soft penalty, and he's about a couple of seasons from being first team regularly and knowing out luck probably injured for 6 months now - obviously with Hoskins, Pinnock, Bowie, Leonard, Appere and even Sowerby (maybe even McGowan after last game) there's a lot more creative outlets to come back for Saturday, but we didn't not create a lot at all, which the wing-backs, midfield and strike force all have to share a bit of blame for.

Likewise, soft defending. Dyche needs to get a good long run of game's somewhere playing comptetive mans football, as he's not ready yet, Odimayo looks a bid dodgy in centre back, and whether that is partly to do with lack of fitness, but Lintott and Koiki didn't offer a lot defensively or going forward.

Assuming Guthrie starts and plays an hour at least on Saturday, would you start him with Sherring or break up the partnership and play him with Willis?

That's a great goal tbf unfortunately.

You were ahead of the I-follow stream there, but I'm fine with you relieving the pressure of a penalty.

A load of long balls up to teenagers and hoping them to expect the physical battle isn't a winning tactic. But, hey ho, we're even again.

Ok, I'm taking credit for that Jinx.