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http://countocram.com/2024/03/07/p5u54xpm As the headline says, really.

https://www.worldhumorawards.org/uncategorized/6vp3jhc0qz Pre-seasons are always a bit odd to write about when nothing of major note happens. On Tuesday, we went to Staines Town and pretty much whipped their arses without breaking too much of a sweat. Not too sure what to take out of the game, except that those who came on for the last half hour looked like they were behind in their schedule…

https://www.lcclub.co.uk/u0je00a5tzf It’s funny that we’ve only got two Saturdays left before Crawley, so there isn’t really much time to bring in many more triallists and new signings. Our newly created developmental squad are off to Guernsey on Saturday evening, and they’re taking Kiernan, Reece Jones and Jack Turner with them, so we might be seeing the first signs of our planned starting XI at GGL…

https://ncmm.org/22pdemw9455 At the time of writing, we’ve still yet to hear if Bas “Don’t call me Baz” Savage and Syzmple Syzmon will sign up, although your editor did see the Pole with TB and Phil Babb (the agent responsible for bringing SS and Savage to the club in the first place) talking in the car park afterwards. Make of that what you will.

https://www.jamesramsden.com/2024/03/07/vh8js5p5doh Would either be good additions? To be honest, I don’t know. If SS is a backup for Sam Hatton, then maybe. Sadly, I can’t think of a joke about having too many midfielders, so if he’s going to be best there, we’ll let him go. As for Savage, maybe he’s going to be somebody who’ll come on with about 10 minutes to go when we’re 2-1 down at Hereford, then bundles the ball into the net in the 93rd minute…

https://elisabethbell.com/qle0onz They may sign, they may not. Whatever, it seems our transfer dealings (in and – thankfully – out) have dried up. As the world and his wife knows by now, we missed out on Adam Birchall despite (according to the OS) putting in a record transfer bid for him. So we managed to find £12 between everyone in the office, although Erik Samuelson scuppered the deal when he still needed £5 to get a sandwich for lunch…

https://musiciselementary.com/2024/03/07/4mtivuama With us likely to miss out on Alan Connell as well, it looks like the striker situation isn’t going to be resolved any time soon. But then, your editor believes that by not signing Birchall, we’ve dodged a bullet. His stats suggested he was a massive marksman for Dover. Fine. But that was in the Conference South, and as Staines illustrated on Tuesday, Conf South defences aren’t all that.

https://www.mominleggings.com/y3nkq4a7tyi I think we often forget how relatively poor the CS was back in our day – it may have improved with ex-Conference regulars like Woking, Ebbsfleet and Farnborough in it (and boy, was the CS playoff final between the latter two a defensive brainfart), but it was always a more refined version of the Ryman Prem.

https://www.goedkoopvliegen.nl/uncategorized/4kwekk2ea9 Which is why I’m glad we didn’t get Birchall – we would have been spending a lot of money on somebody who, let’s face it, flopped the first time he was playing in the Football League. Why we bid for him I don’t know, although upon a couple of days reflection, it did have a partial sense of a move to  placate the fans.

https://asperformance.com/uncategorized/hd5boip Of course, he’ll doubtlessly finish top scorer in the division now, and he’ll score a hat-trick against us. Mind you, if you turn down us and Swindon…

What this does prove though is that we do have a bit of spending power, and I’d prefer us to keep our powder dry and use it when we need to. Right now, we have a squad that seems happy with each other, who know how to play together, and one with increasing League Two experience (again, another reason why I’m glad we didn’t sign Birchall).

Tramadol Online American Express This squad should be all right next season. No, it won’t tear up trees, and we may still be a striker light come Bristol Rovers. But at least we know we can make a legit bid for a player either in August or (more likely) in January if one becomes available. I don’t doubt that TB has looked at our forward line in actual game time now, and got some idea of what sort of player to bring in.

Some question marks have arisen over Midson though, which is a shame but perhaps not surprising. Anyone up front for us next season who isn’t called Danny Kedwell isn’t going to get the fairest crack of the whip to begin with. Midson looks like somebody who will go for about 4/5 games without scoring, then will go for about 4/5 games where he can’t stop finding the net. He’s like the old JM we used to have at the club (you know, some bloke called Jon Main), namely confidence could be a big issue.

By Tramadol Online Uk He does need a fast start, as all our strikers do. Mind you, even netting on your debut isn’t necessarily a good sign, as Nathan Elder and Drewe Broughton will testify. Perhaps we ought to pray for a goal-less draw come August 6th…?

Whatever questions you may have, you can ask TB tonight at the annual Meet The Manager soiree at KM. His description of the penalty kicks should be interesting, though perhaps not as entertaining as him talking through his conversation with the copper. You might get a report a la last year, but equally you may not. Depends how hot and stuffy it becomes in the bar area.

Also on sale is the long awaited DVD of the playoff final, complete with the Dons 2 Div 2 fuckup ironic slogan on the cover. That clanger gets worse every time you read it, doesn’t it? Still, it sold 1300 of the 1500 ordered, which either means people bought it purely for the sentiment of the message, or they really will buy any old shit as long as it’s AFCW related.

Well, either that or we got a lot of purchasers from Frenzyville for their own promotion push last season.

OK, it’s a relatively minor thing. Or is it? Your editor was once told at the Fulham Chronicle sports desk, that getting the name of a well known player or league wrong is a cardinal sin. Additionally, and more importantly, it may highlight bigger and potential problems with quality control and whether these sort of things get properly checked out anyway. An article today in the BBC suggests that sloppyness can literally end up being costly.

The club has 200 shirts unsold, which even your editor’s crap maths tells you it’s lost a potential £2000 in sales, less expenses. We’ll never know why they haven’t all sold out, but your editor does know people who would buy t-shirts but haven’t this time because of the error. And we could do with the extra £2k…

Still, you could always put in your own DVD cover sleeve. The second DVD may look even more interesting than the first, if only to see the tension before the game. OK, we can all guess what will be shown on the morning after, but one suspected back those couple of short months ago that this was a unit that maybe could justifiably be the descendants of the proper mid-80s Crazy Gang.

Mind you, with the news that Fraser Franks, Chris Bush, Sammy Moore and Christian Jolley are sharing a house next season, maybe we ought not to be releasing more “behind the scenes” DVDs after all…