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Of course this will have all been carefully thought through as ever by the good people at NLHQ.

Yeah I don't see how they square having the playoffs at Wembley with the Trophy final the weekend after the season finishes. It doesn't give them enough time if a team in the playoffs is in the Trophy final.

And they didn't all win. Teams will drop points. Most weeks they won't. Not to say we'll win the league but no chance 5 of us last the pace and every chance we can.

Surprised the game was called off following a referee inspecting the pitch twice, rather than people not in Rochdale who said it hasn't rained much and have seen a picture of the ground on Twitter. There should be an FA investigation.

That game should never have started.

Anyone know what Rochdale's frost covers are like?

Well they play Rochdale on Saturday, so hopefully he has a good week in training... Edit - ignore, I now see you'd spotted that yourself further up!

I don't disagree with this, though to be fair it would be worse for visiting fans attending a midweek replay.

There's no being wise after the event. There were plenty of people making calls for his head at the end of last season and some part way into this. They were called out at the time and have been proven wrong.

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So what has changed except for the players out, players in, change in formation, improvement in professionalism and the fact we haven't immediately shit the bed having got into a playoff place?

There are two remarkable ideas on display here: 1. Fans would have renewed STs but didn't, because Micky articulated what people could see already (and that has come to pass) and that he instead should have lied or tickled bellies about the issues at the time. 2. Just because Micky was able to offload a load of the shit/fat in the squad, it was easy to do.

Yes it was bonkers. And then he suggested he should have picked Mark Shelton.

Obviously it won't matter to us because we'll be champions, but looking ahead. The Trophy final is to take place on the weekend of 10/11 May. The league season finishes on Monday 5 May. Seems mad (but very NL) to whack the Trophy final when teams may be playing in the playoffs. The FL playoffs are at Wembley over the bank holiday weekend. This only leaves the weekend of 17/18 May for the NL playoff final if it were to be at Wembley. But assuming 7 days to make arrangements for the teams/fans, those semis need to be played the weekend of the Trophy final. This means either the playoff final will need to be the first weekend in June, or played away from Wembley on the bank holiday weekend?

Just flicked through his interview from today and when asked about the game he refers to it hopefully being a good evening's entertainment. It would be helpful for it to be sorted/announced sooner rather than later.