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Why? General feeling around us was why and he didn't look like he had any issues.

On Green if he'd have looked uncomfortable or if it looked like it was troubling him in any way I agree, but it didn't. He just decided to take our most forward thinking midfield player when we had the ball off the pitch and leave the negative twins on.

Another classic...

See there's a lot to be said for 20 woodbines after training and a pint of mild at half time, you don't need these modern namby pamby training methods for a long a healthy life.

Getting the train over from Rochdale for an 11 o 'clock Bradford Spoon's breakfast, that sounds perfect for lunch at 12

It was the first game, away, set up not very adventurously, not a surprise, didn't work, let's see what pitches up formation wise at home next week. I'm not a happy clapper by the way or a fan of AL but I just think reaction to today has been a bit knee jerk that's all considering it's the first game of a 46 game season.

Fair enough and point taken but calling us a relegation team based on today is a bit of a nonsense.

I went today, with my usual 2 companions, we differ in age so have seen different eras but sometimes our player experiences overlap. Carlo Corazzin came up in conversation today, I think he was overrated others thought his work for the team transcended that and made him a valuable asset. In short, we're not an echo chamber for each others views. When we started seeing comments about this being a relegation team, during (on twitter at half time), and after todays game based on todays performance we were all a bit gobsmacked to be honest. We were at the end we defended first half, Wheater walked the game, should be captain, Sefil had a couple of heart in mouth moments but that apart the defence played solidly first half and Woods never had a save to make. Could have had a penalty at the other end for a possible foul on Wilson, other people might have been better placed than me to give an opinion on it. We weren't under the cosh. Second half we actually had the better of the first 15 minutes for me but then things went South, we seemed to drop deeper and invite problems and shipped one. Mills had a fair penalty shout turned down. We lack badly up front and unless we recruit will struggle big time to score (so in one sense I get the relegation comments, if you're not scoring you're fucked) but that defence won't ship goals this season for me and given Wheater turned up a couple of days ago his experience should help bring Sefil on hopefully. It was the first game of the season, away against a team who were in the play offs last season, not a disaster and you don't get relegated after your first game. Possibly a slight overreaction going on?

Remember going to Barnsley on a short lived minibus Pete and Harry organised from the Black Horse on Manchester Rd (sadly now a long time demolished) in the 90/91 season, it also went to Wolves opening day of the season and I think that was maybe its shelf life. To show his solidarity with the Yorkshire folk Harry turned up wearing a donkey jacket with King Arthur Rules chalked on the back in homage to Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire miners leader during the miners strike in the 80's (for our younger viewers)and a stack of fanzines to sell. As we entered the ground we saw Harry being removed for violating Rule 7 subsection 2 paragraph 15 on a small poster 8 feet up a wall which banned anything but official club publications being sold inside the ground. Not one to be deterred from watching his beloved Latics he relocated to the Barnsley end, donkey jacket with slogan and all, where the locals apparently gave him a wide berth presuming he was an escaped nutter.... Which in a sense he was.... Great fanzine, great people and a pleasure to share their company.

It might go a long way towards paying for the petrol

This.... As years have passed I've wondered if I dreamt that goal, I was only a kid and we didn't do many away games but that was one of them, glad I'm not going senile yet. Certainly my football hero at the time.

It was this paragraph below that made me think it would be a financial split, the in conjunction with the current landowners provided them with a commercial agreement bit. Like I say it's how it read to me. Says there'll be more announcements as time goes on so I'm hoping things will unfold transparently as we go along. Don't think we can see it as anything other than good news really. "As we move to our next phase we have, in conjunction with the current landowners, provided the football club with a commercial agreement for the operation of matchday hospitality for the 2019/20 season."

Seems fairly straightforward, at this stage it says there's an agreement for the fan led group to run the OEC including providing the club with hospitality under an as yet not completed commercial agreement. I'm guessing, and it is a pure guess, that any stand profits will be split between brassbank and the fan led group which they'll reinvest to finish the stand. Probably suits Blitz and Gazal as they don't have to put any more money into it and it gives the fan led group a head start on making it fit for purpose whilst negotiating the remainder of the deal to purchase the rest of the assets. So if that is the scenario it means that, indirectly, AL will be paying for the stand to be finished but still won't own it. That's my reading and take on it.

https://boundaryparkpurchase.home.blog/

Not long back.... Started the day with an 8 o'clock Spoons breakfast at Shay Wake before driving down with the nephew, deep down I had a Northampton last season feeling that it was a long way and wasn't going to go right (never does for us in recent years does it). By the time we got there I'd convinced myself that this time was our time (because that's what we do as fans eh). First half thought we were the better side and didn't think they showed much at all, second half was baffling.... This is your season right there, all square and 45 minutes to throw the kitchen sink at it and..... Nothing. Scrolling through this it's obvious we weren't the only ones who wanted substitutions earlier, so obvious. So that's it for another season. Got to mention how impressed I was with Exeter as a fan owned club, even had a fan liaison officer who when we wanted to know where the social club was pretty much gave us a guided tour. Happy end to the day.... I have beer.