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    Match Thread: Lincoln City (A)

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    Oldham forward Johan Branger faces a late fitness test. The Gabon international was introduced midway through the second half in the 1-1 draw at Cambridge last weekend but took a knock and is therefore doubtful for the trip to Sincil Bank.

    Dan Gardner (knee) and Ousmane Fane (leg) remain long-term absentees. But manager Paul Scholes has no other injury or suspension concerns as his side look to end a five-game winless run.

     

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    Lincoln have only won one of their last 10 games against Oldham in the Football League (D2 L7), failing to keep a clean sheet in each meeting.

    Oldham have won three of their last four away league games against Lincoln (L1), however this will be their first such trip since September 1998 (3-1 win).

    Lincoln City's 14-match unbeaten home league run is their best in the EFL since they went 19 without a defeat in September 2006.

    Oldham have only lost one of their last eight away league games on a Tuesday (W2 D5), although that was their most recent such contest at MK Dons in January (1-2).

    10 of Lincoln's last 11 league goals have been scored by either Bruno Andrade (six) or John Akinde (four).

     

    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    Just now, Dave_Og said:

     

    Apologies for quoting the Daily Mail, won't happen again...  there's no doubt whatsoever that moving the games to BT had a huge impact on viewing figures

     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3534879/BT-s-exclusive-Euro-deal-seen-mistake-UEFA-Champions-League-suffers-losing-big-viewing-figures.html

     

    It makes sense, given the exclusivity of the platforms. We need to also admit that physical attendances aren't turned on to group stages either. The two issues both highlight the over-arching motif of UEFA picking the competition up by the heels and shaking every last copper out of it.

    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    2 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

    The audience is falling because of the channels they have signed deals with.

     

     

    Might be something in that, I'll have to see if that's the case - however away from TV viewing, it's really relatively easy getting a group stage ticket as opposed to a knockout stage ticket. CL is watered down to almost homeopathic potency simply by adding in (in some leagues) 75% of the nations quota that aren't Champions. Sure it's certainly spread its reach far and wide inviting lesser leagues with a path to the finals, Quarabag and Crvena and Plzen aren't really going to pack them in in the groups - and who's going to watch it on TV?

    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    2 hours ago, Matt said:

    Aston Villa's wage bill vs spending charts are particularly interesting as their wages are sky-high yet only spent about £1.8m on transfers; I'll try and find the graphic later on and add it in.

     

    Whilst I was looking for resources on this I found this list which was accurate last summer - however looking down the list I spotted Micah Richards who is still at Villa and who has only completed 26 games since joining them in 2015. I don't know if Villa negotiated a wage reduction considering they didn't go up last year - they were reported to be trying to -  however Richards' £50,000 a week is a hard value to justify...

     

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    I've found the supporting graphics...

     

     

     

     

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    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    Aston Villa's wage bill vs spending charts are particularly interesting as their wages are sky-high yet only spent about £1.8m on transfers; I'll try and find the graphic later on and add it in.

     

    Whilst I was looking for resources on this I found this list which was accurate last summer - however looking down the list I spotted Micah Richards who is still at Villa and who has only completed 26 games since joining them in 2015. I don't know if Villa negotiated a wage reduction considering they didn't go up last year - they were reported to be trying to -  however Richards' £50,000 a week is a hard value to justify...

     

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    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    Clubs have to get smarter/savvy with players' contracts. Holding on to players after relegation is a sunk cost, it's easy to forget the reason the club has been relegated is due to the players in the first place - why clubs want/allow players to run the roost is beyond me.

     

    Relegation is an ideal opportunity to regenerate and recover. It's not the end.

    Can we please, after what now seems like many seasons of it, put to bed the ludicrous notion that....

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    17 hours ago, kowenicki said:

     

    Championship is becoming unworkable. It’s spending v income is worse than the prem by now probably. It takes very deep pockets to survive in there now. It’s why Wigan was sold. Championship player wages are insane. 

     

    The Championship has been a two-tier competition within a competition for some time, segregated by ex-Premiership clubs and clubs 'better than L1' - it's hardly a competition when this kind of money has to given to stablise a club that's failed in the Premiership.

     

    Post 2013 - when the payments really jumped up - Sunderland pop out like a sore thumb on this chart, but if anyone watched that Netflix thing they'd realise that along with stunningly poor player contact negotiation seasons before (Rodwell), their owner ran the operation into the ground like an rusty old charabanc last season.

     

    Apart from them, the payments are perpetuating beyond means spending to fund the clamour to go back up.

     

    It's a racket.

     

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    Solidarity Payments 2017/18

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    Season Ticket prices frozen

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    39 minutes ago, singe said:

    I was being a tad tongue in cheek to be honest!

     

    Yeah I know, I quoted you but it really wasn't about you or anything specific about anybody to be honest!  :)

     

    39 minutes ago, singe said:

    Impressed with Billy, even though I  would not have responded so much!, and hope he continues to engage.

     

    Agreed.

    Greater Ignorant Manchester Police (GIMP)

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    15 hours ago, Bunty Blue said:

    Whoever assessed the situation and decided to keep one end of Tics in the ground at the final whistle must have been smacked off their heads..

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    ben.miles@buryfc.co.uk   Bury SLO

     

     slo@fsf.org.uk SLO support at FSF

     

    I think we've already established the OAFC SLO position is currently vacant, but there's probably no harm in copying a senior official at OAFC as well.

    Website changes

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    8 hours ago, mcfluff1985 said:

     Also when I get to bottom of a page it jumps back up a bit again every time I try to click next thread. I have to scroll down a bit again

     

    Sorry, this doesn't look like anything server side, it may mean something needs to be updated at your end I'm afraid.

     

    8 hours ago, mcfluff1985 said:

    Thatcher's Britain

     

    Oh, for a few years of iron leadership - and don't confuse my wanting a strong Parliament for apparent admiration for Maggie, she could die again for all I care. :)

     

    Website changes

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    9 hours ago, jorvik_latic said:

     

    Have you changed any settings where you link to the next unread page within a sub forum? You can normally see the title of the page under it.

     

    Hi,

     

    I've not changed any part of the forum navigation, I upgraded to 4.4 yesterday which may have changed a few settings in the background, although these are usually IPB recommended overrides because their analysis suggests nobody uses them. However, there is this at the foot of every page in-thread...

     

    Thanks,

    Matt.

     

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