Stud mark of doom

Ah, Ron Davies and MLT in the same side would have been something to behold!

Thanks Dad

We’d now be top, if not for the points deduction farce.

A youngster called Le Tiss bagged a brace against Man U. Whatever happened to him? Big Ron got the chop. Seem to remember watching from the top of the Milton Road end upper tier - the only game I ever watched there.

Mubama needs to be subbed off and never feature again for us

⚽D 2 JWP 3

Some of the offside decisions defied belief - did the linesman not know it’s based on when the ball is played? At one stage, after several mad decisions, I shouted “offside surely” - as a joke as it was about 3 yards onside - and even that was given offside. And the penalty - that was truly incredible - I genuinely can’t think of such a blatant penalty, that would have been absolutely clear from every seat in the stadium, let alone from the pitch, not being given.

Crucially, Kenneth was on TV and not the Radio. Personally I really like Adam and Jo - I always enjoy the highlights and the extended highlights on the club site with their commentary and it was quite a come down a few years back when for a season, if memory serves, they were replaced with some nameless generic voices, going through the commentary motions. As for adding in some anecdotes - fair play to Adam for finding a way of dealing with the endless recycling of the ball to no effect that was a feature of many of our recent managers. Having said that, it was quite humorous that for the Bristol City game this season, for both our third and fourth goal Adam is blabbing on about the same ex Luton player at length as the moves develop and only gets to interupt with “… and saints have scored another one” I did have his exceptional commentary for the 4th goal at Leicester as my ring tone for a while!

FFS - we have some complete idiots as supporters. Tonda was laughing with him about three sentences later. It was a light hearted comment. I think it was what counts a joke in Tonda world - or at least I hope it was. Has struck me before that it is completely unacceptable for super-rich football managers (Morriniho was particularly poor) to put the precarious careers of journalists (no doubt with mortgages and families to support) in jeopardy with their bullying antics in press conferences.

Tbf, you could analyse any side and conclude that, beyond the players that normally start, those other players don’t normally start.

Adam and Jo are great.

He’s played 9 minutes of football this season. We narrowly avoided shooting ourselves in the other foot by resigning him.

I’ve not watched it back on TV but I did notice he went over and had a chat with another official, and at the next breaking play seemed to be pleading with the ref - I thought his body language was suggesting he really felt he hadn’t done what he had been booked for - perhaps noting that he’d already been booked twice for that. I wonder if he thought he was making a “that’s the third/fourth time I’ve been booted up in the air” hand gesture - which is fine apparently - but that looked like the heinous crime of suggesting what a competent ref might do in such a situation - which is clearly unacceptable (except for highly capped England internationals).

Yes, but my points were also all made in the full statement, and seemed worth flagging. You’ve just summarised the summing up.

So to summarise the FA statement They were satisfied Tonda didn’t know about the rule and accepted this sort of thing was normal practice elsewhere, and noted that the 72 hour rule implied it was also acceptable earlier in EFL. Basically it seems that all Tonda did was - a) ask someone to check if Oxford were likely to play with a back 4 or a back 5, in a prep meeting B) not request anything for Ipswich, but be shown some recordings he should not have been c) ask that someone check if Hacket was fit And that warrants being thrown out of the play offs and 4 points!