Badger

Certainly opens up the game time for Abbot. Remains to be seen if Wood - according to rumour - will now collect his toys from around the place and put them back in the pram.

Needs the beard to go full Lego

Palace fans on phone-in getting quite impatient for them to announce the replacement. Franks been mentioned but last caller asked “is he cumin or what ?”

Sage also now gone at Palace.

IF available I’d expect it to be a phased return. Perhaps building up to being available to start at home to Middlesbrough.

£9m on a CF seems the option to me.

And what is his best position? I’m struggling to see where he would be best suited.Not an Azaz replacement for No 10, not a winger, and certainly not a CF. That leaves as ‘second striker’, or just behind the CF (when we have one). Do we adapt the team set up just to accommodate him ? Agree re Mubama, poor judgement and signing.

Very poor handling of events by Utd. Although this was predictable last season even , Carrick has acted with a degree of dignity throughout. But poor sod was publicity undermined by players beneath him, and had Wilcox and another pulling strings elsewhere.

Can’t see Poch being answerable to Wilcox or accepting him in charge of recruitment. If Ratcliffe was looking for a reset he should be showing Wilcox the door, and bringing in someone his manager can work with. What’s Paul Mitchell up to these days ? (Seem to recall he left a couple of clubs under a cloud so perhaps not still the shooting star that he once was).

Any reason given, because they need him or lack of game time?

Fair enough, I had missed that.

Poch will fall out with Wilcox unless he’s given a free rein there.

Is his brother playing for them ? I last read he was at Eastleigh. Pleased for Winchester City.

Hope you’re right about both Larin and Jander, but I wouldn’t bank on it, Jander especially. There seems to have been an ominous silence over his recovery or so it seems.

Can’t disagree about the return on points from the games you mention but for me this is largely down to individual errors. Watford - Stephens shanking a pass, Manning going missing for the second, THB’s parting gift of a glaring miss. Lincoln - agree that was shit with substitutes weakening us Wrexham - how many chances did we miss ? Bolton - ditto Wrexham, with specific mention to Dobbin WBA - Dobbin could have won it (first half poor) Preston - poor, but still created chances. This makes no reference to penalty appeals. For me, the failing yet again is recruitment (not the manager).