Liverpool's website suggest their Round of 16 play-off will be played between the 3rd and 6th May. I'm guessing the play-offs are being played over the bank holiday weekend.

Seem to be some strong rumours about that Jonson Clarke-Harris will be signing from Mansfield. Have absolutely no interest in us signing him esp as he is allegedly after big money but that could be seen as a bit of a "statement signing" from them if that is true. Seems to be a typo, so fo...

I make it 39 points, but did it a bit slapdash. Thank you. So that's roughly sixth. Our 'hive mind' was fairly good this season then. And factor in two of the three worst performers were an alphabetical list and a randomly generated list with Reading moved top and Oxford bottom. Not sure I've got t...

Related to S Hodge? It’s Bradley Hodge- and not a lot about him anywhere. Possibly interesting they he has been named for the several matches he has now played for us - so could he have signed ? He's officially just down as trialist so I would say not. Do we know where he's come from? Has he or is ...

We were probably the biggest wildcard in hindsight. Totally unpredictable. Then you always get a couple surprise packages like Stevenage and Orient plus underachievers like Charlton. But the top 2 wasn't very surprising, the playoffs involve all of last year's play off losers and the bottom 4 provi...

You can judge keepers qualitatively on points won and lost and how many matches they define. For Button, I can only think of one positive potentially match defining save. Against Wigan when we were 2-0 up, Abbey gave the ball away for a 1 on 1. Button saved, game could have been very different had ...

From the Academy Twitter feed: it seems we’re battering them, but just haven’t got a goal.

Royal_jimmy Don't know what Blackpools official following was but guessing it was around 1800 or so

It was apparently 1,752. So you’re pretty spot on.

Sutekh So are there people out there that date dead women then?

I think they're necromancers.

OK just seemed you were fighting buttons corner. About the comparisons I don't think anyone has been saying one is significantly better than the other have they? i mean they are both middle-of-the-table league one standard keepers, nothing more nothing less. If we had a bit of wiggle room in the tr...

Maybe. But we are not talking Liam Moore here on 35k pw. Although he might be our top wage earner it is still modest for the league we are in. There might be someone willing to match his wages. It won't be especially modest for L1, we're still going to be one of the higher budgets in the league. An...

so what's your point Clyde? I'm not sure what you are getting at. is this your round about way of saying button should be number one despite your stats saying there is basically nothing in it? My point is a case of who would people prefer plays. I'm in a mixed view as to who should be number one, b...

Not a lot of games for Pereira and in one single game he shipped 5 goals Without that one TEAM hammering he'd be P8 GA 9 GA 80+ True, but you could remove a proportional percentage of games (to removing one game from Pereira) where Button conceded a load of goals and get not far from 80+. I would a...

I've had a look at the basic goalkeeping stats. Despite everyone criticising Button in goal, we've conceded basically as much with him in goal as we have with Pereira in goal. Button - Pld 37 - GA 55 - 59.7 mins per GA Pereira - Pld 9 - GA 14 - 54.6 mins per GA Even without that stoppage time mista...

Guess who's just been released by Northampton: https://www.ntfc.co.uk/news/2024/april/retained_list/

I've had a look at the basic goalkeeping stats. Despite everyone criticising Button in goal, we've conceded basically as much with him in goal as we have with Pereira in goal. Button - Pld 37 - GA 55 - 59.7 mins per GA Pereira - Pld 9 - GA 14 - 54.6 mins per GA Even without that stoppage time mistak...

When is exclusively supposed to end? I'll go for that day.

We were probably the biggest wildcard in hindsight. Totally unpredictable. Then you always get a couple surprise packages like Stevenage and Orient plus underachievers like Charlton. But the top 2 wasn't very surprising, the playoffs involve all of last year's play off losers and the bottom 4 provi...

Not every likely contender is confirmed yet. So early days. But I remember 4-4-2 had us down at about 20/1 for the title in 05/06. I remember the Reading FC magazine (remember that?) had a full list with us being mid-table ahead of that season. Just shows how underestimated that team was, making th...

Sky Bet Promotion Odds (at time of posting): ⋅ 5/2 - Holywood ⋅ 7/2 - Lincoln; Rotherham ⋅ 9/2 - Blackpool; Charlton; Reading ⋅ 5/1 - Wigan ⋅ 6/1 - Stevenage; Stockport; Wycombe ⋅ 7/1 - Bristol Rovers; Leyton Orient; Mansfield ⋅ ...