Another bet. Will any reputable journalist report it before it's formally announced? I'm going no. They seem to have it under wraps.

Got to say NDAs are very effective when you have serious people involved and not chancers like William Storey.

Snowflake Royal If the takeover goes through and we're bottom half in October, there'll be a lot of people changing their tune pretty quickly IMO.

Don't be stupid, football fans aren't so fickle!

Didn't someone seriously post on "The Team" a couple of weeks ago "Shall we lose to Blackpoll to stop Poxford getting into the play-offs"? Tbf, that Blackpool game was a dead rubber and I'd happily swap the win for an Oxford loss at Wembley. But for a game with anything meaningf...

Surely if Villa lose tonight, Spurs' desire to keep their top 4 hopes alive must trump their wish for Arsenal to lose the title? If Villa win tonight then who knows. Perhaps they'll be cheering City goals tomorrow. Which is pathetic. I have a friend who grew up as a glory supporting United fan who a...

It's catch 22. The best way to balance our finances is to get back to the Championship as fast as possible, but betting big on promotion is exactly the sort of risk taking approach to be avoided. I agree with IR more that new owners should be more cautious and if need be make decisions that reduce o...

Yeah think it’s one of the best manager interviews I’ve read actually. Goes into the tactical stuff and why they made the changes etc which I found really interesting I found his outlook on the game interesting. If you look at our form after Shrewsbury, we score enough goals to be at the top next s...

Great interview. Reading between the lines, if the takeover falls through he's off. And you can't blame him.

Managers like to talk about learning from failure, developing etc., but if Arsenal finish 2nd on 89 points after something like 13 wins from their last 15, what is there to be said? Keep it up next season and hope City drop off? Last season they ran out of steam / bottled it based upon your interpre...

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Clyde1998 Doncaster won 2-0 at Crewe in their play-off first leg. The second leg is on Friday.

Crewe won 2-0 on the night and won the penalty shootout 4-3.

Milton Keynes vs Crawley in the second leg tomorrow.

What's our record like against teams starting with "Cr"?

Well we need a big club to go under as it might wake the rest of the idiots up Everton would be rescued somehow, including government intervention if necessary. It would be a humiliation too great for the "best league in the world" to lose a club of that size. But hopefully it does act as...

I guess while Reading isn't much bigger than Oxford, we have surrounding towns like Newbury, Wokingham, Basingstoke, Maidenhead and Bracknell where people will support us as their nearest professional team. You must be looking at half a million or so overall. By contrast, where else are Oxford going...

If we can grow enough to sell out the SCL in the good times, and even get 18k against Blackpool a few weeks ago, I don't see any inherent reason why Oxford can't do the same to be honest. A city with c. 200k living there without any big nearby clubs as competition. The reason they'd struggle upon pr...

Bolton definitely a better team than Oxford and won their last meeting 5-0. But it's only 1 game and an upset can easily happen. Obviously I hope not - seems alien enough to finish below them in the table let alone be in a lower division. It's win:win. They lose on TV on their big night out. Or The...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68985701 Premier League club boss wins anonymity in child sex abuse civil case :shock: :? The alleged victim in this civil case reported allegations of sexual abuse to the police in 2021, but no further action was taken due to legislation which stated that if an offenc...

I'm still relaxed. These things take time, and the charges against Bearwood and Dai's shares in the club mean they have real leverage. The exclusivity period can easily be extended if necessary. But for recruitment and planning for next season, you'd really want it done by the end of May. As for tha...

This. Leicester, Leeds and Southampton would probably have the highest budgets in the Championship if no side had parachute payments - giving them PP completely destroys any chance of sides competing with them financially. And yet someone did compete with them Annoying thing is that well run and ma...

WestYorksRoyal Friday 10 May

Think I'm out. We announced a 2 month exclusivity period on 26 March, so I'm revising my guess to 26 May.

Other thing aside from wanting Oxford to lose for the sake of it, is that Bolton are a very good team who I don't want in this division next season. Whereas if Oxford stay down, I back us to close the gap on them, especially if Brannagan leaves.

Bolton definitely a better team than Oxford and won their last meeting 5-0. But it's only 1 game and an upset can easily happen. Obviously I hope not - seems alien enough to finish below them in the table let alone be in a lower division.