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Missed the first 8 mins, on for a moment, now back off again for me.

Fair enough, makes sense. Worth noting that during the Blackburn Nuttall period Unsworth won the league with Bass Sambou leading the line which probably does impact your ability to contextualise what good looks like (to steal a phrase).

I'm fairly certain that Nuttall was purely an Unsworth infatuation based on his performances for Blackburn against his U23 Everton side around 2018/19.

Commentary sounding like a room mic hanging from the top of the stand for everyone I take it? Edit: sorted seconds after posting

Aye, I thought similar. Would happily take a player like the lad Osbourne they have too.

Peterborough sign another National League player, this time from Rochdale: Nevett

Always difficult to do the release game without knowledge of financials (both player and budget) but I think the bulk of us would fall under a "not really arsed who leaves" banner. Probably worth mentioning Foreshaw had a season ending injury within 5 mins of his first Ossett United game rather than not catching at the level. Not that you'd imagine he'd stay regardless.

All a bit embarrassing in the main stand as Norwood comes off

Had forgotten that Wealdstone were the "Brazil" team with that Allarakhia winger. Always finds half a yard. Nice for Fondop to have bagged in what you'd imagine may be his last game. Crowd low and flat so far

Just watched this myself. I'd forgotten how much of an onslaught that second half was.

Aye, think he did. FWIW, the away one pending is a bit different to what we've had previously.

Don't mind the interview so much as he's clearly hurting but what sticks in my mind - and has cropped up a few times since he's been appointed - is his own lack of diligence in taking the role/ownership of the team. He mentions his second game Vs Fylde and I distinctly remember being dumfounded by the lineup and the inability to change the game in our favour after a poor start. I thought to myself at the time that he mustn't have watched any of our games back before taking the job as he paired players that had not worked multiple times before. One of the reasons I was fairly keen to keep Thompson was he'd lived through the Unsworth era so knew the shortcomings and what would need to be done over the coming months. The first few weeks of Mellon saw several infuriating lineups in the name of getting to know a player's worth and who he could trust. We've reached the back end of the season and his answer is now "none of them". I can fully understand the way he's gone about certain things but each big decision he's made (banishing Reid, loaning out players, recruitment positions, square peg players to manage games) has ultimately meant we've come up short whilst playing some truly awful football. It's not just the league games, we've been thoroughly embarrassed in the cups too. Can see arguments for keeping him or getting rid but either way there needs to be an investigation into why it's gone so wrong across footballing operations at the club. When you look how Southend/Solihull started the season and how the likes of Gateshead have adapted to a gutting of talent halfway through, it's just embarrassing how scattergun and wasteful we are. My season ticket price is at least a third of a banished player's weekly wage. York aside, how many other clubs at this level would carry that?

Came quite highly regarded but I hadn't really seen him. Is he someone that will find it with time/confidence or was he "decent" in spite of it?

NM. Working now. Ignore

He had a feeble effort from the edge of the box and later in the game should have been played in by Conlon who instead opted to take on a shot (well, I think it was Dallas). I don't think he's been particularly good but, in my opinion, both him and Norwood (and us generally) would look a completely different outfit with wide/creative players that know what they're doing and commit players so there's space. I look at Chesterfield's squad and they're packed with invention and courage just behind the front man.