Given the horrendous injury list -again - this seems like a mercy. Use the time well, NJ.
I have it on good authority he plans to spend the next 2 weeks looking at recordings of Luton players from 2016 onwards to see if there is any one we can add in the Jan window
Give him some credit feller, he doesn’t use recordings, he uses his memory, recordings can be interfered with…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mick Hartford getting a run out in the new year
Given the horrendous injury list -again - this seems like a mercy. Use the time well, NJ.
I have it on good authority he plans to spend the next 2 weeks looking at recordings of Luton players from 2016 onwards to see if there is any one we can add in the Jan window
Give him some credit feller, he doesn’t use recordings, he uses his memory, recordings can be interfered with…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mick Hartford getting a run out in the new year
Who was the guy with the perm and the headband?
Mark Knopfler
A few of our players have got Money for Nothing...
I just struggle with the anomaly that we are a bang average third tier team yet apparently have a squad of international calibre players 🤔
Just three. Five if you include AMB and Kanu.
So not really a squad.
Pedantic reply that.
The point / observation was our lowly league status doesn’t suggest we are blessed with what you might once (traditionally) have thought of as international calibre players.
Given the horrendous injury list -again - this seems like a mercy. Use the time well, NJ.
I have it on good authority he plans to spend the next 2 weeks looking at recordings of Luton players from 2016 onwards to see if there is any one we can add in the Jan window
Give him some credit feller, he doesn’t use recordings, he uses his memory, recordings can be interfered with…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mick Hartford getting a run out in the new year
Who was the guy with the perm and the headband?
Mark Knopfler
A few of our players have got Money for Nothing...
I'm now on holiday so was expecting to miss this (hooray!) but now it's going to be rearranged when I'm back and I'll have no choice but to go because granddaughter no 1 will want to use grandson no 2's season ticket (he doesn't get home from high school until after 4pm which is too late for me to leave to get to an evening kick off - and Tuesday evenings are training nights for his football team - so Hells Bells comes with me instead)
I'm now on holiday so was expecting to miss this (hooray!) but now it's going to be rearranged when I'm back and I'll have no choice but to go because granddaughter no 1 will want to use grandson no 2's season ticket (he doesn't get home from high school until after 4pm which is too late for me to leave to get to an evening kick off - and Tuesday evenings are training nights for his football team - so Hells Bells comes with me instead)
Your kids really should give their children better names
Which let’s be honest is asking for a hiding. Hopefully it's pushed back to sometime in January and we have some players back from injury by then
Peterbro are the most inconsistent team in this league one week they score 4/5 next week they lose at teams like Cambridge they been like this for years …don’t think we would have been beaten in Saturday …. But it was the correct call to call it off , because if we had not and we lost another one or two tonight or during the week fans will saying why did we not call it off when we had the chance
Which let’s be honest is asking for a hiding. Hopefully it's pushed back to sometime in January and we have some players back from injury by then
Peterbro are the most inconsistent team in this league one week they score 4/5 next week they lose at teams like Cambridge they been like this for years …don’t think we would have been beaten in Saturday …. But it was the correct call to call it off , because if we had not and we lost another one or two tonight or during the week fans will saying why did we not call it off when we had the chance
Which let’s be honest is asking for a hiding. Hopefully it's pushed back to sometime in January and we have some players back from injury by then
Peterbro are the most inconsistent team in this league one week they score 4/5 next week they lose at teams like Cambridge they been like this for years …don’t think we would have been beaten in Saturday …. But it was the correct call to call it off , because if we had not and we lost another one or two tonight or during the week fans will saying why did we not call it off when we had the chance
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell has called on the English Football League to change its rules around postponing games due to international call-ups.
Clubs in League One and League Two can have games postponed if they have three or more players away with their countries, but must request by 17:00 GMT on the Sunday before the following Saturday's game.
On-loan Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Kamari Doyle was called up to England's Under-20 squad on Monday after a player pulled out over the weekend.
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell has called on the English Football League to change its rules around postponing games due to international call-ups.
Clubs in League One and League Two can have games postponed if they have three or more players away with their countries, but must request by 17:00 GMT on the Sunday before the following Saturday's game.
On-loan Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Kamari Doyle was called up to England's Under-20 squad on Monday after a player pulled out over the weekend.
The rules definitely need looking at, especially when players can be called up so late for international duty. We were lucky Small was called up on Sunday, giving us time to postpone.
Maybe we should actually use the players who are good enough for international squads and see if they do better than the teams we do put out?
Perhaps the rules should be that you can only postpone games where the players called up have played a certain amount of League matches to date / played in the last x number of matches (like the rules for the BSM competition).
Would stop teams like CAFC calling off games where Dixon hasn't started a match & Anderson has been in & out much of the season.
Think it’s reached the point where it makes the most sense to just call them all off. I understand it’s a pain and we all want as much Saturday 3pm football as possible but it’s more fair if everyone plays midweek
I understand that when players pull out of their international squad that they need to be replaced. But if they are called up so late that the league team can't call the game off then they should be allowed to not release the player.
I understand that when players pull out of their international squad that they need to be replaced. But if they are called up so late that the league team can't call the game off then they should be allowed to not release the player.
Conor Coventry being called up yesterday highlights this. We would have been seriously disadvantaged if we were still playing today.
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That's modern football.
So not really a squad.
There will be a scaled down remembrance v Bromley instead.
Maynard-Brewer
Mitchell Mitchell Gillesphey Edwards
Coventry Taylor
Campbell Docherty
Godden Leaburn
Reid/Maclorg Edmonds-Green Asiimwe Edun Berry Ahadme Hylton
Which lets be honest is asking for a hiding. Hopefully it's pushed back to sometime in January and we have some players back from injury by then
Bugger.
I'm now on holiday so was expecting to miss this (hooray!) but now it's going to be rearranged when I'm back and I'll have no choice but to go because granddaughter no 1 will want to use grandson no 2's season ticket (he doesn't get home from high school until after 4pm which is too late for me to leave to get to an evening kick off - and Tuesday evenings are training nights for his football team - so Hells Bells comes with me instead)
Clubs in League One and League Two can have games postponed if they have three or more players away with their countries, but must request by 17:00 GMT on the Sunday before the following Saturday's game.
On-loan Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Kamari Doyle was called up to England's Under-20 squad on Monday after a player pulled out over the weekend.
Exeter already had Northern Ireland striker Josh Magennis and Finland winger Ilmari Niskanen called up, but the deadline for a postponement had passed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg4d5rvz86o
I can't imagine it will be too long before league one sits out international weekends as well.
Would stop teams like CAFC calling off games where Dixon hasn't started a match & Anderson has been in & out much of the season.
But if they are called up so late that the league team can't call the game off then they should be allowed to not release the player.