It’s becoming like a parody now. Even the commentators are going through the motions. “They never give up” “Eccles has done the best with what he has” “ They had a real purple patch/decent spell/ dominant period (describing a 5 to 10 minute period)” Bassett’s back story, Miloudi a real character. Bottom line everyone knows we’re going to get tonked by a 30-50 point margin and there is very little merit in the matches. One cannot escape the fact we are harming the brand.

Replace "real character" with "liability" to be closer to the truth.



Brand's dead and gone.

I can see he has merits and we need an X factor player desperately so he is all we can get then so be it but personally I’ve had it up to here with him. I hope we’ll go a different way next season. ( I should say I have a suspicion he’s a lovely fella - just I don’t think we can afford to have him on our team.)

If we ***have*** to play him, not on the wing.

Hughes has been killing the brand for years.

Job done.

at least he's found another niche activity he's good at.

The post-match reaction from Cake posted by the club on socials lasted a full 9 seconds. Sums us up. I can't wait until next season when we can compete with a similar opponent in the Championship.

I like Cake but his good effort story has got pretty stale. If Hughes really was interested in building the club or having a decent case against the IMG gradings he needed to bring some better quality players in.

That’s on the assumption we make half an effort on the recruitment/retention front. If the last few years are anything to go by we can look forward to potentially sliding into the playoffs - if they are even a thing anymore.

Yes he seems very admirable and what else can he do really but we have undoubtedly made IMGs case for them on the lack of merits of the play off promotion process.

I was pleased to see Emannual Waine back on the pitch, he certainly gets stuck in..