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It would be strange to announce Sam Slocombe as one of the first-team coaches for him to then suddenly become the and goalkeeper coach. If Steve Collis did depart Sam could step in but I would guess we would bring in another goal-keeper coach. As for Joao going, he most likely would’ve met Martin Paterson in the week for the first time and maybe after this he was unhappy with the sort of role he was getting or he just thought they have too differing views and perhaps won’t work well together, who knows. Regardless, it’s more unanswered questions and something that wasn’t planned. It’s not been the smooth good feel start to pre-season everyone wanted. I do feel the next signing needs to be one that can trigger that feeling of optimism again...

Decent move for him, I think the more he adapts to the physicality of the league the better he will get. If I had to put a bet on I’d say he’ll score and assist more goals than Grant will for us next season. Clearly wanted to be closer to home and I mean this in the nicest way possible but I hope he doesn’t stellar season, that way we won’t feel like we’ve lost out!

Not massively surprising, I think he’ll be a squad player even for them. Surprised that Barrow who had him on loan didn’t want to sign him, guess that's telling in way but he’d probably be happier there given it’s a hell of a lot closer to his family in Newcastle! Still intrigued to see where Didzy ends up, maybe he’ll have a change of heart (I can dream!). Austin, Morias and Cundy are still without new clubs too.

Vardy would have to take quite the pay cut if wanted to come here, he was on £140k per week at Leicester, even if he took a 90% pay cut that would still equate to wages of £14k a week! Again it’s hard to say, I thought MK would do really well last season because on paper it looked they had signed some really good players. They've spent a lot of money again but something wasn’t quite right there and might still not be, I think Crowley only managed 2 assists and 0 goals after he left which tells a story of it’s own. New manager and a pre-season to work with them, should be top 10 this season. I think from the relegated teams Bristol and Cambridge would by my tips to finish top 10. And then you have the mid-table teams who could potentially move up if they can strengthen, teams like Cheltenham, Barrow and Swindon. Barnet who got promoted could have a good season, I wouldn't be surprised if they snuck into the top 10. I think Chesterfield are an easy bet to finish top 10, they'll finish in the play-offs again at least. Wouldn't be surprised to see Walsall fall down the table considering how shocking their form was since February, Grimsby too I wasn't overly impressed with them. Even Salford look set to lose some of their better players and might struggle if they can't replace them.

Pretty much in agreement with @DangerousSausage I've no issue with the idea of a Technical Board but I don't see why Chris and Alex would need to be part of it. As the owners they've got a right to see what's going on but I surely just dropping in and listening and observing every now again is all they need to do. If they think something is really not working they can flag it up to Roberto who is effectively the bridge from coaches to owners. Maybe their data model is like the KFC recipe, allegedly only two people know that. Maybe the Bros are the only ones who know how it actually functions and they deliver it in a to certain way to keep all the key aspects guarded...

Andy Butler, Andy Flowers, someone will get his name right eventually!

Having not even see us play a game yet with Paterson in charge I've no idea, but we've seemingly gone all in on the model, I really hope it works!

All a bit weird, no idea what to think because it really is so unexpected. Just on Paterson alone, I would never have picked him. When Luke joined, he was part of a very successful team at MK, then Swansea and he had been coaching since his 20s. Equally with Stuart he’d over-achieved with a part-time low-budget Wealdstone team. I don’t feel like I’ve got much to go with Paterson. It says he kept Burton up, but they were 17th and 5 points clear when he was appointed. They finished 20th and 2 points clear in the end so it was more a case of the teams below were just worse… Then we’ve got the formation of the technical board… That could well have put some coaches off as it could come across as a tad overbearing, especially as it now features Chris and Alex. I thought the best thing about them so far is how they've seemingly been able to select pretty decent coaches and then let them get on with it, now it sounds like they are going to be involved a lot more than they have been before. From the statement this sounds like this was always going to happen and it's just now is the time. So far all the data and the model has definitely aided us, but it can’t replace a good coach. Someone who gets on the grass, communicates, motives and actually puts in structures, the way of playing and ultimately makes the players better. It’s going to go one of two ways, it’ll work we’ll be amazed and I’ll never question the Brothers again or it’s going to be a case of data overload and we’ll have a poor season.

Not someone I would've predicted and it'll feel underwhelming given the search has been this long. A lot of people will look at the very short spell at Burton and yes it's poor but it's maybe not the best way of judging someone. I think what's more telling to me is how he’s been part of Michael Duff’s coaching team both at Swansea and then Huddersfield and that style just doesn’t really fit with how we play, it's far from fluid attacking football that's for sure. I think Huddersfield played something like 6 games at home without scoring before Duff was sacked and given Patterson used to be a forward I'm sure he'll have been heavily involved with the attacking coaching...

The skinny styled trousers and apple watch pairing gave it away for me! That's the only source I need, no AI is fluking that! I agree though, just let him get on with his life now, he'll be back in football sooner rather than later I'm sure of it.

I think it’s a real photo, the angle of it is very natural and then has no-one got extra fingers or random zips/buttons on clothing. And it's definitely Luke, otherwise he's got a twin that no-one told us about! If the photo was recent than it’s pretty certain he's not going to be our head coach. You’d have thought with the pay-off from Swansea, he’d be able to live quite comfortably for a while. Equally some people can’t just sit at home and feel like they need get out and to do something. Either that or he’s going on holiday and has got so fed up with the queues he’s devised a great plan to march past them!

I think the fact we signed Tyler and then didn’t play him probably made his mind up to go. It’s a shame because we’ll never know how good he is. I do think persuading someone to come in to just be a back-up to Bass is a hard sell, but that is basically what’s going to happen. I would be happy to have Archie Mair back but I also wonder if he'd prefer to go somewhere where the chances of playing are higher.

Maybe a little focus group wouldn’t go a miss at times when we do our shirt designs, because to me it seemed obvious the best shirt out the three last season was the purple one. It’s disappointing when seemingly most popular shirt is the limited edition one! You did well to even get the chance to purchase one! Every time I looked the shirt was out of stock and I definitely would’ve bought one too if I had the chance. Hopefully next season our away shirt is a bit more exciting than a just an orange shirt with a badge on, it looked like a training top to me, and we have a good number in stock.

The betting has been suspended now, suggests something could be happening. Now I wonder does this agent Trev know anything about Massimo Donati...

I think the money could be better spent to be honest, especially if their job is basically to offer out a bit of advice here and there. I struggle to think on a day-to-day basis what would they actually be doing if they weren’t involved in the coaching? And what would happen if the head coach didn’t like the suggestions from the football advisor, would they have to basically do as they say? I get the idea and wouldn’t be totally against it if it’s not a wasted wage. I just think actually having a more experienced No.2/First-team coach would be a more effective way of solving this problem.

Don’t you mean, Avevo una carriola, la ruota è caduta? 🤨

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I completely get why people are thinking Steffan Hojer could be the next head-coach. It matches up as a valid reason as to why nothing has be announced yet, we are going to have to wait until the Denmark's time in the U21 Euros concludes. And there is the Viborg and Danish link, ok he wasn't at Viborg when the Brothers got involved but I'm sure they'll be Viborg staff who were there and could have recommended him. Feels like there's going to be a lot of Notts fans watching that Denmark v France quarter final now!

I wouldn’t like to take Notts off the Bros because I think they’ll do a better job than I ever would be able to! One of the best things about Chris and Alex is that they aren't supporters like us, they don’t react in the same way a fan would. That said if could be involved in someway I’d would do it. Near where I live now the biggest city is Worcester but their football side is well below the level it could and should be considering around 100,000 people live in the city. They have just been promoted to the Southern League Central and inherited the old Worcester Warriors stadium which has a capacity of 12,000 and could be expanded – not that you’d have to worry about that too soon as I think the average crowd is about 1,000! I’d probably buy them and look to work my way up the leagues with them, I wouldn’t do anything daft and spend a fortune trying to tempt League/National League players on big wages, I’d look to invest in the infrastructure, coaching and a bit like Notts get a little recruitment team that could help find some better players.

Nice to see they’ve stayed in touch, you could tell there was a real harmony to that promotion winning team. Great to see Bajrami looking well though, to have had back-to-back ACL injuries is awful luck. I can’t see why not @Chris, but he’ll probably be incredibly nervous when he first gets back playing next season, I really hope he can stay injury free for a while. Still think Cedwyn should’ve stayed with us, but if he’s happier elsewhere that’s what really matters.

I can't believe he got a 6 match ban for that! Seems way too harsh it was all handbags stuff after the challenge. Threatening behaviour, really? Are the Wimbledon players children or something? Are we sure it's not just clarifying it's a 3 match ban, surely they would've said additional 3 matches? It's slightly ambiguous wording to me or at least that's what I'm hoping! Anyway, back to the original question I don't think the club would want to sell him but as we've found out with Macca and Crowley if a club comes in with a price that they think more than matches or excels their valuation of him then he could well be sold. And it also depends a bit on which club comes in for him, if it was a Championship club or a club from a top tier league in another county, Jatta himself might feel it's an opportunity to good to turn down.

I still don't think it would've taken this long if we wanted to get Luke Williams back, even with the issue of compensation from Swansea. From our perspective the board know everything about him and wouldn't have really even needed to interview him. I just can't see why it would take a month to get him back, especially when they've known he's been available since February. Surely we'll hear something by the end of the week now though, it'll be pre-season soon!

This is Grimsby's new shirt for next season. The trim, the sponsor, the umbro logo all matching and tying to the red in the badge is superb. (Even if the sponsor is a tad large). I can't tell if the Rotherham shirt is a image that has been watermarked or if the shirt actually has some text and checkerboard within the black. If it's actually the design I don't think it really works on the stripes, looks a tad messy to me.

I’m sure a few season ago Juventus has a kind of jagged striped shirt, I quite like that and we've not ever had anything like that. Might upset the traditionalists though! What I’m really hoping for is that big red John Pye sponsor in the middle, that definitely doesn’t clash, again. That way we can continue to stick two fingers up at those colour theorists who think they know better!

My wild theory behind the delay relates to how we've had issues with the assistant head-coaches in previous seasons, Maurice Ross lasted about a week and then the Saunders Brothers left right in the middle of a promotion challenge with no other job lined up. (Completely not suspicious at all!). It meant the Luke Williams era aside, we’ve ended up with very inexperienced assistants both Doyle and Alves had to step in, and no disrespect, both were and are in their very early stages of their coaching careers. I wonder if we are trying to put a coaching team together, as opposed to just selecting a head coach and then letting him bring in whoever he wants? I agree it's probably more likely it’s all sorted and the new head-coach is/has been on holiday so will officially be unveiled when they return. I’m sure we’ve selected someone by now as it’s been nearly 4 weeks since Stuart departed (and the Bros & Roberto will have probably started planning long before that even happened!)