:?: Surely must have got something given the development rules or does that just go out the window if a player is not offered a new deal and released? His loss was Stam’s doing wasn’t it? You need to offer a new contract on at least equal terms in order to get compensation, which we didn't do. If h...

Don’t think many were released, most chose to not accept new deals. We got a decent amount for Antonio. We got fees for Antonio, Cooper, and Stacey. Osho declined a new contract, not sure if we ultimately got compensation from Luton but don't think so. The only one who was truly released was McClea...

Done well since leaving... Garath McCleary - becoming a bit of a club legend at Wycombe. Gabriel Osho - played in the PL with Luton, now at Ligue 1 Auxerre. Michael Antonio - a very good career in the PL with West Ham. Jack Cooper - ever present at Millwall. Jack Stacey - gone on to have a pretty g...

Saluko but above all others and because how his signing symbolised the dreadful management of our club it has to be Saluko as first pick. Thought you were talking about John Salako at first, and that seemed very harsh. Seems you were talking about Sone Aluko and merged the spelling with Salako.

All worthwhile questions. I think ultimately the purpose of the Academy is to produce players for the first team (or, if you're a little more cynical, for sale). So if we're getting the likes of Garcia as genuine first team players then it doesn't matter what the U18 results are. Five current U18s h...

I get it, and while he wasn't on Clyne's level, and never got established in the prem, it still feels harsh to include him in the 11 with those others! But as you say, who else goes at RB? Shame. I actually think Yiadom has been more disappointing than Gunter but yeah, he was never hyped up as much...

XI of "not necessarily terrible but didn't deliver on huge reputations" Mihalyov (or Mannone) Gunter Oxford Keown Rahman Drenthe (c) Drinkwater Guthrie John Pogrebnyak Puscas Subs: Grabban, Vydra, Martin, Sharp, Baldock, Aluko, Piazon, Halilovic, A. Ferdinand, Ilori, Bridge, L. Ferdinand ...

XI of "not necessarily terrible but didn't deliver on huge reputations" Mihalyov (or Mannone) Gunter Oxford Keown Rahman Drenthe (c) Drinkwater Guthrie John Pogrebnyak Puscas Subs: Grabban, Vydra, Martin, Sharp, Baldock, Aluko, Piazon, Halilovic, A. Ferdinand, Ilori, Bridge, L. Ferdinand C...

Drenthe No. He was a shit signing but I can forgive him everything for that one night he absolutely rinsed Leeds at Elland Rd. 'greed. Entertaining, obvious "quality", and enough good performances to comfortably be above Brooker or Popa or Aluko. Obviously he was grossly overpaid, unfit, ...

Find it quite hard to think of a worst XI, but then I see my own post from 2022 and basically agree with it. Would now feel comfortable drafting Ashcroft ahead of Halford. Best XI is boring, it's just the 2005/06 side with one of them dropped for Gylfi - only question is whether it is a striker or H...

People on Twitter calling for the return of Andresson is ludicrous. His loan at Carlisle last season was a horror show, and he's now on loan in the Icelandic 2nd division, which is presumably part time given their population is approximately the same size as Berkshire. I suspect Button is the least...

So I think that means the players who have made their debut for us but aren't qualifying are CBC, Norcott, Stickland, Kanu, Abrefa, Senga, Sackey, Osho, Akande, and Tuma.

I'm pretty sure Kanu is injured, so it would be very difficult for us to not pick an eligible squad.

Sutekh

morganb Kelvin E out for three months

(Earnshaw on Twitter - https://x.com/james_e1871/status/185276 ... Ua2ow&s=19 )

Severe tendon injury in his hip.

Disaster, severely limits our options.

Hope St Louis gets on. He came on against Monaco, I struggled to differentiate him from Bowdrey and McMillan who came on at the same point but I think he was on the left wing and did a couple of good things. He might have been the left back though. Rushesha isn't going to break into our team in midf...

Can someone smarter than me let me know about the rules for the Bristol Motors cup? I believe there’s a rule that you have to play a certain amount of players from your previous game in the next trophy game. Does this include previous league game or will Saturdays FA Cup game count ? Whatever the a...

The morning after does little to erase what happened last evening. Spurred on by a good size vocal crowd AFC Dunstable were fully deserving of their ‘ giant killing ‘ tag. For the Royals Bowdery was MoM and i thought the tall defenders Dove and Duah were decent also. We also were not able to play o...

Awful result. Didn't watch so can't comment on the performance. Dunstable are in the Southern Division One Central, i.e. the eighth tier. I'd got it into my head that we lost to eighth-tier Royston Town once but I think I'm getting confused, as far as I can tell we lost to Arsenal when we would have...

I say we sack Selles, sell the whole first team in January, and use Dai's millions + Kia + Chelsea loans to buy a new squad.

stealthpapes An in-form, on-song Louis Barry is a cheat code at this level.

Remember when we had a former Barcelona midfielder?

Don't answer that.

How under strength is our academy though? The best ones are in the first team or got sold to fund the club. Maybe we were outclassed tonight, but the fact we've beaten the likes of Ajax and Spurs recently shows the depth of talent in the academy. The odd result like this is nothing to be ashamed of...