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When we lose on Saturday do we expect to be managerless by Monday Lunchtime?

My options 1 Brady took a dislike to Clarke and Paton either based on their personality or he had been fed a line by DMs sidekicks. 2 Stockley wasn’t prepared to go. So stuck around until the end of season. Brady told him he wasn’t going to be played so Stockley gave in. I don’t hold with the theory that it was about money. Brady is just a bad tempered pillock.

Football recruitment references are very public though aren't they? One Google of Lee darnbrough tells you all you need!

Yes, thats the oldest trick in the book with getting somebody moved on or sold. Happens in football all the time.

Splodge have you been on the black creamy stuff this morning 😜😍😍😍

This further proves that when Moore left all the backroom staff etc should have gone too.

There hasn't been anything to suggest that stockley being moved on and replaced with Faal was anything other than Brady preferred Faal. He's made it perfectly clear that Faal was his man. A shocking miscalculation.

I tried to apply the special offer for Cardiff away tickets in April and I’ve never recovered properly from the ordeal. I suspect you may have to stand in The Big Queue on Saturday.

Just looking to buy tickets, never seen so many available seats this far into sales week. Anybody figured out how to get the Family ticket yet? Can only seem to get Adult and a U14 separately at the minute. Supposed to be a couple of quid cheaper doing it as the family ticket.

We also change formation with each manager: Aspin 442 but said he preferred 352 Askey 433 Clarke 352 Crosby 3421 Moore 343 Brady 433 We've kind ended up back with Askey's formation but with half the team recruited to play 343/352 under Moore. Football in general has become a lot more turgid to watch because different systems do cancel out others. However, I'm not sure you ever end up with an effective squad for any formation unless you give a manager time to work through a squad to play the way a manager preferred. Something Brian Clough pointed out several times during his managerial career.

If it transpired that all these crazy @ss player out movements have been imposed on JB from the great and the good above him, personally I would be inclined to cut him a lot more slack - although for me, its probably a mix of budgets, his preference to having pliable players under him, coupled with just not being a very good manager - which could well equate to us being in a different division next season - in the worst kind of way 🙈

Smith Gabriel Montsma Hall John Hall Dempsey Croasdale Asamoah Garrity Hernandez 442, nobody else is going to get a goal so stick Ben and Onel up front together.