Ritchie Post Carlisle

RW was definitely cheesed off and doubtless he would believe that the playoffs were possibly, however unlikely that would be (and certainly more unlikely given Agyei is now out).

Ling mentioned bookies odds on promotion/relegation in his interview, which at the time struck me as slightly odd, but for me the pieces have fallen into place.

The board have discussed what the targets are for the rest of the season and whilst RW would have wanted to push on for the playoffs, I think the consensus was for consolidation. Consolidation for financial reasons and consolidation because had we by some miracle achieved promotion, the club is in no way ready for the Championship yet, either in squad terms or money terms. We would have spent 1 season there and have been relegated.

RW is ambitious, RW believes in himself and his ability to deliver, so accepting second best is never going to sit easy with him, but sometimes you just have to accept that what you want just can't be delivered yet.

Yes! The FA allows three methods only:-

Orient are now 12/1 to finish top six.Just saying

We are 2nd the form table for the last 8 games, over the last 8 games we are averaging 2.13 PPG, Dan Agyei has been a big part of that, by my reckoning if we can continue to maintain or better the 2.13 PPG we will probably finish the season in the play offs, although it's not impossible it will obviously be more difficult with Dan Agyei out for the remainder of the season.

RW is quite right aiming for the play offs and is undoubtedly fustrated that with Dan Agyei's injury being compounded with missing out on the striker in the transfer window.

Such situations create nothing but division and argument.  Nothing constructive comes from these sort of things.  Instead of talk of a good win, some really good goals and our pushing on with an outside chance of playoffs talk everywhere is overshadowed by comments on this.

Sides are being taken, for or against RW, for or against Ling, praise and criticism of the board.  Even a question suggested for the NT podcast to cover this. I hope it is not asked.  The evidence of how divisive these types of things are, are out there.  Frustrating. Unnecessary.

Evidence of poor management is plentiful. And surprising given this aspect of our club is generally very good.  It is sad, totally unnecessary and as I said divisive.

But your whole premise is wrong.

Again, he was asked about the ins and outs and answered honestly. That's fine. Your position only makes sense if he's pushing the issue himself. I agree that I'd rather it wasn't brought up to Nigel on the pod, but the problem there is fans making a bigger deal out of it than it is. In which case, you surely need to accept some responsibility for that yourself.

Come on mate, gimme some credit 😁

Champ TV money is 7-8 mill.

The notion of watching my team lose every weekend is pretty miserable to me, no matter how much live laugh love stuff you wanna tack onto it. Still, in the long run it could be a good thing. The problem comes from slinging more money than you can afford at trying to make the prem and failing.

And estaing, you'll be happy to hear that I was speaking only for myself.