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I went through a historical fiction phase. Must have read around 40 Bernard Cornwell books during Covid. Conn Iggulden has written fantastic series about Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar.

Love a musician biography. Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton is a lovely read. Love the Brian Wilson autobiography Wouldn’t It Be Nice. Only one I’ve struggled with was Torment Saint about the life of Elliot Smith. Great music but a deeply troubled bloke

Listening to Robinson's press conference today, he seems keen on keeping Morrison and Olusanya.

For the whole season, or just at the business end when it looks like they might not make the playoffs?

I'll try harder.

Maybe he will get the Spurs job next season

Are you Red John in disguise???

Ted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gv457vreeo

I’m only there because there isn’t enough chat in here . When you find you were responsible for the last 3 posts in a thread you start to realise you might be having a conversation with yourself and need to find new avenues.

Imagine moving from one Dons message board to another. Wouldn't catch me doing that. I wonder how Red John is getting on?

If that’s the case then surely the time to sack him was Christmas but now they are down they probably would be better keeping him to get promoted again then punting him.

Judas

A lot of that has to do with their names and their haircuts. It was clear after Polvara was forced out for looking too much like Milne, that we were going to have to address the three you mention.

That hat is mental. The Pub section is full of entitled bile. Very hunnish at times. I have read P&B but never took to the leap to joining it.

Always reading min, but no Alan Bennett lately.

Roughly 2 minutes after this season ends, I’ll have no idea who most of these players are and couldn’t pick them out a line up. Are Bilalovic, Milanovic and Lazetic really three different people? They’ve all just morphed into the same blob of shite to me

I suspect it's his getting clubs relegated to the Championship record that has prompted this.

Has the club said or done anything that indicates we'll spend less this year or is it just speculation? Cormack hasn't scaled back yet and I'm not sure this will be a summer where he could do it given the amount of new players that will be needed.

Bit odd as Parker has decent record of getting teams promoted out of English Championship.

Scott Parker sacked by Burnley following their relegation.

That place is something else. I usually go in to read but not post as this forum moves pretty slowly. It’s wild. Spend more time bickering and calling each other out than actually trading ideas and thoughts. I’ve started posting in P&B, quite like the multi-club nature of it but the Dons population is small so slow moving. Very little OF intrusion and lots of StM, Motherwell, Livi types although it’s clogged with Jambos at the moment telling us how brilliant they are.

Suspect there were probably two objectives for recruitment if we are clutching at some sort of plan. Player trading (the gambling) and playing system (4231/inverted wingers/transitional/flood the zone/bla bla). Feels like there are competing priorities to it, Cormack wants us to be financially sustainable so successful player trading is demanded. Thelin/Lutz wanted to force a system that is too easy to play against in Scotland unless you have the funds to buy players that are miles ahead of the rest. Result is a cluster fuck of signings we can’t mould into a team. If we are cutting back on spending and so can’t perform major surgery on that squad then Robinson is going to need to be able to work JBA level miracles. He did make Philips into a moderately decent prem midfielder so there is hope I guess….

Yup. Reckon we’ll see some experimenting with systems and trying players out in last few games if we get 3 points here. Probably back to 4 defenders and try out a bit of width.

Still reading Alan Bennet novellas?

It strikes me that nobody has done an analysis of the last year's signings yet: Suman (s) - fail Bratveit (s) - success Gyamfi (s) - jury's out Frame (s) - success Elvis (s) - success Dorrington - fail Morrison - success McIntyre (s) - fail Aouchiche - success/fail Armstrong (s) - success Geiger - fail Aremu (s) - jury's out Kjartansson (s) - fail Cameron - success Karlsson - fail Milanovic (s) - fail Bilalovic (s) - fail Olusanya - success Yengi (s) - fail Lazetic (s) - fail Nisbet (s) - success Think that's everyone. Criteria for success is simply fulfilling the intention of the signing. For example, Armstrong was signed as a first team regular, Frame as a development player getting minutes, Elvis to cover in the last few games if required. Karlsson was signed as a superstar and so fails (mainly because I hate him). Aouchiche fulfilled his brief, but left early. Dorrington is better than Morrison but didn't feature in the way Morrison has. Geiger is better than Aremu but has spent too long injured or suspended. Aremu is jury's out because he is a long term signing (I should perhaps have split into long term and loans), who I think we may see relegated to bit part player in time (depending on his preseason). Gyamfi too. 21 signings in a season, with 7 loanees and 2 short terms is a sign of a failed system. Of the 12 signings, to only have 5 successes, with one being the already proven Nisbet, the sub keeper and another being Elvis, is astoundingly bad. Really, we're looking at about 20-30% success. We should be aiming for 60%. Armstrong's success is also tempered by the fact that he hasn't been fit enough to play two games per week, and that will likely be worse next season. Frame is the only one who stands out as a good signing, who will likely improve over time. An absolute disorganised disaster of a season for recruitment. No clear plan, far too many gambles and too many players in a similar mould. A real concern that we don't have the slightest clue what we're doing and that there are real problems with the underlying system. Last summer shouldn't have happened, as was clear last summer.