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Get it uploaded man. Need to make a decision about which shirt I'm going to wear, and who I'm going to keep in my pocket.

Any advance on the team selections? Need to start giving some shit to the opposition so we can get a bit of bite in to the games. <Insert violent sliding tackle gif here>

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I am interested in eating. Count me in for multiple meals.

You appointing yourself director of football mate? I hope you have a full dossier on each player, scouting reports and such like. Not just relying on grainy YouTube clips.

Although you could still boycott them on the grounds that he always will be a massive piece of shit.

When you're assessing player quality just remember I'm old, have shit knees, am overweight, and my style of play is far more suited to 11-a-side football where I can hide my deficiencies with long range sprayed passes and a dominant aerial performance.

I'm confirmed for this now. All booked up. I'll be able to be be in town by about 7 on the Friday I'd imagine.

Massive night tomorrow, little Hampton & Richmond Borough, the mighty Beavers, live on BT Sports againts Oldham. Been getting more and more excited as we get closer to the game. Will be nearly 3000 there, Oldham haven't sold their 450 allocation - which isn't surprising as it is a Monday night and on the telly. Ridiculous decision to move to the Monday given the distance Oldham fans would have to travel. Would have made more sense to be the Saturday or Sunday game. I don't give us much chance other than the usual 'anything can happen on the night' possibility. Oldham are in poor form but we've been poor for the last five weeks with the exception of our 4Q Rd game. Still, win or lose will be a big day for the club. The TV fee alone is £75k, plus the nearly £60k prize money we have won so far will enable to manager to make improvements to the squad and keep the club bank account healthy for a couple of seasons. The 2nd round draw is being held in the club bar before the game too, and that is the first time we'll have our name in the second round draw, so we're getting plenty of exposure. Enjoy the game if you watch it on tv, we'll put a good atmosphere on for sure. BEEEEAAAAAVVVVVEEEERRRRRRSSSSSS! #vivalabeaver

Yeah, I can't make this. Too much on at work and not enough money to spare. If there is a plan for something towards the back end of the season, and with enough notice, I'd be interested.

Made me think of the Dads Army episode..." You too are going on the list. What is your name?"..."Don't tell him Pike!" Spot on though: utter cretinous things to be saying from Shola. Tripe as a player and tripe opinions re the club. Shoot the fucker. I was thinking more of Arya Stark's kill list in GOT. Just casually sitting here sharpening my blade reciting over and over again. Ashley, Charnley, Pardew, The Bishop, Joe Fucking Kinnear, The Imp (Wise, obvs), David Craig, Shola.....there's room for some more.

Anyone hear him on sky before the game? 'All credit to Mike', 'No debt', 'Sound financial footing'. How does he not get it? Played under SBR, came through the youth during KK's time, was here when the shit hit the fan with Keegan's second spell. Idolised by fans despite an utterley average career. Good one Shola, you're going on the list now.

We're away to Truro City tomorrow. Giving it a miss, we've got them at home in the 4th Qual the week after too. Seriously hope that doesn't go to a replay. Not sure how I'd get to/from Cornwall on a Tuesday night. Generally we are out of the cup by now though, only made R1 twice.

Hope it goes better for you than when I was there for that game last season. Ye got thumped. Unsurprisingly, Hamburg have looked abysmal the last two games. The defending tonight in particular has been hilariously bad.

Put me down as a maybe. It'll be a late call dependent on the equation of wife+cash+work creating the right outcome.

They have tried to improve the structure but the problem is the leagues at step 7. Having three leagues doesn't work. There should be 2 or 4 but none of them are prepared to accept change as they all believe they are the best and don't want to dilute the pool of clubs. Also, if you look at the pyramid as a map, there are way more step 7, 8 and 9 clubs in the south east than anywhere else. It's so skewed that the conference north has had teams from Essex playing in it. It's a huge expense to move up from local leagues to even regional. Most clubs wouldn't survive so they don't apply for promotion, players also don't always want to move through. Unless they seriously think they can make it they might as well stay at a lower level. It's basically a system that has been fucked for a long time and isn't likely to ever get fixed.

I'll make a late decision as to whether or not I make this. I'm not coming up for the Brentford game now so it's possible I could make it. Doubt I'll know till the week before.

St Albans 2-4 Hampton and Richmond Borough. 1000 or so in attendance. Hampton go joint top with Maidenhead in National League South after 8 games. Not bad as its our first season back at that level after four years. #vivalabeaver.

Really? I've always found the place to be a complete vacuum. I haven't been to hamlet for that reason, not sure it's the authentic non-league day out! Bromley's normal. Plenty of other games to get to. Tooting & Mitcham are at home as are Beckenham Town. Cray, VCD and Dartford (who have an eco-friendly stadium) all at home if you want to go a bit further out. I'm debating heading to St Albans as Hampton & Richmond Borough are playing there but I'm not sure if I can be arsed, should be a good game though as both teams have started the season well and Sir Les is due to be in attendance.

Did you guys plan this after you saw my post about coming up for the Brentford game the week before?

Speaking as a resident of Brentford, he's really highly thought of. Have spoken to a few guys who watch them regularly and they all say he's been there outstanding player the last two seasons. He's certainly worth a punt but you'd hope we aren't putting all our eggs in his basket.

Elk? Had some good times in the Elk. If I didn't have a big final tomorrow I'd be in the slug after the game. Absolutely filthy place.

What the fuck is that ? Is that Merson. Fuck, I'm gonna struggle keeping a straight face when he comes in later to pick up some money.

Got the right hump when I questioned if him and his brother had the same dad.

This bloke actually wants Arsenal or Spurs to win the league. GTFO!

I'm not sure we looked that much better last night. A small improvement yes, but we still looked devoid of ideas and liable to fall apart at any moment. The problems in our team are huge and I'm not sure Rafa has enough time or the personnel available to sort it out. Yes, maybe we should have had a penalty and yes, maybe Vardy could have been given offside but the long and short of it is, we created hardly anything of note and Leicester barely had to break a sweat to beat us. Sunday will be all blood and thunder, 100 mile an hour, physical, turgid and downright dirty football. I'm not sure we have it in us to go at it like that head to head with the scum who will turn up ready to pull our ears off and gouge our eyes out in order to get the win. I'm hovering between an 8 and a 9 purely because there are still so many games to go and the league is unpredictable. I think we need more than just to beat Sunderland and Norwich, maybe as many as four wins just to be close to getting out of it. I just can't see it.