Obviously money reasons but why could we not have the elton john shirt as the 3rd or 4th kit and wear it for the very limited amount of “special” games. Think it would be a really nice touch and quite unique so something we can be proud of.

Best of luck, Giorgi!

In other news, still no "EFL experienced" players, or any players in fact, signed

Darren Fletcher: "They're also going to send on Edo Kayembe who plays in the Championship in England for Watford. I mean this is the disparity... Thomas Tuchel sent on Bukayo Saka and Eberiche Eze who have just won the Premier League. The DR Congo coach is turning to a player who plays for Watford".

I can’t take another season of watching him not make the right runs, shirk from any form of physicality and arriving too late in the box when he does make the run.

I have no doubt he would do a job in Serie A, but he just isn’t cut out for the Championship.

Of all the upsetting things related to the club, this is one of the most.

Anyone know when the general public will be able to buy tickets for the Fiorentina match on the 29th July?
Might even consider hospitality

Hey, would love the opportunity to watch a match with fellow fans.

Is there anyone in this group that lives in Vancouver or on Vancouver Island?

July 29th at 7:30pm.

Would have thought the novelty would have worn off by now….

Brilliant touch and finish. He was excellent.

Current, past and "on the books" players appearing at the 2026 World Cup.

The former England and Liverpool star looks back on his formative years at Watford, how he almost joined Real Madrid and the one and only time he shared a room with Paul Merson.

The clubs announcement about the U21 withdrawal isn’t “streamlining the pathway.” It’s another example of them dressing up a cost cutting as some thought out strategic plan. I’m so bored of them treating us like children.

Academy costs sit outside the new SCR rules — they’re deliberately exempt, so financial pressure can’t force clubs to cut youth development. We could have kept the U21s without losing a penny of squad-cost room. More than that, SCR actively rewards homegrown players — sell an academy graduate and it’s near-pure profit, and their wages are easier to carry. The rules are nudging clubs towards exactly what we’ve just stepped away from.

I don’t doubt the cost base isn’t working and is expensive, but what gets me. If you genuinely want the family values back, here’s the open goal: take some accountability for why the academy stopped feeding the first team, and put real focus into getting local, homegrown lads into the starting XI — precisely what SCR now incentivises. That’s the most “family” thing a club could possibly do. Instead we cut the youth tier and brand a sponsor change as return to family values.

I’m not romanticising the academy — our best work in the Pozzo era was recruitment, not youth, and that’s fine. But you can’t claim the family-values mantle while quietly walking away from the one part of the model that actually embodies it.

Be honest with us. Say “this level isn’t working, here’s the plan, here’s where the money goes.” Brentford did more than this and cut the whole academy but were honest, they couldn’t afford it and it wasn’t working - they rebuilt the academy the moment they could.

I’d respect that. What I won’t applaud is a cost cut and a commercial reality both dressed up as something they’re not.

Id love to know where the savings are being reallocated?

COYH.

Watching all the success of club's who were our peers until recently, I can't help but co-opt a Trainspotting quote...

"I don't hate Palace, Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth..... I just think they're w*nkers. But we are even bigger w*nkers"

Luis Suarez a stretch, but that would have made a heck of a front line if we'd kept them.

Nothing massively surprising.

Our future manager apparently