[Lord Snooty]

Millwall v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Wednesday 22nd July - 19:30 ko
at The Den

Huddersfield Town travel down to the Smoke to visit Millwall on Wednesday with thankfully, nowt to worry about. That magnificent win at home to West Brom on Friday, followed by Saturday's results left us with only a mathematical meltdown that could send us down. Not only that, there would have to be a successful appeal by Wigan on their 12 point deduction as well. So we can positively say, we are not going down. And alongside us again in next season's Championship, should it ever get started, will be Millwall. Their defeat at QPR on Saturday ended their hopes of reaching the Play Off positions. A win would've left them two points behind sixth placed Cardiff and with something to play for, but it wasn't to be. They lost 3-4 at the Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium, with Jayson Molumby scoring a consolation in injury time, much too late to give them any hope.

So that's what I wrote last night, all ready to post after the games today when this happened...…..

Huddersfield Town has today relieved Danny Cowley of his duties as Manager.

Assistant Manager Nicky Cowley will also depart the Club immediately.

Huddersfield Town Chairman Phil Hodgkinson commented: “I would like to place my thanks on record to Danny and Nicky for their hard work and dedication towards securing the Club’s place in the Sky Bet Championship for next season. That was the clear priority when they were appointed in September and we are very grateful that has been achieved.

“We all wish Danny and Nicky all the best for the future and they leave with my best wishes in their future endeavours.

“However, we have made this decision in the belief that, in the long term, it is in the best interests of the Club as we move forward. We have a different vision for the way we operate the Club, and how our ambitions can be achieved.”

The Club are not seeking applications for the vacant position.

What on earth is going on?



A brief history of Millwall FC: They haven't actually played in Millwall since 1910. Formed as Millwall Rovers in 1885 by the workers of a canning factory, mainly Scottish lads who had come down to work at the new plant opened in 1872 by the Aberdeen based company, JT Morton. They played at four different venues in Millwall before moving to New Cross in 1910 to play at The Den.

The old Den

They joined the Football League in 1920/21 with the newly formed regional Third Division and one of their biggest results in those early years was beating the thrice champions, Huddersfield Town, 3-1 in the 1926/27 FA Cup. And in 1937 they reached the FA Cup semi finals, losing 2-1 to Sunderland at Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road Stadium. Town legend Dave Mangnall leading the line in that famous cup run, the first 3rd division team to reach the semis. Here's some old footage of the cup run. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any footage anywhere on t' internet of the game at Leeds Road.

They were on the brink of the First Division, when the Second World War broke out. The Den took a pounding from the Luftwaffe and when the war was over, so was Millwall's chance of reaching for the sky. By the end of the 1950s they had plummeted down the league and when the third divisions went national, they were in the 4th division. They won promotion in 1964/65 though and have never been back to the 4th tier.
A steady climb upwards led to the eventual promotion to the top flight of English football in 1988/89 under the management of John Docherty and with the goals of Tony Cascarino and Teddy Sheringham. They stayed there for a couple of seasons, finishing 10th in the first one, before finishing bottom in the second.
In 1993 they moved ground, to Bermondsey and the New Den. After initial success at the new all seater stadium, a slump saw them relegated in 1996, but as a third division club, they reached Wembley for the first time, losing the 1999 Auto Windscreens Trophy Final 1-0 to Wigan, a team who would become their nemesis by beating them again in the following season's Play Offs. They went up as champions in the season after this though, with a club record 93 points.
In 2004 they reached the FA Cup Final, losing to Man Utd 3-0, but as United had already qualified for Europe, this meant that Millwall would play in the following season's UEFA Cup. They lost in the first round to Ferencváros.
Relegated again in 2006, they won promotion back again in 2009/10, via the Play Offs, beating Swindon in the final at Wembley. They did, of course, beat us 2-0 on aggregate on their way there.
In 2013, Millwall once again reached the FA Cup semi finals, losing again to their old nemesis Wigan by two goals to nil.



Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 21 wins to Millwall's 18 with 7 draws.

Earlier this season we drew 1-1 at the John Smith's Stadium with Frazier Campbell scoring his first goal for us, before Matt Smith equalised for them. Late in the game Shane Ferguson was sent off for a foul on our dangerous, speedy winger Adama Diakhaby.

We did win on our last visit to the Den, in the 2014/15 season, under the leadership of Chris Powell. It was Sean Scannell who opened the scoring with a fine volley before Millwall equalised to make it level at half time. Town then went down to ten men when Nahki Wells was shown a second yellow card, but unlikely as it sounds, the Terriers went on to win, with goals from Jacob Butterfield and a James Vaughan penalty giving us victory. Question is, was this the last time we won when having had a man sent off?

That completed the double for us over the Lions. Nahki had scored twice in a 2-1 win at home in September. And it was Nahki again who won it for us in the previous season, coming off the bench for his Town debut and scoring the only goal of the game in the final minute. And that was part of another double over them as Vaughaney scored again in a 1-0 win down at the Den. In 2012/13, we beat them at home 3-0, Vaughaney again and a double from Jermaine Beckford. So when you tag on this season's 1-1 draw at the JSS, that's 6 games against them unbeaten. Earlier on in that season though, we got pumped 0-4 at the Den with that lanky streak of piss Chris Wood scoring two of them.

In 2009/10, Millwall beat us 2-0 on aggregate in the Play Off semi finals, which we will gloss over because it wasn't very good. We had beaten them 1-0 at home in the league campaign on Good Friday, with a Peter Clarke goal, but Captain Fantastic couldn't rally his boys enough for the intimidating atmosphere in May. We lost 0-2.

In 1980/81 as we were looking to achieve back to back promotions, it was Millwall who messed it up for us. In those pre Play Off days, the top 3 went up automatically and we had been in the top 3 since beating Barnsley 1-0 at home in February. However, a 0-1 defeat at home to the Lions saw us drop to 4th and stay there til the end of the season. There was a mini riot on the Leeds Road pitch after mainly teenage boys ran on to the pitch from the Cowshed end, trying to get at the Millwall fans. Embarrassingly, most of them ran back again when the Millwall fans ran back at them.





So what's happening down Cold Blow Lane? Managed nowadays by Gary Rowett, the former Burton Albion player and manager. He started out with Cambridge Utd during their glory years, in a team that reached the 2nd division (Championship) Play Offs that were beaten by Leicester City, and also made it as far as the quarter finals of the League Cup. That was under the notorious managership of John Beck.

This earned him a move to the Premier League as a promising 20 year old defender, but unfortunately only made 4 appearances and was loaned out to Blackpool. He was then transferred to Derby, spent three seasons there then went to Birmingham City. He helped the Brummies reach the Play Offs and then left for Leicester. He played for them in the Premier League, as well as Charlton Athletic where a persistent knee injury finished his career off.

Well not totally. He made a come back in the Conference with Burton Albion in 2005. Eventually, he became assistant manager there to Paul Peschisolido. By now the Brewers had made it into the Football League and Rowett was made permanent manager in 2012 and he led them twice to the League Two Play Offs, being beaten by Bradford City and then Fleetwood Town. His stock was rising though and he was then poached by one of his former clubs, Championship strugglers Birmingham City.

He took the Bluenoses from a relegation placing up to tenth in that first season and in the next, they were up to 7th when the club was taken over by new owners and he was unceremoniously dumped in favour of Gianfranco Zola, who took them back into the relegation battle.

Rowett wasn't out of work for long though as he went to manage another of the clubs he played for, Derby County. He was only there for one season, took them as high as second but eventually just qualified for the Play Offs in 6th. They were beaten in the semis by Fulham and he left them to go to recently relegated Stoke, making Tom Ince one of his first signings from us. He flopped though in this one and they were mostly involved in a relegation battle and he was relieved of his duties in January, spending the rest of the season as a tv pundit.

In October 2019, he became manager of Millwall, leading them to a comfortable mid table position when they started out the season as many pundits' favourites for the drop.

So who have the Lions got in their pride? They have a familiar face for Terriers fans in the shape of wee Murray Wallace, who came to us as a fresh faced 19 year old, partway through his breakthrough season with Falkirk. He and team mate Kallum Higginbotham both signed for Town on the final day of the 2012 January transfer window, but Murray was loaned straight back to the Bairns and by the end of the season he had himself a winners medal as they won the Scottish Challenge Cup.
When he returned to the John Smith's, he joined a squad that had been promoted to the Championship and was voted Young Player of the Season in his first full one with us. He made 51 appearances for us in his 4 years here, was loaned out to Scunthorpe and eventually signed permanently for the Iron in 2016. After over a hundred games for the Scunny Bunnies, he signed on at Millwall in 2018. He featured heavily in the Lions cup run last season, scoring winning goals against Everton and Wimbledon, but was suspended when the run ended at the quarter final stage against Brighton.

Murray's namesake, Jed Wallace, is no relation and started his career with Portsmouth, went to Wolves and then came initially on loan to Millwall before signing on proper in 2017. Up top the Lions have lanky streak of piss Matt Smith, who is always a bloody nuisance, having played for, amongst others, Dirty Leeds, Fulham, Bristol City and QPR. He scored in the drawn game at ours this season. Alongside him is Tom Bradshaw, who signed from Barnsley last year.

They have Mason Bennett on loan from Derby. He was Derby's youngest ever player, turning out for them as a 15 year old in 2011. He's now 23 and hasn't really progressed as much as his young potential would've suggested. Millwall are his 5th loan club and he was sent there this time after he was involved in the infamous car crash last September that saw himself and Tom Lawrence arrested and Richard Keogh sacked. If he plays in this match, he will have played against Huddersfield Town in the first and last matches of the season.

In goal will be Polish international (one cap), Bartosz Białkowski, who came on loan from Ipswich before making the move permanent in January. He had previously been at Southampton and Notts County. The spare keeper is ex Barnsley goalie Luke Steele, who is on loan from Nottingham Forest.

Jayson Molumby in midfield is a 20 year old on loan from Brighton and his injury time goal on Saturday was first goal of his career. He had come on as sub for ex Southend defensive midfielder Ryan Leonard, who signed from Sheffield Utd in 2018. Also in midfield they have Ryan Woods, who played for Shrewsbury and Brentford but is now at the Den on loan from Stoke. On the left of midfield is Northern Ireland international Shane Ferguson, who came to Millwall from Newcastle, having been on loan at Birmingham City and Rangers.

The skipper is Alex Pearce, a centre back who has spent the majority of his career at Reading, playing in their Championship winning team and the subsequent Premier League season. He left there for Derby in 2015, went on loan to Millwall in January last year, signing on full time in the summer. His centre back buddy is Newcastle born Shaun Hutchinson, who started his career in Scotland with Motherwell, but was originally at the famous Wallsend Boys Club. He went south to Fulham in 2014 and then crossed London to the Den in 2016. Another defender is ex Reading lad Jake Cooper. And making up the back four will be Antiguan, Mahlon Romeo. He is the son of Soul II Soul's frontman Jazzie B and started his football life at Gillingham.

Wee Murray Wallace

Club Connections:

Danny Schofield: returned to Huddersfield Town in February as an Academy coach for the under 19s, replacing Dean Whitehead who had gone to Shrewsbury. This came 22 years after he first joined the club from amateur side Brodsworth Miners Welfare in Doncaster. Signed by Peter Jackson, he had just made his debut in the final match of 1998/99 when Jacko was unceremoniously dumped by madman club owner Barry Rubery to be replaced with ex Sheffield Utd boss Steve Bruce.

Bruce came in with his own ideas and spent Barry's fortune on some quality players, gave us half a cracking season before it went tits up and just missed out on the Play Offs. Danny was limited therefore to only 4 sub appearances that season. The season after, Bruce got sacked halfway through and we got relegated. Danny still couldn't break through and only made one sub app.

Down in the 3rd division with Lou Macari in charge, Danny started to come through. He scored his first two goals in Terriers colours in a home match against Bury and contributed 8 goals in the campaign that saw us reach the Play Offs, where we were beaten by Brentford in the semis. He contributed 4 goals in the LDV Vans Trophy run, one of them a fantastic curler from the edge of the area in the Northern Final home leg against Blackpool that put us ahead in the tie, only for us to be denied a Wembley trip when the tangerine twats won it in extra time on the Golden Goal rule.

He didn't play much in the next season, scoring twice, as a strong looking forward line up of Andy Booth, Martin Smith and Jon Stead failed to keep us from going down to the Football League's basement division. But he did play a massive role in the next season, with Jacko back in charge, as we bounced straight back up. His first goal of the season came in dramatic fashion, running the length of the field to score away at Southend in the last minute as our brave lads broke away from their corner to grab a 2-1 victory. It was one of those season turning moments and the next match saw the famous Tony Carss goal at home to Torquay and suddenly we had gone from mid table obscurity to a place in the top 6.

He scored another late goal in another great match away at York City when Jacko brought on central defender David Mirfin on as an emergency striker. He set up Danny for the first before bagging one himself. Another super sub that came on to turn a match, ended up with daft Danny getting sent off. It was John McAliskey who came on and won a match with two late goals at home to Scunthorpe. So delighted was young Dan that he jumped into the crowd to celebrate, got yellow carded, his second of the match and had to do the walk of shame while we all celebrated wildly. Then of course came his two magnificently taken penalties in the Play Offs. One against Lincoln to bring the tie level after Boothy was brought down. And then of course, his well placed pen at the Millennium Stadium in the shoot out.

He had four more seasons with us and mid table mediocrity in League One before, in 2008 Stan Ternent took the manager's job and made Danny one of the first players to get shut of. He went on a free transfer to Yeovil. He had a season there before transferring to Millwall in 2009. At the New Den he had a couple of seasons, helping them reach the League One Play offs in 2010. Who did they play? Huddersfield Town. Danny didn't play at ours in the first leg, but he played the full 90 down at theirs when they beat us 2-0. They went to Wembley for the final and Danny played another full 90 as a goal from Paul Robinson saw them promoted with a 1-0 win against Swindon.

In a poll in 2019, Danny was voted, by the fans into Millwall's Team of the Decade on the left wing. After two years in London, he moved back north. He signed for Rotherham, had loan spells at Accrington and Stockport, before winding up his playing career with Bradford Park Avenue and FC Halifax Town.
He went into coaching with Park Avenue, then Leeds, Barnsley and Birmingham, before joining us from Middlesbrough in Feb.

Jack Cock: played for Town either side of the First World War and in the Brentford thread I touched on how he and Town skipper Fred Bullock turned out at Griffin Park as guests in the wartime league and how they became champions of the London Football Combination in the season after the war. Cock served in the army, becoming a Sergeant-Major and earnt the Military Medal for "Bravery in the Field" and was Mentioned in Despatches for "gallantry". He was reported as 'missing, presumed dead' at one point during the war. After this, they both returned north to resume their careers at Huddersfield Town. The Town however were in dire financial straits at this time and one of the first things they did about this was to sell Cock to Chelsea for a record fee of £2,500. This was shortly after he had won his first international cap for England.

He scored 9 goals in 18 games for Town, a career that lasted 6 years with little opportunity to play for us. His first goal was against Grimsby Town in December 1914 and his last came at Birmingham City in September 1919 shortly before his transfer. It was possibly his 4 goals in a 5-0 victory at home to Bury three weeks earlier that could've made Chelsea's mind up to sign him.

Jack Cock was born in 1893 in Hayle, Cornwall, but the family moved to London when he was a child and settled in Fulham. His first job was as a caddie at Burnham Beeches Golf Club, from which he was sacked for playing football with a golf ball on one of the greens. Golf clubs were obviously full of snobs even back then (apologies if you are a golf club snob). So he got a job in a foundry and started playing football for West Kensington Utd. Soon after he was offered a place at Brentford, who were in the Southern League then, from where he joined Huddersfield Town in 1914. War broke out and Jack joined the famous "Footballer's Battalion", as mentioned earlier earning himself the Military Medal for Bravery.

After the war, back in Yorkshire playing for Town, he earned an England cap and then got his second England cap after his transfer to Chelsea. And despite scoring in both matches, they were his only two international caps. In his first season at Chelsea, he scored 24 goals and helped them to 3rd in the First Division, their highest finish at the time and also reached the FA Cup semi finals.

That summer though, he began his other career as a film star, playing himself in a silent movie called The Winning Goal. This led him to another alternative career. He had a fine tenor voice and as such became a star in the music halls. Such was his success at this that he considered packing in football to take this up full time, but stayed at Stamford Bridge, totalling 47 goals in 99 matches before transferring back up north, signing for Everton in 1925.

Up in Liverpool he continued to work the halls, playing 69 times for the Toffees, scoring 29 goals. Then he had a couple of seasons at Plymouth scoring 72 goals in 90 matches, before going back to London in 1927 and becoming a Millwall legend. He scored twice on his debut for the Lions in a 9-1 win against Coventry City.

He finished as top scorer in his three seasons at the Den, totalling 77 goals and helping them win promotion to the 2nd division. And all through this time he continued to entertain the masses in the Music Halls and even had a signature song, My Blue Heaven, which reports of the time say the audience always joined in lustily with the chorus.

Haven't got him singing it, but here's a recent version of the song, sung by James Taylor.



He left Millwall in 1931, winding down his football career at Folkestone, but before his retirement he had starred in another football themed film, The Greater Game, in 1930. Filmed mainly at Stamford Bridge, it has the first credited role for Rex Harrison.

He continued with the singing career and landed a record deal with Parlaphone Records and toured the country. Later he would become manager back at Millwall, leading them to the Wartime Cup Final in 1945. He spent 4 years as manager there, before becoming a pub landlord at the White Hart in New Cross.

He died in Kensington in 1966, aged 72. Surely one of the most famous people to have played for Huddersfield Town.

Dave Mangnall: signed for Town from Leeds Utd in December 1929 as a replacement for George Brown, who had departed for Aston Villa in the summer. It was a case of replacing Huddersfield Town's leading goal scorer with a man who would go on to have the Town's greatest goals to matches ratio, scoring 73 goals in 90 matches. He was another who had come from working darn t' pit. As the saying used to go, Huddersfield Town just went and shouted down the nearest pit shaft when they needed a new striker. Dave had gone darn t' pit in t' first place because he was rejected after a trial at Town and went to play as an amateur for Doncaster Rovers.

He was given another chance by Leeds Utd and scored ten goals for their reserves in one match, a 13-0 win against Stockport County reserves. This led to him being picked for their first XI and his 6 goals in 9 matches for the BellEnders impressed Clem Stephenson enough to persuade the directors of Huddersfield Town to fork out the princely sum of £3,000 for him.

He made his Town debut in a 0-2 defeat down at the Arsenal, but scored his first Town goals, two of them, in a 3-2 win at West Ham on Christmas Day 1929 and scored again on Boxing Day as West Ham came up north and were beaten 3-0 with Bob Kelly and Harry Raw getting the others. He scored 8 goals in 14 matches that season, but didn't get selected for the FA Cup Final when we lost 0-1 to the Arsenal, Harry Davies getting the nod ahead of him.

In the following season he scored 9 goals in 12 games as Town finished 5th in the first division. But the next season, 1931/32, Mangnall set his name in stone in the Huddersfield Town record books. We finished 4th in the league, but that was mainly down to Dave's 42 goals in 39 matches (33 in the league), which is still a club record, only Jordan Rhodes has come anywhere near since. He scored 5 goals in a 6-0 win over Derby County, which young Jordan did manage to match against Wycombe Wanderers, but they are the only two Town players to have done so. Dave did get another record that nobody has come anywhere near matching though and that is the club record for scoring in consecutive matches. He scored in 11 straight matches (7 league, 4 FA Cup, 19 goals). He did score in 9 straight league matches, but in between those was another famous match in which Town failed to score. That was the FA Cup quarter final match at Leeds Road against the Arsenal, which was attended by 67,037 people, another club record that will definitely never be beaten. Arsenal won 1-0.

Town finished 6th next season, but without the Mangnall boy who only played three times due to a serious injury. He was back in 33/34, playing in 16 games and scoring 10 goals as Town finished as runners up to Arsenal, who were completing their hat trick of titles, but without Herbert Chapman who had died earlier in the year.

His last game for Town was in a 0-3 defeat at Stoke in January 1934 and his last goal for Town was in the previous game, a 1-1 draw against Leeds Utd at Bellend Road. Injury ruled him out for the rest of the season and in the summer he was sold to Birmingham City, where he scored 14 goals in one season, before going down to London to play for West Ham. He scored 28 times in his one season at Upton Park before leaving to become a legend at their neighbours Millwall. During the 36/37 season his goals led the Lions to the FA Cup semi finals, the first 3rd division team to reach that stage. On the way they beat Aldershot, Gateshead, Fulham, Chelsea, Derby and then in the quarter finals they beat Manchester City, who were, as now, the star studded team of the day. Mangnall scored the first goal in the match at the Den, in which Millwall won 2-0 to earn a semi spot, to be played against Sunderland at one of Dave's old stamping grounds, the wonderful Leeds Road stadium in Huddersfield. There must have been a fair few Town supporters cheering him on in another big crowd of 62,813 as he opened the scoring in the semi final, but Sunderland came back to win 2-1 and go on to win the cup against Preston at Wembley.

Dave was famous now and as such went and asked for a pay rise from the Millwall management. This was long before players had any power at all and so he left the club to run a grocers shop in Sutton Coldfield. As the second world war was just kicking off, he returned to London and signed for QPR. Scored 3 times in three games for Rangers, which were crossed off as the fledgling season was abandoned. He stayed in London for the Blitz, playing for the QPR team in the Wartime League and becoming manager in 1944.

He must've been some kind of celebrity because he became friends with the American singer/comedian/film star Sophie Tucker, who became Godmother to his son. He stayed at Loftus Road as boss after the war and remained in the post until 1952. It was his only managers job as he left football to go live in Cornwall as landlord of the Navy Inn in Penzance. It was here that he died in 1962, aged 57.

Post Lockdown Form:
Town 2-1 West Brom
Sheff Weds 0-0 Town
Town 0-2 Luton
Reading 0-0 Town
Town 0-0 Preston
Birmingham 0-3 Town
Forest 3-1 Town
Town 0-2 Wigan

QPR 4-3 Millwall
Millwall 1-0 Blackburn
Hull 0-1 Millwall
Millwall 0-2 M'boro
Charlton 0-1 Millwall
Millwall 1-1 Swansea
Barnsley 0-0 Millwall
Millwall 2-3 Derby

Town are 18th in the Championship table with 51 pts. Millwall are 9th with 65.



'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: You can catch the match live on one of these.

Millwall in popular culture: Quite depressingly, the only stuff about Millwall in popular culture is about football hooliganism. Millwall itself is now a completely different looking place to the one in which those Scottish lads set up the football team back in the arse end of the 19th century.

Millwall Dock

The only sports club in the area nowadays is the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre



Millwall FC of course now play in Bermondsey, south-east London, and that was featured in a song in the 1965 British musical comedy film, Three Hats for Lisa, starring Sid James, Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy and Una Stubbs. Here's old Sid and the gang singing it.  

Goodbye and good luck, boys.  

[jjamez]

Huddersfield Town. The gift that keeps on giving

[talkSAFT]

Great read, Snooty.

[Lord Snooty]

Great read, Snooty.  

Thanks. I started it before lockdown. Thought at one time it was all going be wasted.  

[Lord Snooty]

Terry the Terrier to take caretaker's role for this match.

[Lord Snooty]

Well, well, well! I never expected this when I wrote my match thread and featured Danny Schofield. He's taking charge of the first team for this match. He will have Paul Clement, Jon Worthington and Tommy Elphick assisting him.

Who did Danny work with in his time with the Leeds Utd Academy? Carlos Corberán.

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And the one thing I omitted from the article was, as it turns out, the one thing that turned out to be the most relevant. The winning of the PDL Northern League 2018/19 Season with Leeds.

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In my defence though, I'm sure his Wikipedia page has just been updated.

[SHEP_HTAFC]

Great read m'lud.
Whatever has gone on in the last few days at this bloody club, the one thing that is fantastic is that we don't have to worry about this game.
I know we are not mathematically safe, but come on, we are safe. What a bloody relief.
From where we were when the Cowleys took over, that really is nothing short of a miracle.
Didn't like the Cowley's style of play so want the new person in to be more attack minded.

[Lord Snooty]

Schofield hinting about kids in the squad.

[jjamez]

Probably be in place of players carrying knocks like Campbell and those the club are probably going to say goodbye to

I'd say we might not see Campbell, King maybe even one of kache or quaner in the squad

Instead we might see high and daly in there to name two

[WakeyTerrier]

Probably be in place of players carrying knocks like Campbell and those the club are probably going to say goodbye to

I'd say we might not see Campbell, King maybe even one of kache or quaner in the squad

Instead we might see high and daly in there to name two

Wouldn't bother me if Campbell and King never played for us again. Big Col is obviously out of the door and that wouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
Kachunga, he was my favourite player and my Player of the season in the promotion season but he's a shadow of that player now so again no surprise if he's out of the door. Just a shame the fans can't say thanks for his service.

Play the fringe players, give them chance to show what they can do even if both sets of teams are carrying a suitcase around with them.

Soon be September and the start of the new season, we surely have to be better than the previous two years...yes?