Despite a 100 mile trip, my grandson built up 6 home pts last season (2 friendlies, 2 U21s & 2 Women's). Not even enough for the only home #afcb friendly unless it goes to 1 point. He may end the season with fewer points than he started with. Disappointing!

Interim update on #afcb squad age/contract length. Let me know of errors/omissions. I've included returning loanees. A few missing as Transfermarkt doesn't show contract date. I'll update it again when the window closes. NB: I was asked for this on Twitter so I'll have to post it there too.

I bailed out at half-time to watch a Polish crime drama. I think I got the best deal. Dear me!

It would be good if Frank, Silva, Glasner & Iraola all said no to Spurs. I think Allardyce is available. #afcb

Hypothetical question about #afcb ticket price. They didn’t go up for 6/7 years before we got to the PL. If we’d never made it and were still in L1/2, would they be: a) lower, to attract a full crowd to see that level of football; or b) higher, as it would be our main revenue source?

It’s that time of the year with no football and our club is failing miserably to make hourly announcements so I’ll do it… - Iraola signs 10 year contract; - Kerkez turns down a move to “finish the project at #AFCB”; - max pts holders can buy season tickets; - all prices frozen forever.

#afcb 2024/25 v 2023/24 stats: Pts ⬆️ 8 (16.7%) Pos ⬆️ 3 (15%) Won ⬆️ 2 (15.4%) Lost ⬇️ 4 (25%) Scored ⬆️ 4 (7.4%) Conceded ⬇️ 21 (31.3%) ⬅️ wow!! World class Performance Centre open Repurchased Dean Court Profit on Huijsen: £13,795 for every PL minute played! ⬅️ also wow!! Not a bad season.

Fun fact: Leicester finished on 25pts and a GD of -47. It means Enes Unal's stunning 90th min equaliser v West Ham on 16th Dec (GW 16) made us 'retrospectively' mathematically safe! That is 6 game weeks earlier than our previous best last year.

#afcb bought Dean Huijsen from Juventus for £12.8m; Sold to Real Madrid for £50m; 10% of profit to Juventus (£3.72m). If he plays the whole game on Sunday he’ll have played 2,500 PL mins. That is a profit of £13,392 per minute!

New world record for VAR? 58:52 Forest get a free kick 60:07 Free kick taken (1:15 delay) 60:09 Goal scored (VAR check) 66:23 Goal confirmed (6:14 delay) 66:43 West Ham kick-off Before VAR we had to go with the ref. Surely VAR should have max 30 secs to prove the ref wrong?

Whatever happens these 5 clubs will end the season 8th to 12th (though it could be in any order). There is a certain similarity in all 5 of them and their recent history. #afcb

Assuming Huijsen actually does play the last 2 games for #afcb, (and I hope we do get the chance to say goodbye) what happens if he picks up a serious injury?

With Boro's season over, does that make Travers available as back-up keeper for our last 2 games? #afcb

10 years ago when #afcb hit the big time: front page on WSC. Luckily none of those three speech bubble came true. 🙃

That’s as ridiculous as the Kluivert one against Chelsea.

2024/25 is the first PL season #afcb have not even flirted with relegation. We have never been lower than 14th - match week 2 after 2 draws. (It should've been 6th but for Dango's 'handball goal'!) In fact, since beating Spurs in match week 14 we have not been out of the top half.

Everton, Man Utd, Spurs, Wolves & West Ham all won cups in the 50s & 60s, have massive stadiums and yet #afcb will finish above all of them in the world’s greatest league. That can’t be right. Something HAS to be done about the stupid points system. It’s ruining the game.

If you were at the Emirates yesterday you probably think you had a pretty good day. But I was at the Emirates yesterday on my birthday. Many thanks for the wonderful gifts #afcb

Familiar! #afcb

Good news re Eva! We know #afcb can’t get the pts back even though we ‘know’ we would’ve held on. But… If such an error caused a club to miss a title or get relegated (as in 2020), would/could they sue? “It’s always us”, “club badge” etc, but is there any data on such things for all clubs?

Anyone know what a “strategic affiliation agreement” is? #afcb

It’s easy to get carried away with Bill’s announcement. When he says “within 2½ years” I think he meant from when planning permission is granted, not today. Not all local residents will be in favour but do we have a majority of councillors on board? How much can be done without planning? #afcb

We thought Fletcher’s goal 16 years ago today was priceless at the time. What must it be worth today? #afcb

Dean Court is ours again. Nice touch too announcing it on Grimsby Town Day! #afcb

Eddie Howe back at work less than a fortnight after being hospitalised with pneumonia. I really hope he is fit and well enough rather than pressurised by either his bosses or (more likely) himself.

15 years ago today… #afcb

#afcb after 33 PL games: - 3 places higher than ever (8th v 11th) - 2 more wins (13 v 11) - 3 fewer lost (10 v 13) - 4 more scored (52 v 48) - 13 fewer conceded (40 v 53) - 24 goal difference better (+12 v -12) - 7 more points (49 v 42) - more wins than losses for 1st time

Next weekend’s game v Man Utd will be our 300th Premier League match. A good one to win: it would be our 1st double over a ‘big six’ club and put us over 50 points for the first time. #afcb

Four of our remaining six opponents are still involved in cup competitions. Might be a distraction for them? Six games left and we have three chances of getting a double over a “big six” club for the first time. You never know! #afcb

Brilliant reposte from Amorim to a pushy journalist in his press conference, “I know you want a one word answer but you choose the questions and I choose the answers”. I really enjoy his press conferences.

Despite recent results, #afcb is having its best ever season. Hibernian are flying in the SPL. (3rd behind the usual suspects). Lorient are top of Ligue 2. Auckland are top of the A-League. I wonder what the common denominator might be!

Ellie Junior Kroupi is doing really well for Lorient in Ligue 2… - 2 goals in each of his last 3 games - 9 goals in 6 - 12 goals in 11 - 20 goals in 28 (not many mins in his 1st 10 games) - MotM 6 times He is not 19 yet and will be with #afcb next season.

Match 32 coming up and with Christie out, only Semenyo is at risk of a 2 game ban if he gets a yellow against Fulham. #afcb

I forced myself to watch a certain #afcb podcast yesterday. Everything Mark McAdam said was interesting and worth listening to. The other guy, less so.

My grandson & I enjoyed the game. 1st half we were all over the shop but I guess “words were said” at half time. Well done #AFCB Women! Very much deserved. 4 games to make it 100%. Amber generously let him hold her medal. (Also had a snap of us with Kelci but who wants to see that!) PotM = Molly

I’m enjoying the “Get To Know…” series on #afcb website. It is interesting to see how different their ‘journeys’ are to the elite men. I’d like to see this for the whole squad, plus the men’s first and academy players too.

I watched the #afcb women’s game last night on YouTube (poor picture quality). Very scrappy for 60 mins but you have to win in many ways as Steve Cuss said. Subs were well timed. Looking forward to Sunday at DC. Hopefully a great atmosphere for all the kids who rarely get to go there. 👍🍒

Wikipedia lists 21 NUFC backroom staff. At least 7 are ex #afcb so I feel ok if we enjoy a morcel of reflected glory tonight. I think I have a bottle of Newcastle Brown in the fridge.

Even with the cup on the balcony Eddie is standing in the shadows and letting everyone else take the plaudits but we know who is really responsible.

So pleased for Eddie Howe. Thoroughly deserved by him and his staff. What must it be like to be a Georgie tonight?

Logged on dead on 10am and bought tickets for #afcb v City QF. There was a large section of block 28 mysteriously unavailable between about rows J to Q. Anyone know why. I'm usually in the middle of row P but got tickets in row R.

Strong side put out by Spurs. Let’s hope it ends on a knife-edge so they need to rest people at the weekend to go for it in the 2nd leg. #afcb

Everyone still on Twitter is waiting for everyone still on Twitter to move to Bluesky before they move to Bluesky. Need a few big boys to move and leave Musk News behind. Not sure it's going to happen. Facebook is now a rolling ad break so it may soon be time to return to my pre-social media life.

Rumours are a strange beast. We already knew Kirkez is likely to leave this summer and Liverpool favourites to sign. Yet loads of fresh gossip to that effect is circulating, all of which originates from one Romanzo post. Maybe he will; maybe he won’t? Just enjoy him while he’s here. #afcb

I guess we were the two teams none of the others wanted to meet in the QFs. #afcb

As Sir Alf Ramsey said to his team in July 1966, “You’ve beaten them once. Now go out and beat them again”. #afcb

Falmer is a mile closer to me than #afcb but takes twice as long to get there. I hate that park’n’ride! Waiting with a fellow Cherry from Hove and even he can get home quicker from DC! We both said “we won’t do it again” but we will! Brighton is a good club but I couldn’t do that every other week.

Adams 7 x 90 mins in 6 weeks and 3 big games in the next 8 days so I guess Iraola is just managing his time. #afcb

We may have LB cover v Wolves as Soler should be back. If Smith, Hill or Araujo are a week ahead of schedule then we'll have a RB too. If so, does Cook displace Adams? A tough one but I'll trust Iraola's judgement. Win and #afcb have a chance of 4th and maybe a point behind Forest. 🐓🐓🐓

IF #afcb beat Wolves we’ll have a win ratio of 50%. And… IF City don’t win we’ll be 4th. And… IF we score 8 (eight - for teleprinter fans) we’ll have 2 goals per game! 😂