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As you know, we're very closely aligned on the current implementation of the offside law. But here's the problem I have with the Wenger law: That red attacker would be onside as I understand it, due to there being no daylight between the two players toes. And that looks like a recipe for madness to me.

It's one of those things that's arguably impossible to prove. I'd dig into statistics to try and better evidence my view on the league, but honestly I can't be bothered! It's more of an eye test thing. Just feels like the league has contained a lot more paper tigers this year. Spurs haven't been THAT good and they'll comfortably finish 6th if not 5th. West Ham are 9th and they've been on holiday for a little while now. Chelsea kids are squabbling over who takes penalties, and they're frightening us and a Man United that ought to be staring at the bottom half. Last year, it seemed like anyone in the top half was a pack of skilled, dogged bastards who could give anyone a game. So - with some very good excuses - it does feel like a missed opportunity for us.

My private target was 5th. Considering how the season's gone, we can be pretty satisfied. I think I'm most pleased that the club/squad seem to have held it together psychologically, which Eddie can take a huge slice of credit for. It's been a season of highs and... Not exactly lows but big struggles. But if they hadn't kept their togetherness, there would've been big lows. My happiness is balanced out a bit by my view that the league overall has been worse this year. That's why I think last season was an especially epic achievement. If our team (inc. injury spell) had been playing in last season's division, with teams like Brighton and Brentford snapping away, consistently accumulating points, I think we'd end up about 2 or 3 positions lower than we will. So we've gotten away with our disastrous middle spell relatively lightly. Next season? Like you say, depends on the summer for us and others. 3rd-6th and a cup sounds decent. But I'll probably judge it more on whether I feel we've improved on this season, particularly on areas I think we could e.g. fatigue management. If we keep Bruno, I'm really pretty excited about it.

Fwiw the media always seems to make Parish the lead operator when it comes to their managerial decisions. What we could really do with is a lurking Palace fan to make themselves known... Any takers? Not you, Alan.

...And if there's any truth to the wages talk, then we'll have to get used to him being here for a long time to come.

I like him as a player (or I think I do - it's so long ago it's hard to remember), but we'd be taking the mick to expect much more than £5m for him given the past 2 seasons. It's a real pity.

Would guess Freedman has good contacts in the famed South London market as well...

It's not like the players look like they're having a good time Half the time they appear to be as confused and disgruntled as me, which I'm guessing isn't really what we're aiming for.

Says he wants to be a coach but not a manager which I think bumps up the chances of him staying here long term. Would be cool if he does slot into our setup long term.

Fair enough. It was a genuine question, maybe everyone's loving it more than me. But a few other video features would be good. Maybe convince some of the players to do edited versions of their life story presentations they do for the squad or something. Just for a change.

Sure, it's just seems pretty lazy at this point, what with the connect 4, the scalextric, the pictionary, the darts, guess the tune, guess the face, what's in the box, what have I got stuck to my forehead, what's that stain on the mattress etc. etc.... They'll be guessing how many grains of rice are in a bottle next. It started out cool but how much deliberate naffness can we take?

Are these videos popular? They better be, because they don't half do a lot of them to the exclusion of anything else...

He's an interesting boy...

Trying to use Rice and Saka as makeweights?

That's my gut feeling also. Given what's going on there it sounds like this is a joke. Saying that, supposedly we have been in a decent amount of contact with 777 in the past. There were rumours of us buying their group to fast forward the multi club model. So it's plausible we've got a relationship with him, and I don't suppose I can be too prejudiced against him without knowing more...