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My hunch was almost only based on geography. I went to university in Bangor. To see the snow on the mountains in the morning sunlight was Wordsworthian at times. I can quite see why someone might want to go home there, especially when they're financially set up.
A friend of mine was a steward last night, from 5.30 and then near the dug-outs. His main observations were
1. Nathan Jones never stops swearing. 2. The pitch was even narrower than last season. (Originally the reduced pitch was an emergency measure because of the drainage issues, but evidently Cowley likes it that way. I think most people agree that women's football is better if the pitch is on the small side, so good for Town.) 3. Davis and Muric were the most patient autograph-givers. 4. KVY was there and clearly friends with a lot of the Town players, even if he wouldn't have played with most of them.
Looking at the Colchester team, there are a couple of Colchester's major assets (Tovide, Edwards) who might well be sold soon, and also a few triallists, plus three or four who will certainly be in the match-day squad when the season starts on Saturday. I suppose Town will at least be giving one of the many goalkeepers a full game.
According to the official Colchester website (edit. Facebook site) , there's a behind-closed-doors friendly with Town kicking off just about now. Some of Colchester's better players playing (+KVY who is technically a free agent but who has played a lot of Colchester's friendlies). CUFC are also playing tonight, at Braintree.
So I guess there may be one or two Town players entirely absent this evening, rather than trying to give everyone 'minutes'.
Why wasn't Pant allowed a runner when he resumed his first innings? (I wasn't watching/listening at the time.) Will he be allowed one in the second innings, if needed?
I guess there are some people who have a soft spot for them because of their unusual colours. (F C Nantes fans, maybe.) I know a bloke in Sweden who likes them simply because they have basically the same kit as the team he played for when he was a nipper, and he didn't want to support one of the usual suspects.
Ben Godfrey maybe? Only a loan of course, but he did take up a place in the squad. Hadn't been doing much at Atalanta, so it looked a bit of a long-shot that he'd do the business.
As you suggest, it's not even sure that the agent, if that's who it was, made a bad decision. Simpson only needed to look as far as Tristan Nydam to see that there are no guarantees in football.
i don't see any hubris here at all. He's just picked up a season-wrecking injury in training, and this (to me) is a self-deprecating admission that he's always been relatively quiet in the social media but that now he has nothing better to do.
It truly seems amazing where things had got to at that point. Thw only fee paid was 700 k for KVY. THE marquee signing in the league was... Marquis. Most clubs paid no transfer fees at all, including Sunderland. Town really approached the league pretty much like, say, Shrewsbury did. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/transfers/wettbewerb/GB3/saison_id/20
Plenty of rumours that Samson Tovide is going to Barnsley. McGoldrick would be the perfect person to help him 'grow up', football-brain-wise, which may well be part of Barnsley's thinking, and why Colchester may be happy to sell to Barnsley with a decent sell-on clause attached.
In Town's case last season, it was more 'a blatantly unnecessary 2nd shirt', with the third being necessary to avoid a clash with Palace for sure and arguably with Everton, Leicester, and Chelsea. Even more 'canny'!
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