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Eh? Anderson had been highly rated for years. Its what best for the England team not about Rovers

Holy Cow. Gut reaction says that will be an absolute disaster. Edit: Can't imagine the news will be well received by the Norwich fanbase.

If Wharton was still a Rovers player you would 100% be going mad the other way round trying to convince everyone that Wharton was better than Anderson!

But what of any significance or interest was uncovered by Harris in the first place other than the fact that he received numerous Solicitors' letters from the Club at the time? What went on was examined from all sides and deemed rightly or wrongly not to be actionable. It might be the only time ever I agreed with anything Jack Straw said, but, he was right when he said "It's not an offence to run a Club badly". In fact overall if you look at the link to Harris's previous article he's broadly supportive of the owners and concludes they were well meaning but naive and badly advised in the early years and continued to be supportive for many years thereafter. Imo Harris and anyone else would be better served concentrating on the period from around the time they stopped funding to the Club, we had the Court case in India, and Waggott made the infamous interview about how it was the Club's turn to start giving the owners something back, and made the ridiculous white lie about purchasing a new team bus. The over-riding problem remains I suppose that as long as you're not doing anything illegal - it's still not an offence to run a Club badly. As long as all bills are paid etc it's not an offence to asset strip the Club, starve it of the funding required to thrive and leave it to gradually wither and die on the vine as is happening currently. The only people that can ultimately effect change are other shareholders (not applicable in this case) or the fanbase. Harris or others can serve a purpose by highlighting current or recent events which are highly unsatisfactory if not technically illegal and it might just galvanise the fanbase into a little more dissent.

Scholes was also a goalscorer, Wharton isn't.

Wharton is a better player at 21 than Scholes was at 21 Time will tell if he will develop into a player as good or better than Scholes later in his career

And now finally he's in complete control of everything with no opposition. That was obviously never his intention though he's just being the ever faithful servant to his masters......

The Club has been swept under the Carpet so to speak by the Football authorities. Nothing to see hear..they pay the Bills.

Isn't that Alone Again, (Naturally)?

Yeah, I don't disagree but it at least confirms that it wasn't rumours/scaremongering as a lot of people said at the time. Not many cared at the time either, sadly.

I actually think it came from Waggott. He had to replace Mowbray but there aren't many candidates available who would do what Mowbray did. He was real old school. And so he had to replace him with two - one, a chap to look at signings and two, a coach to coach the players. Broughton & JDT were our way out. There's no doubt in my mind that they were sabotaged; it's no doubt that sabotage was Suhail

Interesting choice. Quite high profile for a club struggling at the bottom of the Championship with Club Brugge, Monaco and Rangers his last 3 clubs

Problem is 15 years later I don't think anyone really cares anymore. Its just a huge shrug of the shoulders all round.

I think a lot of people (Rovers fans as well), have dismissed a lot of stuff that we know happened as speculation/rumour. Now a load of supporting documents have been released, it puts the evidence out there for all to see.

Gilbert O'Sullivan - All Alone, Naturally

Not yet - give it 5 years when he is much more developed then we can come back to this. Not a single midfielder we have currently in the setup is better than Gerrard,Lampard,Scholes

Norwich set to appoint Phillippe Clement as their new gaffer.

bad feeling about this one. I think a draw at best, and id take it. Hopefully we continue the away form.

When I am watching a midfielder, I'm looking for certain parts of his game such as the interceptions, forward passes, tackles, assists, goals, tackles, first touch - exactly the sort of measurables that produce statistics. A good player will score highly in a particular metric which fits the role he's taking on. The coach or manager will pick or sign a player which excels in the areas they are looking for. If you aren't looking for the measurable items of play within a football player - what are you looking for? The colour of his socks, his boots, his hair? Ok, those measurables will change depending on the role / style of play, but they still exist. In an attacking full back you are looking for how many recoveries he makes, his crossing, stamina, first touch. For a goalkeeper you want to see his catching, handling. The metrics change but they are still driven by a measurable piece of data - statistics I don't see those measurables as a small part. They are a very large part. That they are now demonstrated in a series of tables and graphs is different but it is what we have all been looking for in a footballer. You may just term it differently For example, you seem to despise "xG" but ultimately you will look at a players (attempted) finish and remark: "he should have scored". This is what xG measures for you. Nobody relies upon it solely or else no scouts or coaches would attend football matches. Denying its benefits, and making out like it is only a very small part of what measures a player, is foolish. Statistics are all around you - just you aren't measuring them

Anybody saying that seriously (I’m presuming they are joking) obviously is too young to have actually watched Scholes in action. Without doubt one of the greatest players I’ve ever seen in person.

JR Walker & The All Stars - (I’m A)Road Runner

Me neither but they do have some decent players . Last I heard , he had withdrawn from the process !

Did you not get a sense in 2022 that there was renewed vigour when they appointed Broughton and JDT? If they weren't interested at all, why cut Mowbray off? If they weren't interested, why would they get bored? He was a steady eddie, never rocked the boat, never asked for more money as he admitted himself. Why risk that if there was no interest, or no intent? JDT was far more volatile than TM, and I seem to remember Broughton coming in ruffled Suhail and Waggott's feathers. In fact, the rumours were there was a total split in the camp, Broughton and JDT vs Waggott and Suhail. That complete change of approach came from somewhere. I'm not saying it originated in Pune, but I also don't think it would have come from the cosy corridors of Ewood.