I think its the PL driving these changes and trying to mirror the NBA and NFL sports where this sort of behind of the scenes is all part of this. This is just restrictions to just Sky Games but all games. In Overseas countries they get all games not just the 4/5 games on Tv like we do. Premier League introduce raft of controversial US-style changes including half-time interviews

Even when you are told something in confidence, you can't always 'use' that information at the time owing to obvious sensitivities. I think you will find I only posted about the link to the Plymouth job once Eustace had been appointed Derby manager even though I knew about the link back in January - interestingly, I don't recall one challenge to the post at the time. I have not said "sorry not saying who told me" but did say 'I was not going to name him' for obvious reasons that anyone with an ounce of intelligence should understand!

Football has always been a primary driver of Sky subscriptions - and with those subscriptions falling, I suppose they are trying to come up with increasingly desperate gimmicks to try and boost numbers. I think I read PL viewing figures were down 10% last season. That will largely be due to the fact the title race and relegation spots were basically done and dusted by February, but nonetheless, Sky can't control that. They can just try these little gimmicks to try and make otherwise mundane games more interesting. It won't work, but I'd assume they're just throwing crap at the wall at this point to see if anything sticks. When Sky first brought PL coverage in they had American traditions like cheerleaders (the head-to-head team logo clash graphic was also ripped off from US American Football coverage). They ditched it all very quickly because the UK public weren't partial to any of that nonsense and it was a waste of time and money. I imagine this will go the same way.

Why does football need such drives to increase its popularity? Its financial value is higher than most country's GDP and it is most probably singlehandedly the most popular recreational interest on the planet.

Even beyond an understandable additional skepticism around Rovers, I don't get why you would assume that everything said is 100% accurate. They wouldnt come out and say if they werent aligned. But they said that before the summer had begun, and before any transfers. So obviously at that point they were aligned. Whether they agree on every signing that has since happened and will happen in the future, remains to be seen.

But fans do have a right to be sceptical any poster on this board could say the spoke to someone and make a story up (not saying you have) and then say sorry not saying who told me…without the source it’s always going to be debated

Why would anyone want to see inside the dressing room? Sky will broadcast players taking a shit soon enough. VAR at least has a purpose. Decisions are more accurate now.

Your views and opinions matter not to me - you are an irrelevance with seemingly little knowledge about the real world. If you don't think my postings are credible then I suggest you simply ignore.

Well that’s an easy answer chaddy if you take everything at face value then more the fool you….behind the scenes at rovers over this last 15 years and even more so the last 2/3 years it’s been a shitshow so fans have every right to be sceptical and not take everything at face value just because someone says something remember we had Maguire signed promo done and that was even failed

They have told you they are align so why not believe it instead of this they not be but could be, we just don't know bollocks

Get more people interesting and closer to football action. What is wrong with seeing if it is going to popular or not. Works in other sports so why not football? what's wrong with footage inside the dressing room? Its all about what you want and not seeing from other people who want this. It is common place in NBA to interview players and head coaches during games VAR is a pile of shit. takes too long, fans in stadium left in the dark, refs on the pitch are frighten to make decisions, but we fetch in VAR despite all these concerns but you are in favour of it. But complaining about a minor change to coverage See above to your question This is minor change whilst VAR was game changing decision by the football authorities which has made the time delay to the games, zero communication to fans within Stadium and even fans at home, etc. That has changed the game forever, an interview with player coming off or footage inside the dressing room isn't anything like VAR change has been.

You clearly arent reading what I am putting. I never said they arent aligned. In fact my point is that we wont know either way.

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Transfers will happen soon. Just waiting on other agents to cross every other team off the list until they get to Rovers. Then the dross will flow in

Yourself are always looking for something not there between Gestede/Owen and Ismael aren't Align. exactly, but 1000% wont name who this well respected journalist is there tho. Most journalists have a twitter account to post things online even if their news paper or other media to post the story very good example points Massive gamble for Derby playing that amount of money for an unknown striker from MLS

It is possible Eustace's agent was enquiring about other jobs on the quiet not everything in football has a journo on the end of it. Anyway i'm sure font of knowledge and truth Nixon could clear it up if someone asked and by the way enquiring about a job and sticking your cv in are two different things.

As a general rule of thumb, and not just for sport, I find it best to look at whatever pleases Americans and head firmly in the opposite direction.

Fair enough. I just don't believe you. Rohl at Sheffield Wednesday has been applying for other jobs and that has been all over the media. I think this supposedly well respected yet mystery journalist would have published a story about a Championship manager applying for another Championship job much lower down the table rather than confiding in you who he happened to know.

Certainly Cantwell, around 12 months ago - he had a few options available to him, but JE sold him the club / role / etc.

Set your expectations lower. You’ll probably still end up disappointed but it won’t feel so bad.

Yep! You really don't understand journalism or have a clue how it works do you? Do you really think John Eustace applying for a job at another club merited publishing a story in a serious publication? Maybe there would have been a story if it had been Pep, Klopp, Arteta etc Did you see reports anywhere about the other jobs we are given to understand Eustace was interested in (Coventry, PNE, Stoke, WBA)? There are a number on this MB who pick things up from various sources who posted about Eustace applying for other jobs There is a plethora of behind-the-scene activities and matters in a football club at any one time with very few of these seeing the light of day in media/press for various reasons. Even at a local level, Bayes and, to a lesser degree, Jackson will have a knowledge of the many behind-the-scene activities and matters at Rovers but you will not see these in the LT or aired on BBC Lancashire, again for various reasons.

Goodo. Looking forward to who the next Rudy Gestede randomer rocks up at Brockhall. I'm surprised there haven't been any links with anyone else from the J-League, or was that John Parks work to get Yuki in last summer?

it`s all lies,spin and gravytrain riding,until the rotten core are overthrown it`s always going to be this way

I know this was a rhetorical question but I can’t say I love modern football one little bit.

Gonna rematch the 3 stooges video to see what else was promised