Mattyblue

Apart from Downing who was in talks to stay (and now may well retire at 36), Hart is the only one of our released players not to get a gig somewhere...

Not short of a few bob Trevor Hemmings, but he isn’t Rao family wealthy, you know those of the ‘never refuse a cheque’ fame. Yet it’s Rovers fans that ‘need to ensure the club’s survival’ by eschewing refunds and signing up to STs for a product that won’t exist. All most odd.

Seems like common sense from PNE, as like us, they were late getting them on sale and had a fan backlash re pricing, so will also have sold minimal. So will we see something similar? Don’t bet on it.

Football fans come into different camps. The folk I regularly go to away games with all renewed, our WhatsApp group is full of chat just how you describe, itching to get back. However, I also know fans that have a season ticket but generally take it or leave it, like a few pints on a Saturday, etc, but don’t particularly obsess about Rovers the rest of the time - not one of those have renewed and I’m not picking up much desperation to get back. It’s group two we need to worry about ‘getting out the habit’ .

Evans is still out with a ‘bruised foot’.... keep yourself in that cotton wool Corry lad, almost time for the international squad announcements.

Feck the left back, get that window closed!

There’s often ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ when it comes to football stats, but then there’s BB where even the data spits out his contribution as... ‘zero’.

‘Roll up, roll up...’

A lad from Brighton telling long standing, die hard fans who have existential worries about the future of our beloved club (but have still put their money into the club without a product in the midst of a mega recession, by the way) that they are ‘ridiculous’.

So the tickets go off sale in 10 days anyway? They honestly think they are going to sell any more in light of the National situation?

Big fan of Chaddy’s posts is Anuradha, I’ve heard.

They’ve made a rod for their own back and now pointlessly pissed off a lot of fans with £400-£600 prices, with minimal numbers sold in a brief window before a lockdown. They’d held off since March, ‘We don’t know the product we are offering’, they just needed to do so for one more week as they still didn’t, and could have taken stock. I.e an ifollow ST etc and could’ve re-assessed the market in May time in terms of pricing etc. Be interesting to see how much longer the club keeps promoting the STs, considering others are now suspending sales...

Read this morning that it is the competition rules that the other club should get a bye, but after pressure from Orient to reschedule it, the EFL are considering it. What an organisation.

‘Behind closed doors until at least the end of the March’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/54246745

And no one terrorised them more than Speedie (5 foot 7).