Mattyblue

Bournemouth are a prime example, crowds of 10,000 and they are buying players for £25million and paying a number of them 50/60k a week. House of cards is apt.

Batty? Who didn’t rate him? Top class player, only issue was missing large periods with injury Short and Ooijer were always appreciated too from what I remember. Jansen is up there as a club great. I’d say under appreciated by the wider game as in the 2000s it was always unfashionable Rovers in the media (see Friedel and Tugay who would’ve been household names at a higher profile club) not that we didn’t love them.

The Newcastle side that didn’t win the title in 1996 gets far more coverage and sentimental reminiscing in the media than the side that actually won it the year before.

It's very simple, if Brad had been at Tottenham for 8 years and at Rovers for three instead of vice versa, he'd be in.

What did Nixon say?

Always the way. Its like when Damien Duff for Sky did his Best XI (and subs) who he played with and didn’t mention a single Rovers player as even a contender for inclusion.

There was a good piece in today’s Times on just that. League’s across sport are resigned to the fact that TV rights deals have now peaked and future contracts could slump dramatically as Sky/BT here and foreign subscription services are shedding customers and may never recover many of them.

Ha where do you think I nicked it from!

Butt out, nowt to do with you lot

Or an empty training ground, nice backdrop of a tree and some cones.

The Deputy CMO believes we are looking at 6 months of fairly substantive restrictions (if not a strict lockdown). So, the remainder of the 2019/20 season fits in where?

Interesting article by Ian Herbert mirroring a lot of our thoughts on where EFL and non league football goes after this... https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport/football/article-8163771/IAN-HERBERT-Wage-cap-solution-save-game-clubs-fear-worst.html#article-8163771

The day Sutton thought ‘feck being a centre half’.

You must have done it wrong!