oneandycrawford

Just seen that Morgan Gibbs-White signed new 3 year contract at Forest. Whatever his reasons it's a real slap in the face for Spuds.

Just seen a Football League World article saying AI predicted us to finish 4th. Must have data-scraped Chaddy's posts to come up with that 😉 No offence intended Chaddy 🙂

Read this as EU confirms no change on the Brittain situation. Was wondering what sports journalism had to do with Brexit!

One of those things you have to do.....and then ignore 90% of it!

Speaking as a trained and qualified project manager I totally agree. A well-run project has a start and end. It also has an agreed set of objectives and ways to measure those ongoing once the project has been delivered. An ongoing project with no end is a bad one. That's not to say they don't exist and I've been involved in a few in my time - usually involving the introduction of tech. What people in football refer to as a 'project' should really be referred to as a 'programme' as that can be ongoing and has multiple phases (projects) within it. What is going on at Rovers doesn't seem to satisfy any of the above - I think the technical term is 'clusterfuck'. And I've been involved in a few of those as well 😄

Same with me. I tend to find with beer the 0.5% ones have a better taste than the 0%.

And a sport you could imagine playing for 'fun'. I play 6-a-side on a Weds evening and even that is starting to be infected with the pass it about all the time and play out from the back. Luckily most of us are old enough to ignore that and play the long ball sometimes or get to the byline and whip it in I wonder if the way the game is played now - and coached from such a young age - means that kids don't get to enjoy the old 'jumpers for goalposts' kick abouts we used to do. Even at 15/16 I was still playing in the schoolyard with lads of all abilities - including a couple who went on to play league football or high-level non-league. So rare to see players having a laugh - particularly with their opponents - these days. One exception was when Cole Palmer missed a sitter as his team-mate got in the way - his reaction was to kill himself laughing. Even in his interviews he seems like one who enjoys his football

That was the game when Savage got sent off fairly early IIRC. Bellamy won us that game almost single-handed. Although seemed to be a knob-end as a bloke - I guess that was partly due to his ultra-competitiveness that made him perform like he did in that match.

That one - along with Palace in 89. My two worst (on-field) moments as a Rovers fan

I was there for that one. Was a real 'FFS' moment!

That made me smile Rev 😉 Coming from the arch-contrarian regarding Trondstadt!

Can the team sustain that effort with a max of 5 subs though?

Beggars belief the gullibility of some people regarding the club's propaganda. I seem to remember the club moving Travis out on loan to get him temporarily (and presumably hopefully permanently!) off the wage bill. Maybe the LET poster thinks Trav forced that loan in some bizarre attempt to increase his salary from Rovers by showing how brilliant he was for another club and then demanding a pay rise to stay!!! Of course the reality is that he put in possibly his best season for us after coming back - despite being treated so poorly by the club.

I often wondered if there was a bit of 'lets do them a favour' to the second game. Bury needed to win to stand a chance of staying up and I would imagine more of the players would have known each other back then. Although knowing the way of things back then, along with Kendall's attitude, I suspect your reasoning is not too far off Tyrone!!

That would be classed as an offensive weapon nowadays due to it's razor-sharp edges

In the Jota situation I wouldn't have expected Liverpool or Portugal to play the next day. But, other than that, marks of respect expressed and then carry on.

My dad died the night before our first match of the season. I agreed with my family to go as we all knew that is what he would have wanted. I couldn't face sitting in my usual seat that day as too raw but at half time I went to see the regulars to let them know. Maybe I should have asked the club to postpone the match instead?

Agree with your first point. There is too much performative 'grief' over deaths such as these. Seemed to all start with Princess Diana. People die all the time and life goes on. However, to then launch an offensive take on the individual's death is out of order - and undermines the totally reasonable point of view you started with. FFS the car had a tyre blow out. From what I've read that's all we know for certain. Having experienced one of those myself at 70mph I was bloody lucky that nothing hit me as I span across two lanes and into the central barrier. Do I think players today are overpaid and not sensible with that money? In many cases yes...but someone's death is possibly not the best time to make that point?

Doesn't that depend on how big the hole is? 😉

Just shows the lack of local connection in the club nowadays I suppose? You couldn't imagine us having a white rose anywhere near our kit under the likes of Bill Fox, etc. Reminds of when my wife-to-be (now ex) wanted all the blokes at our wedding to wear white roses. When I refused and said I would only wear a red one she thought I was being daft - until she spoke to her dad, my dad and her brother-in-law. They all backed me 100% and she had to give in!

The peasants have always been revolting 😉

BIg Club's first away game - will have large following. Wait for club announcement we're giving them the Riverside as well 😉

Though I hate to say it the two most-disliked teams in the Div were largely responsible for that reduction in the league as a whole. They conceded a total of 46 goals between them!

I don't think it's the number of gaols in absolute terms that mattered. Eustace had the team playing in a way that would have inevitably (in my view) meant fewer goals but was ultimately getting better results (on the whole) What I think we missed though was Szmodics's ability to nick a goal out of nothing - and then we quite probably would have got something in those failures against the bottom teams.

Maybe clubs looking from the outside in over last 12 months don't like what they see with the two players in question - injuries in JRC's case (and his whole career history of these) and attitude in Buckley's. If I was a club looking to take a chance on either player I'd probably want a loan with option to buy - but guess that doesn't fit with our need for immediate cash as seems to be the club's operating principle at the moment.