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Of course, every bit helps. ST prices aren’t the biggest driving factor for attendances though.

I think you know that Paul’s trying to say that crowds dropped under Allardyce because of the non entertaining football. Without actually saying it. They didn’t.

In the position we’re in, we’re talking “entertainment”! It’s astonishing really. we are talking professional sport here. There’s only one thing that overrules everything else, that’s winning. There’s no right or wrong way to win games. If you’re consistently achieving results then you’re doing things pretty well. If you’re winning games in the top league -as a small town team - you’re doing exceptionally well. How much more entertaining would you want to be?

Can’t see how it can go through if the correct forms aren’t sent through before the deadline.

Sounds quite feasible

How could rovers at this point - I guess it was GB, because it appears that JDT doesn’t get involved - possibly commit to paying £10m for a player unproven at PL level? I really don’t understand how the current management structure works. Or shouldn’t I say I don’t understand how it can succeed. Not here anyway.

“Apparently “? good source?

Best guess is they’re trying to drag Thomason back to Ewood.

Thought of another one. Could be there’s a dispute about whether it was registered on time.

It could be they’re waiting to unveil him before the press, it could be that there’s an unholy bust up, or it could be he failed the medical. The other option is I don’t have a clue.

It’s all very strange. Nothing at all on the official site, nothing at all from the LT - and last night Thomason said he knew nothing about transfers. Makes you think there’s “something” going on, somewhere.

Exactly Rev, as a football club, there is no other reason to exist. I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to meet with John Williams. Something he did with many fans. I remember him uttering those very words. In his opinion Rovers weren’t there to keep shareholders happy or any other outside interest happy, they were there simply to win football games. A question for the club. If you don’t want promotion now - and the last manager didn’t particularly want it either, when WILL you want it?

Said it a few weeks ago Arbitro. There is no ambition. No REAL ambition. Everything from the neglect of the pitch, to attempting to sell off parts of Brockhall, , to the talking down of promotion chances and lack of backing for the first team squad is negative. It just shows everywhere.

and who in the club is going to raise these problems with anyone else? At most other clubs the owners would be demanding answers.

Surely we’re not paying people to scout potential loan signings? Theres two separate things here… Scouting that should happen every day of every week. The loan market. You can’t surely “scout” the loan market. That simply boils down to what the situation is at other clubs at the time… and what the cost is.

Next time the club tell you there’s a long term plan for promotion in place, throw this (any) transfer window at them.

I would have more confidence if he wasn’t seen as not good enough to contribute towards keeping Huddersfield in the championship.

You know the thinking in playing wingers on the wrong wing Tyrone. Full backs always want to send their winger wide and if wingers played on their “right foot” it would make it so much easier for the full back to do that. Plus obviously, cutting in onto their stronger foot gives them a much better chance of scoring. Im sure you did know, but it’s hard to deny the logic.

I would take absolutely no notice of any “assist” stat. What’s an assist? Is it a two yard pass on the half way line allowing the goal scorer to go past three men and the goalkeeper, or is it when a player goes past half the team then lays it on a plate for the goal scorer? Totally meaningless. Can he play - and can he hold down a first team spot is all that matters really.

How’s it been for the last thirteen years since we sacked him Paul? halfway up the PL, beating PL teams on a fairly regular basis is boring. Personally I never found scoring more goals than the opposition boring. ………anywhere.

I know things have changed from the old days Gav, The point I was trying to make is that we seem to be trying to set up some kind of complicated system to adapt with the modern ways of scouting players, - along with long term plans to somehow finish up with a promotion team but I don’t think this current lot have a clue as to what’s really needed. We had just as much chance all those years ago when everything Transfer wise was left to a manager who knew English lower league inside out and a chairman who knew the club inside out.

Plans for this, plans for that. I just pine for the days when the likes of Furphy, Smith and Saxton just told the chairman who he wanted and the chairman did his best. It seemed like people knew what they were doing, who these players were and it was kept simple.

Duggie didn’t have the pitches that Tugay has, the plastic coated waterproof ball or modern footwear either. Most of Duggies time he was playing on the proverbial mud heap with a waterlogged ball in hideous, heavy footwear with nailed on leather studs. How would Tugay have coped then? sorry, just seen the latest posts.