Whatever we offered Szmodics to stay needs to go to the best goalkeeper we can afford. Iverson? Drommel? Karius? Mvogo?

Shame Sammie’s gone, but I don’t begrudge him. He’s reminded me that even in these awful Venky years, we’ve had some real cult heroes on our books (regardless of their true quality). Now let’s hope the money can be spent. A goalkeeper and a left back being the priorities. Buy the best goalie we can afford and they will be worth their weight in saved points. Someone of De Lange’s quality or better would make me feel infinitely better about the coming season. In the meantime, I think Ohashi may be a readymade replacement for Sammie, unless we have other irons in the fire.

@We Are The Rovers Can we get some sort of promotion organised for the Bilbao game, given the connection between our clubs?

I think Wright-Phillips’ lad was in our academy for a time?

On the finishing front, I always said I expected him to be a ‘Chris Samba up front’ kind of player, and it looks like he is! I’ll love him for it, too.

Oooo I’d love that too, never thought to ask! Could go with Black and Red to match the away kit?

It reminds me a bit of the Elliott Bennett fist-pump. I didn’t even like Bennett but I loved that fist pump.

Is it on Sky Go? Can normally access red button games but struggling

Despite 6 changes, I’m surprised at the strength of that team.

Are they not biscuits? Hence they’re sold in the biscuit section?

Why? If I want the club to run out of money, we don’t sell Wharton for any price. Ergo, I’d still be complaining.

Michael Potts! He was superb for me on FM2010

Reckon we could get Adam Ounas for right wing? Free agent since leaving Lille this year, roughly 1 goal in 10 wherever he’s been (Bordeaux, Napoli, Lille).

Gueye looked a handful, but I also felt like he backed off the chase a few times. Just sharpness, maybe?

Today’s Man of the Match award is presented by Sneed’s Seed and Feed (Formerly Chuck’s).

As ever, the fans do a better job of communicating club goings-on than the club!

Personally I’m happy to see the back of Peter Jackson. What that man tried to accuse my mum of is unforgivable, bollocks to him.

Feel free to post in the gaming thread or in ICBINF, plenty of FM fans on here 🙂

Oh no 😢 So gutted to hear this, I only spoke to him a couple of weeks ago in passing. Completely agree, he was a gentleman in all he did. I’ll miss him

Ian is superb at saying ‘But you’ve not answered my fucking question, you cunt!’ in cordial corporate speak.

Bloody hell quite a step up!

I had thought Mat Ryan had signed for them? They were certainly interested

So it’s your fault!

I do get it, but come on. I think it’s perfectly acceptable for something that happened on a Friday night to wait til Monday. Anything else puts demand on a person’s time that shouldn’t be there (it was arranged Friday seemingly because of how busy Trust Board members were over the weekend). If they’d even put out a cursory tweet to say a meeting had been arranged, that just invites speculation all weekend (and we’ve learned the impact of that nonsense all week). Reporting something Monday morning that happened on Friday night is fine, and expecting anything more is unreasonable imo. Whose weekend would’ve been measurably better for the meeting being reported a bit quicker?

Look, I’ll criticise WATR whenever it’s warranted but I don’t think it is here. A meeting on Friday evening, hastily arranged Friday afternoon? Those involved have lives outside of the Trust and waiting til Monday would’ve been absolutely fine. Seriously, why do people hold corporate expectations against volunteers? Get a life.