Just now, roversfan99 said:

Hes slow, injury prone and has been nowhere near their team for a while.

[McFadz and Fleck nervously look away]

14 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

If you take away Sam Szchmodics 30 goals this season in the Championship, Rovers would be well adrift at the bottom. Doesn't say much for the rest of the strike force this Season. Its crystal clear we're we need to spend in the Summer, providing we reach safety in the Championship. 

Even if we take away Whitaker’s 19 for Plymouth and Stansfield’s 12 for Birmingham?

Plus he’s only scored 24 in the league.

But not taking your point literally, I know what you mean. Lose him and don’t replace with 2 other options and we have bug problems.

I'd have left the FA Cup and would have made the League cup a competition for non-European clubs. Gives the European clubs time off in October to February. It devalues the league cup further but does give non-Euro clubs a better chance of progression / Wembley. If you won it you would still be buzzing. 

It would probably lose its European place for the winner, although you could introduce an end of season play off between the League Cup Winners and the highest place Premier side that hadn't qualified for Europe for the final slot.

3 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

To be fair the Sheffield clubs get no credit for their crowds in comparison to comparable cities like Leeds and Newcastle (‘best fans in the country ya ya ya’), when between them they are pulling in c60,000 and have been largely crap for decades.

Which again based on population of the area is no better, and probably worse, than we get.

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

to be fair to the geordies they did.

only time its been true mind.  Can imagine sheep shaggers in the BBE will get treated a tad different than the toon lads.

Didn't notice or wasn't aware of any Geordies in the JW Upper DE side.

Only game I've ever seen this happen aside from the Man City / Celtic games was, weirdly, West Ham in the FA Cup in 2016. There was a big group of around 30 or 40 of them.

11 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Warning to Amazon Fire stick owners who use IPTV as police crackdown | Tech News | Metro News

https://hexus.net/business/news/internet/148243-uk-football-season-sparks-illegal-iptv-crackdown-fact/

3 years ago. Same story. Made no difference.

But we are off topic.

The point is iFollow, and it’s knock on effect with IPTV and dodgy online streams, has always been a hinderance to Rovers attendances but the UK side of the service probably made it financially worth it. If it is just “abroad only”, clubs like ours could probably be better off financially not doing it at all, as it will increase home attendances.

20 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

so go after the people illegal streaming it and watching it illegal in the UK. 

 

They can’t. Otherwise they would. (And I mean Sky, Netflix, Apple etc, not Rovers)

It’s like copying tapes or CD’s in the 80s and 90s, or illegally downloading music and films from the Noughties onwards.

The advantage of selling the live experience is that the only way to see it is to  attend. When SKY show a game and pay £100k per game plus the TV rights per year then fair enough. But for iFollow games, the amount of money it generates is probably less that what it costs the club in lost attendees.

Of course your big clubs who sell out will welcome streaming as it won’t affect them. Plus their online buys will be huge worldwide. But a club like Rovers or Preston…..

4 minutes ago, only2garners said:

I don't think I get your point Hasta. The club currently make the great majority of their streaming profit from UK sales and they will be losing that. Overseas sales are small, as you might probably expect.

Agreed. Therefore it’s no longer worth doing it.

By streaming it overseas, that allows it to be watched on IPTV in the UK, and IMO affects attendances. For the small amount they make, it will cost them more in gate receipts.

2 hours ago, only2garners said:

I know nothing about the costs involved, but presumably the club will be filming the games anyway and they will still be doing the commentary for the audio feeds, so maybe the marginal cost is minimal?

I wasn’t talking about broadcast & production costs.
 

I meant the club get £X amount from the people abroad who pay to watch iFollow, but they lose  more than £X because people in the Lancashire area watch it on IPTV rather than attend Ewood
 

21 minutes ago, only2garners said:

Rovers will still offer audio in the UK but won’t be able to do TV. They can still offer TV outside the UK but that only gives a small income.

And allows it to be broadcast on IPTV worldwide. I'm sure attendance-wise, and probably financially, they'd be better off not streaming them at all. 

Lets him have a good look at the players in competitive matches over the final 3 games. Good move.

Birmingham have Rotherham this weekend. I bet they are a bit more apprehensive with a new manager going in there.

14 hours ago, Ghost7 said:

 

I disagree, sell out away ends are expected against "the big boys" and in theory is should give them an added advantage, most of the time they don't need it... and the fixture isn't crucial. Sheffield need it. It helped Preston and Lowe confirmed that. It can make a team talk very easy when there's 7,000 fans in the away end. A sensible CEO would avoid it in this type of fixture on the off chance it inspired the opponent to a win.

So why do we get smashed every time we go to Wigan with a full away end?

Should we also restrict the Coventry allocation on the off chance they need a win for the play offs and bring 5000?

7 hours ago, damo100 said:

Surely you have family/friends in the area?

To be fair, any Rovers fans living in a BB postcode who for some strange reason aren't on the database but want to go to the Sheff Wednesday game will also surely have family/friends in the area on the database.

Being realistic, any home fan who wants a ticket will surely get one. Same as for all big games when this kicks in.

Todays Guardian

5 hours ago, alcd said:

QPRs fixtures are PNE and Leeds at home, Cov away last match.

Good spot. They weren't on the chart when I originally made it as they were above Rovers, so I had to add them this morning and obviously forgot to overtype their fixtures. 

Now corrected.

If you were a QPR fan today I imagine you'd be saying "we have to beat Preston".

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33 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Still cant understand how we can be so abject v Bristol and then we witness yesterday?

Frustrating how we seem so Jekyll and Hyde.

 

I think first half at Bristol was all stupid individual defensive mistakes. Second half , once we went 3 down, we downed tools. The mental difference between those two performances was massive.

8 minutes ago, philipl said:

We will be playing knowing the Huddersfield v Swansea and Rotherham v Birmingham results so we could be playing for a win that makes Championship football in 24/25 a certainty.

Huddersfield have to play Birmingham still, so a win next Sunday would make us safe regardless of results on the Saturday.

Next Saturday. Ben, you have one more job to do for us.

24 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

The new Junior Hoilett.

"He'll sign any day now"

Thanks. I was trying to remember which player it was that walked away that was always "just going to sign". Lucas Neil gets a lot of shit but at least we knew 18 months in advance what the crack was there.

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/may/efl-and-sky-sports-broadcast-rights-agreement/

Get ready for more stupid kick off times next season.

Credit to Hyam there as well. Bounced back well from his midweek horror show.

2 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

What the fuck are these tactics supposed to be?

Fair enough putting men behind the ball but there is absolutely nobody up front to release possession to. So basic and we can't do it.

Time wasting from the kick off, absolutely ridiculous. Leeds are a pretty average side here and if we'd have done some absolute basic tactics and set up properly we could well have scored here.

Honestly the shittest Rovers team I have ever seen.

There actually is plenty up front, but every time we have the chance to break we balls it up. Bad passes, Gally just running into defenders and Dolan not releasing it quick enough.   There’s chances on the break here, especially as they become more desperate.

35 minutes ago, tomphil said:

This cockwomble has also given Sheff Wed  the full 7k therefore giving them their cup final when literally everything should be done to be providing every ounce of home advantage we can find.

He genuinely doesn't give a fuck about anything other than his bonus related income sheet.

Annoying, but the Burnley fans at work are frothing about it.

"You're going bust and you still only gave us 2000 tickets" 🤣

12 minutes ago, Andy said:

Fuck me, Hyam really has gone full Duffy.

.

Everyone knows you never go full Duffy.

Slow? Yes. Own goals? It can happen. Bad attitude? Maybe. But he’s gone full Duffy man. Never go full Duffy.