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Looking at social media, I think their promotion party was 48 hours long at Vardys’s house during the week before the game. Had they not secured the title I’m sure their preparation would have been very different. Having said that, the same applies with Norwich at Birmingham.

We did break the British transfer record for Sutton in the summer of 1994. Cole moved to United in January 1995 and broke it again.

To be fair Pep has done ok in that regard, even with the money. Regenerating a squad into a new squad whilst keeping on top is the sign of a good manager. It's what Fergie continuously did that made him the greatest manager of the PL era, even when the likes of Chelsea arrived with bigger budgets.

And so it begins 😂😂😂😂

Yeah and that big screen wasn’t like modern big screens. It was a pretty poor picture so sometimes when the ball moved quick you couldn’t really follow it. I remember someone fairly late on (McMinn?) shot from the inside right and it went past Mimms and just wide of the far post.You couldn’t tell if it had gone in, you just knew when the camera changed by the Derby players reactions that it hadn’t. Back to the first game, the match finished about 4.45pm, and I’m sure ITV had the highlights on straight away at 5pm.

I can still remember clearly looking around the despondent Blackburn End at 2-0 down thinking “not again”.

That stuck out to me in the Szmodics interview, although it’s not really been mentioned on here as there was so much to discuss from what Sammie said. He confirmed Wharton “didn’t want to go”, which shoots down people on here who claimed he did and that he was pushing for the move to go through.

It was the maximum anyone was willing to pay in what is always a notoriously quiet January window. I firmly believe we would have had more interest and a higher fee in the summer.

That’s clearly because JDT didn’t have Dolan and Gally. Most of Siggurdson’s starts and full games come from mid December up until QPR when those two were missing. Incidentally It also coincides with our bad run, along with being without JRC, Pears and Hyam.

Ok. No probs. Whilst it was a bit incendiary , I agree with the general point.

Unless @Mike E has removed it himself, where has his post gone? It may have been controversial and I’m sure the Trust wouldn’t have liked it, but whilst it singled people out it wasn’t abusive.

“Straight back down, straight back down, Vincent Kompany” 🎶🎤

For only the second time ever in Premier League history, the last being in the late 90s.

This afternoon would be a good time to take your mind of Waggot and Co. with a nice bowl of jelly and ice cream

Honestly. If you’ve fucked up as a club last year with transfers then make sure the staff don’t do it again. Ask the secretary to double check or confirm it has gone through. I can’t believe there’s not a confirmation email from submitting this stuff. At work my staff had to send a presentation to a major customer this week. I wasn’t in the office but made sure they forwarded the WeTransfer confirmation so I 100% knew it had gone. Waggot would rather spend his transfer deadline days on free grub at FA Cup ties in Birmingham.

You can tell the Season is over. BRFCS poster claims to know stuff to prove we are “moving in the right direction “. We heard the same shit last year and the year before. And yet we had no money, sold or lost our Crown Jewels and nearly got relegated. Prices going up, ground falling down.

I mean. WTF. End of conversation.

The interview confirms you was wrong regarding JDT being stubborn. You now seem to be denying that you thought he wasnt stubborn. That he had a plan B. Go back and read what you've said.

JDT didnt have a plan B. I said it for 18 months he was here. You disagreed. Now you seem to be saying JDT's problem was like a lot of modern coaches he didnt have a plan B. I think.

Thats just gobbledegook.

Dont get me wrong I'm not coming from this as a JE hater. I said if he keeps us up lets see what next year brings with him and thats still where I am. Nor do I think it wasnt time for JDT to go. The dressing room had clearly been lost. But my general opinion is once we had players returning from injury we would have picked up a little bit under JDT. With Dolan, Gallagher, Hyam, JRC and Pears back, plus we had added McFadz and Chrisene, I dont buy in to we were definitely going down. I genuinely believe he would have achieved the points total Eustace did albeit he wouldnt be performing at the PPG level of the rest of his Rovers spell. But I do think his time had run. Eustace has come in and achieved the points total to keep us up. There were a lot of holes to be picked in the performances to do that, but now he can bring players in to really suit how he wants to play so from next season we will see if his own identity can come through and achieve more than a full-on relegation battle. It's just knowing what I know now, if I was a championship side with a good level of ability in my players gearing for a proper promotion push I would rather have JDT than Eustace. If I had a limited squad who needed motivation and togetherness to outperform their ability then I'd rather have Eustace. Rovers sit in the middle but slightly towards the latter of those two scenarios, hence the constant bickering by people for and against the two managers.

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The point about footballing abilities is correct, but JDT's coaching records at Malmo and at Rovers already are superior to what JE has achieved as a coach, and he also took Rovers on their closest run to promotion since Venkys took over. SS was very diplomatic all around in that interview but he clearly believed in what JDT was doing on the pitch. There's little doubting his coaching ability in that area. It was ultimately his man management that let him down and his refusal to change from his footballing beliefs when injuries and fatigue built up. It's a very good watch actually. I put it on last night to skim through it and watched the whole lot. Especially liked Big Sam calling the Rovers / Burnley derby "evil".

I spent almost all of JDT's reign saying he was stubborn and had no Plan B and you denied it. Now Szmods says it suddenly it confirms it.