We didn’t sign Myles Anderson because of who his dad was. To suggest otherwise was rabid speculation. If we needed a backup keeper and Mowbray said Pears was the man for the job and he also knew him and his family and could guarantee he was the right ‘character’, it would probably convince Venkys even more.

@goozburger I renewed to a different seat after the original loyalty deadline had passed but before the ‘2nd’ loyalty discount was introduced. Obviously it’s against my same customer reference number. My seat from last year is now available to buy and is not greyed out. I guess the question is had my original seat been greyed out at the start of phase 2 as I hadn’t renewed when they got blocked off again, and then I did renew sat elsewhere, would it still be greyed out?

If they had a team of premier league quality they wouldn’t have gone down. When you then remove (sell) their better players, the ones left simply can’t be premier league quality. Fulham bounced back but spent £15mill on Wilson and Chalobah.

Phillips clearly has a ton of talent for his age. I’ve never seen him but only heard good things so signing a contract is great. I would imagine he will feature in some first team games fairly soon as you don’t get Jude Bellingham-like fees until they are slightly proven in senior football. Should he make an impression, I’d be amazed if he is here longer than 30 months from now as he will quickly become the next way of funding FFP. Looking forward to seeing him play. Not all wonder kids make it. Some people can deteriorate rapidly. Franny Jeffers was described as the best young striker in generations at Everton, and secured an £11million move to Arsenal, aged just 20, after scoring 18 Premier League goals. He only scored another 18 goals in English football for the rest of his career.

BRFCS Match Centre ratings for the Sheff United game. The comments on the match thread don't speak highly of Edun either.

Any improvements are paid by for the Riversiders who are squeezed to the bone with their 35% increase in 3 seasons. And topped up with the Waggot Tax supposedly brought in to avoid pie wastage! Still can’t get a Guinness Surger pump in the JW stand though even though they are selling cans of it at a fiver a pop. #ShitOnOurOwn

SW is budget-balancer who has no interest in customer service or satisfaction. In one of the most deprived areas of the country, he is slowly seeing how much money he can squeeze out of loyalty rather than any effort to try and attract new customers. In the cheapest part of the ground, where people on a restricted budget will probably choose to sit, season tickets have gone up 35% since the covid-affected season. Thirty-five percent !!!

The reason Boro 's price is shortening and ours is lengthening is because more people fancy Boro to get promoted at 7/2 than us at 13/2. Of course that doesn't mean it will happen. But to say Boro are generally not favourites ahead of Rovers for promotion is wrong.

Boro are no more favourites in your eyes only. In the real world, they are at least half the price of Rovers to be promoted because the majority of people disagree with you. Since the start of June, they’ve shortened in price whilst we have lengthened.

Drew 1-1 away and lost 2-1 at home according to here. https://www.11v11.com/teams/hartlepool-united/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Blackburn%20Rovers/

Yep. You’ll probably need to be “one of our own” plus 2 away games.

Looks like the away end at Burnley is still split between Home and Away so the allocation will be smaller than that which we have received previously.

Looks like only one previous meeting between the clubs, a two-legged league cup tie in 1974 which we lost.

So your saying Chaddy might just be moaning for the sake of it? Rather than thinking the club are genuinely pricing their tickets too high for the prosperity of the area they are based in?

They also won the league cup and reached a European competition final in the last 20 years. And that's irrelevant to how they will do next season too . In my opinion they will finish above Rovers, Lenihan or no Lenihan.

Wilder took over mid season, turned it around and led them to their highest finish for 5 years. With another transfer window, I expect them to do better again under Wilder.

A small right in a sea of wrongs. The seat situation could get messy but at least they’ve done it. There is surely no logic in still increasing the prices in July though.

Kind of like a manager and a head scout then.

no-one has seen him since he went to tell Big Dunc face to face that he hadn’t got the job.

One of the plus-points of employing JDT as head coach is I can't see him wanting to further his career by finishing mid-table and just developing players. He knows his stock only rises if he does well. That doesn't mean he will be supported, but unlike a lot of the journeymen managers we could have appointed just trying to get another job to earn a salary, at least we know he'll be fighting internally to do as well as possible for the club. He surely had other choices across Europe.

Not really. Your thinking it’s some guy whose job it is to come up with brochures and emails. Good marketing is also about identifying your consumer, your competitors consumer and your products price / value in the marketplace.

This started when he said Myers was another on the gravy train but that at least the owners have now wised up. This whilst we have record low ST sales incoming, prices spiralling, a ground decaying, a manager leaving with no communication from the club to the fans , whilst our MD oversees all of this. There is nothing that the majority have fans have seen that implies Waggot is trying very hard to solve any of these issues. He’s just going through the motions trying to hit budgets every season by stealth taxes and increases whilst picking up a handsome salary. Feet up and riding the train. Add in the likes of Lowe also sticking around drawing a salary being forced from manager to manager and the owners haven’t learnt a damn thing. Not sure what DarrenRover thinks he knows which he can’t tell which will address the above. Maybe he’s been told that we’re actually going to start serving £5 Guinness Surger cans actually surged rather than flat. Maybe we’re going to gain a big sponsor mid season instead of losing one. But for us mortals who aren’t ITK, Waggots picking up a hefty salary whilst contributing little.

Waggot is about to oversee the lowest season ticket sales for 40 years. This on the back of a relatively decent season. He’s getting paid for failure. He’s not just on the gravy train, he’s driving it.

Bring back contested drop balls.

Waggots main job should be to stop the haemorrhaging of existing fans. He is failing . A 23% increase in 3 years in the current climate is laughable. He has no long term goal here. His sees his job to maximise revenue on a balance sheet for this season only with no planning for 2,3,5,10 years down the line. If he could have 3000 in paying £1500 each but isolating the rest he would probably do it.