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I’m only pointing out that your statement about “Once upon a time when the football authorities had balls, players caught gambling were given life time bans” is very misleading and inaccurate. I fully get why footballers gambling isn’t allowed and get the points you make above. He’s broke the rules and served a ban. The ban could potentially have been longer to be fair. But a lifetime ban would have been way OTT.

As above, as in as my reply above yours. They were all banned for match fixing, not for simply gambling on games. Some of them admitted ensuring that their teams lost the game to ensure the outcome. There’s no evidence that’s anything like what Toney was doing.

As above.

Was banned and jailed for match fixing of games he was involved in, which is different than betting on your team to lose games which you are not playing in.

I’d start Gallagher and JRC for Leonard and Moran. And then replace Adam Wharton with Garrett to see if we get more protection for the defence.

Who was ever banned for life for gambling on football games?

He's been told by Waggot and Broughton "Stop complaining else we will sell Pears".

Szmodics only got 7 goals that season in the same side.

Moran, McKenzie, Hughes, Cowans etc.. were players who had played at the peak level of English football. They may have not been quite what they were when they arrived at Ewood, but as their ability levels had been so high they were still good enough for the second tier. That's different than signing very old players who generally have been second tier journeymen for most of their career. They are now are not quite what they were, so they are probably league one standard.

In my eyes Lenihan was ok at this level. Hyam looked slightly better last season, but is currently playing quite a bit worse. That’s basically it.

You said you couldn’t see any similarities. You got told some. Nobody said there weren’t any differences.

Unless sending him out allows us to bring in someone better, letting him go would be barmy.

Happy clapper, bury your head nonsense, probably written by someone who has been seduced by Waggott and his pals offer of biscuits and cups of tea.

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Even more weird is the expense of taking it to a legal appeal when we didn't seem to have a leg to stand on, nor a pot to piss in.

It also removes the safety net of "all the debt is to the owners so there is nothing to worry about". It makes the sale of a club less likely without administration as there now becomes debts which have to be repaid and can't be wiped off.

I'm OK for me. It suits me. Plus its modern football. That's the way things are nowadays with TV. You know this as every time moving games doesn't affect you, you bleat on about it being the way of modern football.

Let's not forget the reason this is happening is because the owners have been fraudulently declaring money to be invested in the club which was being used for other non-Rovers related purposes. This has now given us huge cash flow problems. So the credit you are giving them can be snatched quite quickly.

Only way we would get near that at the moment is if there were 3 or 4 clubs who wanted him and it developed into a bidding war.

But we’ve conceded 53% more goals this year than last year, and it’s practically the same defence. Yes our keeper is absolute shite, but we are far, far more porous than last year. In my view it’s partly because the midfield is weaker defensively .

I had moved on but I mentioned it replying to you, who brought it up 5 hours ago. It has been explained to you several times why it was partly GBs fault but time after time you won't/can't accept it.

Or the fact it was a giant Steve Waggot head on Steve Keans body.

In your opinion, which has no foundation and contradicts GB himself taking responsibility.

Which in our current formation we can’t do, as in that role you need to press hard (hence why no Dack) and Szmodics has made it his own.

No, Wharton is often deep collecting from the defence and turning. When the opposition break at us it is Wharton who is often the midfielder in position to break up or stop that attack and because he isn’t very good at it, it causes massive issues, as seen clearly yesterday at the Hawthorns. We’d be far more solid defensively if we started with Garrett / Tronstadt instead of Wharton / Tronstadt, but then what do you do with your most valuable asset? The formation and style of play with Wharton playing where he is contributes to us being defensively weak. We either need to play slightly differently, or drop AW.