Dreams of 1995

Making sarcastic comments about others viewing your lots companies house filings, furthered with a point you could only come up with after viewing the Rovers’ account filings shows me that your obsession with us is now that engrained you don’t find it unusual Do you look at our accounts every year sweetheart? There must be nothing you don’t know about the Rovers Obsessed

It is really easy to say with hindsight. We were second in the table On the 29th January 2022 Rovers were 2nd in the table. We were 3pts from 1st, 10 pts clear of 7th. And you have lads on here banging on about how they would have definitely sold the 2nd leading goal scorer in the league and our highest goal scorer Oh and our best starting central midfielder too Whatever man. You aren’t fooling everybody. They trusted the wrong man, Mowbray, with a gamble and he didn’t pay them back. No wonder he didn’t get a new contract offered. People who are looking at this realistically, without always wanting to be right, would admit that decision would have been incredibly difficult to make

We haven’t performed well today Got caught out with the JRC shifting into the middle and turning it into a back three for their first goal. Dolan not tracking his man is criminal if we play like that Second goal was just mind blowing. How he won that header with three around him…. That’s football We all knew we were going to lose a game at some point. I won’t panic. This is Championship football and they are playing well lately Dolan to be subbed for Brereton and JRC for Brittain. Maybe bring Morton on for Szmodics and go a flat midfield three with three up top

A loophole is used to circumvent rules or regulations Is it not what is needed or is it clever? The statement is contradictory They are breaking the rules of fair competition. With any luck it breaks this so-called “successful” model that Watford have. It isn’t the first time they have used their Udinese connections to their advantage

Watford under investigation for the transfer of Kamara Bought for cheap, sold expensively to Udinese and loaned back for the year “circumvent FFP” we keep getting told. It does not work

Stoke (A) = W Reading (H) = W B'ham (A) = W Norwich (H) = L H'field (A) = L Hull (H) = W Coventry (H) = L Nobbers (A) = L Dingles (H) = W Luton (H) = W Millwall (A) = L Another 18 pts on the board, to take us to 76 pts and a comfortable play off place

By my understanding if you only survive one season in the Prem you only get 2 years of parachute payments

Has it worked at Watford? Their best season in the past 10 years came under Javi Garcia - who was actually, miraculously, given a full season and a half. He was then sacked and they got relegated Since then I don't believe a single manager has lasted more than a full season and a yoyo affect has begun If they don't go up this year it will be the final year of parachute payments having only spent 1 season in the PL last year, which means a fire sale of some supremely talented players

I agree in my opinion it is another lesson for people not writing off players too quickly. Plenty of talk has been had about him being a waste of money but looks like he’s really settled in both off and on the pitch

We are class. Enough said

There has to be a deadline at some point What is “immediately after”? 10 minutes, 1 hour? I have some sympathy in this respect Contracts are full of these terms: best endeavours, so far as is reasonably practical, reasonably foreseeable etc etc The EFL at least gave guidance on the 15 minutes

Sorry, poorly worded really I do get it had to be moved, but think it's shit it will become a midweek 8pm game all the same For example, I'm in the Midlands, I won't be able to attend that game. It doesn't help the distant fans who might have otherwise bought a ticket for it

That April is quite frankly disgusting. To move the Burnley game to Tuesday at 8pm is shit. But the atmosphere will be electric. Under the lights always adds to the atmosphere imo

Winnable game and a great warm up for the FA Cup. We have to win our home games if we want to remain in the play offs. Take it to them early and we can beat them. They are nothing special - a well drilled team with some quality They don't realise we have a secret weapon though. An in form Sam Gallagher.......only to be used on extremely rare occasions. This is one of them.

Welcome to the shit show that is the FA All these coaches, pundits and players speak about the 'tradition' of the cup. Then they don't say anything about it being played at 6pm on a Sunday or something bloody daft At the very minimum the FA Cup should be Saturday 3pm until the final.

You are right it does The duty of care is established by proximity and fairness Could it be argued we were close enough to Nottingham Forest to reasonably foresee any harm that could arise from our negligence? Maybe. We knew if we didn’t get the deal ratified they would not receive the contributions we promised and would have to continue paying his salary in full. Just speculating there - I don’t think it will come to that at all As Wisden points out if that loan agreement constitutes a contract then maybe there’s an argument for breach of contract. Can’t see it myself. Would bet my last quid there’s some Regulation in the EFL documents that say contracts are not valid until they have been ratified by their Board, or similar

I haven't, sorry You see, a claim for loss usually arises from a breach of contract. I don't know, but I will look up, whether the "loan agreement" facilitates a binding contract I'd actually more side with Mercer, in that the contract was frustrated due to negligence by Rovers, therefore as no contract was entered into there cannot be a breach What I believe Mercer is then insinuating is that a claim arises from a 'Tort of Negligence'. It is an area of law that is complex and very difficult to prove

You can disagree with his legal perspective all you like, but given that he is right and you are not, we are going to need some reasons as to why You feel certain and you strongly suspect, yet from any sort of legal standpoint I just do not see it The only damages we are liable to pay, and will pay, are the ones suffered by the EFL in preparing their arbitration

I am surprised there’s not been a few apologising about the outrageous accusations made against Broughtons professionalism and personality It’s abundantly obvious he did his job correctly. By 8.25pm he had agreed to sign Lewis O’Brien after chasing him throughout the transfer window. As a DOF his job was complete when he had the boy in the training facilities. It was down to the secretarial team - who do not come out of this well at all - to finish the rest. They didn’t Broughton did his job. And then had the balls to go out and face the music. Where is Waggott? Where is Sylvester? Nowhere. Living it up, not arsed. If GB had a competent commercial department (because this is a commercial matter) then he would have secured us one of our best signing in a long time, with the option to purchase at a good fee if promoted.

It could have been worse We know what we have to do. Saturday should be interesting

If this is what is occurring down at Ewood then it is grossly incompetent from Waggott He should be advising them of the rules of FFP and of the cost and requirements of facility maintenance. But I don’t need to tell anyone that… It also begs the question about Pasha. If he’s their “man on the ground” then what is he doing? The cost of a pitch like Leicester’s is a drop in the ocean to the Venky empire. Yet it would go a long, long way to restoring some relationship with the fans

Improving the pitch doesn’t fall under FFP So in reality, if Venkys wanted to they could give us a PL standard pitch and a centre forward The issue is that they don’t want to Any improvements to infrastructure and facilities is considered outside of FFP if I am correct

Carter was my man of the match Had Jamie Vardy on toast

I have just done my match ratings. Personally I think it is a tragedy that Morton has an average of 6.8 He had a terrific first 70. Ran out of steam in the end. But this is a 19 year old man who played in a frantic, high paced game and came up against two freshly substituted starting PL central midfielders. He needed taking off and fresh legs putting in But make no mistake Tyler Morton was integral to our win today. A really unfortunate score for him imo

That Gallagher tackle got an almighty roar from the fans It was a punch the air type of event. Say what you want about Gally, and I’m one of them who does, that man left his soul on the pitch tonight It is what really irked about Vales ambling around. You just replaced a man that has nothing left - the least you owe him is that you run yourself into the ground for the last 15. He looked like he couldn’t be arsed. Really running out of patience with him Travis made a similar tackle in the first half. A blocked shot right in front of us. I just knew at that moment that these lads didn’t come to get walked over We need to take that spirit and that fight into the next league game. All this talk of cup runs ruining leagues is silly. The confidence they will get from that can’t be taught in an extra day on the training field