Dreams of 1995

The poster has a history of considering his own knowledge and opinion of football to be far superior than others'. I'm very glad he enjoys the Champions League but for others the tournament has far more sinister connotations than the displays of great football.

The next run of games are important. Matches I'd expect to be picking up points by. As stated earlier in the season at the mid-October stage we'll have a round about idea of where our season is going.

Let that happen. It will be the best thing for the domestic game. The global fan base - Africa and Asian continents - can follow the global superstars on TV as much as they like. Bring the domestic game back to 3pm Saturdays, the cup competitions will mean more and league competition be fairer. Unfortunately I have little faith in the EFL/FA to pay enough attention to the clubs outside of the Super League zone to make something like this work in our favour. They'll more than likely be scrambling for funds to be handed down in "compensation" for losing the prestigious (rich) clubs. Whilst it will be sad to lose the likes of Liverpool and United from the domestic sport sometimes it's necessary to cut an arm off for the rest of the body to survive. Though in the world we live it will probably create a situation where every single club is spending huge amounts of money to qualify for the European super league and the Prem becomes the Championship mk 2.

The only positive of that season was when we filled it out vs Oxford and I was thousands of feet in the air the time, wondering what was going on. It showed that we can get the numbers back. Not full week in week out but the interest, if there is something on offer except bland mid-table football, is still there. Other than that I felt as if every game we had more to lose than the opposition. It was unnerving. Of course it was nice to win each week but it was the lowest point of Venkys ownership and boy have their been some lows.

Good. How Derby get away with it is beyond me. They've been splashing for years now and I believe they have employed another equally creative tactic in the Rooney transfer. I was told as he has come in as a player/coach his wages aren't included in the players, or at least only part are. Don't know how much truth is in it as I haven't checked. https://www.consultancy.uk/news/22303/gap-widens-between-have-and-have-nots-of-english-football A very interesting read into the state of footballs finances. Meanwhile UEFA continue to push their "big 5" European agenda, using the study by Deloitte to state that other European leagues are not "pulling their weight" in increasing revenue. It's almost as if they are blind, or selectively blind, to the fact that the reason they can't is because these leagues are choking the game. Not long now until studies like this are used as an argument to separate "successful" clubs into a UEFA full-season "Champions League" and we can be left alone with our sport.

I haven't done the poll but what were the other options for Kean? There's a big difference between hate and "like" Of the 27% of people who didn't "HATE" Kean what were their pollings? Just curious is all.

Any sort of coverage about Rovers will get a watch from me. If you want to talk about how the current season is going, or our potential to get into the Premier League, or our foray into League 1 then unfortunately all roads lead to the owners. It's synonymous with any talk of current affairs. I respect what you are doing though. I can see why you don't want to go back digging through old dirt but ultimately there's a bitterness amongst the Rovers die hard towards the Venkys, irregardless of the talk of them "keeping the lights on". They have gutted the club and their early years caused many Rovers fans to fall out, some forever. I'd like to hear from the 46% who could forgive them and what it would take for that to happen. To be quite frank they could put a billion into the club, put a proper board in place, get Guardiola in and I still wouldn't. I'd enjoy the success just as I sat through the failure but make no mistake that I won't ever forgive them for making me traipse to Wimbledon on a freezing Tuesday night. In hindsight Wimbledon was a bad example after what happened to them. The point remains though - they took us down to that level and they have shown no remorse except a "the owners remain committed.........................to bastardising this club"

Raya is a good goalkeeper and will only get better. We dropped a bollock letting him go but Walton is a better goalie currently...problem is he isn't ours.

I'll happily give my views, on camera or not, about what I think about the club, the football league, agents and the state of modern football. What I won't do is talk about how life has been at Rovers since they came here in any other way than what it is. They've shown no remorse for any of the early years and certainly haven't even began to pay us back for what they have done to the club and the town. At the end of the day there has been far greater collateral damage than our league position. I don't think it is to anyones surprise that the few pubs left standing around the ground closed down in the Venkys years - those pubs relied heavily on match day foot fall, for which the Indians have done severe damage to. Ultimately it will be impossible to talk about the current affairs of Rovers without discussing the two fat and one malnourished elephants in the room.

And so it begins...

Bunch of wankers As for Kean the man has no soul Print the above, you won’t go far wrong

Be careful, most of us only get one

Neil Harris on facing West Brom: https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/millwall-boss-harris-admits-stern-test-awaits-at-west-bromwich-albion/ Neil Harris on facing Fulham: https://www.newsatden.co.uk/72793-millwalls-harris-fulham-best-in-league-but-weve-sold-out-allocation-and-will-enjoy-it Yep, do what Harris is doing and don't big up other teams.......................... ?

I couldn't give a damn if he played 1 game or 1000. Walton looks a better goalkeeper than Raya so, in my eyes, it has been an upgrade. Time will tell if we can sign someone similar permanently, as a goalkeeper like Walton must be eyeing the Prem soon.

I don't see what the issue is personally. Everybody is in agreement that Chapman isn't performing well enough and Mowbray agrees. He is honest in his approach and if a 21 year old lad can't take that level of criticism then he is in for a tough time in this sport. The level of criticism Mowbray has levelled at other players like Magloire in the past has been over the top. I also agree that he's too quick to criticise the youngsters than he is senior players, a la Evans and Smallwood. However what he has said about Chapman is justified and fair. A total non-issue.

Depending on what you like you'll have the Shakespeare/Post Office like Mattyblue has said, do some great ales. If you want a more quiet drink (Blues will be at home so most of the cheaper pubs, Wetherspoons, Sun on the Hill etc will probably be full of noses) directly opposite New Street there is a hotel, if you go into the hotel but turn left down a set of stairs there's a quirky bar there called Bacchus. Great selection of beers, ciders, spirits and wines. Another pub worth going is the Wellington. You'll wanna walk up a place called Bennetts Hill - if you walk along the main route in the city centre towards a Tesco Express/Bella Italia you'll find it. Walk up Bennetts Hill towards Colmore Row and you'll see the Wellington along the way. If the weather is good it has a great rooftop beer garden that is surrounded on all sides by high rise buildings - this does get full though!! You could then carry on going up towards Colmore Row and there's an abundance of bars/pubs. One called The Old Stock Exchange or something. Great pub! Depending on your time in the city centre I'd suggest maybe walking towards the Jewellery Quarter also. Loads of pubs and won't be frequented by the blues fans. To be honest though if you throw your hat in the centre it will land on the doorstep of a pub. They aren't in short supply.

Another rancid symptom of the way the game is now. The "magic" of the cup is lost because every single club is frightened out of their minds of the dreaded r word. Every league position relates to more £££ and they'd rather finish 1 or two places higher than have a cup run. Nick Harris reported that the fee split ratio was changing this year to further the top clubs - another prime example of how the top clubs are lobbying the league to ensure their continued success financially and on the pitch. How anyone expects smaller teams to ever catch up when prize/TV money is split so unfairly is beyond me.

And each time this happens there will be fresh outrage. Jim White is one of the most remarkable case and points I have ever seen; he stands in front of a deadline day clock, reinvented to count down the hours until a club over 100 years old goes out of business, literally tearing the community apart. Then the next day he sits on his radio station defending it, claiming he has done more than any other to highlight the plight of the club. Well, I'm sorry Mr White but it simply isn't enough. Much like his brief cameo in our situation regarding poor ownership it's all too little, too late. Discussing the plight of a community over a 2 hour talk show, in which you charge fans for the privilege of phoning in, doesn't begin to break the surface, particularly when next week you will be back to discussing the mega-transfer of Alexis Sanchez or Neymar etc. Next week it will be "business as usual" in the Sky, BBC, EFL, PL, TalkSport, BT HQs. Bury will be a sad reminder of the past, when football was a man in the street sport and success wasn't determined by the bank balance of a clubs owner. MPs will today call for regulation, for a degree of responsibility to be taken by the EFL for the plight of two fine, historical clubs. Then next week they'll be back discussing other issues, and rightly so because football isn't everything, and the rallying calls for reform will be swept away by another claw-for-votes cry for more money to the NHS or the like. Nobody will pick these issues up again in a week because everybody is so engrossed in the glitz and the glamour of the Premier League/European elite. When we are in a situation where Alexis Sanchez's wage over the past 2 years is enough to save Bury/Bolton then we are sadly past the point of no return. Much like society the gap between the haves and have-nots is increasing at an alarming rate. Yet, much like society, our reliance on private business and foreign investment has also left us without a community anchorage; when back in the day you either attended the game or watch no football children would fall in love with their local team, now they can watch City on tele once a fortnight minimum. Whereas before we'd have local people running clubs, with the interest of the club at heart and the accountability of the local community in mind, we now have distant foreign investment, with no consideration for the people. What was once a game for the local working man is now a battle of egos between the super rich, or an addition to a portfolio to brag about in their yacht parties, or, in the saddest of cases, a business in which losses can be offset or assets can be stripped to make a quick quid. Modern football is dying. In a weird way I have a slight envy for Bury - they will reform, and they will do well due to the backing they will have, and for a brief few years they'll escape the monotony of the football league. However the only thing that awaits them is a return to the depths of the football league, where smaller town clubs wait to feed from the scraps of the elite. Then, though, much like AFC Wimbledon, at least the club will be theirs. The best thing that could possibly happen to English football is the break away from the PL that will inevitably happen. We are better off without the bastard system that has led to this point.

1 in 3 then, my mistake. The point remains that your criticism of Danny Graham is rightly laughed at but the fact you are now giving Bell some sort of accolade shows one of two things: you are either on the wind up or what you know about the sport you can write on the back of a stamp. Probably both.

If I saw Jerome Anderson on the streets sat in front of an empty cup I'd piss in it before giving him a penny. He's a hawk, the very worst of the worst. With any luck the current problems he's facing last 10 years and knocks millions of his value too. Maybe Jim White can get him on and let him have a little cry again? Baby.

You are on the wind up surely. Spend topic after topic slamming our 1 in 2 striker but come out with comments like that. Outrageous.

Many people who I say this to call me a conspiracy nut but it is firmly my belief that the EFL, FA and EPL have a national plan to turn English football to a sport almost akin to American Football, in that there will be a few massive clubs as opposed to the 92 currently. These clubs will be city based and to hell with the towns that pioneered the game. I have it on very, very good authority that the EPL have an enormous budget in place to bankroll any of their big clubs should they go bust. It almost gives them the invincibility large banks have when it comes to reckless behaviour. Should we be talking about Man Utd or Liverpool right now there'd have been a bail out of sorts, with the leagues doing all they can to keep the gates open. As it stands founding members of the football league are treat with disdain. To hell with the all three of the organisations.

You've almost become a parody of yourself Much preferred it when all you shared was your abysmal betting record

I'd disagree after 6 games. Around about October time you get a better picture as of the layout of the league, with a few exceptions where bad/good form strikes or managerial changes (Villa, Brentford) If we lose to Cardiff and Baggies I certainly wouldn't be considering us relegation candidates.

Is it? I swear Norwich were towards the bottom end of the table this time last year. Far too early for those kind of calls