Great run from elliot, halfway line to edge of the box. Brilliant little dribble. Wrong direction.

3 minutes ago, Tom said:

Bell looking good going forward

Hes getting forward but looks scared to do anything other than a 10 yard pass back. 

I dont pay for ifollow so I'm really pissed off that this is on sky. 

Sky pundits talking about Armstrong "every time he gets in the box you think hes going to score" I bet his shot conversion stats dont back that up 

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

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Completely off topic but your remaining battery life is giving me anxiety. 

2 hours ago, Richard Oakley said:

I wouldn't rate Bowyer as Mowbray's equal. Bowyer was a stop gap who went on too long. In that respect, he's equal to Mowbray.

Mowbray apparently delegates training. it's hard to discern what, if any training is being done.

Mowbray delegates set piece training. So it's not his fault we can't defend.

Mowbray delegates player recruitment. He takes the credit when one of the signings turns out great and passes the blame onto others, when the signing turns out not to be very good.

So what's he doing 7 till 7? Bet he's got a cracking score on candy crush. 

I remember as a kid during winter, if the weather forecast said there was a chance of snow I'd wake up every morning for a week or two and excitedly rush to open the curtains to check it had snowed overnight. I'm currently going through the same process checking the news to see if tony has gone yet. 

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

Does 1  point out of 18 count as progress?

Our points per game in Feb has gone from 0 to 0.17. That's an increase of infinity - sounds like progress to me, Tony will be chuffed... 

6 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Cant believe it really. I’m lost for words now. Don’t even feel angry like I usually would be, just fed up, apathetic and resigned to the fact we are in this never ending cycle of nothingness

That's the worst thing about the mowbray era the feeling of nothingness. Win I dont get that excited, lose i dont get angry. I miss the emotion of supporting a football club. At least with kean I had anger. 

27 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Tony Mowbray: "I don't sit here in fear fighting for my job" | Lancashire Telegraph

What a load of drivel. The comments of a coward. Trying to blame the fans for upsetting the young lads. Shameful. Try winning some games ya useless lump and then YOU wouldn't get criticised.

But don't worry, we'll get to the Prem next year. Or the year after. Or the year after. Er..one day. Look don't pressure me, you'll upset the kids.

Mowbray Out.

"I don't sit in here in fear fighting for my job cos I'm mates with the CEO"

Also the young lads do probably see the criticism however the vast majority has been levelled at Mowbray rather than the players so cant see how that would damage their confidence. 

What Journey are we on btw? We're going to go into summer probably needing another 4 or 5 signings as we do every summer. 

What's worse is I read that whole interview in his dull dejected voice and nearly put myself to sleep. 

14 minutes ago, ben_the_beast said:

But selling off of infrastructure is a slippery slope. I'd rather see Arma go and maintain the facilities.

Same I'd rather rid the club of anyone with value than sell off infrastructure. If we sell of the facilities we could slide into irrelevance. 

Our manager said that top 6 is what we should be aiming for. He said it, not the fans. We're nowhere near, have some integrity and walk. 

1 minute ago, darrenrover said:

In my considered opinion, it's about lining charlatan's pockets, period!

When you look at the sums and assume I havent missed anything, it can only be of any real benefit to someone earning a bit of commission out of this. 

I dont know if anyone involved in this is say a CEO on the brink of retirement... 

Been dipping in and out of this thread so apologies if I missed it. But what is the financial benefit of doing this?

I've seen it touted as a £68million  deal but

1) that's based on £400k per house which seems high as an average for a development 

2) it also assumes the houses are built for free. Even assuming we didnt just sell the land to a developer and built it ourselves you're looking at 25-30% profit  (and that's a high estimate)

3) we've then got to build this new training centre 

So realistically is this deal not going to be well under 20million? Less than 2 years of what the venkys stick into the club to keep it afloat. Or is this an exercise in cutting overheads? 

11 hours ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Enjoyed the night stalker and hotel cecil.

Just finishing Hotel Cecil, I find web sleuths both fascinating and insanely irritating. What happened to Morbid is a lesson in not judging a book by its cover. 

Good series though.

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

How can you not have Sancho or Sterling in the starting 11? 

In fairness i havent seen Sancho too much this season so dont know what kind of form he's in. Sterling, I really dont rate for England, he's a good player in a city side where the other 10 players create space and a shed load of chances each game but for England he wont get that space or those chances. 

I like the idea of Henderson and Rice together in midfield with 4 ahead of them

For me:

Pope

Trippier Stones Maguire Shaw

Henderson Rice

Foden Mount Grealish 

Kane

I think keepers you've got to consider McCarthy given the season hes been having (excluding the 9-0) over henderson who's not playing. Also there was a story going round about how Martinez could be eligible for England now, it wont happen but I would love that. Really rate him. 

Right back, wan bissaka and trippier would be unlucky to miss out but in who's place. It's a difficult position to chose with the talent available. TAA, I'd be tempted to leave out, not having a great season and I dont think we've got the defence that liverpool had when he was firing. 

Centre back I cant see gomez being fit in time and certainly not back to his best so id take coady.

Cant argue with the rest but I dont envy who has to pick the starting 11. 

Can only assume his post match comments were along the lines of

"Awful news, Sam's going to be out for a long time but if we're taking a positive out of the game Ryan's hamstring went in the 90th minute. I've got a problem for the next game, benno could cover at right wing or at full back, it's a headache but a nice headache to have. It might be that he covers both and we play with 10" 

We're on a journey alright, trouble is not all journeys go to a good place. I took a journey once. Destination - Slough. 

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

I doubt there's even room down there to build an indoor centre big enough for the academy and senior squad with parking, ground staff etc.

And we'll need to find room for Bennets statue as well. 

I remember losing to my mate 5-0 on fifa and then desperately claiming "yeah but I had 54% possession" 

I'd have lampard but doubt he'd drop down to championship again.

Someone like that though who uses the youth, well connected for loans and is hungry and wants to take us somewhere rather than some old bod wanting another pay day. 

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

and playing Bell in front of Williams at home to Oldham to nullify their right bac

Odd mentality isnt it playing two left backs to nullify a right back. The positive option would be to have a winger pining the RB back or exploiting the space in behind when he does push on but good old tony lumps for two defenders instead. 

agree, cant get my head around a lot of it. Like where do you even begin to plan a trip to Mars? I cant even organise a holiday away with friends.