Lovely little ground is Shawbridge. Club house is decent too from my hazy memory of proceedings 😁 Unless I am misremembering, is that four homes in four years for Rovers Women now? Bamber Bridge, Lancs FA, Ewood and now Clitheroe?

Only just occured to me, who actually buys adult shorts and socks?

By extension then, none of us are an expert on anything. Close the forum, there's nowt to discuss as we must trust whatever happens is true and fair.

Don't forget training top, training hoodie, travel bag, walk out jacket, warm up trackies, leg-only socks, and branded gloves, that doubtless must have home, away and third versionss and maybe even seasonal variants (can't be expected to wear the warm weather gear in a UK February), all of which change on an annual basis. Maybe a fourth edition too if they play in a certain location or tournament. For all the social awareness on green issues everyone apparently has now, it doesn't seem to stop cluba producing a load of needless shite.

I don't know if they can do BCD for competitive matches, but in the last few years the likes of Bristol City and West Ham have had their women's teams play at their training grounds as standard. Is Brockhall set up for hosting spectators? Maybe something at UCLan? Seems York City and Durham Cestrians in Rovers's new division play on university facilities.

Our Women's team starting Venky's reign of terror at the top table of English women's football and 15 years into it being in the same division as the second best team in Durham really does sum the whole wretched affair up.

"Internal discussions with relevant club staff will now take place regarding the structure of the Women’s team going forward." In other words, what's the bare minimum we can get away with, minus about 10% on top.

That would be even worse for the marketing, their old ground is now Hanley's main shopping centre. At least a garden and a wall and some trees is better than the benches outside the food court.

If Saudis (or any other morally abhorrent regime) bought Rovers, that'd be me done, I don't give a shit if they turned us into Man City or Real Madrid, I want nothing to do with it. What profits a man who gains the world but sells his soul?

I think you're having the better day so far. 18-0 down and 15 played. Haven't had a sniff since the deadlock was broken. Can tell Crus are top.

In a drizzly Colwyn Bay today as a neutral for Crusaders v. Rochdale. Thankfully the stand is high as well as covered, as I have forgotten my glasses so wouldn't have seen a thing pitchside 🙃

Indeed. I wonder how many Wigan Athletic fans would trade their FA Cup victory for having stayed in the PL that year...

Get it right up Villa. Horrid club and wretched fans. I shall be walking into my work office in the West Midlands tomorrow beaming like the Cheshire Cat (we work bank holidays before anyone says anything!) Lest they forget the goal they conceded that never was - because of a goal-line tech fuck up - in the 19-20 Covid season at home vs. Sheff United, that had it been corrected awarded would have seen them relegated at the season's end.

Wonder what became of that KFC

Don't remember this chapter in Shakespeare 😂

Also, I will add, as I fear they may get lost slightly amongst the rightful onslaught that hopefully comes the Club's way, my thoughts are with the Women's players and backroom staff who have just been utterly shafted by the bastards who run our once fine and proud Football Club. The days these fuckers no longer darken our door should be celebrated more vociferously than May 1995.

Quote from the Rovers News release - This decision follows a comprehensive review of the evolving demands placed on second tier clubs, which have become unsustainable under our current model... Presumably this means 'Run by utter gobshites?'

Reading Women went from the second tier to fifth this time last year I think. Presuming a similar trajectory for us, this means (according to Wikipedia) the North West Women's Regional Football League (Premier), in the illustrious company of Darwen, FC United, and Wythenshawe. Give it a few more years and the Men's team will be playing the same, no doubt. Edit - not even Wythenshawe, who appear to have been promoted. Let's say Curzon Ashton instead...

Well, a cursory glance at the Serie A table shows that, with two games to play: - One of two teams can still be crowned champions, with a play off to determine who still a possibility. - Two points separate 4th from 7th, which includes the final CL spot and singular spots for the Europa and Conference Leagues. 7th get nothing. - Two from (realistically) three teams at the bottom are still to be relegated. Italy might not have the snazzy packaging of the Premier League or allure of Pep or Salah or whatever shite Sky are peddling this week, but if I wanted to look at something pretty I'd go for a wallk in the country. 'Perfection' does not necessarily equal 'Intrigue' or 'Entertainment'.

Bloody hell football can't come back soon enough

Now that Wembley is paid off there or thereabouts, I wouldn't be surprised if word of the Community Shield moving to America or the Middle East starts. Spain have had theirs in Saudi for years now, and of course it is a four-team tournament instead of a standalone fixture. Amazon Cannons (AKA Arsenal) v. Tesla Blues (AKA Chelsea) to kick off the inaugural 2030 English Super Cup Championship at some field in the desert near Riyadh at 0230 GMT on Boxing Day morning.

The thing could be played in the middle of Siberia at 4am on a Tuesday and we'd be being told it is for the best to capture the global audience. Any true and proper Palace fan would get there as they must realise some fella in a flat in Beijing has yearned to see them in the Cup final since he started following football duting Covid is of equal importance to the equation.

Seems to be a lot of gobshites like that at gigs these days. Don't understand it myself, if you want to drink and chat to your mates all night just go to the pub, or at least skulk around the back where it is quieter and people are generally less invested in the gig. Some poor sod may have waited years or shelled out hundreds to be there and all they get is some inane, drunken dirge from the arsehole next to them. Worst I have actually ever had was at an Americana/country gig of all things, at Band on the Wall in Manchester. They left after about an hour - thank god - but not before they had acted like pricks for half of the evening. Blokes shouting their own lyrics over the chorus and their girlfriends trying to sit on their shoulders etc. after six pints.

I appreciate lives were shorter back then, but I wonder how many of the old boys there will have been around for the first League fixture just 62 years beforehand! Perhaps even the FA Cup glories in the years leading up to that...

I am sure fixtures used to be released in the morning, not at noon. Probably a request from various employers so the massive drop in productivity nationwide for the hour afterwards coincides with everyone's lunch break.