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Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over

If the object of the exercise is to make enough money from players sales to just “keep the lights on “ - the plan has worked to “ perfection “. As far as I know, ‘ the lights are still on “. However, if the object of the exercise is to have a successful football team - just look at the league table.

Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone

There’s a good article in my paper today were Jamie Redknapp talks about Spurs v City whilst contrasting that game with the famous Liverpool v Rovers end of season game back in the day. Yes, he was trying to score with that free kick.

In that one clip you saw one thing that Gally hasn’t got - anticipation. Good run off the ball by the No 7, whoever he is.

Money from sales has always been invested to some degree in the past. Not always wisely, but that’s another story. Some went towards new signings and some went on running the club, paying the bills etc. I get the feeling with this mob that nothing will be spent on new players other than financing free transfers. On another point - the flow of good young players is never constant. You can get a glut sometimes but you can always get years were none of the young players can make the step up.

How long will it be before Palace come around again with their handful of magic beans.

Could it be that Broughton wanted to bring in younger players because that’s where his level of expertise was ? My feeling is we had/have enough young players and a bit of experience was needed. Maybe the signing of MacFad and Fleck was a sign that Broughton was on the way out ?

The Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By

Jerry Lee Lewis - Fools Like Me

The Ad-Libs - The Boy From New York City

The Lovin’ Spoonful - You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice

It’s a wonder to me that anybody bothers going to Rovers anymore. Talk about “ Stockholm Syndrome “ !

I was thinking that the other day.

Not really, he’s just the latest dose of chemo for a terminally sick patient.

Were you playing the Rickenbacker on that ? I was expecting a more jangly, Johnnie Marr, Roger McGuinn sound

The Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do

Fair enough, I hadn’t seen that.

Connolly would be an improvement on Gally without a doubt.

I was pleased when we signed him on loan, my impression was that he’d looked good at Hudds. He did nothing for us, I thought he was a real disappointment. Then I was out at a social event and got talking about football to a guy who’s best mate has a son who was/is on the fringes of our first team ( no names ). He told me Thomas was a Billy Big Bollocks who thought he’d really made it and was getting on everybody’s nerves at Rovers.

You think he makes more than one ?

Even in the Leicester game where he made a great save to keep us in the game and he stood up strong when Carter put Jamie Vardy in with that stupid back header he palmed a very average shot right back into the danger area in the first half. Luckily for us there wasn’t a Leicester player in the centre forward spot to take advantage. That goes in and that game could have ended differently.

Dead right. He’s not worth £2.50p. What a waste of space he was when he was here on loan. He couldn’t even land a corner and he was supposed to be good at that. It’d make the money we spent on Wahlstadt look a bargain.

The other time that we’ve had a wave of optimism was in the immediate aftermath of our last promotion. Things appeared to be on the up after years of decline. Then you had the manager pouring cold water on the prospect of a few exciting new signings by saying we didn’t need them. Just a few bench filling bodies brought in to back up existing squad. Cue the sound of enthusiasm being extinguished.

They’ll all stand to lose their jobs one day with the Chicken Chokers running the show. It’s just a matter of time. I’d have baled out years ago if I worked there. The writing is on the wall, if the current employees don’t want to read it - that’s down to them.