only2garners

They should be on the club website tomorrow. They have been agreed with the club and have been circulated to Forum members this morning. I always do this in case anyone has any issues with them. I have asked the club to release them tomorrow.

Suffolk has a population of 760,000 and one league team. Lancashire has a population of 1.495m, so slightly under twice as many and 7 league teams.

Isn't there usually a close down for a few days whilst any seat moves are arranged?

Today's i newspaper has an article about what a mess Leeds are in now. Their American investors were due to pay £220m for Radrizzani's 56% share to take control in the Summer. That would value Leeds at £420m, but the paper suggests that they are probably only worth £170m with relegation. It's not clear whether Radrizzani would be willing to take that hit to get out. He might decide to stay and hope that they get promoted quickly whilst they still have parachute payments.

Here's an exclusive goozburger - they haven't!

I'm not sure Monday is very traditional. The last two before yesterday have been on Saturday and Sunday.

Next Friday will be 10 days, unless you are counting Tuesday23rd. Given we only finished the meeting about 8.30.pm, that’s a bit harsh.

I’m glad you’re not doing the numbers Rigger - the meeting was only on Tuesday. I finished them yesterday, mainly because I went to the cricket on Thursday.

It seems perfectly logical to me. They put Premier League first, then Scotland, then Women's Super League and then EFL with Wales and Ireland later. Women's Championship comes after mens EFL. Then after that European leagues. You might not agree with having the top women's league ahead of the EFL but I can see the logic in it.

There will be some up to date numbers in the Fans Forum minutes, which should be out next week.

It may be that I am guilty from time to time of not fully expressing the whole discussion, but there is a danger that could end up in pages and pages of minutes which not many would read. By necessity a set of minutes is just a summary of what discussion takes place at a meeting rather than a verbatim record. Typically I tend to end up with points raised by Forum members and the final comments by the club in response. I guess that does make them look like we ask a question and the club responds, but mostly it doesn't happen like that in reality. The club do see my draft minutes and often make some small changes but the vast majority of the changes they make are entirely sensible, often my typos. I can only think of a couple of changes that I have queried and we have easily reached a compromise. And they were mostly in the John Williams/Tom Finn era. We will also occasionally talk about a subject which the club asks not be minuted - there was one on Tuesday. Again that's fairly rare now but was rife whenever John Williams came. Anyway, none of this has much to do with Gregg Broughton, so any follow-up would be better on the FF thread.

Err… It consults? The Forum is a group of fans with whom the club consults on issues of interest to the fans. We have no right to force the club to do anything, but we hope to get our points across. Often fans look at the minutes and see statements that the club makes and seem to assume that somehow it’s an agreed position, when usually it’s just the club’s response to a question.

That seems pretty uncalled for as well Rev, for what I intended as a joke. I keep plugging away trying to get over fans’ views and improving things as and when we can. It’s only a consultative forum, not a negotiating one, which quite a few on here don’t seem to grasp.

I should have them over to the club tomorrow. Given it's a Bank Holiday weekend I'm guessing later next week.

Isn’t that the whole raison d’etre for the Forum?

And how would anyone infer that from a post with two statements that you were emphasising the second one?

It’s hardly surprising that the South London News would concentrate on a connection with Millwall rather than Rovers.

I see Wigan have been deducted 4 points for next season for failure to pay wages on time, plus another 4 for the following season, albeit suspended. They were also deducted 3 more for the 22/23 season but all irrelevant now.

Kits and sponsors are on the agenda but I would be amazed if we get to see anything.

It’s next Tuesday.

Looking at various press reports it seems more likely he was sacked due to a breakdown in relationships with the club.

What about Villarreal? I hear they have an exciting new striker.

Not absolutely confirmed yet but probably 23rd May.

Give over. At half time we knew that if we won were still in with a chance. That seemed like a ridiculous prospect but clearly they came out to "give it a right good go" (© G Bowyer). Then they scored very quickly - at that time it was still on. By the time we got the third Sunderland were already in control and the game was up. I was fairly sure that the players knew by the time the 4th went in - surely there would have been wild celebrations if they didn't know that Sunderland were winning and there weren't particularly.

No they hadn't. It was still 0-0 at Deepdale - Sunderland only scored their first 3 minutes after JRC scored.