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It's not true that JRC hasn't made any impact in any of his games. I forget the opposition, feel like it was Sheff W, but he came on and set a goal up directly, had a hand in another, and looked good. Not hit those heights since though but has looked better than you're giving him credit for.

I'd say it makes more sense to compensate you to the tune of £4 per game and let you watch them without further cost. The club can't afford to risk writing off the full amount if you and thousands of others decided not to pay it, or use an illegal stream instead. But if you're getting to watch all 9 games, not just the home ones, without extra cost, you're actually getting a much better deal than the rest of us rubes (bar the illegal streamers). I've not read much on it yet so don't know if you get all 9 or just the home games.

Apparently the uncertainty produced by covid is actually one of the main reasons we haven't offered him a deal yet.

That I can agree with. Same for his performances for the reserves. But I think there is some merit to Joe's suggestion that the lad might do a bit better without a crowd present. How much so, who knows.

Personally I think BB is the most mentally weak player we have. Yes it's presumptuous but we have to presume things we don't know. I feel it's fairly clear from his body language at various points. It has certainly created the image of a player who sorely needs sustained confidence. All players do, but he really really does.

Weird thing to say, the season will still count, and have promotion and relegation. If we can invest in a promotion push it's paramount that we do. Agree the youngsters should get more game time, certainly rather than just padding with 'squaddies' (possibly goalkeeper aside).

Unless you don't have a telly/computer, I expect you'll be able to see them.

Christ, I bloody hope so if we are planning to sign him! ?

A question I've not seen being asked, with everyone focused instead on the contract situations for those expiring, and how/when/if to restart the season... is the transfer window going to just open again when it usually does, even if the season restarts late enough that clubs could buy or lose, even loan players in the closing stages of the season with everything on the line? (Obviously I know nobody here has the answer to whether it actually will or not)

In fairness, so they should. They're a league lower than us, and have been for two years now. One game, or a few? It can be hard to stand out as a goalie in one game if not tested properly. I agree he doesn't have the CV of someone who should be our first choice, but he sounds like a significant upgrade on Leutwiler as backup, and may be able to challenge for the jersey with someone higher calibre. Sounds like his agent is a lil greedy though and that could make him expensive for backup. Not 33 yet, may be by the time next season starts though. 32/33 is pretty much the peak time for a goalkeeper. You could expect probably 2-3 more decent years (by whatever standard his 'decent' is...I'm talking about at or near peak). I wouldn't say joining Sunderland in League One constitutes his career highlight. He played 43 games in the Champs for Burton. Scottish Prem is arguably a better level than League One too (at least, a fair few of the clubs are). He has 2 caps for Scotland, one of which was in October gone, in a qualifier. He has been on the bench for them for the last 10 games (except for the one he played). So he has become Scotland's second choice goalkeeper in the last year despite being in League One. Is that hugely impressive? No, but it does suggest he is on an upwards trajectory reaching his peak. They don't regard him as not worth bothering with due to his age. If it's as first choice it will be underwhelming for sure. If it's as backup, with an eye on possibly being able to mount a serious challenge for the shirt, and the wages are low enough, I'd happily swap Leuts out for him.

I think most of those changes were for the story to follow the protagonist, Suter, experiencing the big moments, even the ones he didn't. Dramatic purposes, essentially. It would have meant less dramatically and thematically if he wasn't in the first working class team to win it. Even though he wasn't. Plenty of films etc have taken plenty more liberties than this in fairness.

I probably read about 3 a day. In some cases with several refreshes to get around the survey.

Honestly I've not seen it pose a problem yet. The annoying surveys thing does though, I wish they'd stop that, they're never going to get a survey out of me. Have they changed this paywall thing? All I have seen is a thing at the bottom of the articles asking me to pay for ad-lite content. But without forcing it.

Five, as we played Five Kickup (th'ass).

Dunno, reckon we will get it down to needing one new goalkeeper...and two centre halves.

The only goals I've not seen mentioned that this topic made me think of are Duff goals (Tugay's Fulham goal was only mentioned as one of the two volleys in that game though, I expected it to dominate this thread!), and I don't know how much they're just in my head as it's difficult to find Duff's Rovers goals for some reason. The way they play in my memory is that both were at Ewood against teams in claret and blue (Villa and West Ham I think) although the one you describe against Brum is similar so maybe not, and about a week or two apart. I remember him vanishing behind two or three players down near the corner flag area and thinking 'oh fuck he's lost it' only for him to somehow re-emerge moments later with the ball, skip past another and lash it into the corner (I think with his right foot). It blew my mind and I thought I might never see another goal like it...then he did practically the same thing next time I saw him at Ewood. As I say, there may be some false memory construction going on here, to a degree! A few of the goals mentioned on this thread are more spectacular in my mind than they are when I re-watched them, though still great goals.

Yeh, my memory had a few factual errors though! Then again, so did the show...

Clean sheets are irrelevant for this though because you'd expect players in better teams to keep more clean sheets with less work.

Ludicrous. Brad is easily in the top 3 Prem keepers of all time. I'll only accept Schmiechel and Cech above him. I can see how others might have other preferences for their top 3, but to not put Friedel in the entire top 10 is simply grossly inaccurate.

What do you mean?

Summer 2021 rebuild at this rate.

It's not Waggot's money being lost though. It's the club's.

I feel like you didn't read any of what I said. It's irrelevant what the numbers are now, it's about preventing them from becoming what they can become. The Wuhan biolab is very suspicious though. It's understandable conspiracy theories have arisen on it, for more reasons than you state. It was the only biolab in China that handles that level of virus. It's also pretty near to the food market where the virus was claimed to originate. I think I read within a mile or two. One of the theories goes that some of the workers there may have been selling experimented-upon animals illegally to the market for cash on the side.

It takes a while for someone to die of it in most cases, and there could be misdiagnosed deaths, deaths from other factors that were unknowingly worsened by this virus, etc. The NHS is also in ok shape (just about) to deal with these volumes for now. Survival rates will be lower once they're not.

You think there should be 100,000 people dead from a virus, with the potential for much worse, before the stock market takes notice and some football games get postponed? You're a much more heartless man than I am then. And don't appear to understand the stock market... Look, this virus is theoretically capable of killing some 60 to 180 million people (80% of the global population infected and a 1 to 3 percent death rate) if allowed to go unchecked. To be clear, that's NOT going to happen, but that's purely because it won't be allowed to go unchecked (and hopefully the summer will slow it, but that's far from certain at this stage). In short, these measures are necessary to reduce the global death toll as much as possible. Looking at what the numbers are now and saying it's nothing is incredibly naive. That's like looking at the figures back in December and saying Wuhan should have done nothing at all because it was an inconsequential numbers of lives. This thing isn't done, not by a long shot. There's no need for panic, the world isn't ending and we will eventually get it under control. We have to actually exercise control to do that though, and reduce the impact as much as possible. What I'm seeing people describing now as panic really isn't (mostly...a few people are undoubtedly going too far). I hope people will remember something when this is all done, but I suspect they won't - if the deaths figure isn't that enormous by the time this runs its course, it will be because of the measures taken, rather than some proof they weren't needed.