Mattyblue

Why am I getting a cross between Cool Runnings and Joe Biden?

🙋‍♂️ I used to wax lyrical (because I know a top player when I see one)

Yeah, but how many POTY awards did he win though?

I’m not sure it’s that easy to extrapolate, English football has a pyramid with four figure crowds reported down in the 8th tier, not replicated anywhere in the world. Take away the Old Firm and is that top flight figure any better than that of a Belgium or a Sweden? There are hugely supported football clubs outside the PL in England but clubs like Bournemouth in it. A proper football country, to be sure, then so is England.

He looks terrific too. Simon Cowell should have tapped him up first.

He’ll have ‘added value to his fee’, so job well done.

I presume it’s just the two end blocks as the camera side end block is now on sale and the next to last block on the other side has now been sold.

…31 in all competitions and scored 16 goals, not bad ay. I’m not saying AW hasn’t the potential, course he does, but ‘much better’, as of now, which is where this debate started, of course he isn’t (just some mischief making going on from quite a strange new poster by the looks of it).

Yeah, well bad.

Good god. Are these the metrics now, I know you’re taking the piss, but still. OK, I’ll take you on. He was in teams of the decade, halls of fame and all the rest of it, so we can all cherry pick individual baubles for our argument. But as he didn’t win POTY in an era full of top footballers, he’s no Adam Wharton. Aye, good one.

We’ve pretty much ‘sold out’, just a couple of single seats left. We haven’t really as they haven’t put the end blocks on sale, presumably they will be doing later today?

No, he was an elite footballer and did it at the very highest level for fifteen years.. Adam isn’t close at this stage.

Scholes was already a regular for a double winning side the season he turned 21. Highly debatable to say Adam is ‘better’/further on in his development.

Anybody saying that seriously (I’m presuming they are joking) obviously is too young to have actually watched Scholes in action. Without doubt one of the greatest players I’ve ever seen in person.

And Jobe Bellingham went for nearly *ten million* more. Palace nabbed a bargain due to the seller being distressed, not sure how anybody could argue anything else.

I obviously wasn’t being particularly serious, but makes perfect sense to me, as if numbers are to represent types of role (like rugby union) then why not simply have 1-11 (like RUs 1-15)?

If that’s the way we have to talk about football now, fine, so let’s get rid of squad numbers then.

It’s the game, it’s cynical and we are no different you just choose not to see it - just like with refs that you seem to think have it in for Blackburn Rovers.

https://images.gc.roversservices.co.uk/09261bf0-ba5e-11f0-8f76-3d5b2160a192.pdf Anyway. What I was alluding to.

Shame a small Mediterranean state and/or St John’s Ambulance hadn’t trademarked that cross…

Fair enough, obviously been made more difficult to find though as I always went via that route. So, published then. Eight ‘Chiefs’ and ‘Head Ofs’ for the Fans Forum, if ever there was a neat example of how you stumble upwards at Ewood Park. No final figure for ST sold, perhaps the magical figure of 9,000 wasn’t even hit. RG said all the senior pros wanted to leave, hmmm, yeah nothing to worry about there and he will ask about January ‘in due course’, yeah no rush not as if we could be deep in a relegation battle by then or anything. So all in all the usual deflection and ‘can’t, can’t can’t’

It looks as if all previous FF minutes have been removed from public view as you can no longer click into the FF section of the website. https://www.rovers.co.uk/fans

I’ve never come across a football fan as averse to a bit of physicality than ER. This is second division English football.

Tim, Everything you say there makes perfect sense for normal clubs… alas we aren’t one, this club isn’t going to be any stronger as a result.

It’s the only local fixture and the days of it not being on TV are over with the broadcast deal, so no point hiding behind ‘well, if it was Saturday 3pm’, we should always be looking at minimum 4k.