£352 for one of the ends in the DingleDome, doesn’t seem to bad to me considering they’ve been selling them out in recent seasons.

So you’ve got a DoF working towards a ‘model’ of bringing in young lads to ‘develop’… whilst at the same time an ex-agent CEO bringing in players in their mid 30s without seemingly any due diligence by the sounds of it.

14 years and look at the state of it.

There’s a reason these lads are second tier journeymen at best.

He helped the club get to its highest position in a decade though…

Nobody ever gets sacked so they must all be excellent.

Because they have kits to sell.

Like when Wolves play in their change kit in most away games.

Only a month left but please sign up for a 23/24 membership of some description for no particular reason or benefit.

Please, we need the cash flow.

He’ll be back running an academy in Norway or wherever.

So that’s the captain and his replacement as captain in a side massively short of experience they’ve bundled and tried to bundle out the door.

If we somehow stumble to survival this time, it’s only a stay of execution.

By not a ‘top table’ nation, you mean the national side not winning much? Fair enough if that’s the barometer you are using.

As by any other metric England is a powerhouse of the sport and has been for 150 years.

Don’t disagree with any of that CLB, but if the Indian courts don’t force them out, I can’t see how a few oiks (in their lofty view) half way round the world would.

‘Well how can you expect us to compete with King’s Lynn, look at their catchment area!’

They aren’t needed right now.

What are you learning from friendlies when half the squad pulls out ‘injured’ or the ones that do play play within themselves to avoid an injury for the run in?

End of the day you just aren’t going to get more than one man and his dog on organised protests on a match day. We saw that in 2012 when the club actually had a big profile, big gates and the fanbase were generally united in thinking this lot were a rum bunch.

Now we’ve a small profile, small gates and the fanbase are anything but united in their views on these owners.

The only chance you have is for it to organically kick off at the ground - we saw it a little bit at the Stoke game, you would at the Coventry game if that game sent us down, but that’s about it.

Here, actual sizeable protest always takes the same form - fans walk away, and we’ll see that again soon enough with the upcoming season ticket sales.

Friendlies with a month of the season to go, what ridiculous scheduling this is.

None of that crew seemingly have the critical thinking skills to join the dots between our ‘12k gates’ and perhaps the culprits as to why they’ve ended up at this pitiful level post 2012 as the rest of football has seen crowds boom - and maybe, just maybe it doesn’t have to be this way.

9 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I know nothing about horse race betting thank god. I’ve seen a few guys whose lives have been dominated by it.
How do you bet on a horse not to win ?

On betting exchanges- Betfair being the biggest. Works like a stock/currency market.

You can place back bets as normal, or you can be the ‘bookie’ and lay bets that others will back. So you can lay £1000 on a horse, if the horse wins you lose the grand to whoever backed it with you, if the horse loses you’ll take the grand off whoever backed it with you.

So obviously inside knowledge of a horse’s form/wellness etc could see you clean up as a layer.

39 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Well, the likes of Waggott and Broughton (and Mowbray before them) are or were only interested in feathering their own nests and doing the bare minimum to keep the gravy train rolling on as long as possible.

Why do the owners let them get away with it? Probably because they can afford it and don't care enough and can't be arsed to put more effort in to try and change things and make us successful.

The first paragraph doesn’t happen without the environment the second one has created.

‘Why does nobody at the club care about winning matches?’ Why do you think, Rev?

We’ll take less than 1k for a Sky dinner time game at £35 so he’s quids in, well maybe pennies in, but it all counts when there’s a bonus to pocket.

roverandout will soon be losing his excitement on the England thread in the summer 😅

‘Generational talent’ 

Another cringe expression brought in by the modern nerd-journos.

Benson = Tyrion