Mattyblue

Always plenty of managers interested in Championship jobs (especially at a pretty unique one where they don’t do sackings).

Away series were never part of the ‘crown jewels’ protected free to air event list, however home series were (until 2005), then the ECB lobbied the government to remove themselves from it so they could make more from subscription TV… and the profile of cricket in this country has only declined since.

All sounds a bit plastic.

They’ll ‘support’ both like half their fanbase does.

Has he? Was known as a top player when he played, known as one now.

Just not a serious football club… yet they expect fans to cough up as if it was one.

Think there were a few dozen left in that camera side end block when they went off sale at 12pm… the other end block never went on sale.

Still waiting to hear from him how Adam Wharton is ‘far better’ (which is what started all this, not if he was better or otherwise than other top Ferguson era players, ‘better’ being if he won some internal club bauble… anyone would think he posted a throwaway silly comment and has tried to deflect since).

To be fair ‘nobody knew he was good’ so maybe that’s why they kept hold of him…

At least we got to keep Adam Wharton for a ‘good few years’, certainly wasn’t bundled out the door on the cheap after a few dozen starts (before he’d even turned 20).

I’ve told you, you’re right, Adam Wharton is far better than Paul Scholes.

By the way Ryan Giggs won it once in 20 years, Schemichel never won it, maybe, just maybe because it was an era of the very best footballers at that club which Scholes was obviously one of. But ok, if the metric to you is POTY over a sustained career at the very top winning everything in sight (I.e it’s a team sport) and you know, your own eyes, then fine, ‘Adam Wharton is far better.’

Second Division at the time, so like I said.

Depends who you ask 😅 Souness never won one in his career as a top flight footballer either, like I said, daft.

Well that shows how football is a game of opinions, I often came off games against that lot thinking ‘bloody hell he ran the game’ The POTY stuff by the way is so daft it shows how this newbie hasn’t quite got to grips with his trolling (maybe it’s funnier said once on a podcast).

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.