Mattyblue

They really weren’t up to about twenty years ago. The disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia into twenty odd states, plus giving status to the likes of Gibraltar has brought in a plethora of mostly average to poor teams now filling up groups whilst at the same time expanding the tournaments - as an example there were 8 teams at Euro 92, but 24 at Euro 2016, so of course it’s far easier to qualify.

As well as being a legend here! Yet yon mon is banging on about his media career… which part of his career might be a little bit more relevant to us Rovers fans do we reckon?

The fact that they had Cardiff up here on New Year’s Day says it all about where fans fit in with the EFL (and that’s before Sky made it an even more ridiculous fixture).

At least we’ve stopped going even further backwards, I suppose, after the nadir of 6,995 in 21/22. Imagine being relived to be selling c8,800 STs as a top end Championship club 🤦‍♂️

Not sure that’s miles, but ahead all the same - though not necessarily comparing apples and apples as it was an earlier end to the early bird this time. We had 8,779 sold last summer which feels to me a similar figure to what we’ll have this time too (we actually finished with 9,300 including half ST holders), alas treading water is the best it will be at these prices, even on the back of our best league position in a decade.

I don’t need to have a medical degree to know humans have bones, when do I get my own surgery?

Like I was saying to you yesterday Alex this club could and should be doing so much better. Just get that lazy time server potted for Christ sake.

Birdy will be getting there by hiking through the Alps…

£100k?! For a club that’s spent two years knocking on the door of the Premier League, cup runs, a club never off TV?! And I was told it was just ticketing that wasn’t fit for purpose down there…

The Euros are now ridiculously easy to qualify for for the bigger nations, top two straight through and then play offs for even more spots.

To be fair he had arrived at the club literally days earlier, first new manager for about 17 years, so of course it was going to be the JDT show last time.

Didn’t used to be, was always a bit of jeopardy re qualification, probably until about ten years ago, complete stroll these days obviously.

He had a stroll about against far inferior players. See how he does against quality teams.

Who said we should have a deal Leeds’ size?

So we can’t get a good deal because we have an average crowd in our local area of 14,000 not c20,000 - but being shown nationwide on TV every other week with c150,000/200,000 watching still doesn’t impact what we could get at all? Ok.

Somebody said before that ‘if they weren’t vaping they’d be smoking’. Not sure about that, smoking was always very much a minority pastime in schools in recent years, vaping seems to have exploded in popularity - the packaging, the TikTok influencer advertising etc is obviously a big part of that.

Yes relative to the division, what else would it be relative to?

Famous last words again, roverandout 😁

Surely the fact we were on TV considerably more than any other club in the division IS a strong bargaining chip, one that would help to negate being a few thousand down on some clubs in the actual ground, no?

Yeah think I’ll be ok with it.

Excellent, so we won’t run out in October this time and have none for the rest of the season?

Likes a good vape does our Ben, I reckon…

I’ll re-phrase… a lot of the tickets that we do manage to sell.

Sunday being the only day the ticket office is shut, suppose it shows that a lot of tickets are still sold in person…

Derailed… Sunday replacement 🚌 service