Knowing I’m the only person in the country watching the final on ITV.

Nobody is asking you to explain your private reasons, it’s you that keeps bringing it up!

There’s already somebody on here with that username, no wonder Chaddy’s confused… looked like a Vinjay-esque conversion!

Could go either way still… https://forum.pinkun.com/index.php?/topic/150670-should-dean-smith-be-sacked-in-the-morning-poll/

The lad is 26, still at Leicester City, has one cap and hasn’t ‘had the chance to play for a big club’ because none of them have gone and bought him. Whereas the other fella has spent a career at the very highest level, has 116 caps and is vying with Mbappe to be the player of the World Cup. Doesn’t look like the same toolbox to me…

The last fella was Teflon Tony after the L1 promotion. Very few grumbles even after horror run #6. JDT won’t get the same courtesy, I can spot the signs of a crowd not far from turning already.

Only XL+ sizes for the home and away shirts from what I can see?

He’s a decent enough second tier forward… though I suppose after a decade of watching a right load of old shite come and go at this diminished club he might as well be labelled as a ‘very good player’.

Letting the only back up keeper with any first team experience go obviously says a lot about JDT’s view on that jobs for the boys signing…

I’m not too fussed about it. It’s round four against a middling opposition, not the semi final, on a midweek just before Christmas. Fairly standard to sell bugger all. But of course, that LT story will now see a week of hand wringing and ‘shit are Rovers fans’ posts all over social media.

Hannover must be lying, as I thought ‘demand has been met’?

To be fair a lot do buy in the run up. So I presume 5/6k home fans by KO, which is what we’ve seen many a time for League Cup ties… though that’s usually a 1st round turn out against a L2 club, not round 4 against a PL side.

I’m thinking more of your Guy Mowbray, Martin Keown types on comms.

Part of it is because outside World Cups the BBC/ITV pundits and commentators never get to do games with him playing, ergo they seem to be a little starstruck.

Haven’t won there since 1999.

World Cup Semi Final… and it’s Danny Murphy 🤦‍♂️

They pretty much never get to Christmas with shirts in stock, every other club does. Ergo the initial order has to be too low.

We are third in the table, simple as that. Always the way that from December onwards they just pick whoever is at the top end of the table over and over.

Wigan now a Monday night Sky game in February… still going to be Cat A (£30 to £35), Swag?

Oh I get that in isolation a World Cup QF is obviously a bigger event than a Championship game. I suppose for me the difference is that I have no emotional connection to the England team, I check in to watch a few matches in a tournament every couple of years, so if they lose it doesn’t upset me one iota, whereas Blackburn Rovers is one of the biggest things in my life, day in day out, year in year out, if the team struggles, the club struggles, and that can really impact the future health of our great club, so defeats and bad runs feel much more existential. England lose? Well they’ll just go again as one of the favourites next time and I’ll see how they go in 2024.

I find it interesting that folk get really invested in England every couple of years to the extent of ‘devastation’. I enjoy a tournament, especially in a summer as a distraction, and obviously I want England to get as far as possible. But literally as soon as the whistle went on Saturday night, it was an ‘oh well’ and I won’t give that team a single thought now until June 2024… On the flip side I’m still fuming about PNE now.

Yep, I bought mine in a brief pique of giddy excitement post West Ham, not sure I’d be bothering if they had gone on sale on Monday morning…

Just imagine with all the horrors and injustice we see in the world… and it’s a footballer getting lauded by pundits that ‘sickens’ you.

Nearly Christmas and they’ve lost one game and they’ll presumably spend in January. They know they need to get back up quick so they aren’t messing about.

We saw that in patches against the South Africa attack in the summer. We go gung-ho against Starc, Cummins et al and we could be in a hole very quickly. But for now let’s just enjoy the ride!