Disgracefully unpatriotic of you. What about England’s supporters?

Every chance they’ll be in the sixth tier next season with 5k-ish crowds and 1,000+ away followings most weeks. It would literally be one man and his dog in most other nations. The strength of fandom down the pyramid in this country is unrivalled…

What gave you that idea?

You’ve got to remember that unlike most on here that only really gives England a second look around tournaments, i.e not massively invested so they just comment on what they see, roverandout absolutely lives for them, which is fair enough, but he does seem to take any ‘negativity’ personally. Which is ironic because he’s slagged off all things Rovers relentlessly for about 10 years!

One hour in roverandout world 😁

He still don’t get the point. No surprise as he never does. I’ll make it very simple for him… Every club has a hardcore that buys regardless. Chaddy is one of them, I am one of them, 7k to 8.7k more of us are one of them too. However, in this division, if you want to grow the attendance you need to attract more than the hardcore with attractive pricing. Swag however doesn’t want the hassle of a big marketing campaign, potentially missing out on his targets etc when he knows he can charge £400/£530 and sell 7 to 8.7k regardless. And why would he when he’ll in all likelihood be gone in a couple of years anyway, so why does he give a feck about building a fanbase? Oh and P.S., as for raw numbers. 7,000 was appalling, 8,700 is also appalling. Whereas our similar sized neighbours (one of which is in a lower division) sold 12,000 and 13,500 respectively. It’s piss poor, simple as that.

What does that mean?

Not impressed with Mbappe technically? High standards, you. 😁

Roverandout looking for 🤮 gifs as we speak…

Bit like yours with Harry Kane…

Like the managers want a microphone in their face in the midst of a game. Let’s hope it’s not a trial run for when the Championship properly comes back next week…

He’d spend half the game with his hands on his hips, next news he’d just whipped past three men and created a chance/got a shot off…

Of course it is. You transport a player like Finney straight out of the 1950s and into a game in 2022 and of course he couldn’t cope. But you put him into a modern day top side with modern day fitness and sports science and he’d still be elite today. Those players can’t help the much less professional and athletic era they played in…

Exactly renrag. So when I see folk saying that the modern player is this, that and the other and superior to those of the sepia era it is because of the advances in the sport itself not that they are intrinsically better footballers than someone from the 1950s…

It’s not really easy to compare across eras and confidently declare that a modern day player is the ‘best ever’ or player A from the 2020s is better then player B. from the 1950s. The balls, the pitches, the tactics, the interpretation of the laws, the fitness levels were vastly different. Put Pele, Maradona, Best, Finney in the modern game where they would have the very best sports science and aren’t kicked around the pitch on cabbage patches and see how they’d go… and vice versa parachute Ronaldo(s) or Messi into an era in which they would be repeatedly hacked down on a mud bath...

I remember those Gerald Sinstadt round up packages that wouldn’t even show all the goals! 🤷‍♂️

You had a few tonight roverandout?

Murphy’s spell here was deplorable, but even if he’d never have darkened our doors he’d still be a dreadful pundit. His half Chester/half cockney accent grates an all...

The Fans Forum is there for trivial issues, and I’ve no issue in asking O2G or K-Hod to raise any I have. I don’t need to ring up the stadium manager or Lyndsay Talbot about it. The big issue is ticketing and Swag has made it perfectly clear as recently as this week that he ain’t for budging. That’s his policy, those are his targets and that’s that. Some random fan having a brew in his office certainly isn’t going to change it. Him leaving the club and a replacement with a grasp of reality is the only thing that will potentially change things. Bring on that day (sooner rather than later, I beg you Venky’s).

Can you have a toss up between six teams?

Good, another golden goose that Swag has fecked up. Let’s hope Blackpool and Wigan sell bugger all either and we see the last of £30-£35 ticket prices for run of the mill second division games.

It’s on Ajax’s YouTube (in Dutch though, of course!) https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/december/03/watch-rovers-v-ajax-live-/

Updated a staff list 👏

Fair enough. I’ve enough to worry about with Rovers to give two hoots about England.