Of course, but this guy had been England number 1 for a few years and he was still a mile off him. Nice one ‘Guv’nor’ 🤦‍♂️

After Brad, it was amazing how much of a downgrade Robinson, much younger, all those England caps, was.

Also shows how they actually don’t have a feel for the sport and/or fan culture, at all. An actual football man would spot that Hudds are playing in the cup at Burnley the week after, where they will likely take plenty due to prices probably in the £15/20 bracket, so of course a switched on administrator wouldn’t then price a game just after an expensive Xmas and new year at £30, as many of their fans will likely be making a choice of one or the other… and it ain’t going to be us. Drives me mad, but not to worry, we have a forum member who has the ears of them down there telling them what’s what…

Of course, they collapse at almost comically regular intervals, 1st innings or second innings from the mighty Ireland at Lord’s to pretty much everybody on the road… but Adelaide in recent years has seen both teams collapse due to the unique nature of the swinging ball the day nighter brings, England’s only hope is to come out on top of a low scorer, as I imagine they’ll wilt in the more traditional conditions at Melbourne and Sydney.

End of the day you get £30 million for AA and BB on a £10 million outlay and that talk of the ‘model’ from a few years back, I.e invest in young English forwards as they have the potential for high sell ons has worked out perfectly. Kudos to all involved (though SG isn’t exactly pulling up tress but you can’t win them all). Though, that is only half a model. The whole point is surely to now go back to the market with some of the cash for the next potential AA/BB, the rest can obviously go to plug losses, running costs and all the rest of it. However, if all the £30 million now goes to plug losses, then we are just kicking the can down the road to the next crisis when there’s neither fixed assets or sellable players to keep the FFP wolf from the door…

Usual stuff; muddled selections, poor spinner, collapses. Hopefully Broad and Anderson in a more swing friendly day nighter at Adelaide gets us back in it, lose that and it could get very messy down there, again.

https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11688/12491491/qprs-chris-willock-and-mark-warburton-win-sky-bet-championship-november-awards Galileo, Newton, Warburton.

I ‘find fault’ with certain aspects of the club, well those running it, because I love Blackburn Rovers and want the best for it, so if I think Steve Waggott is a carpet bagging charlatan well out of his depth, then I’ll say so. Doesn’t make me ‘negative’, or mean I’m ‘not getting behind the club’, as WE are the club, these administrators are just the ones managing it until the next lot.

Well of course it was available at times, that was my point…

It happened in both the last two seasons…

If this was a one off on the back of uniquely popular kits in the midst of a global supply chain crunch, then fair enough. But still waiting for an answer to why we ran out pre Covid, pre Brexit throughout every season under Umbro too? Didn’t recall those kits being a ‘roaring success’…

If you don’t agree with me, you are ‘negative’. The age old brfcs go to line of a poster that has tied himself in knots.

Normal , professional sport clubs don’t have their flagship merchandise product - replica kits, out of stock for months at a time, EVERY season (note how 1864 seems to keep ignoring the fact that the not particularly exciting Umbro stock was nowhere to be seen half the time either, so what was the excuse then?) ! Can’t believe what I’m reading.

‘Well I’m sure everyone that is interested has already bought one’ should be the motto of the club, as it seems to be the mantra for everything down there; be it kits, tickets, sponsorship,

Doesn’t seem very likely, but then he only has a few months left on his contract. Obviously this is all hypotheticals - but if he’s had word that no contract is forthcoming here, and another club, be it Ipswich or some other, is putting, say, a three year deal on the table, then a fella aged 58, with a young family, knowing it may well be his last multi year deal, would obviously have to give it some thought…

Once again, they run out of stock every season. They ran out of stock this season in late August, finally got them back on sale well into autumn , and have now run out again before Christmas! But this is ‘Good business’ and ‘a sales dream’ ! Dear me, and this is from someone who supposedly has the club’s ear to tell them of their shortcomings, they must really fear your forensic examinations 🙄

Huddersfield have the Dingles away in the cup a week later, which is pretty much a derby, and you imagine tickets will be a fair bit cheaper than £30… so many of their fans may just opt to go there instead. Another Swag masterstroke 👏

I vaguely remember that show. Sky really did have a load of different strands to their coverage in those days ’Andy Gray’s Bootroom’ when he’d talk tactics with a subbuteo board whilst sitting inside a… you guessed it! , was my favourite!

Probably not, but if they think around 2k is what any opposition will fetch that is obviously the entry mark for a Cat A -I.e. West Brom, and bugger trying to get any of your own fans back in the tent around the festive period…

Bank holiday Sunday, good run of form, great opportunity to engage… ah but Huddersfield will likely fetch 2/3k. …And that is where any thought into the pricing starts and ends.

… or just make it Cat A.

We need to put this one to bed. Does he have raw talent? Yes, but he’s now 24 and still shows no sign of the professionalism needed to make it as a pro. Poor attitude, overweight and now struggling to get into the side at Burton Albion. It’s a shame and a waste, but he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last to find himself out of the game and wondering why he threw it all away…

Reading in The Times this morning that local safety advisor groups will be in charge of the policy and it will probably only be spot checks of passes/LFTs.

He hated L1, he went on record many times how un aesthetically pleasing he found it down there, and that was with a team who obviously were expecting to come straight back up. And Lancs is much closer to Yarm. So a mid table L1 side down in Suffolk who look a fair distance away from promotion doesn’t look exactly enticing. Though it could say something on what he expects next season’s budget to be if he does jump ship from 4th in the Championship (unless he knows no new contract is incoming).

And that fascinating insight into football shirt merchandising and the seemingly unique factors of shirts that are actually liked would be plausible… if we didn’t run out of at least one kit every season.