The LT has a weekly beer columnist, defo need to get them tapped up to get our Merce a wine gig.

Pretty much every random loanee that came in from 2013 to about 2017.

Just loved his whole demeanour, socks down his ankles, always showing for the ball, perfect angle and weight of pass every time, like a lanky Tugay.

Fairly typical for a fair chunk of Stoke away support in my experience

Arrigho Sacchi never played the game at any level and was one of the greatest managers of all time. Unless you see them work at Brockhall day in day out how do we know if a member of the coaching staff is good, bad or indifferent?

Take it Mourinho had no right to be a manager then, Simon?

That was us in 2012…

The crowds are still well up on this time last season. Nearly 2,000 more home fans on than the late August game last year…

He’ll get a decent reception, no question.

Surprised that an out of work football manager for hire is taking a big job at one of the closest clubs to his house?

Sky always say ‘Mowbray teams play good football’, so to be fair to fans of other clubs that rarely watched Rovers they will believe it. A few of us on here said he had re-built his reputation at BRFC and would get another decent Championship gig as he would be seen as a decent second tier manager within the game - the ‘one of the worst managers we’ve EVER had’ brigade weren’t for having it though…

It’s a cracking blockbuster, don’t go in expecting Citizen Kane and you’ll enjoy it.

‘But a load of fans would’ve moaned ‘cos he was no good back then’ The answer to that, of course, being… so?

They price the League Cup quite reasonably by the look of what they charged for Man City last season.. https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/september/27-september/last-few-man-city-tickets-available-just-ps10-adults-and

Because that manager approached the games with a shrug, it was painfully obvious that he would rather have been back home up Teesside in a cup midweek than playing a fixture. So it obviously rubbed off on the team. Footballers don’t need much of an excuse to sack it off.

They are a fourth division outfit, their fans will be used to watching *proper* shite teams week in week out. We are used to seeing, and so know, good second tier sides, so of course our standards are different. When somebody says ‘we were terrible today’ it’s in the context of the division we are playing in, not that we are so terrible we couldn’t go and stylishly beat Bradford, Hartlepool et al.

As was Gallagher but they still got him re-signed up early (he had two years left on his existing deal).

Google doesn’t even bring up anything for that. Obviously just making them up now, like we do at work with corporate jargon.

No issue, if you believe you’ve spotted a value price, have a bet, it’s punting 101.

Half the problem is who are you going to replace him with? In previous eras you would have round after round of Championship fixtures in high summer, so selectors could spot in form players to bring in (and send struggling ones back to their county to try and regain some form)… Now? There will not be a single Championship game in August so they can shoehorn in the county game killer all month.

Just the £150 million spent by Forest on transfer fees (and then think of the wages) Best stay up…

How do you ‘slow build’ in the Championship when more than half the team fecks off every season? It’s a ‘rebuild’ each time.

So with the one blocker out the way, we’ve plenty to get excited about over the next two weeks…

I keep reading how it was TM refusing to spend the owners’ cash (only manager I’ve ever heard of in history who doesn’t want to spend on players, but let’s go with it). JDT and GB obviously do want to spend, so I’m looking forward to plenty coming in by the 1st of September.

Crawley has an average in first class cricket of 29. A Test average of 26. He has some decent shots in his locker, but he is nowhere near Test standard currently. He may come again after a year or two back in county cricket, but for now, enough is enough