All cat A+ means is they think there will be thousands of away fans to fleece (hostage to fortune there with the ongoing Covid situation re away fans even being allowed).

A mere team? Premier League giants Leeds United, more like…

Totally agree with that analysis. Again, speaking anecdotally what I’ve noticed this past twelve months is even with fans I would have always seen as fanatics, the club just rarely even gets mentioned in conversations anymore. Obviously, the pandemic is part of that, but that just adds to the fiendishly difficult job it will be to flog a decent amount of STs… and who at the club cares or is switched on enough to put that graft in?

Who we talking about, Rovers? Of course, the coaching staff here will be happy he’s there, as am I, great for his development and confidence, which can only help him for next season. Ok, I’ll re-phrase, the club’s social media output is milking it, but then, it’s run by a Crawley Town fan, so no surprise there.

One of the main reasons folk stop going to matches is when they’ve had enough of a manager and the product they put on the pitch. If that’s a ‘personal’ reason, then so is every choice a fan makes for knocking it on the head. But then surely by your mantra of ‘ “supporters” we support by turning up’, not liking the manager isn’t a good enough reason to not go, putting up with poor managers is simply part of being a fan, no?

Who’s desperate? Chile? Your true feelings on BB slipping out there Bizzle, tut tut!

Shows how the expectations and standards of many fans has fallen through the floor if EB (a good solid pro and servant, but lower league journeyman all the same) is being deemed ‘a legend’. Same with BB, fair play to the lad, but you’d think he was the first Rovers player to ever get an international cap the way the club is milking it…

‘Personal reasons’ being you didn’t like the manager at the time… so a few years later others are following your example and are also not going because of their feelings re a manager, yet you believe this is different, why’s that?

Didn’t you stop going because we appointed a certain ex Bolton and Burnley manager, Paul? (Apologies if I’m confusing you with someone else).

About 5 and a half weeks to flog STs then presuming they go on sale next week…

The away day (note, ‘day’, not 3pm to 5pm) has been one of the few decent aspects left of being a Rovers fan this past decade. The mood music doesn’t sound good for such trips resuming anytime soon…

See my post was deleted, however I’ll re-post the salient bit. Our fanbase is well spread across a fair few constituencies these days, so it isn’t just Hollern that needs engaging.

I’ve worked in Stoke… so no surprises there.

Presume something is *fairly* imminent, looking at this. ‘Back to Live’ is the marketing slogan, then. Though, knowing this club, they could mean ‘back to live with our streaming service, as don’t know what we are selling, there’s a pandemic on’.

In a league campaign, of course, that’s exactly how you get match fitness. But you don’t have that luxury to carry players in a Euros/WC whilst they get up to speed, bad start, you’re out the tournament in just over a week.. Or as soon as you get a top side in the knockouts.

Why would he start? Southgate himself has said he’s largely there for giving the lads a good clap purposes. From Beckham to Rooney and countless other examples, it’s a foolish thing to do to take an injured or lacking match fitness player to a tournament, they just can’t get up to speed. From the manager himself; ‘"It’s a decision we took (to select Henderson) because we have been able to take extra players and we feel he is such an important influence around the place.“ 26 man squad this time, so he obviously feels he can carry a ‘positive figure around the camp’ cheerleader, especially a fairly rare senior pro in a young squad. But that quote doesn’t tell me that he’s going to be playing.

How do you know he wasn’t planning to give him minutes? The Europe angle doesn’t come into it as loads of South American international players are over here. A fair few of England’s squad won’t get on the pitch in the Euros. Closer to home Lenihan usually gets called up but often doesn’t get minutes for Ireland, that’s just international football.

He’ll have had a jolly old time, I imagine. Bit like when 17 year old Theo Walcott went to the 2006 World Cup and spent the tournament just wandering round with his camcorder…

Well obviously I’ll be more than just a ‘follower’ for that particular game 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Not sure if ‘enjoy’ is the right word, but I do find watching England much more relaxing/easier than Rovers. I’ve poured my heart and soul into BRFC since being a small kid, I’m fanatical and see the club as an intrinsic part of my life, as do my whole family - whereas I’m probably just a ‘follower’ of the national team. Hope they do well, but not going to be skriking in the corner of the pub when we get knocked out on pens by Portugal. I compare myself to the everyday Rovers ‘follower’ that looks out for the results, goes to an odd game, but isn’t a weird obsessive like us lot on here.

Unfortunately looking at the state of the side, looks as if the manager doesn’t understand what’s being fed to him either… or he just ignores it. Because there’s surely no data analyst promoting the deployment of SG as a wide man (along with the other non sensical decisions). And he certainly does ignore data re potential transfers… unless there’s a ‘connection to Teesside’ parameter on their software?

£200000000+ to take a football club from an established Premier League outfit to this rusting shell. Bravo to all involved 👏

And had just the five managers in that one season.

Yet the GG didn’t ever get to a semi final like Mr Blazer, so perhaps these players do have something, and I don’t think it’s a worse squad than 2018? To be honest, I’m probably out of my depth here as outside tournaments I barely give the national team a second glance. Club over country man (well I’m getting close to being neither these days). My helicopter view is decent set of players when compared to the 2010s, a better manager could get more of a tune out of them. I’ll probably leave the thread to the likes of rovernout who seem far more into the weeds than me!

Not as good as Euro 96/WC98, obviously. Or on paper the ‘golden generation’, though they achieved bugger all, but surely better than some of the other teams that we’ve seen over the past 30 years? Stank out Euro 92 and 2000, didn’t even qualify for WC94 or Euro 2008. The 2010s largely forgettable. I’d say he could have easily put a solid back line together, but like a certain other individual that has spent a lot of time on Teesside, constantly chopping and changing personnel and systems means we’ve never seen it.