Mattyblue

The only reason it’s been a restricted allocation in recent years is because they couldn’t fit all the buses on the Darwen End car park. With it now being make your own way, why wouldn’t they get the full end? They did last time it was non-bubble - the cup replay (Tugay last minute winner game).

It’s halfway down page 2.

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Were you cryogenically frozen in 1999 and thawed out again around the time you joined brfcs? 😁

I know, that was my point.

Interesting how much JDT utilises the U21s for first team squad members, almost like a reserve team of old. TM certainly didn’t.

Why where’s Pickering going? Or Gallagher for that matter?

He’s already set it at £30 for them… but then again Sunderland was initially set at £20 until he saw the £££ signs.

Ha! No chance, it’s already been set at £30 -£35 (£30 behind the goals). Swag ain’t going to miss out on this bonanza!

An owner who has owned a club for nearly thirty years has obviously appointed various types of manager with varying levels of experience over that time… so what’s your point?

Well as he’d be following in the footsteps of Woodgate, I suppose it ‘fits the mould’ of a highly risky appointment of a north easterner with no experience.

Indeed, think TM came out with the same cliche ridden stuff about 782 times in his tenure here, I stopped listening in about 2019. They must bore themselves after a while, nevermind the likes of Andy Bayes and Sharpe that must hear it three, four times a week, every week.

What opinions do you currently have that differ from those of GB (you know that fella that’s been here for about 4 months)?

There can’t be more than 500 or so ST holders that are also 1875. So a ST holder with three aways like yourself shouldn’t have a problem with a 2300 allocation. The only foreseeable issue is if they go - 1) 1875 ST holders with aways, 2) 1875 ST holders, 3) All ST holders, as it would then be a free for all… so yeah actually you best sign up as that sounds like exactly the kind of thing they’d do!

Yeah bunch of agricultural cloggers back then ay! Not like the sophisticated technical and tactical game we see on display every week these days 😏

Good thing about GB coming in is we don’t now hear half as much claptrap from this plonker… though maybe that’s a worry in itself, more time on his hands for god knows what.

JDT will be ‘given time and space’, just like TM was.

I would certainly like to read your posts and opinions, however these days I’m largely just reading a regurgitation of sound bites from club employees.

Think there’s a tacit admission there that we’ve lost control of midfield in recent weeks. 18 or not, AW needs another stint.

Chaddy you need to try and have some original thoughts instead of just constantly parroting lines from the DoF and others at the club. We can read those elsewhere.

‘Spoons?

The club hierarchy will be patient, the match going fans will be patient. As time goes on won’t that be what matters over a dozen or so critical folk on a football message board (something that will always happen anyway as these forums are renowned for being far more reactionary)?

Once again, a handful of people critiquing a players performance on an obscure website, doesn’t impact said player or mean the fans aren’t ‘getting behind him’ one iota. Just like it doesn’t if the critiquing is being done in the pub, in the car, walking up Livesey Branch. Just like BB always found, the Rovers support is very patient and supportive…

Still has that aura about him. Must have a decent surgeon too… looks younger now then when he arrived 22 years ago!

Why would I want him under pressure or sacked? He’s doing perfectly fine. Sorry, didn’t realise my musings were particularly controversial. Just noting that a manager can pivot from a top tier club that looks for/needs immediate results and expects to challenge for the title, to a second tier club, that looks to be a fair way from getting out the division, with a middling budget and an onus on youth development. JDT has obviously amended his own expectations of what is deemed a ‘success’, which is fair enough from his perspective. Like I said, career development can take many forms.