Mattyblue

How on earth can you judge a football manager as doing a ‘good job’ (or bad job for that matter, obviously) when we haven’t played a single game? Don’t be bloody daft!

Neatly sums up the sad decline of this football club in one sentence…

Ha why would they ‘respect their hosts’? Fans are Pavlovian… ’We are in Wales - ‘ Err sheep, sheep, sheep shaggers!’ All a bit juvenile, but that’s football fans.

Morning Bizzle! What you ranting at me for? 😀 I am very much aware of our shoestring existence, so that’s why loanees will be coming in later on. Kind of my point, that we are not slow because of new structures, but because we’ve no brass, which matters quite a bit in football. Just the way things are here and I’ve long stopped worrying about it. It’s why I rarely say much about transfer links, ‘oo Player X would be class’, ‘Player Y would be shite, going down with players like him’ , because, well what’s the point, some players will drop in eventually and some will be fine, some a bit crap and maybe a gem or two. Just the way it is at modern BRFC.

I went to Catholic comps, but a load of my mates both played and watched cricket. But I suppose I was from a suburban estate in ‘posh’ Pleckgate. All relative, I suppose. Even now, go to Cherry Tree or Darwen cricket club or any of the ones in Accy or Burnley and they are doing really well and they are anything but ‘posh’, I mean actual ‘posh’, just everyday northern folk.

Aye probably. Though it does makes me laugh how it’s being justified because it’s a new manager/new structure/new tea lady, when its been no different to most other recent seasons, I.e the bulk of signings, largely loanees, arriving as the season gets underway…

They got rid of that ridiculous Cat A+ bracket sharpish early on last season. With night games forming the ‘C’ category. So they are just the same price as the majority of last season then, aren’t they? Handful of ‘Cat A’s’, night matches at ‘Cat C’, rest of the weekend games at ‘Cat B’. Cat A £30 to £35 Cat B £25 to £30 Cat C £20 to £25

And of course it’s a big assumption that a non ST holder can/will want to make all four games, they don’t have a ST for a reason! So why bother paying £15 at all if you are only certain to go the Burnley game or you probably won’t bother if on TV? You’d end up out of pocket! The Ewood Brains Trust strikes again…

Think you’re right, so presuming you can make all four, if you don’t spend the £15, they’ll cost you £120 in the BBEnd, spend £15, it’ll cost you £115 overall… roll up, roll up!

Tapping into panic about potentially missing out on a Dingle ticket, as there’s not exactly much fear of missing out on other games. Membership schemes make no sense for a club that has a vast number of unfilled seats and rarely sells out away. A cynical cash grab for a club in which supply pretty much always outstrips demand (with a rare exception.) Though I suppose it is worth £15 if you are a fairly regular match day buyer and can save a £5 each time (but reading the article I can’t work out if the 1875 discount is only in place four the Cat A fixtures or all), but then many non ST holders don’t know if they will be a regular or not… that’s why many don’t have a ST to start with!

Indeed, Accy are probably at their ceiling right now on the pitch, but it doesn’t stop him creating the very best experience he can for fans and constantly looking for ways to develop and ‘sweat’ the club’s assets. Called pride and standards and they are things sadly lacking here.

Indeed, nobody should ever criticise the owners then if that’s the barometer! ’Err where’s your 20 million share issue? So stop moaning!’

Actually become a trading club instead of saying you are one. Appoint competent people on the football side (may have happened, time will tell), appoint competent people on the non football side. FFP is a reality so you have to become more than the sum of your parts, operate smartly, this club has been the opposite for a decade now.

Of course there is, means we can always have a third kit! 💰

Tough search that, UD! 😁

That’s been the three hundred million quid question (or however bloody much they’ve pissed up the wall) for 12 long years now…

Fair enough. Is interesting though how little time he has off this summer. Obviously a fit professional, but he must’ve had four/five weeks less time off than the rest of the squad?

Very 90s, Nuttall will he loving it! 😁

He seemed to have very little time off post playing for Chile in mid June to being back at Brockhall, so maybe it was pre-agreed to have an extra week? (Or he’s sorting out his transfer chillaxing on one of those manufactured islands 🤔)

Yet every dog has his day, ours was last season and you have to do everything you can to grasp that opportunity (I.e January) as it may never happen again… we didn’t.

Accy and *checks notes*, Barcelona friendlies in the middle of the title winning season… everybody wanted a piece, obviously!

Ha, pretty sure I don’t, it’s not exactly the enigma machine on here. But fair enough if you weren’t using upset fans as a reason to not act, though plenty of others have said exactly that from BBD’s contract to Rothwell getting sold

Why do I keep reading on here attempted justification of the club’s inaction because brfcs.com would be upset if ‘player x was sold’, ‘if player y got a new deal’ The feelings of a few dozen folk on a website have bugger all to do with what is right for the club’s balance sheet and supposed operating model…

There would be no ‘droves’ to start with. You honestly think there are thousands, not hundreds, not dozens, but thousands of folk still ‘boycotting’ because of the owners and will return the day they leave?

Yep, Dyche-like in its impact. Two absolutely transformative managers elsewhere in east Lancs as we just stagnated year after year…