I stand corrected, looking at this (section 297, page 88) there is a loophole if the club can prove they’ve had planning permission for floodlights rejected. Though to me you are breaking the spirit of said rule if you did have a floodlit pitch and then built houses on it http://thepfsa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Youth-Development-Rules-2018-19.pdf

Just like the floodlights for the JTC already being rejected locally, every chance a two storey building does too...

Real Sky tonight, replays and everything!

1) I have no faith in this lot delivering ‘state of the art’. I just don’t trust the motives of anyone involved. 2) The footprint on the JTC will be much smaller and pitches will be lost. Combining is fine in practice, but not when it means a reduction in facilities. 3) The potential combined site has already had floodlights turned down - ergo loss of Cat 1 academy status 4) There are no classrooms on the plan - so again loss of Cat 1 status as it’s a prerequisite.

Come on now, the lad’s leg’s been in traction!

The ‘just smash in a load of goals’ approach to promotion. How long this fella been a manager again?

I don’t use the percentage remaining figure either, live on the edge, me.

6? More like 12...

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Much easier to sell a football club now then it was a decade ago (not that that is necessarily a good thing). So many American and Arab investors sniffing around clubs at all levels these days...

Had about 5 years left on that ridiculous contract, didn’t he? so I’m sure that ‘mutual consent’ agreement will have set him up nicely...

Of course, though still a stark figure, but my worry isn’t really about the uptake of streams as it is only a temporary fix, but just how many folk have got out of the habit.

It’s actually worse than the mighty Darlington of National League North... ’Rovers’ revenue streams have been hit hard, they sold fewer than 900 matchday passes for the midweek defeat to Watford’ https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19125162.rovers-ceo-12-months-without-fans-ifollow-figures-finances/

Good job their fanbase hounded out that dinosaur McCarthy...

Cook’s never even managed them, just played 20 years ago! Beyond bizarre for posters to discount potential managers on that basis.

We still hear a lot about Ke*n, Coyle, Lambert. The forgotten man is Gaz.

End of the day it’s all either anecdotal (like my WhatsApp) or going off unreliable sources like social media. Without fans in grounds it is really hard to gauge. Personally, I’d say he’s lost ground with the fanbase in recent days, but his position isn’t untenable, like say, Coyle’s was with the vast majority in February 2017.

My point is, I can’t recall a manager, and I include actual quality managers like Hughes, Souness, Allardyce who did actual consistently good jobs year after year, that was this immune to even slight criticism from so many fans.

But they aren’t, this is why it’s so bloody strange, these aren’t happy clappers we are talking about, just normal fans who have never previously not slagged off managers, the majority were on the marches, signing petitions a decade back. It is solely a TM thing. I can only think it is the trauma of L1 relegation.

Not like this. Kean had lost the vast, vast majority of fans well before the end, even earlier on a lot of the rows were about how it ‘doesn’t help the team’ to protest, not that Kean needed supporting personally. However, if TM was sacked tomorrow it wouldn’t be because of fan pressure. What makes TM is unique in the fact that he doesn’t ever even receive mild criticism, never mind calls for his head from large swathes of fans.

I wouldn’t say so, as pretty much every other manager we’ve had in the last decade has received at least some criticism from said WhatsAppers, as is just normal with football fans - it is a totally unique phenomenon with TM this. The last paragraph, of course, it will all be ‘yeah probably time for a change’ if he went tomorrow.

I’m on a WhatsApp group (well I lurk) that was set up to organise away games (sob) and I’ve got to say Ben’s experience of his Zoom group isn’t much different to what I see on that. All ST holders from their 20s to 60+ , I wouldn’t particularly call them ‘happy clappers’ and yesterday was the first time one person even mentioned TM in a slightly negative way, and nobody else backed him up. Plenty about ‘poor player x’ or general crap performances. But does TM ever get the blame? No. I would say he’s still a good distance from having an untenable position with a big percentage of the fanbase, it may have been different if we were in Ewood instead of these semi-detached tech platforms but his Teflon status is still just about intact.

That’s by far the most likely time he would go as the summer Pune summit is seemingly the only time of the year they give Rovers any attention

A lot of fans have had their expectations dumbed down that much that they don’t even see promotion as something we should be aspiring to. ‘We need to be realistic’ - ergo plodding with TM is perfectly fine.

Bit immature and cutting your nose off to spite your face, really, that kind of stuff.