Blummin ‘eck Hoochie! Feared the worst there with the thread being bumped this week...

And the EFL turned down £375milllion of potential investment just days before this Man Utd/Lpool stitch up was announced. (I say EFL, but it wasn’t even disclosed to the member clubs, you know the actual ‘’EFL’, not the blazers and admins in HQ - Parry didn’t want to derail his long term planning, obviously...) https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/efl-rejected-375m-offer-american-4601151.amp

I did think Rick Parry ending back on the scene running the EFL was a bit odd at the time, though obviously didn’t realise he was a Trojan horse for his old paymasters...

Thanks for the insight, Phil

If even the Mighty West Ham, one of the gilded 9 are against it, then surely it’s no chance of getting anywhere? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54505270

Because he‘a painted himself into a corner. He made a big thing of how he didn’t like it when he thought it would only be for a dozen games or so and we’d all be back in grounds by now with our vaccines.

I think we’ll do what we did under Sven, get to the business end of tournaments... but actually win them and ‘dominate for a decade?’ Not a chance, for me.

A golden generation, you could say?

Personally think the 9 club voting rights part of it has been in there purely as a bargaining chip. Howls of outrage, so they ‘back down’ whilst getting everything else they want - smaller league, competitions scrapped allowing more free time for lucrative pre seasons and CL fixtures etc.

Amuses (bemuses?) me that folk literally can’t stay off social media for 45 minutes (so hearing about a goal before the stream shows it) to actually just watch a game.

Get rid of the European Championships for this convoluted mess?! You get rid of ‘boring friendlies’ by... not playing boring friendlies!

‘ Blackburn interested, but seem to have moved on’ ’Douglas doesn’t sign for BRFC? AYE’ Breaking - Barry Douglas signs for Blackburn Rovers. ‘AYE’

The nonsense and hypocrisy Chaddy comes out with to defend the indefensible. I live on a main road, I wouldn’t dream of waiting for a council road sweeper to clean up my immediate surroundings. He is the first to talk about ‘personal responsibility’ on the politics threads and now he’s gone all statist.

Think it’s due to have a long standing aversion to seeing a page of a thread that just contains quoted loonnggg posts with ’This’, ‘Great post’...

Whatever do you mean?

If you think this last couple of pages is brfcs ‘bickering’ you are obviously new here.

Think back to the 90s when multiple title winners like Steve Bruce, Steve Bould, Nigel Winterburn couldn’t get a sniff of a cap...

That’s because the disgraceful weed infested Blackburn End area was cleaned up after they were shamed into action by the LT and LancsLive spilling the beans after pictures ended up across social media. I wager it wouldn’t have been touched otherwise, but you go give Steve a pat on the back for his sterling efforts. (I must go and check if there’s still an annual PayPal being paid out that I can cancel)

So we do get behind the side then, what you actually meant was that it’s just a bit quiet in your tartan rug and flask enclosure? Maybe say that to start with...

‘Leave me out of the debate’ after you’ve just chucked in another ‘Aren’t Rovers fans horrible and/or generally crap’ grenade. Some very odd posts emanating from the Rovers Trust recently...

If you have Amazon Prime, there’s a hell of a lot of good films included as part of your subscription through Prime Video. Far superior to Netflix film wise, though Netflix is the place for TV shows.

Dunn more skilled than Duff?! Comparing Dunn to a goalkeeper?! Joe flippin Rothwell has ‘world class ‘properties?! Fair play to you for enjoying a good sup before the boozers shut for good!

‘BAE Burnley’ at that... no way to talk about Samlesbury!

Thought J*B said the ‘professionals’ in executive positions have little to no power and it’s certain shadowy conduits that are still actually running things?

Yeah our Cat 1 youth set up is going great guns. However, I was asking about the first team and the statement we have some of the best ‘recruitment, scouting and data analysis’ around.