Thought you said you had no insight into the first team the other day?

I want us to play like that, but you can’t look at a team on the pitch and a manager’s wishes in isolation. This club is not in Brentford’s stratosphere when it comes to strategic thinking and the running of a joined up football club.

Feck all

I’m sure he does, who wouldn’t? Only snag is that we don’t have the players, and his transfer dealings don’t seem to be getting us any closer. Brentford play like the do because their whole club is geared around it, from a numbers obsessed owner down, through coaching, through data, through recruitment. This club is too dysfunctional and haphazard, all at the whim of far away and disinterested owners, with a Chief Exec focused on short term cash flow, where/what is the strategy here?

Who won’t he get time or support from, brfcs? Well that ship has already sailed for most on here. The owners? I’ve never seem much pressure from them to really go for promotion. We finish, say, 8th next season and I don’t expect much clamour for him to go from the fanbase, ‘progression’ after all, I think many on here have failed to grasp just how secure his tenure is with the wider support. As long as we aren’t in a relegation battle he’s safe as houses. Bobbing along in the second division is good enough for the majority these days, I rarely pick up any expectation, or even much ambition for promotion.

Ok, I’ll rephrase, they aren’t credible, as in my opinion, they haven’t been spoken to, the manager has no interest in them and they won’t sign. If people think they are credible because the likes of Mercer ‘we will be in admin soon’ Man post random foreign players (that have no track record of success with these names) then fair enough, it passes the time until the new season, I suppose. It’s called silly season for a reason.

BB, the model works!

The club could go bust for all he knows. You would stay at your company and ‘be loyal’ if there was a chance of it being liquidated and you had an option to join a new firm?

I’ll tell you now, none will sign, that’s why I don’t see them as credible, read this stuff on here every summer for years. * Feel free fo dredge this post up if they do, the squad needs to be a bit more cosmopolitan.

Moving down south too! Crazy, what about the missus?

I saw the Whiteman stuff. I’m talking about those fairly random foreign links. It’s a foreign player tombola with all Championship clubs every summer. Names thrown in by agents and then disseminated across the internet by journos who either have a link to said agent or the likes of LancsLive who just want to have stories for folk to click on. Or they come from faceless twitter accounts ‘Transfer Insider’ and the such like. Most come and go, wouldn’t call them ‘credible’ personally.

In what way are those links ‘credible’ and not just the standard agent planted stories?

Wigan fans were after his head at the start of the year and now they are in mourning... football fans ay

A couple of years of treble/quadruple my salary? Bloody too right, potentially life changing. Get me some of that pie and mash. More fool you.

Third full ground and no singing? That is different to any other season at Ewood post 2012, how?

You want to all put the Budget League Championship to one side and relax like me. I’m content enough bobbing around the top half, because I know we are going to be bankrolled to the promised land as soon as FFP is scrapped... the owners are DESPERATE to invest in the team’, remember!

They can’t be right, Travis makes at least 5 fouls a game on his own...

Ha you scoff, but they do offer one... tight Blackburner like me won’t pay it though!

So why use them as an example then? Of course they are far more likely to ‘play their way out of the league’, they can attract better footballers...

Thought you said we couldn’t compete with their budgets?

YourGym in Lytham, if you please.

The mega clubs have one already. And they are seemingly happy enough to keep tinkering with the format of that to ensure they get ever richer. Plus, for the English clubs they have the added advantage of being part of a league with a massive profile and following. So I don’t see the ‘big 6’ rocking the boat anytime soon. It’s the clubs like Benfica, Celtic, Ajax that are desperate for one as they are massive clubs but can’t compete because their domestic leagues are local backwaters.

My gym only lets a certain amount of people on the floor at a time, must book your time in advance. Glass screens up between equipment. Everyone provided with their own bottle of sanitiser to wipe down equipment. Is it 100% effective? Probably not, but life has to carry on the best if can without a vaccine...

Going down well up there... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/danny-graham.1524502/

We’ve had red trims on shirts going back to the 70s, they look great. We had some classic yellow and blue trim kits in the 80s, but you don’t like them because Preston fans sang a song about ‘yellow’? Ok...