They can ‘clearly state’ what they want on a website article, it doesn’t negate Ts & Cs, which is a contract between business and consumer. If they did try to pull a fast one and hide behind a press release the ‘club’, I.e those running it, are both legally illiterate and immoral.

Still thrown away a season of his career (at a midfielders late 20s peak too) to sit on a nice contract... which he’s perfectly entitled to do, by the way, especially as he won’t see that kind of deal again, but it has surprised me a little as it always seemed the type that loves playing football and wouldn’t be happy just to train with no sniff of the first team squad at a weekend.

Perfectly sensible that darren... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2020/june/championship-play-off-dates-confirmed/

Cracking emotional intelligence on display as always there ?‍♂️

They can’t ‘just claim it’, and ‘set rules after the fact’ that’s breaking consumer law. They can play the guilt card, pull at the heartstrings and all the rest of it. But they can’t break the law even if they think most fans won’t dream of taking legal action against their own club - but one fan might and that’s the precedent set. EFL lawyers will deal in facts and risk, not emotions.

Exactly, so there won’t be any small print about it in your ST Ts&Cs. So you can’t be waiving anything by signing in to a streaming site.

As I said.

So not a blackout then? Just no top flight games at all at 3pm on a Saturday. Another bit of tradition sacrificed on the altar of lucre. I like how he conflates it with the pandemic. The PL will come out of this in relatively decent shape, so this is merely just a way of keeping those PL TV deals ever increasing whilst the EFL edges closer to ruin. What’s the old saying? “Never let a good crisis go to waste”...

I must be missing something? What would be blacked out at 3pm if every game is shown live on a separate time slot?

Says a lot about how seriously he looked after himself before. Though if he had been a ‘proper athlete’ to start with he would be in the PL already, so his fondness for a pint or two has worked out well for us...

Done deal according to their forum... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jon-mclaughlin.1516241/page-27

BB to fire us to the promised land!

The fact Waggott mentioned to the FF that he has ‘concerns’ (politician speak for ‘it ain’t gonna work’) says that the clubs are expecting it to fall over...

Why not? The BBC for example let you select between TV commentary, radio commentary or none at all for their live games...

Christmas?! What happened to September? Slackers

I don’t think getting a steer on club thinking on next season would be ‘empty air’ at all. Didn’t need to be any kind of firm commitment at this stage obviously, but just an acknowledgement that the club realises that they could be staring down the barrel of mass non renewals if they fail to recognise that ifollow does not satisfy a large chunk of the ST base, couple that with an incoming severe recession and fans simply getting out of the habit and we are looking at a perfect storm (perhaps the mood music coming from Waggott did give the impression that he understood this potential critical issue but it just wasn’t minuted).

It was Ewood Spark formerly of this parish that came up with the cardboard cut outs idea, I see. I suppose inanimate objects can’t tremble

So the FF didn’t press him on potential options for next season, quelle surprise. However, as Birdy (AB) gets to have his match day sponsorship rolled over to next season and not just donated to aid cash flow, I presume it will be the same for season ticket holders next season...

Convert it back to The Hordens, sure someone must still have those porn vids they showed upstairs

Or you could say he found it much easier picking passes when coming on 4-0 up against 10 men who had downed tools, than starts against sides going at full pelt...

What was den’s old maxim? ‘Have second (third) division players, get...

Bell is a third division player who is repeatedly exposed at this level. Cunningham is simply superior as a full back, either as a defender or on the overlap, and we really missed him.

Decent prospect, but it’s a sign of how far we’ve fallen as that quote is how we would’ve described Damien Duff 20 years ago...

They will get over it, then simply not renew... like you are planning not to.

In many ways we are coming out of ‘preseason’... and we don’t seem to start campaigns well (we haven’t had a win in our opening two games since August 2014, and generally do poorly in the opening month). Which obviously isn’t particularly fatal usually as there would still be 40+ games to play, but it could well be this time.