Mattyblue

‘We sold our goalie to buy Sam Gallagher’... that kind of thing?

‘In transition’, not surprising when we are loaning in a centre half, left back and keeper every season...

The PM is on about £150k... there’s around a dozen execs in Blackburn with Darwen Council alone on 100k+

You rate Walton, so not sure what that says about you...

10 from 41 for Raya in 2018/19, 12 from 46 for Walton, so. So a near percentage dead heat. And of course, Walton had a more settled/generally better quality centre half partnership in front of him - Raya has just won the golden glove award for Championship clean sheets - so perhaps the poor defence he was behind here might have something to do with it? See we can all spin stats! End of the day was selling our promising but error prone keeper for a couple of million (the proof will be in what Brentford sell him for) just to loan in players as poor and even more error prone as Walton a good move? And now just weeks away from a new season we’ve 0 first team keepers on the books, seems poor planning to me.

Still the man as far as the Brentford forum is concerned... https://griffinpark.org/forums/showthread.php?t=132179&page=35

What they doing on holiday then?

To be fair for a club like Brentford this method is probably making them more than their sum of their parts, a League 1 club size wise.

Raya has fantastic shot stopping ability, but Ederson he ain’t, he needs to knock all this sweeper keeper stuff on the head ASAP.

How do you know that Waggott, Gill and Silvester are on holiday?

‘On their holidays’. Didn’t realise it was 1990? Hopefully TM’s hotel has a phone he can use...

Sorry rigger, thought you said they probably didn’t have our numbers of elderly supporters? As you’ve actually no idea either way on that score, it’s not really a basis for an argument on why they could sell plenty and we can’t...

And why would Luton be any different?

Your rationale for that being?

What’s Luton’s percentage of elderly supporters?

End of the day, they aren’t going to be put on sale, so we may as well just ‘move on’ and leave them to it. But what I would say is if the likes of Luton Town can sell 6,500 in the midst of a pandemic, there must be some pent up demand here too, but seemingly the club would rather not give itself a headache with the logistics of it currently. Fine, there’s certainly merit in that approach as at least the club will know exactly what product it’s selling when the time comes, doesn’t need to worry about sorting out pro rata refunds, seat allocations and all the rest of it. It’s Waggott and Cheston that oversee the finances and they have obviously deemed we can cope without an income from ticket sales at this time and they’ll wait and see. That’s their choice, but I also don’t expect to hear any bleating about ‘cash flow’ or how selling Player X is ‘necessary to get us over this short term funding issue’.

Think a few have on here, arbito for one...

Maybe ‘99 is biased against Joes?

Overdramatic? Pot and kettle You are one of the biggest tantrum-ers on the site! But you’re damn right, I’m very upset about the neglect of this club this past decade (note past) and that’s why I have little hope for future initiatives, in a way I envy younger fans like yourself that knows little else but this stripped down operation.

Sorry both thought this was a Rovers discussion board? We can’t talk about the future? Best lock half the threads then. Our next big milestone as a club is said event, so when JH mentioned anniversaries it reminded me that ours will be here soon enough and IN MY OPINION, we’ll do feck all about it. The club themselves did bugger all about PL25, so we’ll see more of the same. If you think they will, good for you, but as proven Joe, when you got abusive at everyone for not trusting the club ‘who were all working hard’ on packages to give us all a choice of refunds/deferred tickets etc, then apologising the day after when it was ifollow or nowt, you have more faith in the set up than me. Anyway we best leave it there, as it was merely a wistful looking back to a great time for the club in 2000/01, though the ongoing faith that some still have in those running the club (against a decade of evidence) that they give the tiniest shite about the club’s heritage does amuse me (see the piss poor approach to the remembrance of past players, as another example) , but there you go. Back to the topic of the exciting kit reveal of more Umbro half arsed-ness.

The club did very little for PL25. It was a council initiative to rename the street as part of the Pennine Lancashire road development programme (and that was 5 years ago anyway). The dinners (and Ewood match day appearances on the back of them) were organised by the Former Players Association, one in 2015 when most of the squad returned and one this year for a title winning edition of the Hall of Fame. Video packages and posting grainy VHS footage on social media, you say! Can’t wait for more! Who’s in a huff? I’ve told you what I expect, going off the evidence this past 8 years as we’ve been hollowed out, that those running the club will do the bare minimum and it won’t hold a candle to 2000. Love to be proven wrong, but I predict it will be the work of the likes of the FPA that make the effort.

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And a real confidence booster for Bell. ’We’ve looked for someone else, can’t find anyone... so you may as well have another year’ We really mean business...

Funny you mention anniversaries, it’s our 150th in 2025. I look back to the 125th, when we were also a Championship club, yet that’s where the similarities with the present set up ends. The team played in a special vintage kit against Wolves that you could buy, there were commemorative books, a parade of legendary players from pre war to some of the title winning side, etc etc. 150 years for a founder member and a club with such a rich heritage should mean an even bigger effort, a real occasion. But does anybody expect anything apart from maybe a banner on the big screen? I can cope with an average team, that’s football, it’s the neglect that really saddens me.

Sure that’s a fairly old quote, from last summer, maybe.