Mattyblue

Always the way. Its like when Damien Duff for Sky did his Best XI (and subs) who he played with and didn’t mention a single Rovers player as even a contender for inclusion.

There was a good piece in today’s Times on just that. League’s across sport are resigned to the fact that TV rights deals have now peaked and future contracts could slump dramatically as Sky/BT here and foreign subscription services are shedding customers and may never recover many of them.

Ha where do you think I nicked it from!

Butt out, nowt to do with you lot

Or an empty training ground, nice backdrop of a tree and some cones.

The Deputy CMO believes we are looking at 6 months of fairly substantive restrictions (if not a strict lockdown). So, the remainder of the 2019/20 season fits in where?

Interesting article by Ian Herbert mirroring a lot of our thoughts on where EFL and non league football goes after this... https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport/football/article-8163771/IAN-HERBERT-Wage-cap-solution-save-game-clubs-fear-worst.html#article-8163771

The day Sutton thought ‘feck being a centre half’.

You must have done it wrong!

IR, love a shirt, you!

“But as far as I'm concerned,the first thing you can do is chuck all your medals and allyour caps and all your pots and pansinto the biggest fucking dustbinyou can find.Because you've never wonany of them fairly.You've done it allby bloody cheating.”

‘Provided your Don’t Kiss Me’, biography of Brian Clough from the local Forest reporter who spent 20 years in close quarters with him. I just find the fella fascinating and it was a cracking read. ’Living on the volcano’, it follows football managers in their day to day. From Wenger at the top, down to League 2. Real insight to the madness of that profession.

Yep, many will only remember Newcastle Shearer and post about ‘98, he just wasn’t the same player we had, as injuries began to catch up with him. Still a quality striker, but he became more of a target man/bruiser, he’d lost a lot of the pace that made him devastating here.

World Cup ‘98 my Dad used to slag Dailly off every Scotland game, ‘bloody bad ‘un’ Few weeks later, ‘Guess who’ve we’ve just spent £5million+ on?’

‘I knew the club wasn’t for me when I realised their big Derby was Bolton (!) and it just didn’t compare with Glasgow’ No pal it was because the PL was too much for you, canny Scott Brown has kept in his Scotland comfort zone.

I still remember an old Championship Manager game from the mid 90s, his position was listed as Centre Half/Centre Midfield/Striker, which was most welcome as Rovers manager!

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The Chairman was on 5Live earlier, he didn’t sound like he was going to take it lying down...

But then that is also a legal minefield at the higher levels.

Non-League season below National League (so Northern Premier downwards) cancelled and records expunged. Lower stakes in many ways than the pro game, and certainly you couldn’t imagine Truro City, South Shields et al having the means to begin legal action against their league, but a precedent? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52052351

Big Aldo didn’t

Birmingham asking players to defer wages... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52022741 I read somewhere else that Gillingham’s top earners are on over 3k a week, so with bonuses, that’s probably over 200k a year of outgoings on just one third division journeyman... that’s Gillingham with their paltry income. Things will have to change, the days of plenty for mediocre footballers will be over.

I personally can’t see fans being allowed into football grounds for a very long time. 12 months? Who knows. So something completely out of the box will need to be attempted to re-engage supporters. The only ‘modern’ comparison would be post WW2, but even then there had been football played to crowds through the war and culturally it was a different world. So let’s hope the club is up to the challenge, or Blackburn Rovers and a big chunk of our clubs as we know them have gone for good.

Make them wear claret!