Mattyblue

How old are you, 12?

Not that it particularly matters this season as we’ll be selling the square route of feck all, especially at those prices. But generally, considering half STs are often bought as Xmas presents, the earlier they are on sale the better, surely? Many folk are buying Christmas gifts well in advance of mid November. Basic sales and marketing common sense.

Schools aren’t going to take kids out of lessons in the middle of term for a youth football match, never mind it being a ‘high risk’ fixture. Come on chaddy, bloody hell.

Ah, maybe the club checked the school INSET day timetables! The kids will be flooding in!

HTs on sale... £210-£235 in the Jack Walker! Very steep for 11 matches. Can’t see many being sold. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/november/half-season-tickets-2019-20/

Gibson’s on Northgate was a great sport shop to go into when I was a kid. From memory, you had regular stuff downstairs, but racks of specialist equipment like cricket whites, pads etc upstairs.

They could actually qualify this time even though they propping up their group with San Marino. They get a home play-off, probably against Bulgaria, just because they won a couple of glorified friendlies (Nations League) last year.

The proliferation of the former USSR and Yugoslavia countries coupled with the super-minnows, qualification is largely now a procession for the top sides. No jeopardy at all, like there used to be, when it would often go to the last game, think of Terry Butcher et al.

Enough is enough. Get the Dack/Graham combination back together and stop pissing about. I think he will, by the way, as he has often picked up a win when desperately needed.

‘Middle of the road’, call it what you want. But a club with our playing budget, infrastructure and Cat 1 Academy shouldn’t be flirting with a second relegation to the third division since 2016.

Yates should do the gig, the only one on the 'Fans Jury' that speaks any sense.

Forget that article yesterday about it being about performances. Today piece, it’s a ‘results business and we haven’t won enough’ https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/quicktest/18029658.football-winning-games-havent-won-enough/

You reckon? We’ll get barely a mention. The days of us having any kind of profile have gone.

Piece on Preston in today’s Times. Their starting 11 on Saturday cost less than £1.5million, their playing budget is in the bottom 5 of the league. Shows what is possible, they are actual underdogs, ‘little old *enter club here*’ fits them, not a club like us that is pissing counting millions up the wall for ever diminishing returns.

The manager has been a useful buffer thus far at these meetings. Nice fella, real football man who’s tales can disarm potential tough questioning. However, we’ve always been in decent form when they’ve come around before, bottom 3 and it’s a different issue...

My post towards the top has been screen-shotted over on Twitter, a right of passage for any brfcs-er Though not sure why, as ‘Tony, sort it out’ if the game is going against us is exactly where the home support is on the ‘has he lost the crowd?’ scale at the minute...

Doubt it. May get a rendition of ‘Tony! Sort it out’, if folk can be arsed.

All well and good that OEB, but I am interested to know if the club shop will FINALLY have possession of some Harry Chapman photographs.

Confused as to why the Venky’s thread has been locked as ‘there are other places to discuss the owners’ Yes it’s titled ‘Venky’s Accounts’ but it’s the main thread for Owners discussion.

Won’t happen here because Waggott’s data from the Rochdale game two years ago will show a couple of thousand extra walk ons, so he’ll be looking to milk those with Cat A prices. The club has given up on any strategic thinking.

A decade ago, the game is constantly evolving, especially in the Championship. He just hasn’t.

Obviously aren’t going to be big sellers this year, but even in a season like this I believe they usually sell 500 or so. Not to be sniffed at. So surely they should be on sale by now as folk think of Christmas presents? (Enter gags about being on Santa’s naughty list here). A club going through the motions on and off the pitch.

At a normal club Barnsley would be pivotal for the future direction of the club. With two weeks to go, either a decision is made now, giving time for a new man to be appointed or TM is made clear that the fixture is his last chance. Alas, we are not normal and I doubt a conversation will even be had, because, well, who’s he having this hypothetical conversation with? Couple this with a match going fanbase that still seemingly have no issues with our 2019 collapse in form and on we stagger to a possible third Venky relegation in 8 years.

Because we have detached, uninterested owners, a pal of the manager as Chief Exec and a fan base who think mere survival in the Championship is now our ‘natural level’

I assume Stoke will hit form right in time for our visit...