Mattyblue

I always expected a decent crowd for this. One of those ‘I was there’ odd events.

But as I said, the novelty will soon wear off, how many match tickets will they be selling for midweek games etc if they don’t get STs on sale? Not many, I would wager.

Just now, 1864roverite said:

9 clean sheets for a poor wigan side is the evidence you need plus his save to shot ratio is pretty good iirc

9 clean sheets! Our horrendous defence managed 12.

‘Class’  

Aye, enjoys living on the Fylde Coast by all accounts, lives in Wrea Green, kids at Kirkham Grammar, lucky for him that the opportunity arose so rapidly.

When has Walton ‘shown he’s a class keeper’ in the Championship?

Real novelty factor for this game. Think they have a midweek home game sometime in August, be interesting how many rock up and buy tickets for that if STs don’t get put on sale...

Just now, JoeHarvey said:

Maybe one or two, but most still on League One deals. Graham and Mulgrew maybe £15,000 but that's about all.

Who’s on League 1 deals? Gladwin aside, they’ve all signed new contracts since we’ve been back in the Championship.

Just now, bluebruce said:

Not sure if this has been posted.

Mulgrew on Wigan move

Looks like the usual empty flattery when players move clubs (fairly sure neither Wigan's facilities nor stadium are on par with ours so why be impressed?). No insight into the reason for the move, unsurprisingly.

Their training ground is the one they nicked off Bolton in the fire sale. Seriously doubt it’s Brockhall standard.

Now on sale at £20.

Today only, no sales tomorrow.

Scottish clubs just can’t pay the wages (Celtic and perhaps Rangers aside - and he wouldn’t ever go to Ibrox!). 

Just now, Glosrover said:

just how it should be ....

a friend {Glos based PNE fan} pointed me to this post on the PNE forum, interesting perspective on Rover's business in the window 

 

quite why they consider Rovers as 'Plastics' is beyond me, but presumably some obscure reference to us competing at the very top of the top level through the 1990's along-with the so-called big boys, [it's also quite ironic as PNE were last in the first division in 1961 when plastic probably hadn't even been invented].

Maybe Rover's transfer business looks better from the outside than from our own perspective?

 

All due to being a few blue and white shirts knocking around Preston in the 90s, including areas in south Ribble like Bamber Bridge that has always contained Rovers fans anyway.

The only ‘plastics’ in Preston are the thousands of football fans wearing Man Utd and Liverpool shirts, maybe if some of those supported PNE they’d have made it to the PL by now and may have lost at least one of their chips from their shoulders.

I heard no criticism of Mowbray last season at Ewood, when there was plenty on here.

I do sense some discontent now though. Around the bottom 6 by November time and he will be receiving plenty at the ground:

Concentrating solely on the left back position, a definite positive. Absolutely no way we can carry on with Bell.

Just a shame he’ll need weeks of acclimatising like Tosin, I mean if he’d have been picked instead of Charlie, it could’ve turned into a debacle of an afternoon...

5 hours ago, pick32 said:

Exact Same kit as Waterford in the Irish league ?

If he’s actually gone or not, yesterday just proves what absolute folly it was to give him a new 2 and a half year deal a few months ago.

An 18 month deal would’ve been bad enough, but at least after a season’s loan he would be off. Now even after that he’d be back, as one of our big earners and egos with a year left. Then this circus starts again. Another loan? Paid off?

Last season’s liberal allocating of new deals has come back to haunt us... just like we said it would.

Just now, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

Interesting that many are lauding some teams buying largely unknown players from abroad. People have short memories  - remember the Portugeuse experiment ?

This window will be defined by whether we get a half decent out of contract central defender. Also huge pressure on Tosin coming good.

For all the criticism of TM - I wonder how much he has been limited by our wage bill. For which the lack of season ticket sales won't have helped.

Lack of sales? We’ve sold our standard amount.

Why would last season’s 15th place finish and average to poor window have led to flogging more?

Now it gets interesting. Sale blocked by High Court.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49286229

£13 on footballkitsdirect.com. https://footballkitsdirect.com/collections/umbro-stadion-jerseys/products/umbro-stadion-jersey-ss-tw-navy-white?variant=13022404083755

Slap a Rovers badge on... £50

Shameless.

From the EFL regs:

So every chance it goes ahead behind closed doors...

Yet he lamented on his Coventry sacking that not bringing in a hard bastard centre half cost him his job.

We’ll see by tea time if he has actually learned...

"I shouldn't have to answer every question that comes along on my decisions on my players and as I have said before if we get it wrong too often you lose your job in this business. When you are a manager of a football club you make decisions and live and die by them and that is what I am happy to do.”

Just shows how often he gets an easy ride by our local supine media, that when he gets even a slightly pointed question he reacts like that.

Behind closed doors is supposedly against EFL rules... so yeah you are probably right.

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

I would say he is far less of a problem than Bell this season.

I like Nyambe too - I just don’t think it’s as obvious, for instance I think Nyambe will end up converting to a wide centre back.

What do you like about EB at right back? I’m intrigued.

Don’t think some people up here realise that we have a large number of southern based fans. The Rovers London Branch is probably our best organised supporters association. So that’s why we always have more fans at say Brentford than Middlesbrough.

Even the likes of Neil Yardley will say something like ‘the 1700 who have travelled from Lancashire’.

In reality I bet not far off half of the away end will be folk that live down there. 

1 hour ago, HowieFive0 said:

Yep reduced average price for paying upfront ! im sure most who cough up for the season (probably miss 3-4 games as well so that 14 quid rises ) wont mind paying  24 quid game by game knowing that their team may go bust rather than  lose 350 quid that they ve paid upfront!

 

They would’ve minded. I’ll tell you now those Bolton fans that usually walk on would largely have turned up. Whilst a hell of a lot of their long standing ST holders won’t have bothered.

We see it with cup ties. Sunderland couldn’t believe they had their lowest gate of the season for their play off semi - why? Because loads of ST holders don’t buy match tickets.

All part of the reason they won’t be £24 when they go back on sale.

Just now, HowieFive0 said:

Nope they just pay upfront for the whole season ..

Well obviously!

But £14 a game ain’t £24