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I know it hardly ever happens, but if I was in charge of selling Armstrong I’d be asking for players in exchange and contributions towards their salaries to avoid paying that 40% transfer clause.

I know you still read this forum - donate my £100 to nightsafe.

I totally understand simple streaming is easy to do. My issue is the infrastructure. Who’s bringing the stream back up when the internet dies mid match? Are they hiring a team of engineers to be monitoring the stream during the game? Will there be a back up server? Are the people running the stream full time or freelance? If they’re freelance, what happens when one pulls out on the day of a match? Who’s trained these freelancers? Who’s providing the kit? Long story short - I don’t think a simple streaming solution is acceptable to paying fans especially in sport which is full of emotion. And if it’s simple I suspect it will be a downgrade on iFollow. Unless of course what they’re actually doing is going through a new external partner. In which case I do at least expect it to work.

No doubt it’s feasible - but it’s a huge (estimated 500K) investment to do it properly. A reliable product isn’t anywhere near as simple as a couple of camera operators, a vision mixer and then streaming it to fans. It worries me that you would think it’s so simple and I hope whoever is behind it has more experience in the field. Ultimately we’ll see what they do and that’s how it will be judged. If they do it cheap we’ll be in a worse position than iFollow. If they suitably invest in it we’ll have a great product that will eventually turn a profit - unless we get promoted.

Was any of it hands on/in a technical capacity or where you a student/work experience/runner? I’m not having a go here, but there’s very little positives to an (assumed) very small in-house team running something like this compared to IMG. There’s a reason only the top PL teams run operations like this eg MUTV or LFC.

Out of interest do you have any experience in live television/outside broadcasting?

Of course it was - it would be hugely inefficient to do it on site for circa 72 clubs. iFollow is run by IMG, one of the biggest providers worldwide and had a team of ~50 people working on it over the weekend and ~10 people on non match days. What is Rovers proposition? Looking forward to finding out.

I hope this works and is a benefit to the club. I fear that despite iFollow’s flaws, they have a full team working on it to fix and improve. Will Rovers be employing a similar outfit?

Fun story - I once worked for a huge sports broadcaster. One day in the office I watched the football team draw names out of a hat on who do a feature on. Within 3 hours there was a 5 minute feature explaining why Kovacic was Chelsea’s best player. It was broadcast worldwide. He isn’t their best player.

His data is based on playing at League 1 level though, right? Therefore it cannot be accurately compared against the entirety of the EFL, only League 1?

Let’s try this a different way. You’ve recommended we sign Kirk from Crewe. What has Kirk done for Crewe which Chapman hasn’t done for Shrewsbury/Rovers?

Trust me, he’s not!

You sound like Tony - don’t go and play for your mother’s country Ben, don’t play alongside Sanchez against Messi in South America’s biggest tournament, stay at Brockhall and do pre season with the Rovers.

Per the forum guidelines which all members have accepted, we do not discuss the specifics of why someone is banned, other than confirm whether or not they’re banned. Just another way that we have to remain impartial!

Because he kept breaking the rules

He’s been learning for the past few months and will speak Spanish in local media interviews whilst out there. Vamos Breo!

Will you be getting a season ticket next season after not getting one this year?

I can’t really say exactly who, but the person that told me that is a current player.

As in don’t think anyone will buy him this summer and he will sign a new deal.

The club reckon Armstrong is going to stay.

Congrats to Breo - now an international player, set to start vs. Argentina.

All I know is if Harry Chapman was a Shrewsbury player and available on a free, after the season he’s just had we would be crawling over broken glass to sign him.

Forest have released Yuri Ribeiro on a free. Which is insane to me, because he’s one of the best left backs in the league. I’d be jumping on that.

I don’t believe this for a second. They won’t share.

We have, just not successfully. FFP is a total nonsense where teams keep costs down for 2 years to allow them to spend in year 3. This season was our year 3, we won’t spend the money we have this season for another 2 seasons.