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Yes and no - for a long time I did. I haven’t had a season ticket since the season they refused to sack Kean when we could all see it (not sure what year). Started doing pay on the door away games around 18 months later, then in the past few years have done the occasional home game because I just can’t kick the habit. I’ll be buying a season ticket this year. I said I wouldn’t until they accepted responsibility and tried to make amends. They haven’t quite done that, but the club needs my money now and I won’t stand by my laurels when they need us most. Because they can’t guarantee everyone that buys one will be allowed back in.

Do your bit to help the clubs finances - if you can afford to buy one, buy one, even if you will hardly wear it.

Sounds like Christian Walton has just broken his leg.

Does it work with a UK VPN?

In principle the locations are good IMO. You’d have liked to have thought they would have been cleaned, though.

I don’t either, but I’ve been told the opposite — Kipre will hold out for a big move.

£90 for a pitch view room at the Blackpool FC Hotel.

Because it’s not 1989 anymore and that’s not how football clubs operate.

It’s totally unrealistic to expect the club to come out and say 'financial circumstances mean we will be restricted to free transfers and loans'.

There’s still no official correspondence on FFP being lifted. People on this forum spent around 2 weeks saying that it was lifted, referring back to UEFA guidance on FFP which had zero effect on us a club. For absolute clarity, as things stand, we are carrying on as usual with FFP in the EFL. Ewood Ace has just explained pitch maintenance above. We cannot go into the season without a first choice goalkeeper. Whilst Kaminski looks astute and could be a brilliant signing, he’s realistically the most qualified first team keeper we can bring in cheaply. I have to congratulate the club for sourcing him and getting him in so cheap, but that doesn’t change the fact that we’ve needed to go for a cheaper option than Marshall or Phillips or some of our other options.

You’re crazy. The players currently don’t have a first team liaison because they cannot afford to bring her back from furlough. The grounds team has been reduced to one person and the number of pitches being maintained has been reduced because we can’t afford to maintain all the pitches. We have a very, very limited budget - the owners are limited to what they can put in because of FFP. We are lucky that some of our top earners deals expired before COVID. COVID-19 has cost the club millions.

DG has signed for Sunderland, for anyone interested

I’ve never seen this guy play. I hadn’t ever heard of him until 3 minutes ago. I think he’s going to be a star for us. Welcome to the transfer window!!

Sadly it doesn’t really matter how good he is - during the career at Rovers he’s averaged 28 games a season, league and cup. It’s sadly just nowhere near enough.

Not quite, Abramovich had never watched a game of football at the time he bought Chelsea and hasn’t attended a live game in years now. Abramovich bought Chelsea to give him a UK platform and persona to ensure that Putin couldn’t make him simply disappear for his alleged crimes against Russia.

Very much looking forward to finding out what tactic Tony has come up with during his annual leave. We’ve had 442s, 4231s, 433s, 4312s, 4321s, 352s, 343s - I think we could be on for a 361 this season.

Crikey, some achievement to win the league without a single player making an assist!

We ask for it in the initial post on the forum rule thread...

It depends entirely on FFP. Let’s say for argument sake we have saved 3m from the yearly budget — I say ‘yearly’ because a wage budget and a transfer budget doesn’t exist in football, they’re amalgamated into the same thing. If Dillon Phillips is available at 800K, that would be split at 200K/year based on a 4 year deal. Add wages of 12K a week (guessing), plus a 10% signing on fee at 80K, plus pension and NI, that would bring the yearly cost in at 1M quid. We could really bring three players in this year based on those figures. If the LB/CB plan is going to cost more than the Phillips deal we need to make a decision on who’s most important.

Please do report as many offending posts as you see, it’s really helpful to us. The rules which show what does and what doesn’t need reporting are here:

It’s in no way intended to be snide, I just cannot let the moderation team be questioned if the reports aren’t submitted as we’ve repeatedly asked for more reports. We rely on them. Especially on this thread I tend to read the previous 5/10 or so comments then post based on them, if a report isn’t made about the post ~15 posts ago, I certainly won’t see it.

Thanks for the feedback, I’ve just searched for any reports made from your account in the past three months and can see you haven’t made a single one. All moderation is done by volunteers and therefore only works if people can point us to the issues. If you’re not reporting things we can only assume there’s no issues.

I’ve heard nothing — but the reality isn’t that hard to work out. We where right at the FFP limit, that’s reflected in the club accounts. But, we have lost some big earners and are trying to offload another in Mulgrew. If FFP isn’t relaxed, I suspect we’re in the market for loans and frees using the difference in the wage budget to finance anyone brought into the club. If FFP is relaxed I guess we’re in the same position as most seasons, we have 2/3 million quid to spend plus a percentage of whatever sales are made. If we go another season without invested in our make shift defence we may as well chuck the towel in. If I was in charge I’d refuse any investment in strikers, wingers and midfielders. Get Nyambe signed up on a new contract, too.

Can we please stop questioning whether Chaddy is on recreational drugs or not? And Chaddy can you please stop entertaining it? It’s mind numbing for the rest of us. In other news, is there any confirmation yet that FFP has been amended for the coming season? Please don’t post that UEFA article, we need EFL guidelines not UEFA. If they’re not changing FFP we are at the end of the cycle and not paying decent money for anyone.

Crikey. I really hope we’re not relying on a CB that can’t get on the Stoke bench to solve our defensive problems.