This is a commercial negotiation. Let’s hypothetically say that your company was about to sign a contract with another party & for whatever reason, you weren’t totally satisfied that they were going to fulfil their side of the bargain to the letter. Would you pay all the cash up front ? A bit like employing a builder - always negotiate a sizeable retention payment. Such a deal structure suggests that there were rights & obligations on both parties with built in termination events in the event of dissatisfaction. There is no evidence to suggest Recoverite have gone bust but equally, they aren’t immune from COVID; so if they felt they weren’t getting value for money then termination makes sense for them.

This is the thin end of the wedge. The tactics vaping companies use are similar to the ones used by tobacco companies back in the day. https://tobaccotactics.org/wiki/e-cigarettes-marketing/ At the end of the day, we’ve lost a sponsor who promotes fitness and athleticism for this. I’d love for Recoverite to come out & give their side of the story.

The point being that if you are a club that wants to postpone, whilst this guidance is operational it’s a get out of jail card. “We have 25 fit players but 15 of them have never played for the first team…so we’re stuffed…” type thing. However, Leeds put a 15 y/o on their bench last Sunday.

For a COVID postponement apparently, kids only count if they’ve already made an appearance i.e. you can’t give a debut to a kid to make up a “COVID” XI. This means that clubs like Leeds who routinely give debuts to youngsters have a bigger “COVID” squad to choose from & would find it harder to request a postponement. In the current climate, this encourages clubs NOT to blood youngsters which is what many fans are saying they should be doing so they can fulfil fixtures. I also heard an interesting theory on The Football Ramble podcast which is that the PL don’t want matches televised without “star names” playing as it devalues their product.

Agreed…this is very odd. The valuation of the club depends on its net assets and earnings stream. How would the two parties arrive at an agreeable figure based on conjecture ? Out of the Prem, income dries up, LBO interest has to be met & players either have to be sold or take wage cuts (parachute payments notwithstanding). A number of Burnley fans who have revelled in our mismanagement may soon look on with envy if they don’t sort it out…

I don’t think the club commissioned the article in fairness…

In Friday’s Torygraph…apparently Rich Sharpe & me were the main sources….oh & some kid called Buckley…😉

Me too !

Oh that’s really sad. I played the day after *that* night at Deepdale…remains to this day one of the happiest memories of my life…best £150 I ever spent… Graeme Souness lurked around waiting to be interviewed by TV & my sister grabbed this photo of him with my nephew…!

‘It’s deja vu all over again…”

Here’s another perspective of that City game…worth watching to the end for a bit of sport with “Bondy”…

A tragic tale was unfolding in Sheffield but at the time, all we knew was that Rovers had a new club record scorer...

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No chance. Hull might get a suspended sentence but the points won’t be given to us.

Siri : show me what emotional roller coaster means…

Three presenters each choose three festive Rovers fixtures to reminisce with the aid of music of the time. From the 1970’s up to 2019… https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/sound-of-the-season-christmas-special-out-now/129 Stream/Download here https://roversradio.airtime.pro/rest/media/345/download/ImYHSOA1Nse0.mp3

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Very much in the bank cash wise & in the books before 30/6/21 to enable the most favourable FFP calculations.

We mentioned in the video that the sale of Armstrong came after the 2021 financial year end & so will show in the June 2022 accounts. Because of this the sale of the STC was used as a sort of “bridging finance” mechanism to try avoid June 21 figures taking us outside FFP. Of course the June 21 accounts aren’t out yet so the impact is as yet unknown.

I attended a Zoom call last week at which some marketing creatives talked about this & the numbers they shared (not in the public domain) regarding engagement were staggering. https://www.campaignlive.com/article/stevenage-challenge-best-bk-campaign-cannes/1720747 Stevenage shirts were being sold globally as kids everywhere attempted the Stevenage Challenge & wanted to get them to Champions League. On social media, images of Messi & Ronaldo in Stevenage shirts in the FIFA game proliferated. The club sold out of merchandise… It was the most intelligent, stimulating and thought-provoking presentation I have attended in years.

TV is the single biggest contributor to income in the top two divisions. The question is how long TV would be interested in broadcasting if grounds were empty ? Well 2020/21 kind of proved that they can make it work, at least in the short-term. Be careful what you (humourously) suggest…😳