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5 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

In that video above it’s a worry that they keep saying Big Mak missed some sitters. I think that was the criticism from the Belgian journo/analyst who the LT interviewed when he signed.

Shot centrally straight at the keeper from good positions, hit outside of the post from a very good position. I suspect at the end of the season we will be looking at what he does for others in terms of hold up, creating space etc…so Sam Gallagher with added mobility…😆

14 minutes ago, Atko's Engine said:

It wasn't vintage but I saw enough to consider that Gueye & Ohashi will not look out of place. 

Gueye is a unit, and plays like it. Held the ball up well, brought others into play, could turn his man & shows good drive to get into the box. Maybe should've done better with a couple of shots, but on another day would likely have scored 2 or 3.

Ohashi a completely different type of player, but no less effective. Has a good physique, looks reasonably strong, loves to press, looks alert & lively to turning his man. Had less clear cut chances than Gueye, the shots he did have were blocked at source.

Nothing much else to report really. Defence was solid, & Brittain got forward well to support JRC. Pears only had one save to make (and did so well). JRC looked lively, Hedges too. Travis was his usual busy, pesky self w/o doing anything spectacular, nice to see him back though. Dolan missed a sitter and failed to get a shot away a couple of times, but put the penalty away nicely.

Tronstad pulled up right at the end, wincing, but hopefully not serious.

All in all, a comfortable win. 3-0 wouldn't have flattered us. Interesting that they had Dwight Gayle as one of their 4 trialists, didn't get much of a look-in though.

I’d like to see Gueye & Ohashi play together based on what I saw tonight - think they would complement each other…

2 hours ago, WacoRover said:

So, out of our four incoming forwards, Mak made a good case today for 1st team minutes? Or, he starts at U21’s? 

1st team 

42 minutes ago, Blow-in said:

Sorry worded that wrong, The last time we saw Rovers win a game was the League 1 season was that really 2017/2018?

Was the Perterborough game game, we went 1 down and then Dack and Graham got 3 between them.

From personal experience I can also recommend Swansea away. Stay in Mumbles, plenty of bars, restaurants & the Gower is amazing. The Swansea stadium is great, plenty of seats, parking next to the ground.

Some nonsense from me in the LT should you fancy…

32 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Often been the case under Venkys that there is no money for significant transfer fees but money suddenly gets okayed for short term big wages, Downing, Rodwell etc.

Easier to budget for a short-term contract.

2 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

You’re saying Waggott doesn’t make any  decisions unilaterally that impact the club or its supporters? 

I think he takes his orders from Pune/Suhail & carries them out accordingly within what I suspect are fairly tight constraints. e.g. I have heard tale that any prospective purchase of £5k or more needed sign off from India so I understand he doesn’t have that much of substance upon which he can unilaterally decide, certainly not like you would expect of a CEO of a “more traditionally run” business. 
Now, whether he pushes back robustly to his bosses to challenge their constraints or just goes along with what they demand is a different argument.
The £300k salary & associated benefits is quite the lever to ensuring compliant behaviour IMO.

edit: for clarity - I should also add, if Waggott were removed, I firmly believe our position would remain largely unchanged as the successor would be recruited to follow orders similarly hence that observation 🤷‍♂️

3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

we signed maradonas son as well😄

Well…considered it…this is a great read…

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/when-diego-maradona-junior-came-to-dunfermline-1414304

17 minutes ago, windymiller7 said:

Just looked it up & Donnarumma's out of contract and only has a transfer value of £300k! We should be all over that!

 

 

 

 

(Ok, it's not THAT Donnarumma, it's his older, shitter, brother, but I'm sure if you post on FB without his first name, you'll get a few bites! 😂)

We signed Santa Cruz’s younger brother once…so there is a precedent for this sort of nefarious activity 😁

14 hours ago, Upside Down said:

I appreciate the sacrifices made by folk like @glen9mullan @Mike Graham @Miller11 and all the others I am missing out.

This is work that needs to be done and any of those criticising from the sidelines should get involved and invoke the change they want to see. Obviously not everyone is in the position to be able to do the same things as those mentioned above for various reasons. I am doing what little I can from my position as I believe this is important.

That being said, I think we're at a point now where any meeting that is not attended by Suhail is completely pointless as Waggott is merely repeating what he's been told to when it comes to the court case etc. If Suhail is not present then the Trust members should be walking out and publicly stating the club's unwillingness to co-operate with the Supporters Trust.

I would also like to see a referendum of some sort carried out by the Trust with it's members in regard to a vote of "no confidence" in the owners and the club senior management. Naturally the time for this should be after the 20th August court hearing. 

 

For those interested, I have posted the incomplete version of the timeline of the last few years over in the HMRC thread.

Spot on…no Suhail, no point. Waggott is & always has been Venky’s bullet-proof vest. He’s carried out his instructions from Pune admirably. Our issue is with the owners & Suhail is their eyes & ears. 

30 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

To put into context, these pair were playing in a Coyle side so of course they looked rotten.

Just like Sam Gallagher did…oh hang on…😉

For those championing Daniel Iversen…

Last day today…👍

9 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

We paid a fee, unbelievable

Did we press Send on internet banking?

I’m sure the music’s good but those shirts are sensational…👍

51 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

So not a Spielberg special!?

We’re a summer late for a doom-laden Oppenheimer spoof sadly…

8 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

He’s also saying club will confirm Ohashi and Gueye today.  I wonder what the announcement vids will be like this year? They’ve had plenty of time to think about them!!

Low budget. 

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

That’s why I asked the question.

I found an article which says buying players for your academy is exempt but income from selling an academy player is included. 

What I don’t know is whether this person knows this or has just interpreted the rules this way.

I had a quick skim of the rules but nothing jumped out one way or the other.

 

If the income wasn’t allowed, it would make selling academy products like eg Cole Palmer irrelevant so that’s why I believe income is allowed, expenses are deducted 👍

8 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

Won’t any fee they pay be FFP exempt (youth development)?

Youth development costs are removed from FFP calculations but this is income…? 🤔

9 hours ago, Mike E said:

A good one too. No measure, purely my reading of membership emails/questions from my time as membership officer vs my modding of this forum.

When we last did a proper consultation meeting, representatives of this forum asked more direct and pressing questions than myself or John (then Chair) did in representing our members.

Though I must say I personally preferred the questions asked by BRFCS members.

I’d say that (again, my reading of the room) the WATR membership doesn’t approve of Venkys ownership any more than the average BRFCS member, BUT the general consensus of WATR membership is to try and influence things for the positive before going full nuclear.

Until getting my new job, I would personally support going full nuclear. With my new role I would impartially observe from the sidelines with a wry smile on my face when Venkys finally leave.

Thanks Mike - I was meaning more about the demographics, especially age & gender. I suspect the membership of WATR & BRFCS are quite similar but I thought you’d uncovered a way of demonstrating it 😉I’ve seen this “WATR are more representative” line peddled a few times.

interestingly, if you were a polling company, to get a statistically significant sample size of Rovers fans to a confidence level of 95% you wouldn’t need to poll that many people. If you assume a home crowd of 15,000, then a poll of just 375 would give you that (with a 5%  margin of error).

I would therefore argue that with over a thousand active forum accounts, BRFCS is actually quite representative. Although I do accept that folks who sign up to the Forum are motivated supporters as opposed to being randomly selected.

But the same observation can be made of WATR.

3 hours ago, Mike E said:

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Remember that WATR represent a wider scope of fans than is on BRFCS.

Measured how Mike? Genuine question BTW.

5 minutes ago, Ricky said:

 

I do sometimes wonder if you’re paid to post by admin. Before you came on and started spouting your usual nonsense this morning there had been about 3 posts, since then there have been about 30. Mainly calling you out on the absolute nonsense you seem to believe .

“Chaps…they’re onto us…” 😆

The build up to the Dingle Derby starts here…