wilsdenrover

A model he’d have been aware of when he joined.

Let’s stop this Derby Rovers bollocks before it becomes a thing eh.

What motivation is there for a young player to improve if better/more experienced players are just moved aside to keep their ‘pathways’ clear? First team opportunities should be earned.

My only issue with this is it’s entirely the club’s fault (by not sorting out contracts sooner) that we’re in a transitional state. We finished seventh last season, any half functioning club would have been pushing to strengthen in a bid to reach the play offs. That being said, none of this is the new players fault so I agree they need time to show whether they’re good enough. The concern however would be, if they aren’t of sufficient standard, I wouldn’t trust our lot to resolve the situation in January (given the past few winter windows).

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Harder to bring in banners if only small bags are allowed…

They tried to but he was spinning too fast.

🤷‍♂️ hopefully we’ll find out soon.

I’ve heard he does his best work in and around the box.

Looks like he falls one point short. He’d have got that point if they’d qualified for Europe through the league (they did so through the cup). A good argument to make to the exceptions panel??

Let’s hope he doesn’t fall out with the supporters of the Smit might hit the fan. I’ll get my coat…

The order is yet to be published so we don’t know what (if anything) happened but it’s listed to be in court again on Wednesday.

Maybe you’re right but I don’t think a selling club should be operating like that. Surely it’s in their interest to maximise the price they get.

That only works if the selling club doesnt want others to know the player is available. Why wouldn’t they want to drum up interest to increase the price?

They could choose to write it off. They could try to get it back. They could sell Rovers but retain ownership of Venkys London (with the debt remaining owing)* There’s probably further options too. * I’d be amazed if anyone agreed to buy the club under this circumstance. I think we’ve veered well off topic! 😁

Yes, owed by the club. These loans are always repayable within a year but the Venkys are yet to ever call them in. Of course someone owing you money and you getting that money back from them are two entirely different things.

I think that’s probably based on the assumption they’d want all their money back. As of March ‘24 this was £220.1 million - £86.1 invested (I use that term loosely) in shares and £134 million advanced (ie loans).

Yes - the good news is I very much enjoyed my extra sleep 😁😁

As of June ‘24 the club owed Venkys London £134 million.

Waiting for the order to be published to see what, if anything, happened.

If only 😁 You can watch the court cases over the internet - he’s definitely sat there as grumpy as ever 😁😁.

I wasn’t awake early enough to know what/if anything happened but the judge is definitely there this time.

Will be 2nd case to be heard tomorrow (if judge turns up…)

That’s something which annoys me, a ref not playing injury time because a team is getting a pasting.

5-0 before half time 😁😁😁😁😁