Yep he did well but he's yet to take a shot around the eyes at 154 so it'll be interesting although tonight will have done him the world of good mentally.

Poor matchmaking by Hearn that was, yes it was big money but you're right it took the wind right out of Brooks sails in terms of being an elite fighter for a bit longer.

The sales of Jones, Samba, Kalanic totalled near enough what Venkys & their associates paid for and took on with Rovers. Yes they also took on large contract commitments etc but within a business with guaranteed income of 20 mill plus per year and 50 mill over 4 years if relegated. Yes they spent a bit but until Rhodes was signed they were 10 mill plus up on outgoings v incomings in terms of fees. At the beginning they were nowhere near as daft as some would like to think in financial terms and i'll believe until i'm pushing up daises or someone proves otherwise that they got some or all their initial stake money back within the first few years. After that well god only knows all we know for sure is they've somehow stood the bills and unfortunately made many many tossers rich in the process but over the next few seasons it would be fitting if they invested some sensible money every summer in the new set up and did a forensic audit every year to make sure it was being used correctly like recently. As for Burnley yes please make it be true, they have a certain way of doings things that has proved right for them but any change brings a fresh approach and once it starts going tits up it's hard for outsiders to stop it.

I'm with you on Groves Gav he's kind of grown on me and he's matured in and out of the ring everything he said about Eubank is correct because he was speaking from his own experience. One thing about Groves is he's never in a dull fight and he can be hurt and run out of gas but that just makes him more exciting to watch imo, he's a cracking fighter. Eubank can still go on to be good he has bags of talent but needs a new approach and to stop trying to fight like his old man. I don't actually blame the dad like many do in terms of the fight itself he was yelling at Junior to get busy and jab inbetween rounds in the corner right from the off. He needs to go to a real trainer like Freddie Roach or someone for 6 months. Brook is finished at top level I think and I fear a sorry demise if he goes on too long chasing belts and paydays as like Haye his mind is willing but his body won't take it anymore.

Rather than have a run in the side just for the sake of it i'd rather they use the better options available.

Done a good job and I said a while ago he's a good fit for the club on many levels and is the experienced all round guy we've been crying out for a long time, helped by being left to do his job obviously. Only real issues I have like a few others are his constant tinkering and formation changes game in game out which has led to some awful first halves and has held the team back at times I feel and I think there's plenty evidence. That though is balanced out by his canny knack of changing for the better so there must be method in his madness as we are top, he's making use of what he has effectively if not spectacularly. If we have to grind the season out that way so be it he isn't going to change I don't think. Long way to go yet and many acid tests to pass but so far so good, fair play to him.

Certainly for home games the team and tactics we had v Shrews I see no need whatsoever to make any unforced changes or alterations. When you've found a formula that works well then just stick with it until it isn't working, if it keeps working and those in the shirts keep fighting to hold them stay with it and sod sentiment and trying to keep everyone happy the ultimate goal is to win promotion not give as many as possible mins on the pitch. Others always get their chance through subs, injuries, suspensions, players needing a rest etc so most play a part in it anyway.

I was just going to mention that one 'Blackburn don't have fans they have a jury' or something similar although I don't know which era it was referring to but occasionally in the past it's been hard to disagree ! Only remember him for his radio work mostly 5 live but he was always very good and realistic, a great leveller for pompous Green & Co. RIP

Long been my opinion that some money flows through the club elsewhere in some sort of accounting practice we can't still be paying every debt from 5 years ago most of that will have been squared off now and they front loaded some a few years ago to pay a load off. I don't care now either because if the actual paying off is significantly reduced and some money from wherever it comes from actually starts touching the sides and sticking in a way it's beneficial now then fine. If it's used properly a slow slight rebuild might get underway, before the next cashing in anyway, never let it be overlooked the 30 millionish of players sold over a couple of years and the cronic lack of reinvestment that saw us plunge to where we are now and we are still a long way from out of it yet. Hopefully for once they'll now start fulfilling properly their obligations as owners in terms of running it to a football plan !

The owners AND many stakeholders

Hope not but it didn't make sense selling 30+ mill of players in quick succession reinvesting virtually nothing and ending up relegated but it happened and it maybe had to.

We are still on a financial tightrope and you'd think another large dollop of share capital will be needed in Jan/Feb or a big sale or two unless they go down the high interest loan route again. I wouldn't expect much in Jan apart from maybe a loan in covered by one out or more pruning. Still an incredible number of 'employees' on the payroll despite the shrinking nature of the club and cutbacks made

The guy is a drug cheat end of. The bums going nowhere ! Wonder how many 2nd rate pumped up cruisers they've got lined up for him before he runs away from Joshua or Wilder for 12 rounds

It would appear the drugs cheat has been cleared to fight again by UKAD after what appears to have been a secret ban which is now time served. Think i'll leave the country the tosser was never out of the media whilst he's been banned so god help us now. I don't care who does it but someone somewhere please expose him for the big awkward gangly non fighter that he is. Pity there is such an all time shallow pool of genuine heavyweight talent out there in this era outside of the top 3 or 4.

With Conway not being a flying winger I always feel Mowbray likes to start him to tuck in down that side which again suggests we might sit off from the start but like you say no real options now. Probably rather start like that than play a striker on the right as well I suppose, young quick winger desperately needed in Jan.

A point would be ok but trouble is when they set out for a point we usually end up chasing the game and often losing. Get after them, get in front then worry about it.

Certainly one for the purists and hard to call. Loma on a split decision for me although wouldn't rule out a draw !

If he lets them off the leash from the beginning Posh 1 Rovers 3 If he reverts to type and reels them in yet again Posh 2 Rovers 2

The dodgiest of the dodgy and it just shows what can be done and what goes on. All is never on the inside what it seems like on the outside.

Which perhaps shows that they just wanted A football club, why would they want A football club I wonder ?

On the txt thing my take is before that only hardcore boxing fans knew who Eddie Chambers was but the day after everyone who follows boxing knew who he was, say no more. I can believe AJ has a nasty streak you can see it in the ring and it's no bad thing it's something that makes him stand out from the Bruno types but I struggle to believe he'd be that naïve. Chambers being Furys pal and chief sparring partner adds weight to it, it'll be some kind of stunt whether Joshua is in on it or not.

Interesting stuff from the podcast i'll have to dig that up later. It is true though and the loose less perfect looking guys at heavyweight tend to have longer careers providing they are good fighters of course. Holmes, Foreman when he was in his 40's, Bowe would have done but his head and heart went. Fury much as I loathe him also falls into that category although for me he falls into the Bowe one as well sadly. Fair point on Bellew waiting but I just can't see it coming off unless Haye is playing games having got the fight in the bag. It was always going to be a massive ask to get back from an injury like that so quick for a fight of this magnitude.

Always been a fan but i'm sick of him now he only came back for the doh and took out a few club fighters then the money on offer for Bellew probably seemed like to good to turn down. The original version of Haye beats Bellew any day but that version is gone for good and I genuinely said to someone the other day Bellew would win again because Haye would break down again. Your right on the training and Bellew said it as well, Haye trains hard he always does he's a demon trainer but he trains like an athlete not a boxer and the constant niggles he gets are weightlifters injuries not boxing ones the way he conditions himself is all wrong. Can't believe TB is going to rearrange it and wait for him putting his own career on hold he'll break down again in the run up to the next one for sure. Haye will end up like Mike Tyson & Holyfield getting beaten by nobodies once the fight has gone past a few rounds because he's a busted flush just fighting to pay debts RETIRE !

Haye pulls out ..... again. If your injured your injured so no point taking the money turning up and serving up a shocker so no prob with him calling it off but he really should pack it in now his body has been telling him it's time for about 4 years. Desperate for cash though no doubt.

With the crock of crap pouring out of Rovers at every turn it's no wonder most were taken in by it, ok we might have thought a lot of it was pie in the sky but what actually followed came from the depths of hell. Biggest sting in British football bar none, this club and those corrupt crackpots have created more undeserving millionaires in the last 7 years than the national lottery yet they behave like it's just lost coins down the settee whilst the club and fans suffer. It would be unbelievable if it hadn't actually happened !