RevidgeBlue

Why do some people seem to think he gives a ****?

Maybe Castore aren't willing to pay our legal fees if we're representing ourself. Good effort to manage to get ourselves sued on not just one but two counts. Top work. Outstanding.

It's turning into a commemorative season to remember this one isnt it. - Plummeting into League one a year after finishing 7th - We're almost in February and have seen as many home games abandoned as home wins - Replica PNE kit for our anniversary strip - Being sued by our kit manufacturer Warms the cockles of your heart so it does!

300.

Im quite happy to take fees quoted by the Club at face value. What I can't be doing with is people who try to have it both ways ie. "We're showing ambition" when it's claimed we've spent £3m but when the player flops they say "Well it wouldn't really have been anything like £3m due to add ons".

Wish Id had a do at the 10/1 on offer only a few weeks ago. I didnt as it felt too disloyal.

So, getting back to the boycott, what's happening going forward? Anything at all planned for the next 2 home games?

Who for?

Nah, in the above example where the price was £1.50, we'd only be offering 20 or 30p.

Crewe Alexandra vibes from the second Broughton was "brought in" for me. Absolutely full of BS as well. If he's as good as everyone says he is however, no doubt he'll re-appear over here again at a decent level at some point and then we can judge him in a Venky's/Pasha/Waggotless environment.

Fair point. I always thought of him as more of a playmaker.

Famous photo of niggly little bastard Billy Bremner getting his come uppence off genuine hard man Dave Mackay.

Not disagreeing necessarily, but why didnt Pasha step in and block the purchases of Hyam, Szmodics, Brittain then?

You might be right although in devil's advocate mode even if no-one is sold,they're only really "re-investing" the Hyam money received at the last minute in summer, and the net spend on fees for the season would only be around £1m.

Sacrificial lamb.

Pretty much. I thought the Mcguire collapse was even worse given what had preceded it 12 months previously. At least you could make the excuse when it hadn't happened before it wasn't something which was foreseeable etc etc

None of the more modern players mentioned were true "hardmen" in the 60's/70's sense of the word when it was perfectly acceptable in the first 10-15 mins to put your immediate opponent for the afternoon into Row C just to let them know you were there. Or if you were a forward to clatter the opposition keeper. People like Ron "Chopper" Harris, Tommy Smith, diminutive Nobby Styles, Norman "Bite your legs" Hunter, Souness when he was playing etc. From a Rovers point of view in the 55 years I've been watching us we've generally always really lacked a bit of a nasty streak. For supporters of a certain era there's really only one answer to this, John Mcnamee. "Killer" Keeley was extremely dirty without really giving off the aura of being hard. Watched a highlight of an old game recently and Jim Branagan committed an act of GBH which would see him in huge trouble these days. Always considered Kevin Moran to be one of the toughest players ever to play for us without being dirty. Shearer was tough. Batty could handle himself. Andy Todd came over like a playground bully at a time when the game was going much less physical. He'd have been eaten alive in the 60's and 70's although it was funny to see Wenger moaning about him.

Yet we seem completely unable to bring through any striking talent at the same level. Excluding Leonard, would the last (and only) one be Beattie?

Yes, with the benefit of hindsight that would probably have made a big difference.

Getting very bolshy after being right on the tax front aren't we? For balance he also signed (amongst others) three strikers who didn't score a single goal between them and Wahlstedt. I was talking about the deals towards the back end of different transfer windows which failed. Why did the first four deals (which cost decent money) go through whilst the others didn't?

Think Broughton was just full of BS personally He was DOF so it was ultimately his job to identify the deals, GET THEM CLEARED BY OWNERS/MANAGEMENT, and get them over the line. He failed every single time - we don't know exactly why deals kept failing but we've never had the situation either before or since where deals got right to the wire on transfer deadline night before failing due to alleged administrative errors. Not saying he was solely to blame but I wouldnt say he was any less to blame than anyone else. All complicit just like Ismael is with our current slump in fortunes.

We never actually landed any of these supposed "Loan with an option to buy" targets though - O Brien, Undav, Mcguire so we might as well have said we nearly landed Lionel Messi. All turned out to be smoke and mirrors in the end for whatever reason.

Cadamarteri would be absolutely desperation stuff. He'd be ok as a cheap "one for the future" in addition to someone with some sort of goal scoring track record, but if we are pinning our hopes on him to score the goals to keep us up that will probably seal our relegation. We're probably only in for him because we think he'll be exceptionally cheap. And even then we dont appear to be offering what Wednesday want. Embarrassing stuff. And clearly not worried about going down if this is the best we can do.

As I understand It, it never went anywhere because originally it didnt need to be spent. The rules changed and all of a sudden that level of investment was required. Irrelevant as far as FFP calculations for the men's team go though. Similar to what Gestede said about the transfer budget, they must have a fixed amount they're prepared to spend on the Club per year and that's it.

Do they have any particularly large individual shareholders who could exert any influence over them then? Doesn't have to be a Bank, could be anyone. Or is it all tiny shareholdings?