RevidgeBlue

I think you're completely wrong on this. 100% of the blame attaches to Venky's and our management. 0% to Eustace and Derby or any other Club. That's even before taking into account that Eustace tried to get assurances on these players contract situations in January or February. If Eustace had got his way then, at the very least, even if he'd left, Clubs would be having to pay a small fortune to land these players now.

Seems likely Brittain is going to one or the other. We have a valuation on him seemingly and dont appear to be making any particular effort to persuade him to stay. Was always on the cards when that other RB rocked up.

This sort of thing used to happen in the early to mid 70's when Ken Furphy took Tony Field and Terry Garbutt with him to Sheffield United and Gordon Lee took Sir Roger Jones and Graham Oates with him to Newcastle. But back then we genuinely didn't have a pot to piss in, and the players concerned were moving up to the top flight from a division (or two) below. We didn't have billionaire owners and the players weren't being forced to make a sideways move to Clubs in the same division for more money. Fuck off Venky's, Pasha and Gestede.

Trying to change the subject, I really liked the comment attributed to VI that he didnt like bringing in loans from PL Clubs. I suspect he may be sorely disappointed when his only option is to pad out the squad with a few random loanees right at the end of the window though.

Seen a couple of " AI predicts the Championship" things yesterday. One bizarrely had us finishing 4th ( must have been programmed by chaddy) whereas one done by the Lancashire Evening Post had us finishing 17th and PNE 23rd. 17th coincides with where the bookies expect us to finish. Somewhat of a discrepancy there!

Yes I thought he looked better at CB as well.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/the-12-richest-owners-in-the-202526-efl-championship-ranked/ FLW world have ranked the 12 richest EFL owners. I'd say they've substantially underestimated Venky's worth but even at that it makes it so frustrating that we're living hand to mouth.

I've no real interest in the Lionesses but Sarina Wiegman wouldn't really be doing her job properly if this girl didn't deserve her place on footballing merit but was retained solely because she had been racially abused. The only thing she'll have to factor in is whether the others might down tools in protest if she drops Carter. You would hope the rest of the team would be mature enough to accept her being dropped on the basis of taking her out of the firing line for a bit.

Knew someone wouldn't be able to wait to make that connection! Im content that my opinion of Tronstad seems to be shared by every other Club in the top 2 divisions. With him "snuffing out the danger" and without Travis we also conceded the second most number of goals the season before last and only stayed up on the final day. It's also a game of opinions. We have people who dont rate Dolan but dont seem to have a problem with Hedges, people who thought Gallagher was OK, people who didn't rate Raya and now seemingly someone who thought Deryck Williams was better than Beck. Compared to that I think my assessment of Tronstad as very ordinary pales into insignificance. But if it amuses people to bring it up every time I make a comment on a totally unrelated matter - so be it!

Evening Mrs. Gallagher. Yeah.........mores the pity!

I thought even Bell was better than disastrous Derek.

Can he jump over a Mini though?

You keep saying "how little he played". According to Wikipedia he made 24 appearances for us last season. Was that that bad? My own recollection was that he picked up a couple of injuries but it's not like he was a sick note.

I dont think he's a patch on Beck but it's a game of opinions. We've had worse and I assume we signed him because he was a lot cheaper.

Have we had anyone better than him at LB since Venky's took over? Either way, his departure has made us significantly weaker in that position and I assume he will make Derby significantly stronger.

Beck's absolute top quality. You're being contrary on this point.

Shocking match between Bunting and Joyce to end the action last night. Bet Humphries is thinking "Why couldn't I have got one of them?" Not that you can ever get lucky or unlucky with a draw etc.!

Which other widemen have we had in recent years with a return better than that? " Instagrammable Ryan Hedges"? Last season Dolan equalled Hedges output in the 4 years Hedges has been at the Club. But Im sure you know that already.

Someone beat you to it with that quip and he was wrong as well.

You manage his minutes if he looks like he's struggling. Should be able to play every day at that age.

If you dont play him, you'll never know! Agree with other posters, if you're good enough you're old enough. I think his is a different argument to the one about any old academy player being put in for the sake of it to get the minutes up.

Probably not in terms of quality. We'd probably still be waiting to make our first signing though if he was still here.

I don't get the total obsession with Mcllroy. Yes, I know he's now only the 6th player to have won the grand slam and we'll done to him for that. But whenever there's a tournament on its like he's the only person playing to the exclusion of other UK and Ireland players who might be doing better that particular week and whether he's in meaningful contention or not. As it happens, as with the boxing and Usyk we're probably quite privileged at the moment in being able to watch 2 all time greats in Scheffler and Mcllroy. Scheffler surely won't take long to polish off the US Open and complete the grand slam. Thought it was the most boring final round to any Open for a while today. Not Scheffler's fault, he's just too good and no-one closest to him could put in the ultra low round needed to put him under any real pressure.

Ok thanks. I took him to mean he'd qualified.

Thought "heavy metal" Ryan Searle might have given Littler a decent game. Not so. Littler was unplayable. Everyone else playing for 2nd if he keeps that up.