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So if he came on during the World Cup final and scored the winner it wouldnt count? That's ridiculous. The add on should be triggered by an appearance in a competitive match, not a start.

Is that a minor add on activated?

Not seen this site before, is it strictly for charitable purposes? Poor form from the donors of the shirts otherwise.

"Sorry Sir, this is a private facility not for use by members of the general public."

Interesting. Cheers.

The miserable defeat to them at Ewood in the pissing rain under JDT shortly after the heavy Derby Day defeat at the Turd still sticks in my craw. Players like Tyler bloody Morton looked like they'd rather be anywhere else.

It's the 64m dollar question that everyone has been asking for years isn't it (or rather the 300m dollar one by now). Why do they still bother? The only people who seem to obviously benefit from the arrangement are agents, from the very early days right up to present day with signing people like Dennis and Baradji. Im absolutely none the wiser as it wouldn't seem to be in dispute that the liability for everything rests with Venky's - on the face of it there seems to have been no upside for them whatsoever for them out of ownership of the Club. Other than negative publicity and losing a shit ton of money. On the other hand, it just seems to have been all jam and no potential downside for the people they've continued to allow to rip them off and leech off the Club down the years. Why didn't they simply cut ties years ago? Is it just a matter of honour and was the organisation as a whole doing so well up until recently that we were just an insignificant little pimple on their backside? The only thing I've noticed relatively recently is that despite considerable budget cuts year after year the posted losses always seem to remain constant at around £20m p.a. no matter how many cuts we make. You'd have thought that taking Sky Sports out of the Blues Bar would start to have a positive impact on the balance sheet sooner or later. Bringing things up to date and looking forward there seems to be absolutely no point in a Club which simply seems to exist to pay the likes of Suhail, Gestede and Ismael (and formerly Waggott Mowbray and Venus) a huge wage with no aspirations whatsoever of promotion whose only stated aim is to be self sustainable by hoping to develop a few players in due course to sell on for profit. Could we simply be a mechanism for moving money out of India as the Authorities over there have already taken exception to on a couple of occasions?

Well I agree with Alebiosu and at the other end of the scale, Henriksson and Tavares. If you were being generous you could maybe call Mcloughlin and Hickman average after which I dont think it's too much of a stretch to describe the rest as poor and the signing of Baradji as ludicrous.

Broughton negotiated such a bargain deal for him as well - Loan with a view to purchase for around £6m.

Don't be so patronising. Im not misunderstanding anything nor did I ever say "Mowbray wasted £100m." However whilst he was here they put funding into the Club to a higher level than now and to a much better level than JDT and Eustace had to get by on. Whether the exact figure during Mowbray's tenure was 80, 90 or £100m is irrelevant. The support was greater than is available now and Mowbray wasted it on his road to nowhere and by handing out contracts like sweeties to players who didnt warrant it or who were past it whilst not extending the contracts of key players. .

It's unlikely that anyone who accepted the invitation to participate in the day has any sort of beef with the Club. We don't know how many if any turned the Club down. If there were some, they'd be more likely to speak out presumably.

Devil's advocate mode on again: Bearing in mind the crap we signed in the summer is it any great loss? Or, is it yet another sign that the environment at Ewood and Brockhall is so toxic we can't hold onto significant non playing staff for more than a month or two?

As I've said all along - they COULD have provided guarantees and similar levels of funding to previously - they just didnt want to.

Agreed. Wasn't trying to defend them in any way. That incoming transfer money vanished into the ether on running expenses like it never existed because at the time they seemed to begrudge providing a guarantee for any money sent over. I suppose the acid test would be if we ever made a couple of really big sales in future (as unlikely as it seems at present) whether or not a substantial amount would be reinvested. Seemingly not according to Gestede. Which from a fan's point of view begs the question - what's the point of it all? There isn't one.

Devil's advocate mode: We spent £10m on players but sold better ones for £12m. So its almost exactly the same percentage. Funny one that. Who'd have thought that selling good players and bringing in inferior replacements wouldn't work for either Club?

Wow, didn't realise that. Is that a net or gross spend?

If you're not planning on sending any money over it doesn't matter does it. Not even the minor inconvenience of a bit of extra paperwork.

Just seen this. Completely agree. Brazil 1970 by a country mile. Second best team ever for me were Holland 1974 despite the fact they got beaten in the Final by West Germany as they were then.

Another adjournment after that would take it safely beyond the end of the next transfer window. Surely not even Pasha would claim that we couldnt spend any money in in Jan because "We can't be bothered filling in a Certificate stating what the money is to be used for". All irrelevant for our purposes now anyway as RG has clearly stated the transfer "budget" (Ha!) is agreed before the start of the season and is a fixed amount no matter what player trading occurs.

Well yes, I dont know anything about Norwich but Id say that most neutrals would be surprised that they are currently in the position they're in. Regardless of whether a load of dross was signed in summer (can't think who that reminds me of 🙄) Id say you'd back most managers to keep them up IF they received considerable financial support in January.

Our game clearly couldnt carry on, (due to our Club's negligence over the years in maintaining the standard of the drainage facilities) but the remaining 10-15 mins clearly should have been replayed 11 v 10. Can we leave it at that?

Is JDT the man to be appointed straight into the middle of a relegation scrap? Debatable. Id imagine there's an equal chance it could be an absolutely inspired appointment or absolute carnage.

I don't either but as a stand in centre back he is a much better than option than Hedges. I wouldnt have any objection to selling him in Jan but in the meantime we're cutting off our nose to spite our face by not playing him there.

No way he walks out. He's "aligned" with the rest of them.

That doesn't fill me with any confidence - exactly the opposite in fact.