I genuinely thought we’d win but objectively it was a 50:50 no more than a 55:45 in their favour but with all the chat it was like a pub team were playing the mighty spurs. I kept saying to them you’re truly blessed to watch the first English club to lift 3 major trophies in 3 centuries like it was guaranteed our way. I’d like to think one of the many many spurs fans I said it to reflected on it and thought fair dos.

A couple of our mates went to Cardiff uni so they knew the city inside out so a load of us went down for the weekend. They’d allocated all the shit pubs to rovers fans and all the decent pubs to spurs fans (typical and mildly irritating). So the night before we exclusively spent time with spurs fans and you’re right the arrogance was astounding. Like we were there for a day out and they were there to win. League form was iffy and few injuries but I was adamant we were the better side and we were going to win (even as a pessimist) but they were acting as though it was the equivalent of the citeh of today playing Chorley. Weird. Can’t recall but we may well have finished above them in the league that season, either way it was far closer than any one that I spoke to would admit.

It really does. My love of the club is pretty much only 1875-2011 and it keeps me going in the slightly waning belief that one day we will have a proper football club again.

Just perusing yesterdays programme. Fancy that a professional football club able to cobble something together 🤯. Anyway the point being I wasn’t aware of no4 and the shorts connection. Those 5 points should remind some rovers fans that we’re lucky to support such a grand old club and simply muddling about happy to accept the crumbs just won’t do.

https://twitter.com/daafbalompie/status/1624494649581633537?s=48&t=RPjDnIc4NUrNTyRov7gEIw That’s how to protest. Fair dos to them. Critically while the game was happening. I wonder what the Spanish is for just support the team dick heads.

Pears flapping so much probably put their lad off.

Hedges maybe.

I hope for breretons sake Villarreal aren’t watching and don’t own a shredder for that contract.

For all pears is perfectly adequate (at best) as a shot stopper he’s such a flapper at anything vaguely resembling a cross.

Few mini anti waggot chants one quite loud. Could it be the apathy is lifting.

I bloody hope it’s an unlikely 3pts as already getting home is looking like a faff. Was a fairly punchy depart as it was but perhaps predictably the rail network let us down. Again. At the very least they better bloody try today which is far from guaranteed. If not looks as though have time to stay and boo now.

When I think of players I don’t want to play because they’re shite couldn’t find xi. Wouldn’t play Brereton because his head isn’t here and truth be told outside a 6 months period of surreal form he’s been crap, vale is shite and will never make it, Gallagher is shit but have to play someone.

An interesting twist on the classic game where’s Wally. There’s loads of them in this version.

Any side that’s in the top half (particularly one that’s spend nearly half the season in the play off positions) playing a team that’s rock bottom at home should be looking to win 99% of the time. That said rovers are susceptible to sides who just want it more and Wigan are undoubtedly a bogey side. So I’m going for a fairly easy Wigan win.

Perhaps not to this degree of embarrassment but there’s at least one player we’ve lost every window in seemingly daft circumstances. They’re just the ones we hear about.

I’ve just listened to that interview. I can appreciate a few things 1 an apology. I can’t recall one of those happening from anyone under the Venkys reign of terror. 2 taking responsibility (although it’s pretty easy to take responsibility when you know there’s going to be no consequences for the thing you’re taking responsibility for). 3 he’s seen issues with the farcical (not that he used that word) transfer procedure and structure they’ve used for the last 10 years. That said this bloke is well behind now for goodwill and competence. So he needs to be pulling rabbits out of hats just to get back to parity and make up for his poor start. My gut instinct is he’s just another chancer with a silver tongue saying the right things when actions fall well below minimum standards but he does seem a bit different to the rest in terms of taking responsibility

Does anyone have a link to this broughton interview where he fell on the sword?

Ultimately and very sadly I think rovers fans as a collective deserve the owners we have. Far too much looking the other way when it mattered 10 years ago and now forget it. There is nothing so bad the club/owners could do that the large swathes of apologists wouldn’t defend to the hilt. For the minority of fans who don’t deserve the Venkys it’s truly awful but unfortunately have to play the cards we’re dealt - ie a very passive fanbase who couldn’t really give a shit.

Oh yeah forgot him. The lad we loaned from Huddersfield.

Which paper wouldn’t mind a read? That’s chilling.

Forgetting the cock up with the paperwork, whether we were close to signing players. The only fact that’s relevant is we had a month to sign new players and apparently actively tried and regardless of what excuses they trot out we managed to sign 0. Zero.

😂. Will give them that one. It comes to a thing where we’re so useless we’re able to give a club, who are probably purely volunteer run and about 10 levels below us, enough ammunition to take the mick.

In no particular order: 1 hiring king rat and not sacking him 2 employing Jerome Anderson 3 signing above son 4 driving out Williams, Finn and Goodman 5 hiring shelf boy 6 promoting Agnew beyond his abilities of programme dogs body 7 hiring swag 8 trying to turn the academy into housing 9 the chicken advert 10 running down the contract of a player of value 11 not strengthening jan 2022 12 amassing £250 million debt 13 forgetting to sign a players contract 14 sacking fat Sam 15 allowing the stadium to become almost derelict 16 Ronaldinho bullshit 17 hiring hunt Just off the top of my head and a couple of mins typing. I bet there’s 50 stupid things. forgot this one the annual fiasco with season tickets/ ticket prices. Must be in any top 5.

If the big boys were stupid enough not to sign the paperwork then I’m sure the outcome would be the same. Perhaps we’re the first and only club stupid enough to make these mistakes.

They’ve appealed just so swag can trot out his favourite phrase: “we’ve done all we can.”