The semi automated offsides would be a big positive step.

If they do get rid of VAR then I presume managers (and to a lesser extent supporters) will never complain about wrong decisions again. Accuracy will naturally go down.

I think England are naturally up there because we have got some brilliant players in Kane, Bellingham and Foden, although Kane had a back issue against Real Madrid and Bellingham had to take painkilling injections in his knee. But we do have a poor manager and also 3 major areas of concern, we have no one of a top level to play next to Rice to provide balance, we dont have a left back and we also have a worry next to Stones who himself has barely played recently, if its Maguire (injured at the moment) then he is a major weakness too. France are the natural favourites, they have such a balanced squad and crucially a manager with a proven track record in tournaments. Portugal are also an obvious danger and again have quality in basically all areas. Germany being at home could be a big threat too, theyve got an overall nice blend of experience. (Gundogan, Kroos, Kimmich, Neuer) and youth (Wirtz, Musiala, Pavlovic) Holland and Spain perhaps lack the same firepower of those 4 but do have real quality in other areas. Picking a dark horse is a bit harder but maybe Ukraine can be. Mudryk is hitting form and they also have a couple of attackers at Girona who have had an unbelievable season. I do enjoy international tournaments aside from just looking down the media angle of solely focusing on England. Extending them though so youve got 3rd place teams qualifying really does hinder the potential jeopardy and entertainment of the group stages.

I would at least hope that Eustace's first intention (if he did have any money) would be to raid the carcas of a relegated side just because he has worked with them before. Bacuna is a liability 9 times out of 10 and Dembele couldnt get in the team or even the bench as the season went on. After his initial hype, I know he played well here but more often than not he flattered to deceive.

Eustace clearly knows he wont have much to spend so is just trying to make it seem like we dont need the overhaul that we actually do.

The club being run by owners with a slight interest and bit of ambition to do more than tread water? Would a 30 year old out of contract Peterborough sub get you excited? Would you agree that your previous statement that the owners never refuse to sign a cheque was misguided?

I think it was mainly due to the fact that his contract was up this summer and the intention was to sell him last summer but it never happened. Either way, it seems again like being linked to the same players again. Hes 30 this summer and off the back of a season where he has barely played at League 1 level. Would be underwhelming.

Its Rovers. They must have a plan to seamlessly and proactively have a replacement in place to announce both simultaneously. Oh wait.

Hes leaving for free. (Although he will want a wage well beyond the peanuts on offer)

They might have someone, they might not. Might be soon, might not.

Those times are disgusting. Fuck off Sky.

Miyoshi is becoming the new Rhys Healey. The players mentioned tend to be the same few, both Dembele's and Rak Sakyi on a repeat.

It works well at SOME football clubs. Not ones that are dysnfuctional from top to bottom.

What is that based on? Not that I would be saddened.

Link him with every team under the sun prior to moving, then commence the process months after he has actually moved. Chancer. Ill guess Dortmund next week.

You weren't right.

The court case "isn't a problem anymore." Club fed drivel when in reality nothing has changed and they have said similar throughout this case.

Unless someone bids money for Hyam, when his stock is low, so unlikely, can we really afford to let him go. I am not his biggest fan but he is one of only 2 senior centre backs that we have fit, so we need reinforcements there anyway. I don't think we can afford to just "offload" him if it is even possible,

I can't say that I know if it has been business as usual, although he has done interviews with various people about what happened in January and what he wanted to do going forward, had he been sidelined back in February, he would have not been allowed/chosen to do such interviews in late March. I am just pretty confident that if you had actually heard something proper on Broughton's exit, that you would have not resorted to a cryptic post that you refused to take questions on. At a club like ours, it just caused more problems than benefits unfortunately, as we have seen.

I have not got a clue how you have come to that conclusion. I literally know no one who has anything positive to say about Waggott, whether in person, on here, social media or anywhere. Songs calling for Waggott to go are common place at Ewood, whereas there has never been anything about Broughton. I think this is solely in your head. Ultimately it's all down to Venkys. You are obviously correct about the contrarian view about him throwing a tantrum etc, he was right to leave and right to be so annoyed. But comparing Mowbray and Tomasson's time here is not like for like, the former inherited a team full of crap destined for League 1, the latter inherited a side that had just finished 8th and with more funds than we had for a few years to replace the 3 out of contract players. Both did good jobs but ultimately both were undermined by Venkys.

I think Waggott has proved that he is only bothered in appeasing the owners.

This idea that hiring GB was some sort of ploy to protect him seems a little far fetched, protect him from what? How does it protect him? And it certainly hasnt worked. I suspect either Broughton is being sacked due to a poor transfer record or much more likely amidst all these cut backs and having grown sick of Venkys hes had enough.

This Broughton news is only going to increase an influx of people supposedly hearing exactly what has gone on and professing their ITK knowledge.

Im sure that has happened, the owners were desperate to have a push at promotion (especially amidst this self inflictef court case) and spend some money but have bowed to the superior judgement of the CEO who wouldnt benefit from the pay rise he would almost certainly get if we somehow managed to get promoted at some point.

We would obviously do better with a proper CEO, 100%. Waggott is undoubtedly well out of his depth. But like any CEO, Director of football, manager or whatever, any change is somewhat insignificant in comparison to the owners. The people who are let go tend to be ones who challenge the owners and their running down of the club in any way. If we had a better CEO, we would almost certainly increase income for example. But that increase would pale into insignificance when the owners regularly sell owners and the money just vanishes. See Wharton, Armstrong, Rhodes, Cairney and Gestede as examples. A more proactive and competent CEO might bring in 500k more, a million more, even 2 million more. But it pales into insignificance. His job is safe until he personally decides otherwise because he doesnt kick up a fuss, he knows this job is the best he will get and he will pander to what the owners want.