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Fucking beauty Hedgey! I take it all back!

Our wingers are a real weak point at the moment. Some good build up play then horrendous end product from Dolan/Hedges. Some positive build up though. If only they would back JDT. Pears been solid too

So it’s…Blackburn 1-0 with a Szmodics goal assisted by Wharton and yellow cards for Travis and Porteous…..good luck!!

It’s not two games, it’s multiple games at the end of last season where he cost us points too. Far far far from a goalkeeper a promotion ambitious club would start. He was poor for goals against Huddersfield, Coventry and Millwall off the top of my head.

The hands over the ears (or eyes) Pears support in here from certain posters is baffling. People were actually claiming he should start ahead of Kaminski! League 1 at best, similar to half of yesterdays starting 11. Feel for JDT - but he himself needs to change it up a bit soon (Pears to bench, JRC to midfield, Dolan to bench)

Reality is that we have probably 5 players capable of a promotion push and that isn’t good enough in a league this competitive. If we didn’t have such a superb academy we’d be a league one outfit again now, and every year we’re statistically more likely to be relegated than promoted. Thanks to the way we’re run from India all the way to Brent. Crazy how people defend Venkys and even defend Waggott, some of the stuff on this board after his interview was sickening. Him bragging about spending Eduns fee on a new bus and our lot lapping it up (yes the buck stops with Venkys). Hedges, Dolan, Markanday supporting a teenage number 9, are we having a laugh.

Regular in the prem now. Fair fucks to him. Another shambles from Venkys, Mowbray et all! Venkys Out

Too busy trying to show everyone his quad for some weird reason

The odds actually suggest you won’t be relegated, (so not fair, no - it would be an underachievement). But whatever you say.

Much better 😌

Absolute Yank love in too. Just getting on random ‘Merican celebrities / retired sports star ‘investors’. The game has truely gone. Sky got the memo to keep pushing the message that all this foreign money investment is great anyway.

Making me sick all this shite on Sky Sports

Have we upgraded our catering this year? Food in the image looks a step above recent years. (unless it was purchased outside somewhere and brought in)

Lovely Wharton pick up and through ball

Yeah I love the JDT fist pumps (obviously given the avatar from Sheffield United). He gives off big winner vibes. Please for the love of god give him some money for a few forward players.

Hedges is league 1 level. Dolan has no brain. We’re desperately short in those wide forward areas. Leonard missed two good chances, but looks a real player, some great touches and hold up play at times. Also positionally he gets in the areas to find those chances. Travis man of the match for me. Very solid, and better alongside Wharton. Closely followed by Hyam

Only 1 of the first 20 games had both teams score (3 now with Canada and USA matches). Certainly still a decent gulf between levels, and you notice it a lot more on a player by player basis. Great coverage for it long term though, it's only going to get better and better. I'm expecting the knock out stages to be entertaining

Can't believe (bar obvious dodgy fifa) that they've still never hosted a mens tournament down there. Sport mad country, with good infrastructure.

If we sign a first choice striker then my expectations will be a Top 6 finish (progress on last year). Anything less than that will be deemed a disappointing league campaign. JDT will have had 4 windows by the end of season, and pretty much his own team. JRC, Hyam, Carter, Wharton, Tronstad, Sigurdson, Enniss, Szmodics have all either joined or become starters under him and I'd expect at least 7 of those names to be in the starting 11 this season, with potential for more signings in the next fortnight. It's his own team and his own style now, so no excuses to not be progressing up the table (if we get a striker / goal scorer this month)

Waggots salary alone is over 10% of our total season ticket income. Not a chance he gives this gig up for retirement.

Great stuff as always Gooz. Looking forward to your work next season when we're in the big boys league!

Sponsor aside, I quite like it, collar included. "Forever Blue and White" from Wharton at the end........lets hope that doesn't bite us in the arse if we get a big bid in a few weeks! I noticed from the video we still haven't sorted that RoVeRS abomination in the upper tier! Can we please centralise it and have lettering the same size! A good idea, awfully executed.

You'll probably pull something better Upside Down, but in the interest of procrastination below is a view vs Lancashire clubs and vs division averages. (Div 1 to Div 4 like old money, left Div 4 off though as it was so low and Rovers have never fallen that far) Division averages tells the story of the post Euro 96 Boom when English Football felt like it was no longer a hostile place. All divisions trending upwards from then on. Rovers dropped below the English average (average across all 4 tiers) in 2016 for the first time since 1992 (we were pretty much average for England between 1974 and 1992 for what it's worth). So like for like we're probably seeing worse results now compared to national average than in the 80s when we were averaging sub 10k. Anyway, nice lunch break! Waggott OUT! EDIT: the Lancashire trend follows pretty exact for all clubs, bar spikes when success is produced on the pitch (PNE yet to experience this), the only outlier is the final Bolton spike (and PNE to a certain extent) which is from Div 3, so hardly success related. (cough pricing cough). If we had an equivalent % jump that Bolton and PNE have had from pre-covid (2020) to now (2023) we would have averaged around 19.5k last season (compared to 14.8k - essentially worth an 5k extra home sales) There are obviously a lot of economic factors at play too but won't go into that and it's probably for the non-football side of the board.

Chalk and cheese like you say. We were specifically told they’d announce details well in advance so any travelling fans can plan and book in advance. A month later and still nothing. They would be better keeping their mouth shut. Run by morons. Waggott out.

With Leeds and Wednesday back in the league and Leicester now too, we won’t be the media darlings for Sky thankfully. Should be back to between 5-10 televised and not the 20+ or whatever it was last season.