Season 23/24

[Dunnfc]

Ending of daylight saving will be confusing then

I still can’t figure it out over here

 

[Drog]

We are going down or going to be right there. Sad to day

That all depends whether we can find a half decent striker in the next month.

 

[Alan]

That all depends whether we can find a half decent striker in the next month.

That's been obvious fo two seasons and it's very remiss of the recruitment team that we STILL haven't got one. Gally, try as he may, will never fulfill that task.
What I cannot understand is that the academy can produce umpteen defenders and midfielders but nobody who can play as a no.9. Is it a shortage of suitable kids (every kid wants to be a striker) or do we not have a coach with the ability to coach that position. I just don't know.

 

[Dunnfc]

That all depends whether we can find a half decent striker in the next month.

True goals was behind my mind. Still think Adam Wharton is going to be out player of the year

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Keeping the cocks going in the stadium. Wow, that is revolutionary stuff from the EFL muppets.

Cocks?

 

[Robin]

We should have a good chance of taking a lot of points in August if we play our cards right.

 

[Drog]

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

An excellent interview from Steve Waggott. We need more of this communication.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1687422718298222593

I'm regularly baffled by the criticism Waggott gets. Every interview I see of him he's excellent. He tells the fans the truth in a straight-forward manner, and then tells us the common sense approach that will be taken to address the obvious difficulties the club faces.

Its not his fault the club has practically League 1 revenue. Himself/Venkys/JDT are doing a great job keeping it right up there in the Championship. The problem as ever is that some fans still absurdly demand the Premier League, so need to have a scapegoat to explain why their crackpot expectations aren't being met.

 

[tonygreenbank]

Looking at the very early league table just now but don’t understand why Rovers are below Cardiff and Southampton who have the same 2-1 score line( Cardiff still playing). Isn’t it normally alphabetical?
I noticed this a few times last season too. Am I missing something?

 

[Drog]

Cardiff 0-2 up v Leeds at ht hauled back by a 95th minute equaliser. So now it's just Southampton who are above us for no apparent reason.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

I'm regularly baffled by the criticism Waggott gets. Every interview I see of him he's excellent. He tells the fans the truth in a straight-forward manner, and then tells us the common sense approach that will be taken to address the obvious difficulties the club faces.

Its not his fault the club has practically League 1 revenue. Himself/Venkys/JDT are doing a great job keeping it right up there in the Championship. The problem as ever is that some fans still absurdly demand the Premier League, so need to have a scapegoat to explain why their crackpot expectations aren't being met.

When our payroll is 130% of income something has to give. It is not sustainable.

 

[tonygreenbank]

Looking at the very early league table just now but don’t understand why Rovers are below Cardiff and Southampton who have the same 2-1 score line( Cardiff still playing). Isn’t it normally alphabetical?
I noticed this a few times last season too. Am I missing something?

And now Ipswich!! What’s going on?

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

When our payroll is 130% of income something has to give. It is not sustainable.

Yep, was listening to Waggot on the way to yesterday's game and he said that the owners have had to put in £270m since we got relegated. I know we've been losing about £15m per season on average, so I assume the other £100m or so is paying for the academy or something.

Either way a quarter of a billion is an absurd amount that Venkys have put in, its understandable that that's a difficult level of losses for them to sustain indefinitely. But to stop losing money they'd literally have to halve the wage bill, and then we'd probably get relegated.

Which then goes back to the difficult truth that in the natural club size order, Rovers are pretty much now a League 1 club. So again its absolutely comical that some fans still think top half of the Championship isn't good enough, man are they in for a shock in the next 5 years.

 

[Barmitzvah Boy]

Yep, was listening to Waggot on the way to yesterday's game and he said that the owners have had to put in £270m since we got relegated. I know we've been losing about £15m per season on average, so I assume the other £100m or so is paying for the academy or something.

Either way a quarter of a billion is an absurd amount that Venkys have put in, its understandable that that's a difficult level of losses for them to sustain indefinitely. But to stop losing money they'd literally have to halve the wage bill, and then we'd probably get relegated.

Which then goes back to the difficult truth that in the natural club size order, Rovers are pretty much now a League 1 club. So again its absolutely comical that some fans still think top half of the Championship isn't good enough, man are they in for a shock in the next 5 years.

To be fair I think a lot of clubs, and their fans, are going to get a shock in the coming years. I can see a few dropping like flies.

 

[Robin]

There will be a lot of extra time this year and yellow cards:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66423028

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

I really like all this cracking down personally. Football, especially at Championship level where you get quite a few teams who can't really play it, was becoming a bit unwatchable with all the gamesmanship. Players going down to waste time or to disrupt the momentum of the opposition, players kicking the ball away, ball-boys actually not giving the ball back to the away team on occasion, players surrounding refs to get decisions, idiot managers never staying in their technical area, towels for throw-ins.

Cleaning up the game should help Rovers I would have thought as a small side who want to knock it about and get into a rhythm.

 

[Robin]

I really like all this cracking down personally. Football, especially at Championship level where you get quite a few teams who can't really play it, was becoming a bit unwatchable with all the gamesmanship. Players going down to waste time or to disrupt the momentum of the opposition, players kicking the ball away, ball-boys actually not giving the ball back to the away team on occasion, players surrounding refs to get decisions, idiot managers never staying in their technical area, towels for throw-ins.

Cleaning up the game should help Rovers I would have thought as a small side who want to knock it about and get into a rhythm.

Something was needed to be done. Time wasting and kicking away the balls after the referee has whistled has annoyed me quite much the recent years. There is hardly any sportsmanship in football anymore.

 

[Drog]

Time wasting comes in many forms and it appears to me is actually coached in to players. Note my personal pet hate , after an attacking spell just as on side is building momentum, opposing players going down for an injury, asking for the trainer to come on with his sponge. Game delayed for 3 or 4 minutes before said player strolls off and 20 seconds later is waved on by the ref. Takes the steam out of the game and is an obvious spoiling tactic. My suggestion has been to make the 4th official time the delay and make the player stay off the pitch for the same time that he was 'injured' plus 2 minutes. Same for seemingly genuine injuries requiring substitutions but without the extra 2 mins.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Yep, was listening to Waggot on the way to yesterday's game and he said that the owners have had to put in £270m since we got relegated. I know we've been losing about £15m per season on average, so I assume the other £100m or so is paying for the academy or something.

Either way a quarter of a billion is an absurd amount that Venkys have put in, its understandable that that's a difficult level of losses for them to sustain indefinitely. But to stop losing money they'd literally have to halve the wage bill, and then we'd probably get relegated.

Which then goes back to the difficult truth that in the natural club size order, Rovers are pretty much now a League 1 club. So again its absolutely comical that some fans still think top half of the Championship isn't good enough, man are they in for a shock in the next 5 years.

I wonder where all of the money is actually going to?

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Did I hear correctly on the radio that nine substitutes are allowed?