Blades

[sedwardsdrfc]

Blades are cursed!

Hope a promoted team or two stay up this time (not Leeds). Recruitment is key as mentioned but hopefully this time round they’ve learnt from the teams who think they can play Pep football because it’s their “philosophy”. Load of nonsense your fighting for your life from day 1.

Brentford are a great example of recruitment but also playing a way that allows you a chance in games. Early on that’s so important in the first season or two. Brighton weren’t a I e football team when they first went up either.

[Pancho Regan]

Sunderland finished 16 points behind the Blades but they get promoted.

These play-offs can be cruel.

[5minstogo]

Ah well. Never mind.

[tommy toes]

Been out for a few in town, walked past the railway station as loads of Donny blades were emerging, Told a few of them they should be supporting the Rovers.

[CheeseToastie]

Jobe Bellingham living off his brother's name wouldn't have known he was playing how he has been linked with Dortmund and even call up to the England squad baffles me!

[Chris Black come back]

Been out for a few in town, walked past the railway station as loads of Donny blades were emerging, Told a few of them they should be supporting the Rovers.

Bet they appreciated that.

[ForsolongaRover]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

Seems I was wrong anyway Bob - sorry.

[IDM]

Jobe Bellingham living off his brother's name wouldn't have known he was playing how he has been linked with Dortmund and even call up to the England squad baffles me!

Came up through the ranks at Birmingham, like his brother.  I suspect he was signed up there before his brother hit the big time.

Would you have said the same about Young Snod.?

[TonySoprano]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

It was Rovers fault for leaving it until the 11th hour on deadline day.

[MachoMadness]

That was the season of the Will Grigg fiasco. We ended up signing Rodrigo Vilca having not seen him play. The less said about that window the better.

[GazLaz]

Jobe Bellingham living off his brother's name wouldn't have known he was playing how he has been linked with Dortmund and even call up to the England squad baffles me!

Such a lazy thing to say that. He was quality yesterday. Comparing him with one of the best midfielders in the world that actually plays a different midfield role is crazy. He’s two years younger as well.

If you can perform like he has in the Championship  at 19yo, clubs like Dortmund should be looking at him. He’s a player.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

Seems I was wrong anyway Bob - sorry.

Well not entirely wrong. We allegedly had an agreement with Sunderland to take Grigg, albeit a loan but I still think to this day Sunderland were wanting to offload him on a permanent basis after all his injury woes, and Grigg needed a new start, so both were prepared to run the clock down to deadlines day hoping for better offers. Late in the day, Rotherham stepped in for Grigg. At this point Sunderland then offered us Aiden O'Brien on loan instead but they submitted to wrong paperwork and it was too late to correct it.

Grigg only made 19 appearances for Rotherham scoring just 2 goals with injury  plaguing him again.

Not good times for us or Wellens.

[Janso]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

It was Rovers fault for leaving it until the 11th hour on deadline day.

I'm sure we were chasing Grigg for weeks then he suddenly decided to go to Rotherham which is what caused it.

Not that it wasn't stupid to let him string us along for so long.

[Jonathan]

A combination of things mean we won’t be in that position again. Predominantly the fact that McCann is much more aggressive in the market and won’t ever be kept waiting like that, and he doesn’t have Blunt holding him back like Wellens did.

[TonySoprano]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

It was Rovers fault for leaving it until the 11th hour on deadline day.

I'm sure we were chasing Grigg for weeks then he suddenly decided to go to Rotherham which is what caused it.

Not that it wasn't stupid to let him string us along for so long.

Selling marquis at the last minute for peanuts, without a plan to replace him didn't help.

The david blunt years

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Thanks DBR & Forsolong. I was being serious. I couldn't remember the name of the player  and I resented their damaging my club.

BobG

It was Rovers fault for leaving it until the 11th hour on deadline day.

I'm sure we were chasing Grigg for weeks then he suddenly decided to go to Rotherham which is what caused it.

Not that it wasn't stupid to let him string us along for so long.

Selling marquis at the last minute for peanuts, without a plan to replace him didn't help.

The david blunt years

Wrong period. Marquis had gone in 2019 to Portsmouth.

[BobG]

And he wanted to go. Rovers got the best they couldin the circumstances at the time.

BobG

[TonySoprano]

Not at all. Because we didn't replace him did we.
Until we tried to sign a player from Sunderland at the last minute. 

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Have it your way but between Marquis going, under Moore we did quite well. I still believe if the curtailed season hadn't finished when it did, we would have had a great chance of reaching the play offs, with Jacob Ramsey having a big impact supporting Fejiri Ockineberhe, Sadlier and Cole?  up front. The following season, still behind closed doors we started well but tailed off before Moore left. Quite a bit of water passed under the bridge before Wellens and the Grigg situation arose (plus alot of isolation and vaccinations!) 

[BobG]

It's ok DBR. Tony subscribes to the Whig reinterpretation school of history..

BobG

[TonySoprano]

No, I'm not wrong though am I. 

[DonnyBazR0ver]

No, I'm not wrong though am I. 

The way you wrote your post about Marquis leaving at the last minute inferred it was the same window the Grigg situation. Plus, he wasn't sold for peanuts, he was sold for alot more than we paid for him after Portsmouth met the min value in his release clause....just as Preston did for Whitemen after previous bids were declined.

[Chris Black come back]

Was Moore the least sustainable manager in recent years? Got us playing very well for a period but did so largely using players we didn’t own and left a shell of a squad when he f**ked off. The sustainability approach we adopted for a few seasons had a lot to do with our collapse but not actually owning players who could compete in League One was a serious issue also.

[TonySoprano]

No, I'm not wrong though am I. 

The way you wrote your post about Marquis leaving at the last minute inferred it was the same window the Grigg situation. Plus, he wasn't sold for peanuts, he was sold for alot more than we paid for him after Portsmouth met the min value in his release clause....just as Preston did for Whitemen after previous bids were declined.

You privy to what exactly the release clauses were ? No, didn't think so .

[DonnyBazR0ver]

No, I'm not wrong though am I. 

The way you wrote your post about Marquis leaving at the last minute inferred it was the same window the Grigg situation. Plus, he wasn't sold for peanuts, he was sold for alot more than we paid for him after Portsmouth met the min value in his release clause....just as Preston did for Whitemen after previous bids were declined.

You privy to what exactly the release clauses were ? No, didn't think so .

Thank you for answering for me.

[BobG]

Silly billy DBR. Tony knows everything!

[sedwardsdrfc]

I saw it mentioned somewhere that if blades went up they’d be 14 clubs owned by Americans and therefore enough to vote in changes we might not like.

Maybe for the best the blades stay down a bit longer!

[Drover]

I saw it mentioned somewhere that if blades went up they’d be 14 clubs owned by Americans and therefore enough to vote in changes we might not like.

Maybe for the best the blades stay down a bit longer!

Really? hope not, don't want Time-outs, Cheerleaders or Offence and Defense swapping phases in the game thank you! Yanks go HOME!!!!

[BobG]

Given that very few Yanks, Bill Gates excepted, are philanthropist, one really should ask, 'why do so many Yanks want to invest hundreds of millions in PL clubs?' Given that the answer isn't  hard to work out, that should tell every single one of us exactly what the motivation , values and behaviours of the PL are now and forever will be.

BobG

[Smyth]

Given that very few Yanks, Bill Gates excepted, are philanthropist, one really should ask, 'why do so many Yanks want to invest hundreds of millions in PL clubs?' Given that the answer isn't  hard to work out, that should tell every single one of us exactly what the motivation , values and behaviours of the PL are now and forever will be.

BobG

Are they that different to the time Labour supporting and one time devout Blairite Greg Dyke, very English duo David Dein and Trevor East originally set about awarding the largest pot of TV money to what was termed the big 5, of the top division?
Of course the separation of the then League 1, in terms of priorities and monetary rewards for the  top teams being separated from the rest of the lower leagues started long before Murdoch offered more for games through Sky and not ITV, but lazy  generalisations usually prevents anyone mentioning that.
Glad though Bob you understand the vast differences, brought into British culture  that can be damaging to it and it's historically laid out principles when lazily introduced for what are the requirements of the richest and powerful.
But only "Yanks" have this detrimental effect eh?