Tylluan

Will piss myself if they lose on Saturday and drop out of the playoffs 

Bryan Robson has set up a financial advice company for 'high performers' so that they get they don't get stung. 

https://www.highperformanceindividuals.co.uk/

Their own fees model looks a little bit iffy though. I get the same service at £500 for 3 hours that I do at £2000 for 10 hours. So if I've got four problems then I'm going for four lots of £500 and get 12 hours work out of them.

Been told that Forest will be using last season's Ipswich Charlton game,and PGMOL replacing Wednesday fan James Bell due to Ipswich fan pressure as ref the night before, as a precedent when they are called in by the FA to explain their actions. 

2 hours ago, Owling_Wolf said:

No but we were very close once. During our two successive seasons as Champions of England, 1928-30, the ref. blew his whistle to end the game after the ball left our forwards head but before it entered the net for our equalising goal in the semi final.  And you think refs have it in for us now?   

Bet you were gutted as you were waiting for the charabanc to take you home. 

48 minutes ago, mkowl said:

I sort of get this a little more, you do want fit and proper clubs in the EFL and this would appear a case of wanting potential new entrants to have their own ground. Too many recent examples of unscrupulous landlords 

The council are the current landlords although by the looks of this counter statement they're trying to sell the stadium off which is why they couldn't offer a cast iron 10 years. They did provide the EFL with a letter saying they could have the tenancy for 10 years but if they sold it it would be sold with the stipulation that the new owners could renegotiate the lease. 

Seems that wasn't enough for the EFL but if I was Gateshead then I'd take it further using Coventry as an example and any other club in a similar position. 

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/27784/Response-to-the-National-League-s-statement-regarding-Gateshead-FC

1 hour ago, Skamp said:

Meanwhile

 

Double standards by the EFL. Coventry only signed a five year lease when they went back to the Ricoh 

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/news/article/4619/council-welcomes-sky-blue-cbs-arena-deal

Stuart Atwell was on VAR for Everton Forest. 

He's a Luton fan

https://talksport.com/football/1837536/nottingham-forest-statement-three-penalties-everton-luton-fan/

Not seen him Fernandes apart from his YouTube clips but here's what I know. 

Came to us as an u14 from Hunslet boys. Leeds wanted him and he trialled but Danny Cadamarteri played a big part in convincing the lad he'd be better with us. 

Skipped the 15s and went straight into the u16s where he carried on scoring for fun. Done really well on his scholarship and he was offered a pro deal at the beginning of this month but I can't find out if he's signed it yet. I think he needs a full season in the 21s but with the added incentive of first team training integration, a bit like we've done with the likes of Bailey, Joey, and Sam Reed.

He actually favours the 10 role and ghosting from deep than being in a two up top. So he could slot into a Rohl system. 

Ex Pig John Lundstram on his way to Ipswich on a free after Trabzonspor couldn't afford his wages

The rest of football needs to find a way to devalue the FA Cup.

The EFL, if it hasn't been consulted, could respond by extending the EFL Trophy for a season to include Championship clubs and all EFL clubs withdraw. Change the format to home/away leg straight knockouts and kick the pool games into touch and kick out the PL U21 teams. This increases value to a crap trophy but also coverage and therefore direct revenue into the EFL. 

Or every club from Championship to National North/South threatens to pull out. Totally devalues round 1 and 2 but gives the true minnows a chance to progress to round 3 and get a premier league club. How many overseas viewers will tune into Morpeth Town Vs Grays Athletic in round 5?

Yep

Fly high matey. 

R.I.P

12 hours ago, Skamp said:

Seek and ye shall find

 

Emi Martinez in goal for Rotherham that day and Jack Hunt gives away the free kick for Nuhiu's equaliser 

Jesus, I had that hoody. Ennesse or En-s or summat. Then I found that Adidas did one exactly the same and bought that instead. 

The interest from Napoli, however slight it was, died before Christmas and since February he's been played wide on either wing and not in his favoured central position. 

So he's had enough,  he wants to leave, and he's looking back to England. His agent is making discreet enquiries. Turkish media had him linked to Hull City (maybe for obvious reasons) in January but nothing came of it. 

Work with a Birmingham fan who's shitting himself. They were expecting an easy game but he says they've never won a game against a team with a new manager 

Charlton have put an offer in front of Bakinson. Seems Jones likes him and sees him as a useful squad addition 

The problem is where our released players think they should be. 

Johnson will still think he's good enough for the Championship. Bannan will too or top end L1, unless he heads back to Scotland. Wilks will hope someone higher than L2 takes a gamble, as will Dawson, and Bakinson is in negotiations to move to Charlton. 

Moore didn't fancy Brennan when he was here so I can't see him bringing him in to Port Vale. James could possibly go, even if it's just for regular football, but that's about it. 

1 minute ago, Tewksbury said:

How many of our out of contract players will be with him at PV next season?

Depends how many want to drop to L2

2 hours ago, Sheffieldblue said:

Should be on t- shirts, that

That would be stooping to their level when their commercial dept sold out of Richie Barker "I was there" and "lightning strikes twice" Darren Garner t-shirts

3 hours ago, KrolMong said:

The two players, who at the minute, are most at risk are probably Rashford and Grealish. Bowen and Gordon have really had good seasons in terms of numbers. Maddison will go too.

This is Southgate we're talking about. Rashford and Grealish will be in the squad. 

11 minutes ago, Reesh said:

Rotherham sack their manager

Got a lot to do with the size of his shopping list for next season and how much it would have cost 'uncle Tony'

Toytowners better get used to a good few seasons in League 1 as the cheque book will be used sparingly 

35 minutes ago, EastCraigsOwl said:

Alfredo Morelos.

Yep.

Apparently top of Moore's list. There were rumours he'd already lined up a house in Wetherby as Leeds had a few Spanish speaking lads and we didn't at that time

About to be sacked by Santos for fitness and performance issues (and also they can't afford his now halved wages) something Beale accused him of at Rangers

13 hours ago, Tewksbury said:

He inly wanted a 1 year deal.

He's openly said that this is a stepping stone to a better club

Be interesting to see which 'better club's he goes to as only QPR were stats monitoring, before his injury. 

21/22 he was on a shop window loan at Hull, as Man Utd had made their mind up on him. Hull didn't want to buy him and neither did anyone else. 

22/23 and they couldn't get him out on loan in August. He went on a loan to buy at Portsmouth in January but they didn't want him either and he didn't want L1 as his 'stepping stone'

23/24 and he had no other concrete offers apart from ours. Without us he'd have been trial hopping as an unregistered player. 

He might have to adjust his attitude next season. Coming from Chelsea's and Man Utd's youth set ups doesn't give you jack all in the free agent market