fgrsimon

It's VAR that would ruin it for me. It's taken away the one fundamental pleasure in watching football - celebrating a goal. Last weekend I did the very old-style thing of watching MOTD without knowing the results. I found VAR even ruined that - goal with celebrations, then the camera cut to the Ref speaking into his earpiece, the dreaded "VAR will be having a look at this" and subsequent fannying around with monitors on the side of the pitch. Add to that tedious discussions as to whether someone's fingernail is playing him offside. Worst thing to happen to football IMO.

I think Chanel Cresswell may be an actress in the same way that I'm a footballer.

It's around 13-14 IN contract and 14-15 OUT of contract at a rough estimate. There have been so many players in/out the last couple of seasons that it's more or less impossible to say for sure. Still players like Amadou Bakayoko on the books at present having spent the whole season at Dundee. At least one, David Davies genuinely thought to be missing / lost but apparently sadly long-term ill, not injured. Very few with any re-sale value at all.

Aden Flint IIRC. They or their wives had some sort of spat?

No one in the NL will be paying anywhere near what FGR are paying in L2 this season. If we take the recently published payments to Agents as a rough guide, only Wrexham paid more, FGR paid £260,000. Highest in the NL was Oldham at £80,000. Just depends on how much Dale Vince wants to continue chucking money at the problem and how difficult it will be to get existing players off the payroll. There's around 30 in the 1st team squad!

Top 6 at least L2 budget this season. I think increasing that by 50% for National League would be insane but this is Dale Vince. A fool and his money are easily parted. Their biggest problem will be getting rid of the vast majority of overpaid and disinterested players.

The worrying thing is that Fritzl doesn't look out of place on that bus.

"The Kuwaiti equivalent of Jon Lansdown" :laugh:! He shall henceforth now be known as Abdulatif Al-Lansdown.

Yeah that was the first thing I thought too. Probably a smart move if there was a NDA as there is no way he was keeping his trap shut for year or more. Could now have saved themselves paying his salary for 9 months there. Mind you this is Bristol Rovers, so who knows what might have been put in place or whethervit's 'watertight'. All good entertainment anyway.

There's shambles and there's Bristol Rovers (and Swindon Town to be fair).

Shows that you can be relegated with 50pts even with only 2 down. Even this season only Rotherham currently have less than a point per game in the Championship. So I think it could be 48-50 points needed to stay up. It will be great to watch especially from a place of safety. Could easily be 6-7 teams involved on the last day.

I really don't want to think about that, especially as someone said the 'concourse' looks like a prison...

Yep that's been mentioned a few times already and it rings true but it could be added that also Preston always finish above Bristol City!

Hmm... Given recent news I'm not sure Leicester will be signing too many players in the net year or so. Palace would be a good fit.

Sainsbury's more like, Aldi would be Bristol Rovers