Miah Dennehy

One can only imagine what those players would have gone through had social media been around at the time. If those individuals are still around I hope they are now ashamed of their actions. It happened at City, but it could have been at any club. There has been a fair bit of questioning of morals on this thread lately, but c***Ts are c***ts , no matter what team they support. Anyway! I remember at the time thinking I didn't want you to go out of business and was looking forward to lording over you for the rest of my life. It hasn't quite gone the way I was hoping!

Yet we are still everyone's favourite second team

The players were given a fait accompli and were treated terribly- including by some City fans, don't take my word for it, ask people like Geoff Merrick, an absolute legend for your club There does seem to be a bit of a rewrite of history going on now, but at least the players are now being acknowledged.

I remember that it was under 30k we took that day. The occasion we took- I think it was 43k, but certainly over 40- was the 2007 play off v Shrewsbury. We were given extra tickets once Shrewsbury returned some of their allocation. It was actually widely reported at the time- by proper media outlets as well that it was the biggest following of any club at Wembley ( stop sniggering at the back) , the reason being obviously because of the extra allocation given. I'm reasonably confident in saying that this record was broken , when Millwall were given something like 48k for a game against Wigan (FA Cup semi maybe?). So yes, we really did take over 40k fans to Wembley once. I have no figures on how many were locked outside though

I'm refusing to watch it , it'll only raise my blood pressure.

I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. I mean we could open up a debate on whether rhetorical questions should have a question mark or not, but I think it was pretty clear from my post, that the questions were rhetorical.

We clearly had different English teachers, I have never heard of a rhetorical question not requiring a question mark. A quick Google check suggests they do. If, however, we have any experts in the subject on here who can confirm that one way or the other,I am more than happy to apologise for my ignorance

Okay, here's a question for you. Do you know what rhetorical means?

Where did I expect people to answer them?

Not really no, I have enough opinions about the real world that upset people, I don't need to add to them I am serious btw, when I get asked hypothetical questions I tend to answer with 'Ask me when it happens'

I'm not hiding behind anything, it's hypothetical, it means absolutely nothing.

Exactly, meaningless.

Pretty meaningless thing to say when you know it's not going to happen though isn't it.

Okay- I think assault is a terrible crime- is that okay? I've made several posts on this subject and one of them mentioned the meaningless statements clubs and companies put out when something like this happens, just so they can be seen to be doing the right thing, it's utter bollocks. Of course I wouldn't defend Jevani Brown doing what he did, who on earth in their right mind would? But I don't buy into all this shite about how this should effect how I support my team. The hypocrisy stinks when it comes to things like this. When Barton was first employed at Rovers a bloke I know(City fan fwiw) was saying it was disgusting we had employed him and how I should be ashamed to be a Rovers fan. Ten minutes later he was chatting and laughing about how he made a teenage Liverpool fan cry when they got him cornered around Ashton at the cup game- and I'm the one who should be embarrassed? nah, I know I'm a half decent bloke, I've done things wrong like we all have, but who Rovers employ isn't a reflection on me just as some bully isn't a reflection on most City fans.

I haven't 'backed' anyone, try reading what I posted.

I don't go on it, but I'd imagine if you looked back, what you would find is that some posters were very pious, and that will always be the case as it is with every other form of social media.

Twas a thing of beauty and well worth the attempted right handers from those in B Block of the Dolman when my cover was blown Totally deserved as well, we outplayed you that day

Okay, probably a similar age to me then. You could call the signing of Brown a lot of things, but it certainly isn't pre planned cheating. FWIW , I found it odd that Rovers didn't wait for the outcome of the case before making a decision. I assume they were very confident of a non custodial sentence.

I do see your point, I just don't agree with your boundaries . Do you mind if I ask your age? I just wondered if there is anything in the history of your club that has made you consider stopping your support?

It will certainly be interesting to see how Wael deals with that one, my bet was that they would say Brown wasn't employed by us at the time of the offence, although seemingly they have gone for the Dominic Cummings/Boris Johnson approach of 'delete, pretend it never happened and everyone will forget about it soon enough'

If you mean do the actions of any individuals have a bearing on my support for Rovers, then no . Does that mean I support or condone the actions of those individuals, that's a no as well. I suspect that am no different to 99% of football fans of any club in that respect.

I don't have and am not trying to make any case.

Surely you mean watching?

Just out of interest, what do you think the penalty should have been?

Who knows, and I'm not saying there are any.