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He's bailed himself out. His club His decisions His appointments His choices

Good Result today...1 son bought me the Gerry Gow book and the other bought me a case of my favourite beer, That's me sorted for tomorrow now the game's off!

It's a shithole, both the ground and the town. Enjoy.

5L of 0-30 engine oil and a car wash sponge......... every woman's dream come true right there - thanks for the tip !

Good, saves me £20.

As I remember Cotts did his usual Thursday pre match press conference and it was then announced later that evening that Cotts was sacked. 36 hours later on the Saturday morning Ashton was announced as COO. Pretty clear what happened...Cotts refused to work under the new COO waiting in the wings and SL chose Ashton over Cotts. With regard to LJ Ashton initially took credit (on 20man) for LJ's appointment but as soon as the losing streaks started I recall he referred to LJ on RB as " Steve's appointment"

I know you know !

it's wages to turnover....wages probably competitive but not excessive but I'd say their turnover is was of the lowest in the Championship - Griffin Park = small ground, no off field income, limited hospitality, some rent from their rugby tennants but little else visible on my visits. All changed now of course..

Danny Coles

Everyone assuming any windfall from the sale of Kelly goes straight to NP for new players? We are about to post record losses so won't the playing budgets remain as is and this unexpected windfall (if it happens) will just go towards offsetting some of the losses? That would be my guess

We dive at dawn No muff too tough

I assumed you were talking about the Torquay manager ?

Indeed, JB elected to go to the Crown Court for trial by jury. Anyone unable to afford an expensive brief probably gets dealt with in the magistrates court represented by the Duty Solicitor and would be waking up tomorrow to a porridge breakfast and a very sore ass!

No they hadn't been discovered yet!! Players managed 3 games a week without needing to be rotated, or rested, they also managed without sports scientists, nutritionists, psychologists, ice baths, crypto chambers, agents,lawyers, drones, grass measuring equipment, video analysis, and the high press. Surprising despite all that they were actually quite good footballers and the matches were, by and large, entertaining. Still that's progress for you.

Got to be Dean Holden surely? A 6 week rigorous process indicated he was the best candidate outside the PL less than 1 year ago....so what's changed......his thorough and rigorous world class process will lead to the same answer. Welcome Dean the best human.

Yes and Yes

Referred to as a Weapon of Ass Destruction

No clear grounding...gobsmacked ithe TMO didn't review it. Normally Christophe isn't too bad.

Well, according to Wayne Rooney there's no chance of liquidation !! This club will exist. This club will grow," Derby boss Rooney said. "I've seen the headlines in the papers the last couple of days and that's news to me. I don't think there's even an option of the club going into liquidation. "I know some of the staff, when they read that, get worried, but from my point of view there's quite a few buyers who are very interested in the club. "It's not through lack of people wanting to come in and take over the club, it's purely just getting it done, getting it over the line and there are details that need sorting out before that can happen." Just a matter of details then, nothing to see move on .

You old romantic Major ,- the player will be steered by his agent towards the club offering the most money both to the said player and of course to the agent himself.

Exactly, the UWE all over again. Wally pulled out because they wouldn't own any or part of the UWE stadium, only rent it, and UWE were taking a hefty % of associated income ( car parking,food,bars,etc) This is exactly the same deal - the developer takes their ground. The developer is building a huge infrastructure of retail and hospitality on the fruit market site - do the sags seriously think the developer (their landlord) is going to hand them a slice of that revenue? And they lap it up ...again

Yes, that's true but from Barnsley employee.... would he be considered independent? Or just backing up his boss? I don't know how that is viewed by the court.

Indeed

Tomorrow the prosecution will unveil their star witness .. Wael Al Quadi " Yes I saw everything Barton deliberately shoved him, 100% certain, I was going to the dressing room to wish the lads well and saw everything. I swear it on the Qur'an." Afterwards Wally rings his lawyer " It went great, he's gone down, we can now fire him with no compensation!"

And the greasy chip butty song - awful