Pezo

19 goals in 3 games now! Barnsley have only scored 16 all season!

Make that 3 on 38! They're the best team at this level I think I've ever seen, if they can't stay up then there's no hope for anyone else.

The problem we need to solve is clubs going out of business is it not? No debt above 10% of earnings, let the free market rip. If an owner wants to go for it they can but with there own money - not at the expense of the future of the club.

Was it a trick question you asked? You asked what the link was, I gave a reason. FWIW I wouldn't blame WR for his brothers behaviour and funding him is a positive for WR IMHO but it does still reflect on him. If your company send you away and you act like a dick then that does reflect on the company you work for - it's not there fault but does reflect on them. It's nice if his brother was unable to work and/or his brother was doing something nice for the world, infact it is just nice of him. The fact that his bother uses it to swan around the world being a scumbag is on his brother.

By definition it's association. There's very little point in going over the well publicised issues about WR but I though it was interesting to see he funded his brother being a **** as well as himself.

That would be sensible but we don't do simple because that creates a problem for the prem, players won't accept those terms, that was the reason PP were put in place. Clubs also won't accept release clauses like that because they want to use those players to get promoted back to the land of milk and honey.

If COD is considered to be part of a "golden generation" then no wonder we never made the playoffs, can we even call it a "golden generation" without some kind of success or even being good enough to challenge for success?

I could have and could still have it wrong, there is some ambiguity in there. If his head has been turned then he still has a contract that he need to fulfill, like when Flints head was turned by Middlesbrough. The attitude of some of these players is incredible, if he got what he wanted then I would ask myself what's the point in a contract. Can you imagine if we said to Williams after his first day - yeah we know you've just signed this contract but we don't think you're going to play for the next year so we wan to pay you 1/4 of what you're currently on.

I don't think there is 2 ways to look at it. If he saw it as a foot in the door then he should have signed a 1/2 year contract but he wanted the security of a year with the possibility of a 2nd year if he did ok. What's happened is he has done well and now seems to think of his extension as a renewal so wants to renegotiate in what is bad faith. His issue with others earning more is one of the challenges of the current economic situation, he has unfortunately finished one contact and started another contract at the wrong time, those players earning more will have reduced terms as there current contracts expire rather than all those on existing contracts that have done well for a few months get more money. Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for someone who wants to break contact but especially for those who by this time in his career must be a multimillionaire asking for more money.

So basically what he is saying is that he signed a contract in good faith 4 months ago when he didn't have a club and now doesn't want to fulfill its obligations because he thinks his negotiating position has changed.

I don't really follow the leaving of players once the decision has been made so excuse the ignorance. Did he only get a 1/2 season contract at Swansea or something?

If he was a backup to a championship quality player then that would be fine for me but he's earning first team player wages and regularly starts - he has had his opportunity and I think the best thing for both is we go our separate ways.

The only thing I would point out is that (as quite a fierce critic of COD) COD was a complete waste of a shirt yesterday, recently though he has been playing quite well though. Yesterday felt like what Walsall must have felt like when we we beat them 8-2. Just a better side man for man and in some areas considerably better, they are also playing with a lot of confidence.

Ok, that seems counter intuitive to me, I thought it was about shifting wages and Kalas and Wells are going to be on higher wages than Pring and Semenyo? Also if we sell the likes of Pring and Semenyo we would have to go replace them at an additional cost in terms of fee and wage.

We get rid of Kalas and we will ship 6 goals every week. And this is the problem, who's going to buy him? Who are we going to sign to replace him? We need a stronger defence with Kalas - without him we don't have a defence.

The problem with that is we don't own the family jewels we have expensive contracts to rent them. @Mr Popodopolous how many of your ideas do you think we actually need to do? Selling players is all about how much they cost us IMHO so selling someone like Pring won't be anywhere near as good as selling JD, selling Semenyo wouldn't be as good as selling Wells. So what we want is other teams to buy the players that are costing us the most, what we really don't want to do is sell people like Pring, Scott and Semenyo because going back out to the market and replacing them is going to cost us more in the long run even if they are league 1 players.

Yeah but they are competing in the league without PP and with FFP. So can they compete directly with Fulham and Bournemouth? probably not. Can teams do well in the league without PP yes they can.

Blackburn?

Anyone else enjoying this despite the scoreline? I think it's fantastic but I've been locked up all week.

If you think this is shit you haven't seen us play much football this season.

Some of this week's press interview was like a stereotypical press interview on football manager. Asking if he has spoken to a player about a specific internal thing, I don't know what the interviewer expected other than that being a private conversation. Let's face it they are all looking for click bait headlines and Nige isn't going to give it to them.

Completely with you until your last 4 words.

Unless they like watching us be completely uncompetitive and embarrassed as other teams beat us with ease. It's getting better though ?.

I think if you compare that performance to the Fulham one earlier in the season where the team put in an massive uncharacteristic effort to draw 1-1 it doesn't look like loads of progress but that game earlier in the season was a bright spot in a gloomy time whereas now we seem to be competitive regularly. Coventry and Sheffield United away are looking like semi distant low points now. It is better and probably enough to be competitive in this league under normal times, I'm less fearful of dropping back to those low points now but also cautious that it could happen. There's obviously been a lot that the squad have had to work through and I think Nige has eluded to an ever evolving set of challenges - hopefully they have knocked the big ones on the head.

Sorry I may have missed the point here but you seem to be saying that the English FA or teams within the English FA should be able to ignore laws (if it's law)? The rules have been made (by a bellend - I grant you that) and must be followed and if they aren't should be enforced by the correct authorities - the police.