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Re: FA Cup 4th Round Draw
Would there really be infinite replays? I've no doubt Tamworth would have been turned over at the new Spurs ground but they would have made a few thousand quid and the fans would have great memories. Go to extra time and pens in the second game by all means...
PL clubs could send your second string to play Steven Gerrard's Saudi Selection in the summer instead.
Re: Rumour Mill
To be fair, we don’t hear a great deal from Rice. He’s certainly not a Rob Couhig, who clearly liked the sound of his own voice. Couhig gave Bloomfield any extension to his contract. I don’t know when that was to. Perhaps it was to the end of season 2026 which is nearly 18 months to go, so the hierarchy don’t feel it’s necessary to do anything yet. However , despite backing Bloomfield in recruiting new players, it would be reassuring to hear some positive noises about him from Rice.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
FWIW Schumacher was as short as 1/10 the day before Plymouth went and appointed someone else.
Re: Rumour Mill
This post hits the nail hard on the head.
We can analyse what Matt has said about control over transfer policy however we like, infer everything or nothing from now deleted tweets from family and choose to discard insight from sources at Beechdean Ice Cream. What is obvious however is that neither Matt nor his staff who were here under the Couhigs have been offered new longer more lucrative contracts, despite plenty of potential suitors being interested. Kone on the other hand has had an extension offered and signed. If they thought highly of Matt and wanted to keep him they’d have given him golden handcuffs.
Unfortunately it is clear that this is a marriage of convenience with neither party being in love. Despite the new owners having everything that they should ever want with a long serving club legend in charge who is over performing, an amazing man manager and tactician, they would prefer to have their own manager in place.
It’s a sad place to be despite being in the most healthy position we’ve ever been on the pitch, but that’s where our club is.
Re: Rumour Mill
Well said. For that matter I wouldn’t want a manager where the data said he was a master tactician and those who’d worked with him in the past said he was a sexual predator.
The problem with data as the only arbiter of competence is that can easily lead to moral relativism and eventually moral turpitude. The data undoubtedly shows Meta will be more profitable if it sucks up to Trump and bins off fact checking and content moderation.
Re: FA Cup 4th Round Draw
No it didn't. It started at home to a non-league team (as did this one, Wealdstone was round 2)
Re: Rumour Mill
done some digging, all the reports on westergaard are he's a proper player. Some championship clubs been sniffing around him but we have beaten them to the punch
Re: Rumour Mill
I have no problem with Data as a tool. I just hope there IS also a character test of some sort included in that research so that we end up with people who respect the manager and want to improve the club. Not just ambitious individuals looking for a way into the English game.
The two Scandinavians look like decent signings if they both go ahead and Bolton are playing games over Morley.
I'm hoping Dan and Matt are working together and rumours of discord are just the gasroom eating itself in the absence of any concrete ITKs.
Re: FA Cup 4th Round Draw
I'd go with whoever has had most possession or has the biggest stadium as very public new rules, just to shock all the opposition fans who thought that was already the way football matches are decided.
Re: Rumour Mill
Cheers Micra, lots of water under the bridge since then! Good to hear the old gang is still together on the Gasroom. 🥂