I think that's a touch harsh on Gallagher and Williams, and I'd be happy with Johnson and Chapman as bench options, but otherwise I agree. The players I'm highlighting are at least good enough for our bench if we can bring in players to take their 1st team spots.

For Vince to dump 2 out of his 5 most trusted senior staff seemingly so suddenly, something severe must've happened?

David Goodwillie did this trick. The legs went faster but he stayed the same speed. Derived from the old 'Scott Dann trick', where you jump but get shorter.

It's pretty standard in such deals, but usually redundant. Remember most loans are to the benefit of the player (be it game time, fall-out, shop window, or development) for the same wage.

On a whim, and only a whim, I'm thinking Ibe on loan, view to signing in Summer after his contract's up.

I feel like he would, it's not like Cena needs to maintain a rep anymore. He's basically completed WWE's Mount Rushmore now.

Nicholas Parsons has died now, aged 96. I shall offer my condolences without hesitation. Or indeed repetition or deviation.

In light of Brock vs Drew, I'd like to see Riddle go over a Doctr of Thuganomics Cena at WM. Would really put over the Bro character on the mainstream imo.

Looks like Riddle was jobbed out quickly in reaction to verbally squaring up to Lesnar backstage before the PPV started.

Just finished Royal Rumble. Bloody loved the story they told in the men's, and the quality of the women's just showed how vital the NXT women's division is. Highlight of the night was when Keith Lee came out vs Brock. Brock responded: 'Wow. Big boy! Paul, who's this motherfucker?'

Apparently Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash, according to the BBC?

Had they even cost £6m between them, I'd be considerably less annoyed at their goal returns.

Been thinking about AEW and the potential midcard title they could have. I'd like to see a TV title that MUST be defended every week. When you've successfully defended the belt for, say, 8 weeks running, you get a guaranteed AEW title match. At that point, you MUST vacate the TV title, which is then competed for by the 2 wrestlers with best win-loss record for the length of the last reign. This way AEW have a chance to strap rockets on people to the AEW title within 8-9 weeks if they so wish (like a Royal Rumble winner), while also giving the midcard something constant to compete for (win-loss record matters). I'd also add a stip whereby anyone losing the AEW title cannot compete for it for # weeks, meaning they have to earn their shot again, just like anyone else. I'd also recycle the 'King of the Ring' gimmick into their own tournament idea, having regular #1 contender tournaments for the AEW title twice a year. Good/bad idea?

You've conflated climate change with resources there. Unless you're saying you don't believe we're using oil and coal at a faster rate than is made available? Electrification of vehicles is much more about transitioning to sustainable wind, solar, hydroelectric, and nuclear generation than it is about emission. Edit- sorry meant to multi quote the others into this post, not picking on you OEB.

Caught up on the latest AEW Dynamite. Imagine walking through a crowd on YOUR cruise, that's singing along to YOUR theme song , which is a rock song YOU wrote, while YOU'RE World Champion. Chris Jericho has reached a whole new level of 'made it'. Greatest wrestler of all time imo.

I might be remembering it wrong, but I thought he got quite a lot of game time under Mowbray but proved frustrating. I feel like he kicked off at lack of automatic starts and took the pay rise on the bench of a PL club instead of working hard. He's not exactly done much since he left. Maybe I'm being harsh though.

Equally, he could've moved at any point in the following decade, but never did.

Gerrard, Carragher, G. Neville, Dunn. Although if anything that just proves your point re: what rare cases they are.

Matt Derbyshire Paul Gallagher Phil Jones

By that logic (330k/week), with just those 3 players on 20k each (60k), the other 27 have to be on no more than 10k each (270k). I don't reckon the PL-playing likes of Evans, Bennett, Holtby, Downing, Gallagher are on so little? I think our highest earners will be on about 15k/week, with a more even spread of wages around the 5-10k mark for the rest of the squad. Anyone have access to the squad wages on FM20? Those games tend to start with accurate wages. Edit: found them. Look plausible to me: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2020/team/612/blackburn-rovers

It's the hope that kills you!

He's not dead, he's just pining for the fjords!

About time we benefitted from such an injustice. Glad it's been sorted out though.

The posts themselves were FINE until they mentioned (for no particular reason) politics. The exact same posts, but without mentioning politics, would've stayed. I'm going to bed. Up at 4am for work and I'd rather not spend rest time repeating the guidelines that we all already know.

...and Conservative voters. In a matchday thread.