37 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

    Pickford

         Walker.      Stones.    Maguire

James.     Rice.      Bellingham.     Shaw. 

          Sterling.     Kane.    Mount

I think that'll be close to what our line up will be. The weakness there will be that we don't have the Mount that turns up for Chelsea, so when we play so many defensive players we need the attackers to be all out attack and dangerous from the off which we're not getting from Mount. 

Also when it's not working we need to have the balls to take Kane off and try a different option. We seem to persist with Kane when he is blowing out of his arse and not going to score if we played on for weeks. 

They're my two criticisms of Southgates England 

Like "we did warn you" can I opt in to seeing all deleted posts? Always get fomo when I turn up late. 

It's the League Cup of international football

Stupid tournament at stupid time with an England squad, most of whom have had a poor season at club level and we treated it as a glorified friendly tournament. Horrible result but I'm not worried.

In my lifetime Southgate has given us the best tournament results. England are always lacklustre between tournament buy so far Southgate has delivered when it matters. 

I think keep the 45 minutes as it is but when it goes to stoppage time, then turn it into stop clock system so if there's 5 mins stoppage time, it gets played. I'd also be tempted by the rugby rule of the game ends when the ball goes dead. Would add a different dynamic

19 minutes ago, GHR said:

Also, during all instances of penalties, players cannot pause between commencing their run up and placing their grounded leg to strike the ball. Similarly, during shootouts, keepers forbidden from advancing beyond the six yard box between kicks

That's been my dad's pet peeve for as long as I can remember every penalty shoot out "They're not meant to do that!!!!" 

Is it an unenforced rule that the run up should be one continuous movement, no stuttering or pausing etc? 

Something needs done on penalties, GKs aren't saving any in shootouts since they've been told to stay on their line

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/13/kick-ins-throw-ins-football-concussion-substitutes-ifab

So it's been announced that they will start trialling 'kick ins' instead of throw ins which is absolutely ludicrous and hope it dies a death. 

However it got me thinking - what new rules / general changes to the game would you like to see in football? 

One for me is that I would mic the refs up and also be able to hear the VAR discussions. 

Second one isn't a new one but an old rule I would like to see enforced. The rule that goalkeepers can only hold onto the ball for 6 seconds I would love to see enforced, it would speed the game up massively IMO and would cut out the 'catch and fall to the ground' tactic that eats up 30 seconds each time. 

Someone in the Facebook group of the town my parents live in is kicking off about fluoride in the water starting a campaign for fluoride free water etc etc. I posted commenting that the stuff coming out of our taps contains a high concentration of Dihydrogen Monoxide (for those who don't get it Google it) and stating alarming facts such as it is a major component of acid rain, corrodes metal, in gas form it can cause severe burns, if inhaled can cause choking etc etc.. I thought it was pretty funny until one sciencey type came in and said "what you fail miserable to comprehend is that there are loads of dangerous substances surrounding us and even in our bodies...." 

I've never enjoyed someone not getting a joke so much especially the arrogance with which he replied. 

Anyway, the DHMO parody is one of my favourite jokes going.

I think on the whole it's a good idea to have a light touch approach to moderation on certain topics. I wonder if making it an opt in system will maybe result in fewer people using it though?

Maybe switching it to an opt out system? So by default people can see it but if they've had enough they can request to be removed (or just not go in there). 

Would be interested to hear from people who have decided to not opt in? 

Still waiting for an 11th hour bait and switch and Mowbray rocks up to take the first training session

With Broughton and JDT incoming they'll be bringing knowledge of Norway and Sweden. I wonder if we'll see any gems coming from that neck of the woods this window? It's exciting for the player pool to extend beyond the Middlesbrough 

6 minutes ago, Mellor Rover said:

Talks about his playing and coaching career. Wants attacking football.

Perfect fit cos we've got no defenders 

9 hours ago, roverandout said:

Grealish has fantastic first touch and technique but he always tries the simple pass

Doesn't have any ideas other than to draw a foul or play a simple ball. Other than that he's no better than any other attacking option we have

25 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

. I think Grealish is a duffer

Massively overhyped

9 minutes ago, den said:

 

Would be a hell of an achievement if he used 40 players in 90 games for us. We'd be raiding the U12s 

This thread needs retitled from "what reject manager...." to "will we ever get a manager" 

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Living in Granada or Blackburn ? Let me think about that for a millisecond.

Downtown Baghdad or Blackburn probably comes to a similar conclusion 

Are the rumours true of someone wanting to pay a fee for ayala? If so bite their hands off. 

I'm a fan of him when fit but that's a rarity, his wages and any fee would be a huge bonus for us.

Absolute shambles. The play off race ended a couple of matches before the end of the season. At that point it was nailed on that TM was going, how on earth are we still doing interviews a few days before the players return??

Nations league is good to replace some pretty dire friendlies during the international break but for god sake let these players have a summer off. I know they're paid very handsomely for it but some players basically get 3 weeks or so off before starting back in pre season. I've seen players and managers comes out and have a pop at Nations league. Bad idea needs scrapped / changed

5 minutes ago, AspRover said:

So does this mean that in December we can pack the DOF off on a plane to India to beg for new signings in the January window whilst letting the manager get on with, you know, football matches?

Because if so that's got to be an improvement surely, knowing nothing otherwise about the bloke in question.

I had this thought too. DoF can do the India visits (why they can't do video calls is beyond me) at any time of the year and have everything in place for when the transfer window opens. 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20195573.blackburn-rovers-dof-gregg-broughton-will-implement-vision-owners/

Making all the right sounds. Atleast he says the ambition is premier league that's a refreshing change from mowbrays "Premier league? Blackburn? LOL! NO" stance 

Just now, Silas said:

Kane was offside there surely. 🤔

But VAR didn't even bother checking that. 

Nice to get one go for us. 

I thought that right from the first replay. Miles offside. Also, he's not getting that ball even if he's not fouled. Still, will take that all day long

I don't get the hype of the royal family but the weekend has surely lifted the spirits of a fair few flagshaggers all over the country. 

Next bonus bank holiday when liz snuffs it - which I don't think will be long. 

This is the formation I wanted to see. Only just switched it on, how is it going? Is Mount playing on the left of a front three? That feels like a bit of shoehorning