bet hannah fry could come up with some genius tactics tbf

someone on twitter thinks they've found jdt's burner account.. going through the replies, it's really quite the thing. suggests it's either him, someone close to him or a deranged obsessive @JackGreensnote

i think this is an interesting angle people seem to have missed so far. having recently rewatched the damned united and being reminded of clough's attempts to do the same at derby, it had me wondering if something along those lines was the point of all this and it simply went pear-shaped for him

i can't lie, once i got used to the idea of a three-man split in the director of football job, i quite liked the ingenuity of it. three different people with different strengths, knowledge, contacts, experience and expertise; two younger, more modern footballing brains in gestede and owen, the former being more focused on the business side, while the latter looks after the staffing, statistical and physical/fitness side, with the transfer and recruitment taken care of by a proper, proven veteran in park. thought it was properly out the box and all three had different knowledge-bases to offer the scouting department. owen was the one aware of ohashi, while park could use his past experience in recruiting japanese players to get it done and also find germain too; gestede knowing of gueye, park knowing he could pick up cantwell cheap etc. etc. i really felt there was promise to it after that first rushed window of bedding it all in. if true about eustace and park falling out, i'd love to see the latter come back a third time, despite how ridiculous and unlikely that might be.

a John Park return would be utterly fascinating. surely not a cat in hell's chance?

youth to senior, i'd guess

did any of us actually want what he wanted though? some of the names supposedly coming from him were past it and / or dire. patrick bamford???

agreed. think he's thrived this season. wonder if that relates to travis coming back and dom being able to step back out of the limelight a bit? it's interesting he isn't second or even third captain above buckley; it'd make sense if he asked to focus on his game this year and it's now bearing fruit

not to rock the boat, but is that not the definition of... a parasite? i do get what plastics is saying, but fear they might have read a little more into something than was necessary. and while i understand the point being made, i don't see someone putting the word on a protest banner to describe the venkys as a direct tunnel to fascism either

where's this from? can't find the tweet

remember when iain dowie was a premier league manager?

the co commentator comes out with absolute nonsense seemingly at whim

who's this co-commentator? talks about whatever he's looking at, some very funny partridgisms

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/blackburn-rovers-civil-war-john-eustace-exit-3530745 thought this was dead good and represented us well. we all know most of it, i know, but it's so nice to see it actually written in a decent national paper

👀👀 if that's true then it lends far more credence to the talk about Eustace's team liking to put his name about on the sniff for better money.

that statement is oddly aggressive. getting the ducks in a row due to a technicality in the NDA, or lack thereof?

announcements incoming

waggott could only dream of Groucho's business acumen

feel like the overlords wouldn't want to sell buckley over some bizarre fan upset logic purely to do with him having a chant. seems really odd to me that they've never seemingly tried to shift him considering how little he plays. bittersweet he only ever gets to hear that chant when he's warming up, must be an odd feeling for him

that lad has been forced to have such an odd career with that Forest move. doesn't surprise me he can only impress in the MLS at the moment; he's constantly moving and uprooting every 6 months or so, he's never gonna settle. he'd make an odd signing for me now; he'd be here a few months, then back to Forest, then off somewhere else again. no player is gonna find decent form when they're forced to live and play in such a way

always wondered if it was more he just didn't settle and wanted to go home

scored 5 in 13 in 2.Bundesliga this season tbf to the lad

what on earth is going on with this lad? is there some itk knowledge? it seems like he's nearly always ill or injured, which reeks of a fallout to me. it's a shame, i really had hopes he could kick on here after his sparky early season appearances.

could've seen this coming a mile off. you can't split the dof role into three and not expect a power struggle. i'm assuming this means a). gestede feels his hands are tied and wants more responsibility over incomings, and b). park was made promises about his role when he returned that he feels have been broken. you can't go from being the lead on transfer dealings in the vein of a director of football back to more of a chief scout role. park seems like someone who can read a room and has zero qualms about doing something about it. can't imagine he's pleased if the club is backing someone as inexperienced as gestede over someone with his experience and transfer nouse.

it would be a damning indictment of Pears if JE did drop him after these next two weeks of training for someone who he's barely seen, returning from international duty