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Kabaddi too, which if I remember correctly is the most popular sport in the regions where cricket isn't number one. Commercially I understand the logic, but even then I'm not entirely sure how much exposure this will really grant across the sub continent. One of those which looks good on paper, but in reality will be difficult to gain from.

I'm not sure about Rowe being sold, or certainly not for the money we would hope to get for him. His injury record isn't ideal, and it would take a PL club to be prepared to risk significant money on a player who has yet to complete a full season as a pro. I also think a few more of these contracts would probably have been tied up already if the club knew they were definitely going to be playing in the Championship next season. As long as that Playoff place is on offer, I can understand why both clubs and players don't want to commit to new deals. As for Aboh, I'd imagine he has no guarantees he'd be playing a significant part in the first XI next season - and more than likely would be sent out on loan. The same probably applies if he signs for one of the big clubs, if his agent thinks he can get paid 5x or 10x what we're offering and essentially end up in exactly the same position, then I can understand why that would be tempting.

A big middle finger to all the armchair appeals panel experts.

That's your assumption, absolutely no one here knows the process the appeal panel goes through nor what guidelines they follow.

I do have to laugh at the various posts/tweets etc I have seen from people who seem to have first hand knowledge on how the appeals panel reach their decisions. I must be the only person who hasn't been invited to sit on the panel.

Absolutely, I don't know if we'd have survived but we certainly would have given it a better shot than we did. As has been mentioned we lost against Sheff U after the Spurs game (although this is a Sheff U who were having a fantastic season at the time and ended up finishing 9th), but it's our home form that would have kept us up - and our last game before lockdown at home was that 1-0 win against Leicester. The remaining home games were Southampton, Everton, Brighton, West Ham and Burnley. Not a chance we'd have lost all of them had the season continued as normal.

He did indeed, late in the game. Also a mention to the fantastic goal Dean Ashton scored in the first half.

Yeah, I think it went over most of our heads in the ground. I remember there were just a lot of confused faces around me. It wasn't until I saw it on Sky Sports News when I got home that it was obvious quite how much Delia had enjoyed her night.

Amazing, I know which way I'd want to be kicking in the second half!

I think you'll find the taps have been replaced, and I'm happy that my ever lasting legacy will be push taps in the toilets below Block K in the South Stand.

I feel a bit sorry for Sargent that it's only really this season that he's been given a chance to shine. Obviously he was behind Pukki in the pecking order but you could tell there was something about him (the PL season may have been too early for him). I remember watching him in the pre-season friendly we had against Cambridge last season, it was 42 degrees and physically he was head and shoulders above anyone else on that pitch. I said at the time from that pov he was a 'Prem player' but needed to prove himself on the pitch, I wish he had been given a good run in the no. 9 position a lot sooner.

OK, but anecdotal evidence isn't proof. I appreciate you had a frustrating experience, but the issues with persistent standing occur most commonly in the lower Barclay and Snakepit - a few people refusing to sit here and there aren't going to be focused on by the SAG which is one of the reasons why the club have had to act in Barclay/Snakepit and in the South Stand away section. The seats at Dortmund are permanently in place, but are locked 'up' for Bundesliga games and available for seating on European nights.

There is nowhere else in the ground where persistent standing is an issue. Fans who want to stand now have the option of moving to the Lower Barclay/Snakepit (which are the areas that currently suffer from persistent standing, and why they have been chosen for the rail seating). I agree that the SAG have forced the clubs hand in a sense, but it's not like they've rushed into this decision they have taken their time and studied how rail seating has been trialed at other clubs before committing to installing at Carrow Road.

The point is people stand when they technically aren't supposed to, the same applies to away fans. A bigger waste of money would be the club not implementing it and then having to close down sections of the stadium for X amount of games because the SAG have determined the club aren't doing enough to stop persistent standing in seated areas. Fans have consistently asked the club for safe standing, and the club have been working on this for at least 4-5 years before they have made the decision to go with it (and yes I know that for a fact after previously sitting on the OSP).

Definitely Juninho.

I don't know anyone who goes on work trips and spends their whole time working, what a sad life that would be.

No it wasn't, were you in the stadium for the Leeds game? The game where Farke had completely given up any sense of the football we'd previously played under him? The fans had turned on Farke and this revisionism that persists around his dismissal is really quite silly.

To be fair to Zoe, and the board, from the discussions I've had with her I think they are doing all they can to get the 'new stand' into a position where it can be built once the funding (and demand) is there. Not necessarily a kicking of the can, and you could easily question the plausibility of building the stand when you look at attendances in the last 18 months.

In this interests of transparency, would you be willing to share how the Trust voted @GMF?

I'd say last night's projection makes that pretty obvious.

Agree with the sentiment of your post, although I take issue with @Ren's dig at the club. We've never been in administration so it's not a case of going into administration 'again'. Again I go back to my previous post where people will do anything they can to bash Delia, who from the looks of it is doing all she can to help the club without making a fortune for herself. But you are right, the self funding model only really provides success in very serendipitous scenarios, of which we have benefited from on a few occasions recently. In most scenarios you end up treading water, or slowly declining as other clubs increase their financial clout beyond yours. This is why, if we want to compete in the top 26 of English clubs, we need this outside investment. Without it there are just too many ducks that need to line up perfectly in order to see success.

Some of the posts here are ridiculous in their conspiratorial tone. If Delia decided to hand over her shares to MA for 1p someone somewhere would find something suspicious about it. Maybe, just maybe, Delia has tried her best and just wants the best outcome for the club and the supporters? I know that might be hard for some to swallow. I hope shareholders vote for the waiver, and I look forward to seeing what MA brings to the table once he has a 'dual control' of the club alongside Delia and Michael.

Barnsley sold at a time when investors were buying up clubs along the proposed HS2 route.

This isn't even a debate for me, you can easily separate the commercial running of the club i.e. CEO role from the footballing side of the club i.e. Sporting Director. This is how it should be, it's just that in England we have some weird obsession with everyone in football being involved in all the decisions. CEO's should be overseeing the operation and budgeting of the club, and leaving the footballing decisions to a Sporting Director, their team, and the Head Coach.