Grimnir - Comments

Watched the first half of Melbourne City v Manchester City. Was a good half, chances at both ends and Melbourne had the best one! Sterling was in the stadium and was shown on the big screen, to a chorus of boos lol.

Money talks...

So if West Ham hold on to their lead, and Inverness manage to overturn a 1-0 deficit, they'll play each other in the next round! Southampton will play Vitesse in the next round too, Koeman returning to an old club.

Why did Downing want to leave West Ham?

Don't think that's too bad considering some of the kits in here!

So Liverpool now have how many strikers? Borini, Sturridge, Balotelli, Origi, Ings, Lambert (I think he is still there?) plus Benteke if it all goes through?! Crazy. Maybe Rodgers is going for the 3-2-5 formation this season. Overload the opposition with average strikers!

SSN now reporting that Liverpool and Man City have agreed a fee for Sterling. £49m plus add-ons. Let's see how right they are!

Really thought Federer was going to win prior to the match. Glad I didn't put any money on it!

As much as I am loathe to say it, I am liking the side being assembled at OT. Especially is Schneiderlin does join. Somehow keep hold of De Gea and get in a decent centreback!

According to Sky, around £14.4m

But:

I'm shocked at the amount of people doing this already. I know there is unlimited transfers, but it just seems too early!

Would like to see Mitrovic in the Premier League, hope you sign him!

Two of those are new signings and the other one I wish had left! Showed his lack of skill against Lancaster yesterday! I know Charlie Adam, DJ Campbell and David Vaughan aren't the prettiest of players but I do wish it was them modelling the kit again!

EDIT: Just seen this photoshop on Twitter, where we now have a sponsor!

The fanbase is split over the current methods being used to protest. In one sense, there is the fact that it drags us back into the headlines and hopefully shows the fans' anger at what has been done to our club by our chairman and reiterates some of the stories about what a horrible piece of work he is. However, an away game is more likely to ruin the game for the home support and turn other fans against us rather than have them support our cause. Even most of the NAPM brigade are against doing it at away games but with this being preseason against a non-league side I guess the small minority who went felt justified. I imagine Oyscum is getting his solicitor to write the summons now. Potentially to me to for daring to utter anything on a forum, seeing as he is currently suing one of our fans' online forums too.

As much as I am loath to discourage people from visiting our ground, I would say do not come to Bloomfield Rd this season. The atmosphere is toxic and there are likely to be more protests until the Oystons are gone. I don't see any other resolution now.

You think he would have started matches outside of the cups?! Realisation can dawn at any time.

We were 3-1 up, before the match was abandoned. Played well going forward but defence was pretty poor. Especially Dunne whose mistake gave away the penalty.

Match abandoned due to pitch invasion protesting against the owners. Oyston Out!

EDIT: Photo of the pitch invasion, about 7 people really and the game could have resumed.

A player choosing to actually play football rather than sit on a bench?!

Hope the Gueye money wasn't coming from this transfer.

Apologies for the double post. Sod's law has just happened.

For future reference, "Mark all content as read" is an option when you click on the "My Account" link on the left panel.

Sorry for bumping a very old thread, but I was using the search function to try and find this out and it hadn't been answered here either.

Where is the "Mark Forums Read" option nowadays? I did find it once but can't for the life of me find it again. Probably being rather blind here!

For the first time in a long time, I'm actually happy with one of our signings. Looking forward to seeing what Redshaw can do for us now we've finally signed him from Morecambe.

Er, back to pre-season topic lol.

We've just kicked off away at mighty Lancaster. Probably our best chance of a win all season!

Hmm, image shows for me.

This any better?


Whatever it looked like it wouldn't sell well. Hoping the protest shirt outsells it.
NAPM.

No sponsor, hella ugly. I predict the protest shirts selling more than these!

Bleurgh

The next Gazza?

Well, hoping we manage more than the 2 pre-season friendlies we had last year...No news on any yet though!

Please don't let this England qualifier be as dire as our usual games

Also, well done to Faroe Islands after their 2-1 win over Greece! Up to 4th in their group now, the best they can hope for tbh.

Tend to agree. We signed him at the beginning of last season, and got rid halfway through the season. Now, our shithole isn't necessarily the right place to inspire someone to get their head down but I think it would take a lot of work to get the best out of him and I don't see it happening the lower down the leagues he drops. Still, only 24 so could mature!

Can't believe we've made 3 signings already! Two of which were rather necessary in goal, Doyle from Birmingham and Letheren from Dundee. Happier with the latter, seems to have performed well when given the chance and should be good for League 1. Only other signing so far is Brad Potts (so close!) from Carlisle United, any fans here who can shed some light on the type of player he is? I'm guessing that's insider knowledge from MacDonald's time there!

We even have a protest shirt this season!

https://twitter.com/BFCProtestShirt/status/604603260851363840/photo/1

Whilst we're on the subject of new managers, I feel sorry for ours. For those of you who don't know, we've procured Sam Allardyce's long time assistant, Neil McDonald. Seems like a decent choice considering the poisoned chalice we are. Fans are too busy infighting and owners are too busy suing us, so his entire tenure might slip by unnoticed.