Recent content by sign of the chimes

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They got shafted by Sainsbury's, who were the other partner involved, I seem to recall. They pulled out of buying the Mem site having previously agreed to do so. Went to court and Rovers lost.

This was the last I heard a few months ago - i.e. progress, of a sort, with the Fruit Market. That said, I can't see it coming to fruition (pun intended).

I think xG can be a really useful tool but like many statistical devices it gets wrongly used. When it's used over a series of games it can give a good steer as to whether teams are achieving the results the chances they create warrant over time (i.e. whether they're lucky or unlucky), but it...

A game of two halves at Oakwell - only just recovering from a fit of the vapours. We were utterly dominant for 45 minutes and could easily have been more than three ahead - but an early strike from Barnsley in the second half completely changed the dynamic and we were probably fortunate to take...

Have they sorted planning permission yet?

He went through a 'conscious uncoupling' with Norwich about a decade ago.

Out of contract - or is that the call a canary makes?* * see previous ornithology comment ;-)

Surely that just identifies me as lazy, rather than sh!te ;-)

That's what I'd assumed but I find identifying birds so fu canard.

Josh Martin? Though he's a winger rather than a striker, so perhaps not. (I'm also a terrible ornithologist).

Oops... I Did It Again. Didn't take long for Reading's suspended three point penalty to come in to effect. https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2023/september/13/club-statement-suspended-three-point-penalty-triggered/

They were definitely promoted under Pulis with that sort of record. He built quite a side during his tenure there. Stannard was a big unit as I recall? Think they had Leo Fortune-West as their main striker.

I seem to recall that when ITV got the Premier League highlights from the Beeb (when they poached Lynam) that they had a Monday night abomination called 'The Premiershiip Parliament'. It made 'The Tactics Truck' look like a sound idea. Be careful what you wish for GiG ;-)

I can only assume that those in charge see EFL football as being as niche as jazz/lounge music/telegraph-pole spotting - which might explain their coverage ;-) I'll avoid my usual diatribe about how football in general should have a restraining order out on ITV...