David Shepherd

LOL That is all

Cas should never have let him go. I thought he was doing a brilliant job

An alternative viewpoint: Smart bit of business by Fev. Look at all the social media engagement.

The irony of a Bradford fan bagging another club over finances.

Brendan Tuuta

Haha great minds..

You must be Keith Senior. You spend more time on the pitch now than you ever did as a player.

That would be ideal, but I'm pretty sure that it's been said that this will not happen.

They absolutely do and I include my own in that. There have been many occasions this year when the announced number did not correlate with what my eyes were telling me.

I just don't see how. It will be very interesting to see the breakdown.

Correct. The idea is a total non-starter. I doubt a majority of champ cubs will go for it, but the only viable solution I can see is a merged division split into conferences. This season will just have to have the required number of cross-conference games to take account of the season tickets that champ clubs (being the far larger number) have sold. With a proper look at how it will work long term during the early part of this season.

I know, I've seen them, hence my question.

Score for Fev is roughly in line with my back of a fag packet calculation when the criteria came out. How the hell did Bradford get that score?

Also got two enormous sites in South Kirkby and another 10 across Yorkshire. His business is massive. A quick look at companies house suggests he'll be worth more than MC, Clough and Degsy combined. Wakey will be well cashed up, I'm not expecting much joy from our two derbies this year.

Yes OT is old and knackered. The seating is cramped and the in goals are less than ideal. However, the atmosphere is brilliant and like others say, it's good to have a "permanent" home for the GF. Realistically, there isn't another stadium that can cope with the usual crowd size. It's perfectly situated for both public and private transport. I parked in W2 car park, left on the hooter and was supping a bottle of Hazy Jane in Ponte's Wetherspoons 1hr 20 later.

Think my kids have bought me tickets, it coincides with a rather depressing milestone birthday. Bit of RL and a few beers in Headingley/Leeds will be just the ticket.

Gets rid of loop fixtures though. The extra interest from not playing the same clubs 8 million times a season might even out the loss of tv money by putting more on the gate. Might also get us some better viewing numbers on tv. It all gets a bit samey towards the end of the season.

Who knows? Doesn’t look great though, does it? I wasn’t actually attributing it to IMG, just pointing out that it’s the worst possible start to their involvement in the game.

This new IMG era is going well isn’t it? 3 clubs gone in a season, ###### TV deal and a 1/2 empty Grand Final.

I can't cope with another season of heartache. Might not be a bad thing that we're not trying explicitly to win promotion. Last couple of years has felt like everyone, especially the players were under massive pressure. Part of the pleasure of watching rovers disappeared for me.

Don't have instagram, but looks like Jones might be staying, saying something like "All the best to those moving on" according to my lad

That's not true at all.

Ever since Killer came back into the team it's been a case of finding somewhere for Aekins to play. Too good to leave out, but definitely not a halfback. We'd have been better playing him on the wing instead of Briscoe who has had a bit of a shocker defensively most games.

Don't how true it is, but I've heard that more than half the squad were told they were no longer required on Thursday night. Which would explain our total lack of effort. If true, who on earth thought it was a good idea to communicate that 72 hours before a massive game like that. Very disillusioned right now. Regretting buying the early bird season ticket. I've no faith that there will be any improvement next year.

On the original question, I hope it's London. With a shrinking pot of money, I don't think we can afford another French team that will add zero to our main funder's bottom line. Unless the mythical French TV deal comes to pass.