I think you got me wrong. I'm not suggesting he doesn't know a lot, sure he does. But just because he goes does not give him the right to proclaim that someone who doesn't go knows very little or nothing. Or even worse, fans in faraway lands.
I met an Indian boy some time back, bloody hell, the kid could roll facts about most prem teams, even I didn't have an inkling.
I think it depends on your passion, when I was a kid I used to read and read about all sorts of footy stuff.
Fans in stadia are important, but fans elsewhere are just as important.
I'm sure if Derby became a Prem regular, the club would love have a few million 'new' fans from China, Japan and India, who are prepared to pay for merchandise, watch pay tv and even travel once a year or biennially to see Derby in the flesh.
Even in tier 2 any paying fan from any of these countries are much appreciated and welcome.
Oh yeah RA, about the older guys thing, again I'm not saying those here who are slightly more reasonable, but elsewhere on FM.
Anyway I do accept some prefer the quitter surroundings here than elsewhere. But generally is the older ones who prefer it. Most of our posters from Forest are on FB, Instagram and elsewhere. Most were younger hence the exodus.
Myself and Tricky we hang around here, because it's a bit less hectic, you don't have to keep scrolling up like on FB to read what people write and also here we have a bit of anonymity. But yeah we do post on FB a bit more.
The only surprising thing is that FM is still existing. We thought it'd close down years ago. Anyway since the owners don't seem to care so much about posters and attracting them, why should we really care? They're more interested in earning ad money from dubious sites. Look at how they treated Bloomer.
We’re not talking about ‘rolling out facts’ though Rom...any ’statto’ with nothing better to do can do that. We’re talking about knowledge of our current individual players.
You have to watch regularly to have that and you have to watch the U23’s to know who’s coming through. As mista says...not many tipped Bogle to be pinching the right back position from Wisdom this season and I certainly wouldn’t have known, as he does, that Butters had a ‘stormer’ earlier this week. Who knows...he might provide another midfield option rather than be the write off most of us thought.
McAllister arrived already injured and has taken a long time to get near anything like fitness. Appears to be another great talent, let's hope he gets fit, stays that way and reaches his potential.
I’ve not said otherwise mista. Circumstances have dictated that I’ve only seen Derby three times this season. Doesn’t make me any less of a fan but I do consider myself currently less informed than the likes of you and MA.
If McAllister comes good that will be another bonus...I’d more or less written him off as inexpensive potential that had sunk without trace. What about Holmes? He seems, from a distance, to have flattered to deceive.
rA. McAllister arrived in need of repair. We are only now starting to see how much repair was needed. He is finally up to playing and impressed against PSG U23s in a 1-1 draw. Hopefully he will now start to get back on track and show he is the player we thought he could become.