Brannagan joining...or not

Norfolk White said:
Who would you rather have, I know that you would like to have both, but wich one would you rather have, Bowler or Brannagan?
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Not quite that simple

Bowler is a great player, but maybe does not suit a 4-3-3 formation

If we get the money we think Bowler is worth, then its Brannagan and possibly up to 2 more players

This is the model under our new owner Simon Sadler, and one i think most of us agree on.
 
Bob Hatton said:
Could never be friends with a Nobber Norfolk but ...... you seem a nice bloke and I love Norfolk, spent many a happy holiday there on the Broads. I like you personally and if you walk into the light and become a pool fan, rejecting the dark satanic mills of Prescum we could be friends.
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And if you ever come back for a holiday on the Broads Bob, let me know and I'll buy you a pint 👍
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
That would be brilliant, just copy Cone Boy in to every official tweet on it as well.
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you can laugh but Critchley is coining it in at Bodymoor Heath 😀

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The Merry Stripes said:
Not quite that simple

Bowler is a great player, but maybe does not suit a 4-3-3 formation

If we get the money we think Bowler is worth, then its Brannagan and possibly up to 2 more players

This is the model under our new owner Simon Sadler, and one i think most of us agree on.
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I think Bowler is ideal for 433 to be honest but I take the point. Don't want him to go though. He means we always stand a chance of scoring whatever.
 
The Merry Stripes said:
Not quite that simple

Bowler is a great player, but maybe does not suit a 4-3-3 formation

If we get the money we think Bowler is worth, then its Brannagan and possibly up to 2 more players

This is the model under our new owner Simon Sadler, and one i think most of us agree on.
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I think the Bowler thing will run 'til deadline day.

If we stand firm at say, £3m teams know his contract situation and will try and drive us down, knowing that the threat looms of us selling him for peanuts in Jan or losing him for free. Unless there are quite a few suitors, Rovers will be looking to get him for as little as possible.

Both BFC and potential buyers might want to try and leverage the desperation that prevails on deadline day to their advantage and it'll be down to who blinks first.

We'll definitely flog him today now to make this post look daft.
 
Grayth said:
I think the Bowler thing will run 'til deadline day.

If we stand firm at say, £3m teams know his contract situation and will try and drive us down, knowing that the threat looms of us selling him for peanuts in Jan or losing him for free. Unless there are quite a few suitors, Rovers will be looking to get him for as little as possible.

Both BFC and potential buyers might want to try and leverage the desperation that prevails on deadline day to their advantage and it'll be down to who blinks first.

We'll definitely flog him today now to make this post look daft.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1552594859185299456

Whever you trust Nixon or not he says no deal with Rovers for Bowler
 
poolfc said:
Bowler on a contract long enough so that it doesn't feel like we might end up having our pants pulled down by rushing a sale through in order to fund other moves before he walks away for nothing.

You always want a good news day where there's no hint of trying to bury bad news don't you.
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I know that he's been a fantastic entertainer and what have you...





but at the end of the day 93 was a decent innings and surely none of us are that arsed about Bernard Cribbins?
 
poolfc said:
Probably wondering why at least a year of his career, when he could have been here and in his prime, has been pissed up a wall on farting about only to come back to this point anyway?
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Must be a 'glass half empty' person. Ah well.

Just smile and enjoy dude. Or dude-ess.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
I know that he's been a fantastic entertainer and what have you...





but at the end of the day 93 was a decent innings and surely none of us are that arsed about Bernard Cribbins?
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MONSTER!!!!

He's a national treasure, like Pam Ayres, Carol Kirkwood and various 70's entertainers who did loads for charity.
 
Briggsysgonagetya said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1552594859185299456

Whever you trust Nixon or not he says no deal with Rovers for Bowler
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I tend to believe Nixon when he says something with this kind of certainty. He doesn't know everything, but he reports what he hears and people get themselves in a right tizzy with him when things change, as they very often do in the world of football transfers. There's an element of jealousy as well, people don't like it when someone knows more than them.

Anyway good news that it seems Bowler isn't off imminently. I'd be very surprised if we didn't cash in this window though, sadly.
 
The Merry Stripes said:
Not quite that simple

Bowler is a great player, but maybe does not suit a 4-3-3 formation

If we get the money we think Bowler is worth, then its Brannagan and possibly up to 2 more players

This is the model under our new owner Simon Sadler, and one i think most of us agree on.
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4-3-3 is one of the only formations Bowler suits, so he doesn't have to do the defensive work
 
Bob Hatton said:
Could never be friends with a Nobber Norfolk but ...... you seem a nice bloke and I love Norfolk, spent many a happy holiday there on the Broads. I like you personally and if you walk into the light and become a pool fan, rejecting the dark satanic mills of Prescum we could be friends.
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The Catcher in the Rye said:
Brilliant signing, long term target acquired🤩 Oxford fans are gutted, always a good sign!
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It would be a fantastic signing, but let’s get it done before we all start doing cartwheels. We’ve been here before ….very recently in fact.
 
td53 said:
"Here's Brannagan. But someone isn't here to recieve him. Where is @coneboy??"
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A cold, windswept early January day at Bloomfield Rd - FA Cup third round - Blackpool vs Villa, it's been a slog but the Blackpool defence have kept the Villains at bay for 90 minutes, the atmosphere is bordering on feral, a small plastic Scouse man hides behind his boss as constant abuse is directed towards him from the stands.

We enter stoppage time, the small plastic scouse man's boss starts to say how this is a good result and the replay should be easy, that moment there's a misplaced pass from the Villa midfield, a flurry of panicky passes finds the ball at Josh Bowler's feet, one man to beat, his instinct is to knock it past and run for the corner, locks blowing in the wind despite the constraints of his headband he glides past the defender and reaches the edge of the area, looking up, more in hope than expectation, to see if anyone in Tangerine has joined him, he sees one shirt, that of Cameron Brannagan, the ball is squared and instinctively Brannagan lets fly a first time punt, top corner, the keeper nowhere as the net bulges.

Up in the stands the Blackpool owner, Sir Simon Stadler, grins to himself as he watches the small plastic scouse man crumple to the floor on the sidelines, his boss spitting his chewing gum out, it lands on the small plastic scouse man's head.

'Fuck off fuckface, you little plastic scouse traitor' thinks the owner.
 
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CalderwoodCritchleyWon’t said:
I’ve been telling you all since January that we’ve always maintained our interest and so has he. Check my previous posts on Brannagan…. Or don’t … but you’re welcome btw.
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Maureen next door who doesn’t have a scooby about football could have told me that we’d have ‘maintained an interest’ in a player we’ve tried to buy in both of the previous two windows.

Don’t make things worse for yourself.
 
straightatthewall said:
MONSTER!!!!

He's a national treasure, like Pam Ayres, Carol Kirkwood and various 70's entertainers who did loads for charity.
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On a positive... I suppose we ought to be grateful that he wasn't showing off Uncle's Bulge Area to the kids like the other charitable 1970's children's entertainers 👍
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
A cold, windswept early January day at Bloomfield Rd - FA Cup third round - Blackpool vs Villa, it's been a slog but the Blackpool defence have kept the Villains at bay for 90 minutes, the atmosphere is bordering on feral, a small plastic Scouse man hides behind his boss as constant abuse is directed towards him from the stands.

We enter stoppage time, the small plastic scouse man's boss starts to say how this is a good result and the replay should be easy, that moment there's a misplaced pass from the Villa midfield, a flurry of panicky passes finds the baal at Josh Bowler's feet, one man to beat, his instinct is to knock it past and run for the corner, locks blowing in the wind despite the constraints of his headband he glides past the defender and reaches the edge of the area, looking up, more in hope than expectation, to see if anyone in Tangerine has joined him, he sees one shirt, that of Cameron Brannagan, the ball is squared and instinctively Brannagan lets fly a first time punt, top corner, the keeper nowhere as the net bulges.

Up in the stands the Blackpool owner, Sir Simon Stadler, grins to himself as he watches the small plastic scouse man crumple to the floor on the sidelines, his boss spitting his chewing gum out, it lands on the small plastic scouse man's head.

'Fuck off fuckface, you little plastic scouse traitor' thinks the owner.
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Sweet justice Lytham - I pray this comes true
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
A cold, windswept early January day at Bloomfield Rd - FA Cup third round - Blackpool vs Villa, it's been a slog but the Blackpool defence have kept the Villains at bay for 90 minutes, the atmosphere is bordering on feral, a small plastic Scouse man hides behind his boss as constant abuse is directed towards him from the stands.

We enter stoppage time, the small plastic scouse man's boss starts to say how this is a good result and the replay should be easy, that moment there's a misplaced pass from the Villa midfield, a flurry of panicky passes finds the baal at Josh Bowler's feet, one man to beat, his instinct is to knock it past and run for the corner, locks blowing in the wind despite the constraints of his headband he glides past the defender and reaches the edge of the area, looking up, more in hope than expectation, to see if anyone in Tangerine has joined him, he sees one shirt, that of Cameron Brannagan, the ball is squared and instinctively Brannagan lets fly a first time punt, top corner, the keeper nowhere as the net bulges.

Up in the stands the Blackpool owner, Sir Simon Stadler, grins to himself as he watches the small plastic scouse man crumple to the floor on the sidelines, his boss spitting his chewing gum out, it lands on the small plastic scouse man's head.

'Fuck off fuckface, you little plastic scouse traitor' thinks the owner.
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This will DEFINITELY happen. FACTFACE.
 
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