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I've recently had a few tweets with a rovers player. It was with ref to blm, the upshot was he told me I must be racist or stupid. There were a few more tweets and again he told me the same thing. I'm neither stupid or racist by any measure and was trying to have a sensible debate. The result of this is that I had a threat on twitter, I've had to block and report the individual, who I think is just some juvenile idiot, who can't see past disagreeing with the player. I asked the player if I could message him directly as I thought after the threat that the issue was out of hand, but he replied no and that I could just tweet the message, which considering the threat I wasn't willing to do.

I've now had to block all the contributors to the tweets inc the player.

So, should players have a contractual clause that permits them from using social media, or has it nothing to do with the club?

As far as the rest goes I'm going to forget the issue and move on, the only positive from twitter appears to be tims listeningparty.

It was well written. Did it tell you anything of fact, no. Just don't be taken in by better than average prose.

There are approx 2 million people living in colonies today, I think there are 16 of them and I really can't be bothered to check to be part of the pc absurdity rubbish that is happening in the west right now.

There is world cup coming up in a country which has used Asian slave Labour in construction and people are concerned by the title "the colony".

It is reasonable to look at yesterday's developments as extremely positive for the club. The large reduction of the debt and Wael streamlining the family control of the club being the two obvious highlights.


At the same time, it is also possible and sensible to acknowledge that that yesterday's news could be rendered completely irrelevant, if the same mistakes are made over the next 5 years.


There is nothing wrong with maintaining scepticism of the latest news or wishing to continually hold those in power to account - we will always need people to counter-balance the hype.


Following on from how fans may receive the news, I think Gasheads have a bigger part to play in the overall plan than they realise.


If we as fans want "evolution not revolution" to work, we need to think about what we want to see from the club and match our patience and expectations accordingly.


You can't invest in youth and grow your own, if we get on their backs or quickly resort to demanding that senior, higher profile players are signed to improve our fortunes. We all know that early in their career, the majority of youth players will seem weak and incapable of taking us where we want to be.
 

Marrying the development of young prospects with the expectations and desires of football fans to see their club be successful, can sometimes be like trying to mix oil and water. I also understand that as Rovers fans, we have already invested huge amounts of time, money and patience across God-knows how many years, signings, managers and stadium plans.

However, if you are the kind of fan who does worry about the sustainability or finances of the club; a fan who wants to see as many young players progressed as possible and the type of fan who wants to see Rovers continue to re-cement itself as a traditional, respected Football League Club; redrawing some additional patience for the staff and players at this time will surely go a long way.


UTG.

Neither is available. Only breweries who support the club allowed.

I'm sure. The fans I spoke to on the Big Bank that day were all well on board with the way the club was being run, which was an interesting and novel thing. I'm really hoping to get to an Exeter game again next season when I take my daughter back. She's renting a house about 300m away from St James Park. Would love to take you up on the offer of a pint beforehand. What a heady notion.

Can't you lot ever give it a rest? It's like a playground.