IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 285
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
(Rec: 21/11/24) A disastrous redesign, judginess, A Question of Sport dress code, barley water, and teenyboppers.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it! |
| 0:06.0 | This is Top Flight Time Machine, I am Andy Hotbody Dawson, bow, bow, bow. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Sam Nisley Delaney, so what? |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome along, it's another Melchester Odyssey. |
| 0:16.5 | I have in my right hand an object which I barely recognise. |
| 0:23.1 | It is a redesigned Roy of the Rovers. |
| 0:26.2 | Well, I see a redesigned. |
| 0:28.1 | It's got that infernal logo on the front that we were introduced to a few weeks ago. |
| 0:34.2 | But I don't know if you can see this, Sam, through the camera, but the paper quality |
| 0:39.0 | has got so much worse from what we're used to. |
| 0:44.3 | It doesn't look good. |
| 0:45.7 | It doesn't look good. |
| 0:46.6 | The redesign, the changing paper quality, the switch to more black and white pages |
| 0:52.7 | over colour, the desperate move move some might say of drafting |
| 0:57.4 | in not just emmline hughes and bob wilson but but the spandah ballet laid straight after that |
| 1:04.4 | and that's the key thing is when someone makes a radical change right which they did first did, first with the redesign, right? |
| 1:13.1 | But then, the big thing was, let's draft in Emlyn Hughes and Bob Wilson. |
| 1:17.2 | I think it will lead to a spike in sales. |
| 1:19.8 | It only was a few weeks, Andy, between that and the Spandau Ballet Reveal. |
| 1:24.6 | So it's a, it's a tacit admission that the initial move to drafting Hughes and Wilson |
| 1:31.3 | had failed, right? |
| 1:33.8 | And suddenly, and you see this in real life football clubs all the time, it's just like |
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