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not a problem 🙂

8 weeks was given as the best case scenario, and that would be mid March not mid April. He still isn't going to be able to contribute much though. It's an awkward one, he has been one of our better players this season, but with the injury you have to question if we should even register him if we are short on spaces by the end of the window.

Apologies 😄

And arguably that couple of hundred k (wouldn't be surprised if it was quite a bit more) didnt even need to be spent given Pratt had come in and done so well. The agents brokering the Cashin deal will have been happy though.

Completely forgot about the Hyam fee! Where has all this money gone?!

Still can't see what Pratt's done wrong. Great advertisement for potential Academy recruits, come in, play out of your skin, then get promptly jettisoned because another Club wants one of their players to get some game time.

A couple hundred £k on the loan fee for the Brighton chap is the most we'll see. Long-term thinking went out of the window the minute those idiots arrived 15 years ago.

Yes some of the under reporting of the Crowds for bigger games back in the day was quite ludicrous - presumably to save on tax. I've often wondered how that works these days the other way round. ST monies are already banked so there's no harm done from a tax perspective in massaging the figures upwards to make them look more respectable, but some of the over-reporting recently looks way in excess of numbers of missing ST holders. But surely no-one would make themselves potentially liable for tax they shouldnt be paying!

Yes, that's what I said 🙂

The £3m banked for Hyam at the last minute in the summer seems to have well and truly vanished into the ether. They couldn't have been relying on a deal for him going through that late in the window so as such any monies received must have been (from their point of view) a completely unexpected bonus. Yet no sign whatsoever of it this window. And willing stooge Ismael happily went along with it.

Munroe has signed for Boro

One we were linked to a week or two ago, left back/wing back, He has joined Boro for £300K + 30% sell on

Recruitment team must have set the filters on their search as " Find another forward player with first name Ryan, surname beginning with "H" who is currently injured". On a serious note as with Baradji it's taking the Moneyball approach to new levels to sign players who are going to be unfit for the majority of the time you need them in a time sensitive situation. I thought the idea was to get value for money out of players whose careers might have stalled due to something like injury but who were now fit. Not ones currently injured.

Yeah it is definitely circumstance. Because the Walker revolution so drastically and suddenly changed the whole scale and direction of the club so much it is very easy to 'compartmentalise' our recent history into 3 distinct clear periods. Pre-Walker (everything up to 1991), Walker (1990-2010) and Venkys (since 2010). Because things have been so horrific over the last 15 years there seems to be an eagerness among some to treat the middle period as an aberration and normalise what has been going on here over recent years as merely a return to normal service. I do, unfortunately, think a part of it comes from the attitude of those who were supporting the club in the 70s and 80s when it wasn't all PL and success, and some of those people get a kick out of reminding the younger end or those who started following in the good times that the 70s and 80s version is the 'true Rovers' and they are the 'true supporters' for having experienced those times not just the good times. Quite weird in my book but I'm convinced it is there as a factor. Oddly those people don't want to talk about the decades before that. It is probably the equivalent of Spurs fans reminiscing about the days they were a non-league side in the early 1900s or perhaps more like Ipswich fans saying that they belong in the bottom division because that's all they were before Alf Ramsey turned up. But yeah, if we'd have had say a fit and proper owner buy the club in 2010, but gradually declined from the PL into the Championship over a number of years, and then they'd have sold up to Venkys in 2020 and they'd have wrecked the club a decade later than they did, I suspect less would be willing to tolerate what is happening here. But because it has been going on now for so long, and there was a straight jump from Walker Trust regime to Venky regime, they can just box off the 1991-2011 period as a blip. I'm sure the numpties on that other forum will quite happy with things as they sit in an 80% empty stadium and insist they have it right and everyone else is wrong, and presumably all of them will be renewing when we go down to League One because the club and players need their support.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/january/15/rovers-to-take-on-the-tractor-boys-in-premier-league-cup/

Club motto will be amended soon to say "Why do today, that which can be put off until tomorrow?"

Jackson has had a mare there and is rightly being called out on it. It’s like he’s been told off by the club an now he’s overcompensating to maybe try get back in their good books. No way that article or news can be displayed as positive when our need is now

To be fair I take that article as a sign that even internally they know we're fucked if we don't sign a decent striker, and we can't afford one if we also need to sign a new LWB. Probably even if we don't, but every penny counts when the club has to wash its own face I guess.

i believe the following is our current official position

More or less picks itself to a great extent. Tell Cantwell and Baradji to get up with the striker when they can.

Jimmy Reed - Shame,Shame,Shame

You get a new low with this mob every single week now. How do "hopes" someone MIGHT be back before the end of the season take pressure off us in the transfer market? Even by their reckoning on the best case scenario it's going to be "Six to eight weeks" plus " the next few weeks" then after assessment he MAY be able to return to training. So say on an extremely optimistic slant he's match fit in 3 months - that takes us to mid April. If he was match fit by 11th of April he'd only be available for the last 5 games, if by the 18th the last 4 games. We could be all but down by then. And that's assuming someone who's had his leg in a cast//immobile for months is ready to waltz straight back into action almost immediately after resuming training. Plus, he's probably leaving at the end of the season anyway. The LT should be ashamed at themselves for writing such bilge. Although Im not surprised as they're probably trying desperately to worm their way back into the Club's good books.

Funny. I was telling my kids about that very thing. I remember the collective murmur, when the "attendance" was given out! How times change

I fear that aside from the Venkys the division in fans will be the downfall.

This Hedges situation seems totally bizarre. It makes no difference if he is out for 2 or 4 months in that we are going to be without a left wing back for a significant period of time. Even for the odd game, both Pickering and Ribeiro have shown that they cannot play that position and De Neve is nowhere near it. A new left wing back has to be non negotiable. This really cryptic rumour seems to have grown legs but it seems to be chinese whispers. Nixon's shared comment seems to be a case of, I cant say no in case something is happening, but I clearly am not aware of anything. Ryan Hardie has been mentioned above. He has played 12 minutes of football in 2 months and is injured. Should make it a no go straight away.