Probably fallen victim to their limited pre season here Sheff Weds, Leicester over running them now. Fair play to them though they've given it a good go.

Leicester 2 Wednesday 1 At least we haven't got to make up 3 points on Wednesday already.

I’ll ask this here as I can’t be bothered finding the correct thread for it… To what date are our fixtures now ‘set in stone’? I’m thinking of attending a match (first one since the Oxford promotion one!) but my wife would need to make a rota request so I can have our car for the day. Ta in advance.

(RB looks up Dunning - Kruger effect)

Without wishing to set everyone off on a rant about how I should never be allowed to darken the doors of a football stadium again because I dont rate Tronstad, I didn't see much different from him yesterday to how I perceive him in general. I just see him as a bit of a nothing player.

The thought of him being our big hope on the wing makes me sick He is far better as a central striker, and even then has numbers which rival Gallagher Gallagher - 287 Championship Appearances, 57 Goals, 27 Assists Lowe - 210 Championship Appearances, 42 Goals, 14 Assists

Where will this be played? With the media interest in women's football and our withdrawal from the league - maybe a few thousand turning up for this with "Venky's Out" banners would get media attention?

Surely we could afford Jamal Lowe decent championship RW

Totally agree about the two centre mids. One of them has to get forwards and run behind otherwise it’s just so easy to play against. Travis and Tronstad were the two biggest disappointments for me yesterday.

Sheff Wed down to ten men on 76. Barry Bannan (unluckily imo) given a second yellow for winning the ball first but catching his man with the follow through. Probably the right decision to the letter of the law now.

If we are I’m blaming you 😁

Thank you Although its entirely possible that we are reading it wrong, lol Some sort of ESC related Dunning-Kruger effect

Not saying that what you're saying is wrong but why would we need an agent to represent us on the sale of a player.

His timing for jumps is not good. Needs a lot of work.

Nah you're wrong there tbf he has good stas for headers won, only Hyam better last season. He was probably amongst the better strikers in the league on that front. However, it is a deceiving stat, Sam Gallagher appeared to be useful if you just looked at aerial duals won because half of them went to absolutely nobody. There's winning headers and there's winning useful headers and making things happen, Gueye is useful at this IMO.

it took me 30 minutes to see that adam was special,he was playing against blackpool away and as an 18 yr old in his first full game he gave seasoned pro`s the absolute runaround,they could`nt get anywhere near him

No, but we all know the club will be reading this, (hi Rudy!) So I dare say they'll be scrambling around asking the question.

It's hardly ever played in to his head in fairness. We have terrible wingers delivery wise on both sides. I'd hate to be a tall striker at Rovers. It looks like we've also downgraded the crossing delivery from fullbacks on the right significantly too. We need to spend good money on a right winger ASAP! Far too much messing about on these positions in terms of allocating cash, or lack of. Striker, Winger and an athletic Centre back still needed. They need to write some proper fees.

That’s very kind of you to say so, thank you. 👍 I hope, if my interpretation is right, that the club is aware - I fear that they wouldn’t be.

I find yours and Kent's knowledge on this breathtaking. A lot of it's going straight over my head. Do we think anyone at the Club would have the faintest idea of what you're on about?

Does that simply mean we've found our level - newly promoted League One clubs 😂

The bit in bold is interesting as it could theoretically apply to our owners and the conduit too, if true. What I mean is, there was news of a so called falling out between the owners and Kentaro around 2011/12-ish and that the dispute was going to be taken to court. It was eventually settled out of court around 2013. That was the last we heard on that and the Venky's- Kentaro link apparently soured at that point. Assuming that to be true, why then did we choose to appoint managers and sign a few players connected to a Kentaro offshoot for years AFTER the above dispute between Venky's-Kentaro? Is it simply that the owners had no idea that the offshoot were close to the very people they 'fell out' with? (which is where the bit in bold could apply) Or is it that they left it to their trusted conduit here to handle matters? The conduit, not knowing how the game works, but having past friends and agent connections who could help him? Or him not knowing the backgrounds of the new agencies sat before him? If Kentaro had 143 agents in their stable, it's fair to say that even an experienced football operator might not know or recognise all of them. Never mind a non footballing man well out of his depth at a club that is too big for him to handle. Whatever it may be, official FA Agent documents show that we sold four players from 2016-2024 for a combined £18m. On each of those four deals a former SEM-Kentaro agent represented the club during the four exits. The last one was in 2024. Last year. Also, a loan signing we made last year...the agent that sat on the deal is a former Kentaro consultant. Now, I don't know how this works. Does an agent offer their services to a club by saying they can help the club out in such an instance i.e a player sale, purchase etc, and the club either accepts or turns the offer down? Or does a senior person at a club choose an agent to represent the club in a deal? If we are to assume that the agency stuff is all conspiracy, as many do, and that all of this is nothing more than clueless owners thousands of miles away who aren't arsed about football and an equally clueless conduit who knows nothing about the game, both showing themselves to be out of their depths, fair enough. It has some logic to it. However, there have been many coincidences that have popped up since 2010 and are still popping up to this day. At some point people start noticing these coincidences and patterns, especially when they keep pointing in the same direction.

Think this is about right.

I notice lots of people talking about utilising Gueye's aerial ability. It might be just me, but I don't think he wins anywhere near enough headers given how tall he is.

If the people at the academy could not see that Adam Wharton was a special player at youth level, then they are in the wrong jobs.