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BRYAN Douglas.

The club are relying on retaining as many optimists as they can, so that they can carry on hoodwinking them, that they are doing a good job and carry on raking in the money. Crazy statements like, we have a better squad than last year and it is going to be an exciting summer, are two examples of the utter nonsense being spouted. It is very muck akin to the ridiculous claims that a certain manger used to make about the new Wayne Rooney and the new chris Smalling etc and look how that ended up. More people are fortunately now seeing through this and dare I say, even our resident optimist, might be less positive, if we are cut adrift my Christmas. It is all well and good backing certain things and remaining loyal to the cause, but when something you have real passion and care for, is being destroyed by the people who are supposed to be looking after and caring for it, is time to recognise that, or it will be destroyed forever.

If McBurnie continues scoring for Hull (he's up to 7 for the season already) and those goals keep them in the Championship whilst we go down due in part to a chronic lack of goals, I wonder if the bean counters and laptop carriers upstairs at Ewood will reflect on that as they count the £10 million+ cost of relegation? Of course they won't, they'll just resort to more and more excuses as to why we couldn't have signed him.

I find this situation very confusing, as I was under the impression that compensation was only due when the club have tried to keep the player, not when they release him, and that we would have even less rights to money if the player moved abroad. I understand there's a difference between training compensation and general compensation but still. Also although Grasshoppers aren't giants I'd have thought they'd have enough money to just pay any training compo due for a player like Bloxham, who I think we only had for 2 years, rather than putting a 25% sell on in (unless he's really just there to pad out the youth numbers and they have zero expectation he would make it). Training compo is pretty low in general usually. Didn't we just get fuck all from Espanyol for Dolan? None of this negotiating seemed to crop up then. Think I did read something about us getting a minimal training compo for him (like 200k or something, guess Espanyol would just pay that), but thought I heard it turned out we weren't eligible for it.

Bob Crompton, the 'greatest' Rover of them all would need to take pride of place on such a monument.

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Hi Glen, I am happy to put the feelers out for a fighting fund and understand the need for some discretion. Can you give post an idea of the amounts needed and what the general ideas are and I will start up a go fund me. I will also make a donation and start the ball rolling.

Absolutely, enough is enough! I think most people would rather pay into this than a season ticket!!!

Too early to judge Ismael. But it's not looking good.Not a lot of us olduns left who remember Iley but him and Ince were employed by a good football club and they both failed miserably. Ismael is a pawn in the shocking mess that belongs to Venkys.

If it's players only then Ronnie, Duggie, Faz, Garner for me i think. A lot will say Shearer but he's a Geordie and he'd be on theirs, others maybe Hendry and i'm a big fan of his but he bailed twice when it suited unlike the 4 mentioned. Non players it would be John Lewis, Jack Walker and maybe Bill Fox and John Williams. Managers ? Well certainly Kenny and Souness for me plus possibly Don Mackay but not sure about the other.

That's the four I went for to be fair.

This season has relegation all over it. Our tactics are too transparent and very easy to defend against. We are far too wide, which means when we lose possession the other team have plenty of room to break out. We keep seeing it time and time again where their central midfielders are given acres. We made Stamenic look like prime Busquets yesterday. He hasn't had an easier day in his life. The passing angles we create are all wrong. And we are not playing to our strengths. Ok, Ohashi won a great header and almost got the equaliser, but why play a game that relies almost solely on getting wide and throwing the ball in the box and then keep your 6 foot 6 striker out of the squad? It seems madness. Even if his heading isn't the best, he gives them something to think about. I don't like the way Val plays football. Big gaps between the back and the strikers when on the ball; combined with being too wide and pushing too high up when in the final third. We are exposed and quite often we get crowded out when we have the ball because we are too far apart from each other. It is a far cry from what we have been used to For the game, I think Gudjohnson showed glimpses of quality but when he gets the service he's been getting what can we expect? Cantwell looked lively enough but showed he isn't a captain. Ableoisi is a real athlete and has moments of class. Just feel he needs to improve in the final third. I don't really have anything good to say about the rest of them. To a man, poor. Kargbo really pissed me off with his sloppiness and then lack of endeavour; then 5 minutes later he sprints full blast at a lost cause to chase the keeper down. Give over you fool. Not looking forward to this season. Gaffer is on a long contract, the Venky's have form for sacking too late, and I feel we are in a position whereby survival is now classed as a good season. If this is a reset then we've really tanked all the progress made in the last 5 years and gone back to the days of Coyle.

Jack Walker, Tony Parkes, Ronnie Clayton, Bryan Douglas. To be carved into the Dingles side of Pendle Hill.

You have to pay for quality up top they know that full well but they just don't want to. Rather have 3 or 4 cheapies whose combined wages add up to the same or more just in the vain hope one becomes worth a few million. Fools errand.

Pretty sure you would you forecast Rovers to win even if we were playing Arsenal or Real Madrid etc!?!? You are a manic optimist! 'Your team' includes 4 new signings and therein lies a big part of the problem; my opinions: Alebiosu - Brittain's replacement: the one success story. Miller - Hyam's replacement: the lad is bang average and Hyam is a huge miss TGH - Travis replacement: surplus to requirements at Brum who have just been promoted from League 1 (tells you all you need to know). Makes Keith Andrews look like Adam Wharton! Travis a huge miss Morishita - Dolan's replacement: God knows why we chased this lad all summer, already regressing and looking like a spent force. As for the other summer signings: McLoughin - not in your team so therefore assume you don't rate him and rightly so! Forshaw: still unfit, even when fit, just what is the point Baradji: signed when crocked, will he be fit before the New Year? Tavares: when a player only starts about half the games for a club like Moreirense and manages to finish only 3 of them then surely the red flags are not waving but have been torn to shreds! Henriksson: just what is this guy about? De Neve: plays like he looks, risen from the dead Gudjohnsen: feels like we've signed another donkey - should have put Rovers ahead last night but didn't control the ball and we know what happened next You keep banging on about how Ismael, Gestede and Owen are 'all aligned' - feckin good job they are otherwise where would we be!?!? Think it's difficult to recall such a dog's breakfast of a Rovers' transfer window. I think Stoke will comfortably run out winners by at least 2 goals; Robins v Ismael akin to Pep v Coyle IMO

It won't do. We'll be 2-0 down on Saturday, the pitch will be getting to a similar state as it was against Ipswich but the ref will let the game finish. Can see it a mile off, being a 1230 game will probably help.

last season has gone. Those results don't matter. I don't think we are that far putting together a group of wins and draws, but when you overhaul the squad so much and mostly signings from overseas, you expect a period of transition and poor results which we are currently in. Also we are due a couple of good luck regarding ref decisions AWOL Baradji? what are going on about now? he was signed injured and where we give him the operation he needs before we see play for us on some of the signings this summer, it will take time to settle just like it did with Tronstad or MGP. Some settled quickly like Alebiosu or McLoughlin would that going to solve? are the owners going to appoint a good footballing experience Chief executive and good Director of Football all a sudden? I don't think Adam Owen has done a bad job in his role. Is Rudy that bad as director of football operations, more of a mix bags We don't created enough good chances.

Just a bit of fun in dark times. Who would make it onto Rovers' 'Mount Rushmore'? A few potential suggestions: Jack Walker Colin Hendry Simon Garner Derek Fazackerley Bob Crompton Alan Shearer Brad Friedel Tugay Ronnie Clayton Bryan Douglas David Dunn Tony Parkes I think it's difficult to pick four.

I'm so jaded that I'm half (more than half) hoping the game gets called off and I can have a nice, pain-free weekend.

Somewhere between £25K/week & £30K/week apparently Doesn't change your point, rather emphasises just how much Rovers are kneecapping themselves with this £10K/week hard limit

Did anyone ever watch Facejacker? They had a scam artist on called "Augustus Kwembe". I wonder if he's going under the surname Kargbo these days, pretending he's a footballer....

Think they have an owner who knows what's happening regarding the day to day running of the club

How come Hull can sign a guy like Mcburnie but we can't ? It doesn't make sense until you factor in he's 29 and will want at least 10 grand a week which means these lot would rather take a punt on a 5k a week younger player with zero pedigree in England. Then wonder why we carry almost no threat up front unless one of the Japanese lads is through on the counter.