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Not heard a single rumour about Pears finding a club all summer but imagine he is one they are trying to push out the door today. If I had my way would be buying another striker and winger with pedigree today.

Desperately need some points here. We've had a really poor start and we need to start getting some points on the board and not just moaning about hard luck stories.

Our academy output on keepers is really disappointing. Of course you could look towards Raya who's easily the best but even he improved massively after he moved to Arsenal rather than under Benson and team.

Yep, any teams in the National League or below can sign short term loans outside of the window. Rovers sent loads out to these levels last season (20 or so over the course of the season)

Would it tire the opposition out if we played Gueye and they had to keep getting the ball for free kicks after he keeps getting caught offside?

Yeah thats right.

Outs - one 'surprise' departure (Hyam) and Pears contract terminated by mutual consent. Ins - one permanent and two loans.

I absolutely reckon that JDT/Broughton/Wharton could’ve been a perfect storm for promotion if they’d had the backing Mowbray had.

Very strange, you’ll be blaming the ref next.

I think I just worked out "the plan" In the EFL, a club can take out an emergency goalkeeper loan for up to a week, with weekly extensions, if all their senior professional goalkeepers are unavailable due to injury, suspension, or international duty. A professional goalkeeper, by EFL definition, is a non-contract player who has started a senior match five or more times. The club must apply to the league, which considers the cases individually. Goddard may throw a spanner in the works due to his games played last season during his loan in Ireland, but as cases are considered individually, I think they will be ok getting this past a panel Essentially cut costs (big surprise) and get an emergency loan in if Toth ends up injured/suspended, voila, no back up keeper wages to pay for the season

Is it not the case that National League teams can still sign loans outside the window? Or am I misremembering? That's what I had in mind when I said younger guys, because we wouldn't loan our better/older youth to that level.

If the option is to start with 11 players including Tavares or 10 players without Tavares I'm picking the latter.

Suhail said. “We didn’t know he would be that good”. I say “Go and get yourself a job elsewhere before you do any more damage”. This must be, the biggest cock up, in the 150 years of the existence of the club.

I'd say that any buy to loan deal would suggest the opposite.

If we go into this season with Goddard and Michalski as back up GKs then we are 100% screwed if Toth picks up an injury.

At the minute if we're freezing out Pears, and not including the likes of Barrett, Pratt & Leonard I make it that we have 22 players that we would need to register this season. To me that says we should be signing 2 today and keeping a spot open for January. I predict we're done now though, despite desperately needing a midfielder, and another who can play across the front line. We're an injury away from having to play Taveres and Montgomery in our central midfield which is beyond scary.

Had Venkys backed JDT, I feel we just might have 😭

Predicting a first draw of the season: 1-1 Would like Gueye to start to tire out the defence a little bit then bring on ohashi or Gudjohnsen. With morishita deliveries would be great to have a big lad up front who can get his head on them…. Big Mak has been capable

He probably wouldn't have got the job if he didnt sign up to it And if that is the case, at least they have been up front to a manager/head coach for once... Well at least until they decide to change up "project new broom" for "project clean sweep", or "project hands washed"

By that, I mean that any remaining funds should go towards getting players for now as we are still short.

We've signed quite a lot of new players, but how many do we think have actually improved the team?

Well, if VI is complicit in project 'new broom' he will only have himself to blame if the experiment backfires and he and the team bear the brunt of criticism during and after games from our blinkered and easily hoodwinked fanbase. Should a miracle occur and Rovers actually do well this season (we wish!) imagine the impact on all the rest of the teams at this level - bloated squads and overpaid prima-donnas will be jetisoned in favour of lean and hungry teamsheets and cheap makeweights around dressing rooms, with everyone clamouring for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th tier players from overseas... Disruptive innovation, I believe it is called (when it works). Stupidity and asset stripping, I believe it is termed when it all goes tits up... I know where my instinct tells me we are headed (although I'd be delighted to be shown to be an old codger and a buffoon) And yes, the above isn't 'tits up' it is down.

I’ll be fair to Chaddy. I presume he thinks these owners should be doing far more (and I don’t just mean sponsorship deals) to provide a competitive budget that will see us at the top end of the league. But they don’t and this is the budget the likes of Gestede have to work with, not that he’s actually happy with this budget.

Pasha, is that you?

Why would the club buy him and loan him back, If they're not in a position to do so?