Remember WBA away last season almost a hattrick 🔥

Mumbai would jump at the chance going from League one to Rovers.

Agreed. That would require the capacity to plan.

Think this time round they have a better chance (unfortunately!). As well as Leeds and Sunderland I suspect Bournemouth and Brentford could struggle. Palace possibly as well if they lose Eze or Mateta - although with how Parrish plays hardball they would undoubtedly have decent funds to reinvest. Not sure West Ham are in a great place either. Bugger! I seem to have talked myself into giving the Dingles a fair chance of staying up 🙁

Will the club provide the jumpers they’ll need for goalposts or does he have to bring his own?

With a cheap signing like him, let's say he cost us 250k... You should expect absolutely nothing, anything more is a bonus.

Seems to be fairly quick, a willing runner. Got himself on the edge of the 6 yard box for the goal v Everton, not something Hedges does. He seems to prefer being on the edge of the area.

Im not so sure they do. The state that the system in this country is in, it is so difficult to stay up if you go up such is the gap between the divisions. The flip side of this is that Southampton disgraced themselves in the Premier League, yet are very strongly placed to come back up even assuming they lose their best players. Regarding the promoted teams, Burnley have lost Trafford, Egan Riley and Brownhill. Their signings seem to be a bit underwhelming from their perspective. Sunderland were weaker to begin with but have really gone for it in the market, Xhaka is the eye catching one. Leeds had the strongest squad of the 3 and have only strengthened it.

It's because despite all the claims, boasts and lies from the club about the importance of communication with fans in practice unless you know someone behind the scenes the only chance the general fanbase have to discover what is going on is by waiting for occasional forum meetings and then waiting for the minutes released weeks later. They've done their best to remove all other forms of communication including consultation and shareholder meetings and I'm sure they'd get rid of forum meetings too if they could. Because what they claim and what they actually do are the opposite. It sounds good to say you value communication. In practice they do the absolute minimum and have the media wrapped around their fingers too.

England doing their best to lose this Test. Another dropped catch and poor bowling

Was in the right place for the goal against Everton, came to some decent opportunities against Elche and look defensively solid. Partnership with Ribeiro not clicking all together unfortunately. Need time to adapt each other

Sorry, can't agree with this. Theoretically, he does but, in reality, he's fundamentally lacking. He doesn't have a 'footballing brain' and his finishing is often woeful. If he was given a banjo, the cow's arse would be safe...

Slightly jealous of Charlton's window. It's a very 'Stoke' style could go either way, but Knibbs and Apter are in the mould we need

Really hope De Neve shows something, not been impressed so far. Bad first touch, not sure what he offers, looks like another Hedges personally

In my opinion he has more of the attributes to make him a great right winger.

Keith Lemon from Temu?

I think that the Dingles will have a fighting chance this year. Parker seems to be a more pragmatically minded manager that Kompany was, certainly defensively, so they perhaps won't get rolled over quite the same this time around. Here's hoping though...

I dont think Mumba is anything special, often shunted around in various positions, usually either full back. We need a right winger who is going to play in that position and can give us a goal threat and some pace. Not someone who can be a jack of all trades.

Could mean that De Neve plays inverted on RW to make room for overlapping fullbacks and the new RW does the same.

These two would be amazing business. Won’t happen 🤣

If a new RW is playing on the LW, that means Hedges is starting at RW. A sobering thought.

Let’s have your predictions in the following categories: 1. Winners of the Championship Southampton 2. Automatic promotion (runners-up) in the Championship Ipswich 3. Four Play off semi-finalists in the Championship Wrexham ROVERS Birmingham Duuuuughby 4. Three relegated sides from the Championship Sheff Wed, Hull, Preston 5. Where will Rovers finish in the Championship? 6th 6. First Championship club to change manager (after the season starts) Rovers 7. Winners of the Premier League Leeds 8. A notable wild card prediction of something that will happen in the Rovers universe during the season (e.g. Donald Trump visits Ewood Park) A space ship lands in the centre of the pitch during the hame v Derby just as Weimann is about to unleash a winning boomer from 40 yards and the Venkys return to their home planet. The aliens grant us one wish and everyone wishes to wake up from the shitshow that was apparently the last 15 years and we are still in the Prem. Oh an I find £20 in my pocket.

One point is that young fans will have no hero's to bond with if we carry on like this.They no sooner love a player than he's off. They adore Gueye. Gotta keep these kids onside.

An easy one to start off with, as just the one player is currently away on loan O'Riordan - score/update - Game is live on Sky Sports + at 3pm Although seeing as we do not have many out on loan, and the friendly in the Netherlands may or may not be streamed. There are also a few games with former Rovers which will be on Sky Sports + at 3pm today if anyone is interested in keeping tabs (I have no idea if any of the below are fit/starting etc) Gent & Nathan Willis - Plymouth v Barnsley Dack & Cirino - Accrington v Gillingham Gilsenan & Sam Laville - Grimsby v Crawley Markanday, Fleck & McFadzean v Connor Mahoney & Rakeem Harper - Chesterfield v Barrow Harry Chapman - Barnet v Fleetwood Jack Payne v Smallwood & "fans favourite" Jason Lowe - Colchester v Tranmere Callum Wright - Wigan v Northampton Butterworth - Walsall v Swindon Matty Platt - Newport v Notts County James Connolly - Salford v Crewe Callum Hendry - MK Dons v Oldham 12 noon Tomorrow Edun v Cozier-Dubbery - Stockport v Bolton

Have I gone to bed and woke up and suddenly every thinks Gueye is Zlatan ! I wouldn’t sell him due to the lack of options and he’s a handy plan B, but talk of £4mill to £6million is bonkers. Ismael didn’t fancy him at all at the end of last season, and he didn’t start a game after mid-March.