We almost went down that year. Wasn’t it about 90/91 season?

Noticed on Bluesky that Nixon has said Rovers had someone at the training ground yesterday, presumably it is the other player the club is close to signing. If Baradji isn't in the squad for his club today then perhaps it's him. Like the sound of the Swedish fella, hopefully they can do both, but that probably means Travis or Tronstad is off. Hopefully they can get shut of Mafoumbi as well, just pay the lad off, he'll be on peanuts anyway.

Yeah. I was thinking of that season where Garner and Sellars were both out for the start of the season after their groin surgery had been delayed at the same time. I don't think they returned until January!

They haven't bothered filing Waggott's departure with Companies House, haven't even formally announced the departure of David Low nor have they bothered to find a replacement to lead the organisation. I don't think they will be taking the Forum Minutes too seriously myself

Not in the squad today.

If it’s a battle against similar players they’re ok. When they come up against footballers like they did yesterday they get bypassed too easily. The question is how many teams will we come up against that are as slick as NEC ?

Baradgi not in squad for today’s game

If the two of them dominate the opposition midfield the team generally play well if not, as we saw yesterday, we get overwhelmed and we are backs against the wall.

Did Rolls Royce make a van ?

We know what happens from Christmas, so the season the good starts stop I think it’s pretty obvious what happens next. So yeah, three points please 😬

Van Basten was.

Much as I like Travis and Tronstad as individual players playing both of them together it makes us a very defensive and unthreatening team to play against. It’s really rare that either of them gets up to support the lone striker, never mind getting beyond them.

If only football actually worked that way. It's business think, like saying we'll keep the old van and get another used one then when one's off the road the other will cover. Footballers ain't vans.

Just to add to winger situation and it could be complete waffle. Been a lot of talk across different platforms of a winger being shown around training facilities last week. Deal was put on hold because all efforts were focused on Miller deal. Winger should be done before West Brom game but no names were mentioned. And Baradgi is being watched by Rovers when he plays today

VI comments re the contract situation were telling. We wont lose both tronstad by all accounts happy to stay but does look like the writing could be on the wall for Travis although there hasn’t been an official approaches for him

This will be the most comfortable home game WBA have this season. WBA 2 Rovers 0

All the best with your surgery and recovery.

They've clearly been trying to prep the way for this from the start of the window just like they were looking for a rb/rwb from the off. Obvious what the plans were at the start of summer to cash in on two more 10k a week or thereabouts 1 year left players who have several known interested buyers. Squad building my arse it's all about realising what assets are left and replacing with much cheaper potential.

Hyam isn't signing a new contract, not a chance. I think they will go back in for Colin Rosler next summer to replace him, we love revisiting old targets.

Nixon was also pushing Kapaudi for another good week or so saying our bid was still live despite signing McLoughlin when it clearly wasn't. So yeah coming round to thinking that Henriksson is an alternative to Baradji but Nixon hasn't caught up yet.

Wouldn't be surprised if we lost our first 2 games.

On paper feels like WBA are big favorites but each season we surprise by coming out of the blocks pretty well. I like Ismael, has the team fit and motivated and tactically tight. Think we have a decent chance.

I'm going down for this game (or up? It is England's highest altitude football ground), anything can happen on the day. I was there when Richie Smallwood kept a clean sheet and I was there when Big Mak turned into Haaland there last year. Both very bizarre matches. I'm not optimistic though, I would take a draw now.

If Russell Martin was made of chocolate, he’d defo eat himself.

Very true, we need good footballers !