He is their boss, he will be dictating what markets the scouts are looking at. Stop defending everything the club does. IF we lose Batth,Brittain and Travis and they are replaced by cheap foreign signings with no championship experience coming in then it will be inevitable that we will be down towards the bottom of the table

There is no logic to anything they have done for 15 years.

Love the inference here that De Neve is at the same level as the two you mentioned. You've got to wonder why all these clubs waste millions on Championship players when there's the same quality available for peanuts abroad.

The question is, what do the Venkys actually get from owning a league one club? I can't for the life of me see any logic in their association with something so relatively trivial. Premier League yes, Championship not so much, but anything less than that surely just tarnishes their brand and marks them as useless. Simples for me. VENKYS OUT!

When Premier League clubs are looking to nab one of our 13 year olds, what chance does this strategy have?

no

Chaddy?

or a Dolan?

Only just occured to me, who actually buys adult shorts and socks?

Will he? given that most of the scouting especially overseas will be done by watching Videos of games and using Wyscout to find players which alot of clubs used to find players. Ismael has been clear what he wants in terms of players qualities and attributes like Pace. Yes we are looking overseas for what we want cos the market is cheap in terms transfer fees and wages. I'm sure we will be looking domestic for players but how many good pacey players can we get for our budget here. How much would a Tyler Goodham cost us this summer or Sirki Dembele cost?

France were poor through most of their run to the world cup in 2018. Portugal drew every game until the final in 2016. No one really remembers how they got there

I believe the plan is for 4 kits, home, away, 3rd and then the retro one to be released mid season.

It's online now.

It's online now. Just kidding it's 9:57am.

Southgate record was semi final at world cup 2018 and 4th Euro 2020 runner-up World cup 2022 knock out by finalist France in a very even game that could have gone either way Euro 2024 runner up Do you think Tuchel can get us to the last 8 and I'm not sure he knows what tactical set up he wants or his starting 11 should be? I can name my starting 11, can you?

Always a hero here. He played competitive matches and scored as well, before leaving.

I think they'd prefer to stay at Championship level and will try simply because it adds more value and the execs are on good wages which will no doubt be cut in lge 1. However they absolutely know the pitfalls and know without substantial regular owner money it is inevitable we'll drop we nearly did 2 years ago. So i think those on the ground here are definitely preparing for that kind of future and probably advising the owners 'we'll manage if it happens it's our natural level now just think of the lower cost base and less input needed. We'll grow a team to go back up then consolidate whilst its book value increases, then sell it'. These owners ultimately call the shots but they clearly rely on what gets fed to them from this end.

Think the new TV deal that started last season is a bit better for league one/two clubs than it has been previously. Plus we will have zero high earners on the books, so that would offset that to a huge degree anyway. Academy lads will be on what a couple of grand a week at best? I'm not even sure they would be on that. I believe that's there plan, plus in league one you are even more out of the spotlight than you are now in the champ, especially with "huge clubs" like Wrexham and Birmingham coming up that we couldn't possibly dream of competing with.

I'm not actually sure it is cheaper to fund a League 1 side. Didn't someone post a table the other week showing the massive hit in TV revenue you take if you get relegated? Difference was just over £1m instead of £6m or £7m from memory. What they would probably ideally like is to stay bobbing about in perpetuity in the lower reaches of Championship using academy kids and cheap loans. Unfortunately that won't happen as other Clubs have ambition and try to improve instead of treading water or regressing at a rate of knots like we are.

Haha fair point. I'm in Italy right now so technically it is

Probably because it's not 10am yet?

Nothing on the Roverstore yet as far as i can see?

Strikes me as having neither nous nor gravitas. IMO, Gestede should simply not be in that role, novice or otherwise - he is fathoms out of his depth. and there you have it - IMO, 3 footballing nobodies and the dumbing down process to all things Rovers is further entrenched. There is absolutely no doubting the club's ambition. The one factor that might just hold them back is their manager Phil Parkinson. A decent track level BELOW Championship level but he's failed to cut it as Championship level with other clubs. Would not surprise me if Parkinson is not an early managerial casualty as the ownership want success and quickly - they aint interested in 'consolidation' or 'projects'.

Maybe at 10?

More like the guy in the bobble hat ‘Int Rovers brilliant, blue and white kit, brilliant, no contracts, brilliant, expensive season tickets, brilliant!’