Wharton has withdrawn from the under 21s. Shame

We can't re-invest because of the latest mess the ownership has created or concocted. If they were willing and able to fund as they were then over the last few years there would have been no excuse not to use any sale proceeds or at least a nice big chunk of them towards investing in building a promotion seeking team. It is the only way to do it without parachute money and of course the better the team the more the players are worth anyway so it ticks that box as well. Conveniently though there is the excuse that somehow manifested itself a few years so they've even managed to balls up the best opportunity we've had since we actually had parachute money.

Yeah. As we all remember, Dennis can win a header, but…..

I say invest in the women's team and put us in League 1 with new owners

Agreed, again their choice to use the money to prop up their disgraceful regime, they could have used it to improve the club/squad if they wanted to, but have made a conscious choice to try and avoid that. Nothing to do with: a) Low crowds, small town b) Covid c) FFP rules d) Admin errors e) The weather f) Rogue secretaries It has always been a choice for the owners and they have always been the issue

Marcus Harris has extended his contract until 2027. Would have probably hit 1,000 runs if he didn’t have the captaincy dragging him down.

Sadly most of that £40 million is now gone with no owner input for the last two years together with Suhail comment of moving away from a benefactor model I see little prospect of meaningful investment in the first eleven.

Agreed, point taken.

We don't need to , we choose to. We could, if we wanted, use some of the £40 million+ to recruit ready made Championship quality players like other clubs do after selling assets. The owners and their stooges have different plans. Their choice.

Absolutely. Perhaps the the coalition can go to the press with it and make it abundantly clear that we are doing this on our own, with no club involvement, purely down to the clubs pathetic attempt at it so far.

you need a good spine in a team. To lose Baath, tronstad\trav would be criminal imo. I get we need to deal in the cheap foreign unknown market, but you have to keep a core of experience of the level. Lets hope these rumours are just that, rumours. I find it hard to trust anything I read about this club, when someone says someone's close to leaving, signing or anything contract related in any way, I would ignore all of it until released by the club, and even then that might not even be true!

We can afford to replace them, we just choose not to.

Gascoigne was very good but he wasn't a patch on Hoddle imo. I've never seen an English player like him.

Not a valid comparison at all really. Those Clubs can afford to replace said players. And even if other Clubs make the occasional mistake, that doesn't excuse us making the same mistake once, let alone time after time after time.

In this instance it made sense. He was doing well in League 2 but you obviously arent going to get anything other than a nominal fee for a player doing quite well in League 2. A step up to League 1 made sense but unfortunately he wasnt quite good enough. Makes sense to let him go and try and forge a career.

Right well I don't believe that's a persistent problem for him, and half the post I was replying to was essentially claiming he doesn't win headers.

Whatever great ideas the fans collectively come up with, the one thing that needs to happen, is for it to be blatantly obvious the clubs senior hierarchy had zero involvement. They're likely to try and claim some kind of involvement in anything positive.

I have Ken Beamish's no 7 shirt from the final home game v Wrexham which I can make available if needed.

Yeah but those clubs don't start moaning about not having any money and say they can't spend in the transfer market We leave it to late to start negotiating new contracts no doubt about it,if Dolan had been offered more money with 2 years left on his deal then he would have signed. Travis, Brittain ,Hyam and Tronstad should have been made contract offers last summer and if we couldn't get deals done then look to sell them with 2 years left and use the money on replacements like normal run clubs do

Liverpool might make a mistake or 2 along the way but they are still the Champions! Margins are so tight for Rovers we can't make mistakes , let alone glaringly obvious ones--like not tying down our best players, of which we only have a few. It's not that hard. But we keep doing it over and over and over again. I'd list them but its too painful

Plymouth's manager is off to Schalke. Initially was a bit shocked, but then saw Schalke are not what they used to be - to say the least. Finished 14th in the German second division this season. The Argyle board's statement is... somewhat emotional. Reminds me a little bit of ours when Eustace left.

I'm of the view that first game of the season is boycotted and everyone attends the women's first fixture.

The model that this club has to run on now you simply cannot keep letting it happen then shrugging the shoulders. You also cannot keep telling fans one thing about the 'project' grow/buy low increase value then sell, whilst doing the complete opposite in several cases every year.

I have stated on here, before that we need to make a fans version of the 150th celebrations, as the clubs ideas so far have been pathetic. In some ways, they have already scored a huge own goal,, as those of us, who remember the centenary season, will be aware that the season 19/74/75 was celebrated that and won promotion from the old third division. There was a rallying cry, before that season started, from within the club, that we would go all out for promotion, which was achieved and one of the best seasons, I remember supporting the club. Once the fixtures are announced, perhaps we can choose the home game closest to the date of the club being formed and maybe get some activities set up around that, such as inviting former players and maybe even getting a celebratory shirt, available from this and other sites, like the retro one that was marketed on here. In the meantime, keep up, the brilliant work it would be an even bigger cause to celebrate the centenary, if we flush this lot out, once and for all.

Tim Hardin - The Lady Came From Baltimore