My theory is Dolan is relatively close with BBD, Lenihan, Rothwell and discussed the huge financial upside on going on a free with them. Decided hed rather go for that rather than an extra 3k-4k a week... Over two years 4k a week is about 400k. He might be able to get a 1M signing fee plus a much higher salary.

Travis could do better than Derby I think. Could see one of the relegated prem teams going for him. Hes had a great season, I will be very surprised if we dont get bids.

Bruce Springsteen night on BBC 2 tonight.

I don't think they'll spend money on Trav and he'll be looking for a long term deal as well so they'll not tie that type of brass up in him i don't think. Batth i think that will happen, not sure about Weimann at his age and injury status he'd be daft to walk away from here.

Yeah, I can definitely see Batth going there....maybe Travis, hard to tell yet. Sounds like they're also keen on a Weimann reunion. I'm not convinced Derby will be pushing top 6 next season. I think they'll be in that middle group at best with the likes of Swansea, Millwall, Stoke, etc. If Batth, Weimann and Travis are their targets then that reads as mid table consolidation to me, and next season will arguably be the toughest championship for attempting to get top 6.

And that was one of the more polite things he said. 😂 It's fair to say he neither rated me nor liked me and that's how it was - it went with the territory.

Seem to remember him saying something on the lines of " no not you fucking refereeing us" when you bumped into him before a game. I could have just made that up Tony, this aging things a bugger 🥴

Spot on.

if you are trousering 300lk a year for doing nothing but cutting costs,being incompetent and keeping your silence then you arn`t going to turn it down😆

"We want you to be our new CEO, but you won't be able to speak to the owners, the only person who can is the COO who should be subordinate to you yet actually runs the club" Only the daft, desperate or grateful for a job would take that, not a CEO worth the name.

It must be the 'homer referees' quote you refer to Ian. 😂 To be fair though he didn't like me when I refereed his team at Millmoor. 😂

Here’s the podcast link… Still to this day one of our most popular episodes…

One for @arbitro here…& anyone who listened to the episode of the podcast where we interviewed Tony will get the reference. Check biggest drag in soccer answer…😁

She wrote the article for athletic and New York times re Rovers womens football team being shit on. Any publicity highlighting our dysfunctional owners and useless gravy train cohorts running the club into the ground is worth its weight as far as I'm concerned

If you pay someone enough for a doddle they'll keep their mouths shut and let others run it whilst fronting it up so external or internal doesn't really matter as under this ownership the same script will be followed.

He did a great job keeping Derby up and good on him. Infuriating/embarrassing that he is the second excellent manager we’ve had leave us in 2 years due to our moronic ownership. I dare say either coach could have seen us promoted to the promised land with just modest investment. The complete lack of ambition shown to not capitalise on that opportunity is appalling.

Seen as though she works for the athletic and has colleagues talking about it I would say there might be something in it

Would love to be a journo and just read twitter pretending it's insider scoops

Plenty on the Riverside.

nailed on the blue sky and sunshine brigade will slate dolan for his disloyalty

no fences and seemingly rovers fans in the darwen end🙂before my time this!!!!! some "whole hearted" tackles going in as well

and we’ll still see fans on twitter that think everything’s sunshine and rainbows

i’m sick of these owners, so boring and predictable. I guarantee our manager leaves after another diabolical January transfer window.