I believe Pickering has gone to Plymouth Argyle this evening in a bid to compete as their starting LB in L1 this season

Not for overseas club which I read he wants. For a Championship club a couple of millions plus 15k a week over 3 years is the going rate isn't it? It's been 18 days since he left us officially and since no club

Just to reiterate and may be fuelled by holiday drinks but you're right the club is dying. It's sad to see however the fans are turning to the coalition for hope and we do all genuinely appreciate all the work people are doing. For most of us it's out of the realms of knowledge (personally I wouldn't know where to begin with all of this) keep going @glen9mullan and the rest of the coalition we are rooting for you and all. Forever Blue and White

And I'm sure these signings have video scouted and check, but scouting is original done by video cos he can used Wyscout which is great for club and used by many clubs out there. Of course players are scouted on how much they will cost but you want to check and scouted the players attributes first and make sure they fit in with the type of players you want His team was relegated from Belgium top league to the second league.

That really puts it into perspective how weak we are

Why wouldn't you want Brittain to stay and sign a new contract? One of our best player, proven championship player with experience. Ismael is a big fan of his Finances play every transfer but Ismael is very clear on what he wants and so far in terms of profile of player. Is Belgium league a lesser league than the championship? I don't need to prepare my excuses RF99 but I could turn it around on you and you have prepared your excuses for Ismael potentially he is happy with those 2 players. Yes I want a replacement for Brittain cos I want to use Montgomery as centre midfielder not as a right back something you have overlooked here

McLaughlin, Al Sahafri and the baradji bloke if the medical works out, plus a premier league striker loan. Not a million miles away.

I understand that. Personally I’d complain to the passport office but you might not think it’s worth the bother.

I do miss the times when we last had a Big sale, P. Jones, splashed 6.80m on Scott Dann and nearly 4m on Goodwillie recouping 1.5m. Running a football club is extremely difficult. Minimizing risk is a clever way to do it. When it comes to not backing Eustace, he was delighted with both Sanderson and Forshaw in the Jan window. In addition we brought in AK and Dennis. The summer transfer window I think most supporters were pleased with.

That's a Twiggy team (not much up-front).

No point praising how good some of our younger players are when the Premier Leaguee sharks are always circling. We get excited at the prospect, then they're off.

At the moment we line up like this as our strongest lineup: Toth Albieusu, Carter, Hyam, Ribeiro Tronstad, Travis, Cantwell Ohashi, Gueye, Hedges Subs: Picks, De Neve, Kargbo, Tavares, Tyjon, Buckley, Montgomery, Leonard, Forshaw, Wharton, Garrett, Pears. Really need reinforcements...

In short - no!

Again, why is it preferable to 'develop' 'young players', and in doing so likely sacrifice results, over immediate results which we were getting last season under Eustace and which should have taken us into the play-offs? Who wins from the strategy you are so happy with? Rovers? No chance. We sacrifice immediate results under the pretence of a longer term plan. When did we last benefit - really benefit - from a player sale? The Wharton emergence and sale should have been our golden lottery ticket - once in a generation. And where did we get with that one? Plenty of tweets and back slapping among Rovers and the support base about 'one of our own' but naff all to actually show for it, unless you count remaining in business as being something worth boasting about. Gestede benefits because he can claim we are 1 window into a 4,5,6 window process which secures him 3-4 years of employment. Venkys benefit because it saves them yet more money. Pasha stooge benefits because if one or two of these players come good and we sell them, even if its for a small fee, it is all profit and he can get a pat on the back from the money men in India.

Hopefully Cantwell does...

Ah yes, if in doubt say "negativity" to make someone seem unreasonable. I commented on the link and initially and named at least as many positives as negatives. I even questioned @RoversClitheroe (without reply) who just said it was a terrible signing, or something along those lines. I think he is a decent enough signing. I praised Batth regularly for his performances and wanted him to stay. The only revisionism is coming from those underplaying how good he actually was. The main reason that I don't expect any new centre back to be as good, in this case McLoughlin if he signs, is mainly because of how good Batth was rather than any shortcomings on any new signing. Whether he would have replicated that, we will never know sadly.

Age is irrelevant here. See Adam Forshaw's new deal. Eustace had us in the top 6 thanks to these sort of players and if we'd have backed him even remotely in January he'd have potentially led us to promotion. I don't think anyone anywhere would have been bothered about how old Danny Batth is/was. Those signings were working a treat for us - that's what sensible clubs do with a limited budget - back a manager working wonders on it and let him keep going - Derby have clearly identified he's a man who can secure results on a meagre budget. Nobody associated with Rovers can claim there is any sort of sustainable long term plan as much as people would like to convince themselves there is. We change executives and management more often than people change their season tickets, we deliberately let contracts run down making no effort to renew them and fail to invest or build anything remotely sustainable. It's a myth, please don't delude yourself that because we've been outdone by Derby on Batth and Weimann that we are following some grand long term sustainable strategy. We're firing into the dark with Gestede following Pasha's instructions because it's the cheapest way and because he might earn a few brownie points in India if a couple of them pay off. Rovers won't benefit from it either way.

Only quoting Val who directly compared him to beck

Anything happened on holiday do cant bothered scrolling 😕

A very important part of it is not playing old players all the time which blocks the development of the young players. Without saying anything about needing a new RB or LW it is a fact that more bodies makes it tougher for our youth players to be a part of it, even getting 10-15 mins cameos.

It will take a hell of a signing to replicate the performances that Batth put in last year. I dont get why people are making out as if he is easily replaceable.

I think it's more that he's the ACD replacement - he's a winger. I know he's played LB, but we have Ribeiro and Pickering for LB.

'More financial upside' Totally pointless issue if a) we don't renew contracts, b) we get relegated or miss promotion because of it, c) well sell them but it all goes into covering Venky losses and not back into the club.

It seems to be quiet a common problem among our academy graduates...