The players being pushed out also have an affinity with the club . Jrc, Buckley, Travis all academy lads replaced with nobody's from nothing leagues...

Hull are due a loss, Rovers are due a win.

Eroding the English core and spirit in the team is not the best idea seeing as it's the English Championship and a lot of it relies on effort, spirit and resilience. Although to be fair take away Travis and one or two others and we've always had a soft under belly anyway. I don't think these new lads will lack anything in the physical dept but it's what's on the inside that matters just as much. Time will tell but we can't afford a flair team so we are going to have to be a tough team.

Game 3 Ryan Hedges

Have you ever seen them in the same room? Same person, split personality?

No new players

The scumbags chanting for Tommy Robinson would probably disagree

I agree, I think we need a striker as is. I don't envisage we'll pick one up without an outgoing first (as has been the case all summer). If Harry goes too and we don't add to the central position, then it's panic stations .

We should have built on the squad that got us 7th last year (and realistically absolutely bottled the Playoffs). Instead we've dismantled that squad.

any predictions on lineup?

There's suddenly A LOT of black players in the team. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's surely no coincidence.

Yawn. There is no incongruence here (unless you childishly try to look for it.) They don't care about the fans (only reducing expenditure). They don't try to make them feel better -they put out publicity/spin to justify their own actions and present their behaviour as the only option available.

In my opinion, if Leonard goes out on loan or not, we need one striker in, who will score goals.

I do often see these two (Chaddy and RF99) like a marvel match up. Hope vs Doom! 🤣💪🏽

Saw an interview with him not long ago where he said he had to play a year down until under 12/13s as he was so small Hopefully he's caught up a bit, but he's still 16/17 playing under 21 football so I dont think its fair to expect him to stand out just yet.

If Harry goes out on loan, we need a minimum of 2 attackers imo (RW and Striker) . So just saying "another" worries me.

He seemed to have no assistance in central midfield at all if Strich & Wood were meant to be his partners last night In seperate news U18s play the Dinles today, kick off at 11am. Eze starts, no sign of Higgins, who has not featured much in pre/early season for the U18s, & not at all for the U21s score/update

This is where I lie and I think many others. I believe a blend of Championship experience and unknown quantities from Europe are the way to go. Like you, I worry we've potentially tipped the balance in one direction too much and it will have a negative impact.

Has it actually been declared anywhere that Baradji IS injured and won't feature for a while? On holiday at the min so a bit behind. Or are we just making the assumption on the back of Nixons previous story?

Does Dunn look like a prospect? It seems he’s struggling to stand-out in a poor team.

I have to say, whilst I understand the idea of scouting good players out of the lower level European leagues, I genuinely think we are now playing with fire. To add the players we have and then kept Batth, Travis and Brittain, I would would be mildly excited to see how Tavares, Alebiosu, Henriksson, Miller and Baradji would fair. But to now be reliant on those players fitting in and doing a job leaves a LOT of questions. I just hope those lads settle in quick enough to prevent us getting dragged into a relegation battle and the toxicity that would create.

As Mercer points out, 'Those dingles bastards' are just us in the mirror, before the cancerous Raos kicked in. We'd be prepared to put up with a lot to return to the position they are in / have been in for the past decade or so. There but for the grace of football, go we.

Last time Pasha had complete control of the club incidentally...

Given the flagged medical issues, re-negotiating a loan-to-buy for Baradji is perfectly sensible. It's that it's seemingly paired with shipping Travis out (and possibly having to wait for the first instalment of that sale to hit the bank account to make the Baradji deal work...) that leaves a sour taste. So why not hang on to him and wait for the big boys to start circling? I agree that there were some doubts about Wharton at the time. He had some inconsistent performances (I recall telling a friend to watch him when he came on against Millwall; he rightly wondered why he wasn't starting!), he needed to develop physically and show he can handle the rigours of pro football, and there are still questions about his general body language (his stride can look awkward, but he's faster than he looks). It drew some ire, but JDT might have had a point when he benched him due to alleged immaturity. All part of why he was still relatively under the radar. Plus, Broughton had just signed him to a new long-term deal and he wasn't itching to leave, unlike other Academy prodigies (Phillips, Finneran, etc. I try to be realistic and not blame them too much...) I agree it's fanciful to think we could've gotten something close to the fees being rumoured now for a player with only Champ experience (the Scott deal was 'up to' £25m, the Gray deal was linked to Leeds buying Roden, etc), but getting a bidding war going that summer (or later!) and securing an extra, say, £5-7m (and further add-ons) is nothing to scoff at given that's probably how much any 120+% wage-turnover club usually needs in net incomings (that's apparently the price of ~2 out-of-contract Championship players 🙂). You have to be a realistic that a talent like him will be snapped up eventually as we stagnate in the 2nd tier, but you squeeze that golden goose for all its got. Realism about finances aside, it generally saddens me that we only really got to watch two half-seasons of him at Rovers... The bigger question is why he was available at all for £18m+ (emphasis on the '+' given some purposefully over-emphasise £18m, but I digress...) The club will never admit it, but it was because we desperately needed cashflow due to the owners being (apparently) legally prevented from sending enough money over (even if you question that story, it still looks bad on Venky's).