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My only, very wishful thinking, is that the sale is contingent on us being a championship club so there might be a moderate amount of investment to try and keep us up

Personally think there's an excuse creation culture. There's players being counted in the list that wouldn't be back in the first team squad, but if we mention they've got a knock then it makes us sound worse off.

To be honest, I don't suspect it is true in reality. Even if Owen did decide Ismael wasn't right for the job (I have no evidence whatsoever that this is the case), do you really think he'd get it past RG and more importantly, SS? AO won't have any direct comms with the owners, and I'm pretty sure SS wouldn't be wanting to approach the owners to tell them the manager they selected is a failure. There was lots of chatter last April that there was a clause in VI's contract that it could be terminated within something like... 5 or 6 months. I remember Glen Mullan banging that drum quite incessantly. Is it beyond the realms of possibility that other clauses could have been inserted to protect the club from paying more or less full compensation? I know lots of people will say, this is Suhail you're talking about, but if nothing else, he doesn't like parting with his bosses money. I can't imagine VI would have held much negotiating power given his pretty abject managerial record.

Cashin is here because Brighton are paying most of his wages that is the defining factor nothing else.

Few interviews this week about the boycott. We wont really know until the day how well it has gone. Please keep spreading the word.

Would more people who aren't boycotting be open to using the PNE game to not go to there seats until the 15th Minute game is live on sky

A minor plea from me, who is neither an attender nor a boycotter merely one of the many many ‘natural boycotters’ If you use social media don’t rise to the bait, there are obvious posts out there with the sole purpose of agitation, it serves no good to get into a back and forth with other fans. You might feel you are sticking it to them but the only winners in that scenario are the powers that be inside the club.

Cannot beat JCC!

Going off the stuff Mercer had put I am guessing he is talking about Shea Lacey at United

Well it's about time that AO did his fucking job, assuming that what Duncan was told was true. Has he not noticed that we are sinking without trace?

Nobody playing Henning Berg ?

Thanks for that Merc. He’d have to be a lot better than Tyjon to get me out of my seat.

I am at a point where with Ismael I don't think even a tonne of better players would make the difference anymore. He is out of his depth tactically and has no ability to motivate the players. His media skills and excuse culture are the worst since Kean. If we loan some young wonder kids they will drop off a cliff after losing a few in a row. We need a new manager and a raft of experienced championship pros ASAP to keep us up.

I remember this being included in the last fans forum minutes DM asked RG that while he had stated he thinks we will have a good season, what if we don’t? Since Steve Waggott left the structure at the club is unclear and if there is a decision to be made on the future of the head coach, who is responsible for that? SS stated it would be the owners decision, but they would propose it. DM asked specifically who would propose this as it is unclear where people’s remit starts and ends, and it was unclear who was assessing the performance of RG/SS or VI. RG stated that AO was responsible for assessing all coaching staff at the club, which extended to ValerienIsmael.

I would have thought coming here to play under the current shit show would be character building for any young player. If you can thrive at Rovers in its' current state, then you'll be OK anywhere.

Arthur Lee - Five String Serenade

I've a feeling we will be looking at someone like Chido Obi, Biancheri or Reigan Heskey

Friedel (USA) Emerton (AUS) Samba (CON) Hendry (SCO) Zurab (KAZ) Tugay (TUR) Nzonzi (FRA) Duff (ROI) Bellamy (WAL) Pedersen (NOR) Shearer (ENG) Midfield a bit slow but could see Nzonzi and Tugay bouncing off each other.

There abound be a study on our injuries this season, I’m convinced it’s all part of a defunding. Every injury is seemingly 5-6 weeks or more and I’d hazard a guess that some of that is due to misdiagnosis or mismanagement of the initial injuries. It’s never just a knock that is a game or two and then back

With the way the tv money is vastly expanding and the financial gap between Premier League and Championship widening its more about timing really. The resources to bridge the gap and growing year on year. There are a bunch of clubs who made it the mid to end 2010 and have managed to stick or yoyo (Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, Palace, Burnley, Sheff Utd, Wolves). But recent years the only new club in who has stuck a bit is Forest and they spent mega money. Will be interesting of Leeds and Sunderland can last.

Why Rovers? A short term deal, 'guaranteed' game time thereby gaining invaluable experience and becoming 'battle hardened' in a challenging and competitive league, we have something of a track record with promising young loan players (Elliott and Van Hecke to name but two) and as @islander200 points out, the parent club may prefer the young lad to be loaned to a club close to home for clear reasons. This would not be about money (loan fee, savings on wages etc) for the parent club but would be about hastening the development of a real young talent. Why not Rovers?

Football isnt all about physical attributes, but Cashin seeming to be both slow and relatively small is a big hurdle to get over. Its very puzzling as we brought in Pratt as we thought Riberio and Pickering were too small and slow for LCB but then have pulled in Cashin. Feels like maybe we have knee jerked to bring in experience, but not fully considered the implications.

We know there's some atrocious refereeing in the Championship, but a decent team would put the result beyond doubt, with a few goals.

Abso bloomin ‘ lutely Really irks me more than anything when small minded Rovers fans see clubs like them (and Brentford etc) as “above our level” and say we can’t compete with them. They’re not and we can What they are though are well managed clubs with good owners and executives with ambition, confidence and drive and nous. Burnley have shown what is possible. Has to be said but Rovers need to be run on the Burnley model.

Will prem clubs really care about the behind the scenes chaos? Both Manchester United and Manchester City have sent promising young players to Sheffield Wednesday. It depends on who the plsyer is and what other clubs we would be competing with. It may be a young player from one of the North West clubs who would rather the player was loaned to a club close to home