They aren't "decent" squad players. They are examples of a club who have lowered their standards, who don't put any money in to the squad. Hedges is an attacking player who plays almost every game and has mustered 1 goal and 2 assists. He offers nothing going forward, he doesn't score, he isn't creative, he isn't quick, he isn't tricky, he doesn't beat players. Forshaw is a veteran who Plymouth happily gave away. When he started games or played a big chunk of games, think Oxford away, Bristol City away, Stoke away, Swansea away, we really struggled. Not obviously all down to him, but he isn't good enough aside from coming on occasionally for a few minutes to help see out a game. Which is all well and good, but he will need to start games when starters are unavailable. It's this idea of, oh he will do as a squad player. Then when we get a few injuries and have to play these players from the start regularly, the performance levels dip and the results suffer.

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Hedge and Forshaw are decent Championship squad players. Ismael will know his budget and will know how little there is to work with. Of course he wants them to stay, the alternatives could be much worse.

Markanday isn't good enough. He ain't good enough

At a club that hasn't got a decent championship wide-man.

He really couldn't. Dolan is a decent Championship wide man. Markanday struggled for game time in League 1.

I'm not sure, I think Markanday could do the vast majority of what Dolan offered.

I’d be a very happy LB if JRC was on the right attacking lining up against me.

I don't know what he is, and I'm not sure JRC knows either. He has had spells being good in a few positions, and spells being dogshit in the same positions. The main issue is his fitness, which will never hold up for more than half a season at best, and even when it is 'holding up' for that long he seems to be playing through a niggle and never looks fully fit. It's time to part ways tbh.

I don't think that he is. at youth level he played mainly as either a left sided attacking midfielder, or as a right wing back. He was also poor as a right sided attacking midfielder at the start of this season. Personally see him as probably being best suited to playing as a box to box midfielder in a 4-3-3 Definitely prefer him in the squad to Forshaw

How much of any compo would the first team see ?

I want JRC to stay. I think he's a good player. He's been played out of position far too many times. He is a right sided attacking midfielder. Rather have him as back up to Tronstad and Travis than Forshaw.

Pity it wasn't a mass exodus at ownership level.

Sacrilege

Release him and possibly waving goodbye to 1 million compensation isn't the right way to go he's 100% leaving anyway and his contract will run till end of June probably so nothing will happen before then i don't think.

Apparently his contract has a 1 year option clause, so he wont be on a free this summer

Arsenal all over PSG right now, but they need to score or the inevitable will happen. Donnarumma has just made an outstanding save, low to his left, thunderbolt from the edge of the box. Think Flowers VE Day, but better.

Josh windass on a free? Always thought him to be a threat, getting on but these post 30 players can be very handy in the champ. I’d have him

If Dolan won't sign for whatever reason put him on the release list. We've been through enough player issues and don't want this lingering throughout the summer. He doesn't want to play for us, he thinks he's a better player so let him go and prove it. If he ends up at on a premiership bench or sub for another championship club on £8k more per week than now then that's his choice. We need to move on and close this thread.

Hedges and Dolan cant be lumped in together. Dolan is far more productive. We also cant let Pickering go just because he wouldnt necessarily be automatic starter. Although from what I have seen from Ribeiro I would prefer Pickering anyway.

1980`s,when a visit from chelsea had you reaching for clean underpants and every local headcase in the area seemed to mobilise 🙂

They were the best couple of games youll see all season. Fantastic entertainment.

Rovers Women did fantastically well to stay up this season after our squad was decimated. Players and staff did really well all things considered - a greatly under-appreciated achievement. Do we know for sure the club are willing to allow the team to continue next season? Until we know that, there is a chance we could become another Reading. Would feel unnecessary as tv money to Champ teams is going up again. There is typically little crossover between men and women's football so growing Rovers Women is about new people at Ewood (might explain the low engagement on this thread on this site). Stewarding costs mean playing at Ewood much more expensive than not playing. Threading the pitch was designed to make it able to handle both women's and men's team games. The Women only get 12 home league games a season. Paying for the stewarding would make sense if those in charge of the club actually understood women's football and it's opportunity. They don't because that requires a lot more effort and innovation so they lazily market to the men's supporters and gutted our most successful team last offseason and wonder why fans don't turn up. Add in the reported attitude of Waggott to them as per comments and articles last summer and here we are. Investing properly in the women's team would actually be a reasonably low-cost way for Venkys to actually have some success.

All this claptrap about Dolan being a superb player for Rovers. He flatters to deceive and is bang average Championship standard as far as I'm concerned. Get a decent price for him, say £1 M, and he can leave!

I doubt very much hes been dropped when playing well although it could be tactics but if he was doing so well and was a good player at that level he'd have been back in. Same thing has happened twice now so there's a reason for it although never rule out it could be to do with money and possible appearance fees. Either way it's character building which is 50% the reason why young players get loaned down the leagues in the first place.