You say 'lighten up' as if we're absolutely furious. It's just an opinion. In fact it's an opinion I was more vociferous about when I was the age in question. I called my mates out on it plenty of times when they came back from hols sporting a Barca shirt or something.

I am surprised we let Markanday go as I assume after a decent season in the lower leagues he is worth something? But maybe there is a contractual impediment to activating the option to only try and sell?

Is that Silver Eze not stopping on??

I'd rather keep Goddard or even Kahn. Young enough to be useable as u21 regulars or emergency bench cover that doesn't use a squad space.

Well Mark it wasn't triggered and the easy option wasn't taken here

That and giving Weimann another season tells me all I need to know about our lack of ambition.

The club wouldnt be posting articles on the website if he was going was the point

Retaining Hedges is a waste of time, but I know why we’ve done it- because he’s cheap.

Pleased Batth and Weimann have been offered new deals. Hedges squad player. Surprised Batty got a new contract. Markanday has been released @MarkBRFC like I hope for. rightly so. Not good enough. I have Surprised Forshaw hasn't had been offered a new contract given Ismael comments post season and the fact he was picked over Buckley and JRC.

Well it’s a moot point now, he’s off

As if by magic. Markanday and Vale both released

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/may/19/retain-list-2025/

I'm very much interested in his further development, very much so but I think I'd only lose connection if he signed for Manure (I know he wouldn't sign for Dingles).

I’ve got a couple of Rovers shirts but I’ve also got about a dozen Rugby League shirts from the team I support. When you sponsor a player you get to keep their match shirt at the end of the season. Next time I need to sponsor one of the prop forwards as the shirts of the guys who we sponsor are too small given RL shirts are a shrink fit to prevent the player being grabbed by the loose shirt.

Something will go wrong, that's for sure.

I have never said Markanday is either exciting or a winger. What I have said is that he is better than Dolan. I have always advocated that Markanday would be best played centrally.

The way people are describing Hedges, he would make an ideal wing-back.

Damien Duff.

hedges is ok to bring on a sub in the last 20 minutes,he won`t let you down in that dept,he is`nt starting material though,he`s got absolutely no pace since his hamstring injury

If you are referring to Eastham, Goddard & Kahn, they are all out of contract this summer. Hilton also left in January That being said, I still see little point in Barrett being given a new contract

We've got about 5 of them. We don't need him. He's 22 and pretty low down the backup keeper rankings. It's an odd contract to give.

Look at Khadra who was in every sense better than Markanday, same age and had a decent time here which caught the attention of Sheff U. There he began to struggle in a side with bigger demands and expectations so now hes gone to somewhere a bit less demanding. Markanday will never step up at best he can be a squad player with the odd good cameo maybe but knowing how light our squads end up he'll have to start games. Very best solution is hope a bid comes in and get some money back.

Not relied upon in League One playoffs by the underdogs. Get rid. Take whatever you can get.

Agree, he's not shown anything to suggest he's championship.. Would love to see him step up and prove me wrong.

Do I want Wharton to do well? Sure. If I turn on and see Crystal Palace playing, I hope he plays well (although I couldn't care less about how they do). If anything I sort of want them to do badly. They got a potential bargain from us and many of their supporters speak as if they 'discovered' him. That's annoying. I'm sure there are other fanbases who have felt the same way about players that we have taken as our own or treated like we plucked out of nowhere, but I have no interest in fueling that particular mindset by supporting them as if they did us some favour by signing him.