Sounds like Chaddy

All to save thruppence ha'penny. Baffling.. unless there is a cunning plan* *there isn't.

So we're now so desperate to sell our home grown long standing captain that we are going to have to pay up 2 years of Mafoumbi's contract to get rid of him so that we can open up a slot to allow us to spend more money signing another foreign lad to replace the captain, who may well not be good enough anyway. What a joke of a club. I'm not going to forget the fact that a little over 12 months ago Gestede was doing work experience shadowing Waggott, apparently with a view to a future career as a CEO, and now he's responsible for all recruitment to the club. They've thrown our fate into the hands of a novice.

Yep,that all comes down to quality and we are lacking massively in that department.Route one Rovers?

I still can’t believe we’re swapping Travis; promotion winner, club captain and nearly 250 champ games under his belt for someone who has played 100 games in serie C and D and 30 in a league with similar coefficient to Scotland, who most decry as being tinpot

That's exactly what has gone on the signings are made out of necessity this regime has never 'built' anything they just replace and cobble together. All through Mowbrays tenure barring league one all that ever happened was padding out the squad. The odd bits of investment were and still are just brought in on an individual bases were they think it is a player who can be given games then sold for profit. Every one of these signings now will be stat based and what value they think they can get after 50 to 100 games. Remember Mowbray saying i don't look at the table and not that bothered about results as long as he can see good possession stats and individuals developing ? An utterly bizarre thing to say but born out of the truth because that is the mantra here now.

On the David Webb front - when their players collided and he gave them possession, he allowed their players to stay on the pitch. when Miller went down, off to the side to be called on two tier Webb

The fans sung the Venkys dont care about me chant a number of times.

Wasn’t aware of the shared agent, mafoumbi goes down as another strange signing. The last few seasons I’ve been quietly optimistic as although the ownership and cabal’s a shambles we’ve retained a lot of solid players and had good (not without faults) managers. I personally don’t see VI in the same bracket as JDT and Eustace in terms of quality, throw in to that the loss of quality and experience and the accumulation of relatively unknown players from leagues with a lower standing than the championship and this season is starting to have the feel of the Coyle disaster. This accumulation of unknown players at the behest of the ex player/special advisor makes me very uncomfortable in termS of relationships, etc

Shall we all have a guess what will happen here? * The only player on a scholarship contract who I included below is Tyjon. Expiring in 2026 - Kahn, Hyam, Tronstad, Travis, Forshaw, Hedges, Tyjon, Mullarkey-Matthews, Davies, Farkas, Strich, Dlamini, Wood, Boggan Expiring in 2026 but with an option - Honor, Olson, Batty, Duru, Montgomery, O'Grady-Macken, Expiring in 2027 - Pears, Toth, Michalski, Wharton, Carter, Garrett, Buckley, Cantwell, Kargbo, Leonard, Edmondson, Doherty, Expiring in 2027 but with an option - Barrett, Goddard, Pickering, McLoughlin, Ribeiro, Gueye, Ohashi, Litherland, Houghton, Powell, Mafoumbi Expiring in 2028 - O'Riordan, Tavares, Expiring in 2028 but with an option - Atcheson, Miller, Alebiosu, De Neve Expiring in 2029 - Expiring in 2029 but with an option - Henriksson

Exactly. It's was nasty cut to the head Baradji is Travis replacement

Agreed. Don't think he's a good manager at all.

Thought the defence did well and Toth kept us in the game i don't think it's wrong to say if Pears was in there we are beaten soundly. Angry at the silly passing it around under pressure at the back rearing its ugly head again That will cost a needless goal soon enough, cut it out it doesn't make great footballers out of average ones it just causes steady ones to dither.. Football wise and attacking wise i thought we were crap the pressing was pedestrian and passing/shape disjointed for most of it. At least Kargbo has a go and provides an outlet i think if we started him yesterday he puts WBA on the backfoot from the off whereas instead they took early control. In the end couldn't have moaned at a draw if we pinched it but overall probably a fair result and i think this new look side is going to take a while to find its feet. You can feel the undercurrent of concern in the fans who were rather subdued imo given the number there and the lid will come off guaranteed up we don't get a few wins under our belts.

Very rarely will chaddy entertain criticism of the Club.

If you dont think that was clear penalty then you are totally and utter clueless. You're embarrassing yourself I'm not doing another Hedges debate with you AGAIN FFS. Move on and stop shit stirring RF99. We need a right sided attacking midfielder in. Thought you agree. Then replacing any players that leave whether that Travis, Pears or Buckley He played 2 weeks ago so is he fit or not? I dont know what the scans show

If Kargbo is considered to be our best player we need to understand how to benefit from his pace and crossing (which was awful yesterday). Maybe play him on the right wing to get to the byline and pull the ball back rather than beating the right back and cutting back in?

It hurts so much i get so much grief down here about being a Rovers fan especially these days

Henriksson isnt a number 10, that much is clear. I'd try him further back when Trav goes, seems like his strengths are energy and arriving late in the box. Doesn't have the guile to play behind the striker.

Apart from young lads on the fringes like Montgomery, Duru etc, no first team players will sign a new contract here ever again under this regime. One 3/4 year contract with plan to sell after 2/3 years, rinse and repeat.

The last 2 relegations , many fans predicted it before the season started , this one is no different , the squad of players assembled (if that is the word) is up with one of the worst I have seen in 56 years. Steve Kean , Owen Coyle and IV All under the watch of our fantastic owners , I feel sorry for IV he has been dealt a bad hand but I think he is a poor manager ! The other 2 were beneath contempt ! Venkys Out !

Only just posting as I was fuming during and after the game, and needed to calm down a bit. We had a lot of possession and did nothing with it, the forwards had no service or creativity to give us any real opportunity of scoring. Our set pieces were terrible, and we had a lot of big bodies to target, what do they do on the training ground? Player wise, Trondstad was very disappointing, nowhere near his levels, De Neve has lots of heart but showed little ability, Henriksen was poor the few times the team actually tried to use him, Hedges ineffective. David Webb is a disgrace, not the reason we lost the game at all, but when their players collided and ball fell to us, he stopped the game and gave them the ball, when Miller was caught he didn’t stop the game until our players and manager were screaming at him, he allowed them to get away with far too much. I was pleased we were looking more comfortable on the ball from the back, just disappointing that when it went to the midfield and wide players we were out of ideas. Oh, and if I hear the word transition again……

Apparently Baradji & Mafoumbi have the same agent, so it should be easy enough a deal to do , some money owed could be slid over from one to the other, especially if Baradji is as desperate to come as has been written

I've answered the striker question in the transfer thread yesterday and my reply hasn't changed based on our first game where many fans will over reacted to a narrow defeat or come out with crap about all the new signings were shit cos they already previously said that. For my prediction, its abit fun predicting the score but I WILL NEVER BET AGAINST ROVERS EVER.

Like Kargbo Truly a stupid decision to give him such a short contract I would imagine even given the limited gametime he has had, his performances & subsequent expected wage would be beyond what the bean counters are prepared to offer now

Wasn’t given a squad number so I’d say it’s very likely he is off one way or another