I agree Batth made Hyam a better player - but there is also a chance it worked the other way around as well. Batth wasn't great at his previous club - so always a chance that whoever he is paired with at Derby won't work out. (Much prefer him to stay though)

I couldn't help be baffled that Weimann had a surgery before the end of the season, "to be fit and ready for next season". I scratched my head at the time wondering how we knew he wasn't using our medical department to get ready for somebody else, turns out my fears were correct.

"Older people bring that togetherness, because it's all about the togetherness when they play, because when we're all together the togetherness brings that togetherness we talked about, together." ~John 'Togetherness' Eustace 2025

We'll need a miracle. Starting morton over Anderson. At least we have a striker playing for a change

agreed there 1005

England playing Spain in the channel 4 shortly

X2

I'd like to see uefa pull away from fifa and give them a big eff u. Fifa will learn that the world cup isn't a world cup without big European nations. We could have a euros every two years. There's only Brazil and Argentina worth bothering with outside of Europe. This will show fifa's greed doesn't control European football

I would take National League football tomorrow, if it got rid of the Owners..

Yes he attends of both depends who is at home. no idea Like I said the odd game but never going to get regular full stadium under this ownership

Looks like the Venkys are really trying for relegation, this season 😢

He won Stanley's Young Player of the Year Award last season. He simply needs game time.

I don't know what happened with Batty, but he seems to have hit a brick-wall.

Already seen it they always fall for the simplistic 'they get 27k every week, we only get 12'. No second thought to why they are snapping up these kind of players in the first place nor the time they've spent in league 1 or what debt they may owe etc.

Just waiting for the 'we can't compete' with what Derby can offer from the same people who defended these owners when Derby were going bust a few years ago.

if it goes to **** this season and we go down,we won`t be coming back up,the only saving grace might be the fact it gets rid of the chicken molesters,will the untested players be up to the atritional championship?????

Number of people or so called people i'm seeing saying not arsed about losing those two they are old we need younger. Guaranteed to be wailing next season at some point we need a solid leader in defence and oh if only we had a goal poacher we could bring on. Rovers fans .... you can script em almost to the word it's amazing how a couple of cheap punt signings, not for the positions we are losing good players from, suddenly puts a 360 spin on things. For the more balanced we can't be anything other than disappointed again and pray there is something resembling replacements in the pipeline.

Our relative “success” last season was clearly built on a strong team ethic. The departures of Weimann, Baath, Dolan and a few others is clearly going to change the dynamic regardless of how you rate them as individual players. It’s imperative the club keep Travis and Tronstad the heartbeat of the team. Gathering young, cheap, data driven lower league footballers from across Europe is a massive gamble without having a strong core to blend them in around. Name me a strong team/club leader if we flog Travis ? Let’s be honest we could drag a few tall, slim, athletic lads in there early 20’s from the local gym, stick them in Rovers shirts and they would look like footballers. Pivotal days ahead, I fear the worst

Losing Baath and Weimann is a blow but then they are out of contract soon so not our players to lose. If we wanted them then we should have been stretching their contracts last season. Same goes for other players nearing the end of their contracts. Maybe we will just let Travis, Tronstad and Brittain run down their contracts and leave for free at the end of next season. Who knows? Let’s hope Rudy and Val know what they are doing or we are going to struggle

Was clear that this was going to be the case, Weimann I am not so bothered about but Batth will be a big loss. Puts more pressure on Gestede to bring in a dominant left footed CB to play next to Hyam/Carter.

Why have Mowbray or Eustace never been linked with Buckley ? They know more than we do so it's quite telling they've never - to date - fancied snapping an out of favour lad they know well.

I know we’re biased, but only one shirt really stands out, it’s not even a contest.

We were a much better defence with Batth in there. Sad to see him go but would be in the same boat next season. Better to face the problem now than later

Shame to lose Weimann and Batth, the latter especially...but it was always extremely likely that they'd jump at the chance to work with Eustace again. Debatable how many minutes Weimann would get next season under Ismael, but losing Batth who seemed to really help Hyam is a blow.

Could have filled it last season against the dingles.