Straight facts and all you say is Iheanacho is awful?

I think we were planning to, on the way to, then the ‘99 relegation happened and we never quite recovered - plus the other Lancs town clubs started to improve from their third/fourth division berths.

Yes I know that's. Iheanacho is awful player. Boro selling Latth end their playoffs hopes

You rubbished Ipswich's signing of Delap and look where he is now! I understand Mowbray turned down the chance to take Delap on loan from City in his last January window with Rovers!!!!!!! What is Ismael very happy about? Do you honestly believe he would come out in public and say 'really, we need another 5 to 6 QUALITY additions'. In all fairness to Moyes he's done that at Everton. I think you are incredibly naive and gullible and just post parrot fashion whatever bullsh1t comes out of Rovers.

If we have only conceded 5 goals in 10 games he will not be dropped when others are fit; if we have conceded 15 then he probably will be.

You posted like I dont how how many players scored last season. Of course I know, why wouldn't I RF99? Maybe if hadn't got beat by Plymouth away against Hull at home or Stoke away or Derby away we would have made the playoffs We been over and over the squad plan and we dont agree. We deffo don't need again do you? I've have told repeatedly we need another 3 signings and what positions. You want another 5 or 6..we dont agree and unlikely to do

Disclaimer - I’m not saying we’ve had a good transfer window. I still believe we’re in Managed decline and Venkys need to go! But - How do we know that recruitment has been poor so far? We’ve signed 4 players, and haven’t seen much of any of them yet. Surely we’d have to watch them play before deciding if they were better or worse than what went before them?

I dont think we were ruthless enough in mopping up all the support in the region when we won the Prem. Then again, no matter what figure we'd got to, we'd have lost most of it again over the last 15 years.

Kargbo definitely seems to be seen as more of a finisher in games instead of a starter. I think that's fair as well, someone like him with pace to burn coming on after an hour has the potential to cause defenders all sorts of problems. If he can replicate his cameo against Plymouth at home last season on a consistent basis then he'll do ok.

Please dont spoil chaddy's "Everything is great here, everyone else is shit" narrative with facts!

We held the Whip Hand on ALL the Lancashire Town Clubs,no one could touch us,we were in pole position. Now..we cant compete with fookin Preston and Div1 Bolton on ST sales and Gates. FFS!!

They may not have signed an absolute like for like for Latte Lath (they loaned Iheanacho IIRC), but they brought in Whittaker for over £7m and also spent £5m on Conway in summer 2024. In fact, looking at TransferMarkt will show you the following; Money In 24/25: £27.15m Money Spent 24/25: £25.19m Money In 23/24: £25.70m Money Out 23/24: £16.16m Money In: 22/23: £27.37m Money Out: £10.23m Money In 21/22: £1.80m Money Out 21/22: £12.56m That's about 78% reinvestment on incomings over the last 4 seasons. Rovers since 20/21 In: £57.99m Out: £12.40m 21% reinvestment - Net: +45.59m

Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.

A good number of years ago we did a “rovers greatest ever team” discussion and vote. Lots of posters took part, arguing for their favourite player in each position. It would be interesting to read that again but it might not be on here now.

I think the walk ups will be well down this Season,again, putting the prices up and we cut our own throats.

What a club we had… and could again if they just. fucked. off.

It didn't sound like the newly reconstituted role consisted of much more than overseeing things in the hospitality areas on match day tbh.

I think he'll start De Neve and McLoughlin. Not saying either improve on what we have but I think he'll start McLoughlin over putting Wharton straight back in and Carter is injured. With a fully fit selection of centre backs, I don't think McLoughlin starts. De Neve has started most of the pre-season games, so assume VI rates him over Kargbo, who has largely come off the bench. I agree though, the recruitment has been poor in the main. No desire to improve on what we have, just get players in for low fees, who they hope they can sell in a season or 2 just by virtue of being championship players.

"SW stated that the club had currently sold almost 18,000 season tickets, compared to a total of 14,000 for last season, which included half season ticket sales. This represented a 30%increase, with sales still expected to continue for a while. This was an excellent response to price reductions. When our Club was run by responsible people who gave a damn...seems a long time ago now😟

...And all was well in chadster world.

NEC keepers on his way to Sunderland apparently for around £12m

Their Keeper won’t be playing. They’ve accepted £10m from Sunderland for him today.

"Yeah but we can't compete because they're a massive club blah blah blah"

People didnt chip in last season, that was the issue. We didnt score enough goals. Hedges got only 1 goal. Cantwell got 1 from open play. Our number 9 only got 6 all season. Kargbo obviously got injured and didnt score. Dennis and Woodrow didnt score. Weimann and Dolan did chip in and now have gone. De Neve has never historically scored anything other than the odd goal in the Belgian league. McLoughlin has come in, obviously not to score goals but never scored a single goal in 6 years for Hull. What Ismael says he "wants" might be reigned in compared to what he actually thinks we need compared to what we are likely to get realistically, or even if he only wants a certain number, that doesnt mean that its actually what we need. Judge beyond just parroting what the manager says in public. Question things. Compare to what they said we wanted before the window started, consider players who left unexpectedly.

Fair enough, I read that the other way! My cock up. Like I say they should be encouraging folk and do it as a long term plan. To me it’s a great opportunity to try something now there are 8 Saturday matches set in stone to work with, to counteract season ticket holders being annoyed I wouldn’t give any entitlement to away ticket purchase etc. Maybe there’ll be some flexi card thing again. Anyway we all know the score with it all now, most of the negatives stem from tv ultimately as well as the obvious.