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Honest questions..Do you think that the plan enacted by Suhail and Gestede will make Rovers a better team? What is your assessment of the risks entailed?

Your mum sounds very much like my mum. I miss her nearly everyday day. I have her bus pass where I can see it on the table next to my usual seat in our lounge. They were a great generation who went through a lot without feeling sorry for themselves. You were right not attempt any treatment. I found my mum in similar circumstances and I knew right away that she’d gone. My condolences to you and the rest of your family.

Well that's completely fucked it, thanks Mercer. Good to see Morishita getting a start today, in a grim transfer window he's pretty much the only potentially exciting addition for me. Yuki up top on his own not ideal but suppose we'll ease Gudjohnsen in. Hedges needs to replicate his previous goal and Carter needs to stay fit, not much to ask for. Going for 1-1.

So....20% to the selling club, 20% to the surgeon....60% to the agent?

Just a gut feeling Rovers pull off a surprise win today. Chucked a few quid at it at 23/10.

With the club openly touting Tronstad, if he doesn't go on January, he's going to be protecting himself for a new move in the summer, so however you look at it we're likely to not have Tronstad 100% anyway, desperate times.

Whilst what you say is true Toronto, If we ignore averages, our weekly wage bill for the 24/25 season was also stated above as being the 17th lowest out of the 24 in the division. and that was before Birmingham & Wrexham came up with much bigger wage bills than ourselves, meaning we are down to 19th out of 24, and Rovers then decided to cut our own wage bill on top of that. We are now comfortably in the lowest 5 wage payers in the league (at most). And possibly rank even lower depending upon how much we have cut the wage bill this season (and how much more our rivals are spending. Derby probably had a lower wage bill than us last season, probably not anymore based on their spending) Obviously Sheff Wed will have the lowest wage bill, as most of their players have now left. But our wage bill will now be comparable to Portsmouth, Oxford and Charlton. Even so Portsmouth are paying enough to take Chaplin on loan from Ipswich, Charlton are signing Kaminski, who wont come cheap, & Oxford are signing players who we were after)

Agree. The season will have been defined for us by the time Baradji plays. He can be a worldy from then on but it's not going to elevate us to the top end of the table. Might save us from relegation I guess but stable door and bolted horse springs to mind by then. Like every season we will be weighed down with injuries with the very few quality players we have underperforming due to lack of support in other positions. The clue for Gestede is in the name 'team', the odd bit of star quality will never compensate for a lack of investment in the other positions. Where's the Championship experience and tolerance to heavy waterlogged pitches in our 'team' I wonder.

A tronstad injury away from utter disaster

He might well be. The reality of it is, though, that we're left with Tron and Tavares who, so far, has been lightweight and has a mistake in him. Our backup is the Brum lad, Foreshaw and Kristi. I've not seen the former play and I'd like to see as little as possible of the latter two.

My dad had brain cancer. He lost his memories. He also had parkinsons which made his condition worse. Having a strong father who didn't know who anyone was, he hit me a couple of times in hospital when I tried to help him, I didn't blame him. Then as you say to lose him permanently is the hardest thing to deal with

I think so. I know we have a habit of coming up against then non contender teams but feel Serbia a bit above that bar

Outside of this window (which has been terrible), at a normal club, I could see some logic in the Baradji signing. There's a player who they all think is really good and available cheap and for cheap wages and someone who really wants come to England and play in thee Championship. OK he is injured for a couple of months but he and his club will let him come on loan and the wages are even lower so it's an 'extra' signing. Travis, in their thinking, is covered by Tavares and Baradji, if he comes good can replace Tronstad in January. In our situation it's a. bit crazy but I still hold out some hope that he might actually be a very good footballer at this level.

U18s are at home to Stoke at 11am this morning score/update

Play today at 3pm O'Riordan - score/update Olson - score/update O'Grady-Macken - score/update Barrett - score/update Edmondson - score/update Pratt - score/update Play 3:30am (UK time) Sunday morning Duru - score/update

Presumably any fine will be taken from assets held in security

Spanking Serbia 5-0 in Belgrade is a sit up and take notice result at any level.of game.

Specifically regarding the last line in your post that I have marked in bold Never mind why has the wage cap not been increased, It looks very much as though the wage cap has been reduced and is now below what some of these players are currently on (or at least below what they were on before they left and found new clubs who would pay what they are worth), however, they were offered terms equal to their current contracts on the long shot that they may accept, which would have been seen as an unexpected coup (at least by Pasha, Gestede et al) Not sure I have explained myself properly there, but for example, if Hyam/Brittain/Travis were on circa £10K-£15K/week, and the wage cap is now £10K/week, then whilst all new signings have that £10K/week cap, they are willing to extend our "star performers" on their current terms (but only for a year) It all screams short termism, and the 1 year extensions to our (former) higher earners were them attempting to cover themselves financially as they know where this is likely to end (relegation in the near future if not this season)

I would love it if we could have a ‘flag group’ like Liverpool and Palace have. They raise money and design appropriate flags at short notice. https://hf05.org/group/

I think it’s highly likely that these statements from the club, are less than truthful. They no doubt live in hope, that the 8,000 or so left, love their club enough to accept everything, without question. I prefer to see beyond what they are saying, as far too much has gone on for me to trust anyone there anymore, including the manager, who I consider to be complicit in it all.

In dire need of lady luck smiling on us. Please And a shoot on sight approach to give us a chance of getting lucky..

That's fair enough

What is medium term exactly? How long FFS

Can't see past a home win as we suffer international break hangover.

I see Rovers these days a bit like I see playing golf. Almost everything is shit but there are a few good bits that keep me coming back. Hopefully today is a good bit.