Not many other serious football clubs actively want to force out / offload all proven quality players due to a cost cutting regime to the extent that they refuse to even discuss deserved new contracts causing managers to walk out mid-season. It doesn't happen elsewhere because no other owners/board would allow it. Only the freak show at Ewood and the chickens will soon be coming home to roost.

100% correct, refuse to play get suspended, it’s your job that you get paid well to do. Shut up and do it

To be fair I think we see similar stand offs quite often, Isak is out of the Newcastle team at the moment for similar but rarely it’s because the club is as tight as we are

this whole travis situation is a complete shitshow, I guarantee you this doesn’t happen at any other football club in the country.

Surely its the premises as a whole. Hell it should be free seeing g as they provide the entertainment that goes on sky

Have we got rid of Sky Sports around the ground, everywhere except Jack's kitchen? Or is it still on the concourses, etc? I usually arrive at the ground about 15 mins before kickoff and go up to my seat, so I haven't really watched the TVs in there for a while, so I hadn't noticed if there had been a change. It is appalling though if they have canned it, I don't watch but thousands of others do. Like many have pointed out already, how tinpot is it for a Championship football club not to have the main sports channels at the ground?

That City side of the early/mid-70's was a joy to watch. When Rovers were away (and for some European night matches) my Dad took me to Maine Road several times. I can only just remember them but I know they were always exciting. Willie Donachie was a key part of that team - should have won more than they did but came up against great Leeds , Liverpool and Arsenal teams around that time.

Because "he tries to play the right way" - at least according to several of the pundits. The rest of us can see he's just a charlatan...and a complete knob!

Won’t be reinvested anyway

How on earth does Russell Martin keep getting gigs??!

But he won’t…none of them ever do

Of all the things you could accuse the Club of "lying" is possibly a bit strong in that context. "Economical with the truth" maybe? I think it's a lot worse that they're dressing up this latest and frankly quite pathetic round of costcutting as an attempt to look after the fans and provide "great value" when I assume the reality is: 2024/25 Blues Membership fee £X p.a. Sky Sports available 2025/26 Blues Membership fee STILL £Xp.a. but no Sky Sports "Great value" indeed.

Rainy and cold on in the corner of the open end at Roker, I am sure it was a Sunday game, I can't work out why... A couple of weeks before Xmas.. I have a feeling Bobby Mimms was playing..

That would ruin the image that he plays the right way

Gamesmanship

Good to hear it. Mine were never substantially altered as I recall but there was a strong Burnley influence on the Sports Desk at the time and I think they deliberately edited in some mistakes to make them read badly. Burnley counterpart Stephen Cumming's columns always read perfectly and were mistake free. I was also rebuked by e-mail once off someone on the Sports Desk for cracking an "obtuse reference" to relaxing with a can of 7 up (on a weekend when Burnley had coincidentally lost 7-0) which I took great exception to. They might have actually meant "obscure" but hey ho.

Not available for the Preston game. Ok makes some sense. Nor for the Leicester, Derby, Birmingham or Wrexham matches. For those presumably the 'pie and peas' will be getting dropped again in favour of a cash grab hoping to rinse the tourists/expected big away followings/anniversary 'bumper crowd'

Shame the professional players and managers don't recognise that and stop the constant attempts to con them!

Bet he never shows anyone the Rovers social media piss take from when we won 3-0 at Swansea in 2022(?)!

A love of the game at a level they can contribute at?

My columns last season were printed verbatim with zero interference.

If I was a (relatively) well paid professional footballer and my employer was pissing around with my career like this, I would be instructing a well paid legal professional, a well paid PR person and speaking freely to anyone who would listen about the facts in the matter. End of. The club has already constructively dismissed Travis by stating publicly that he is available for the highest bidder. He has nothing to lose and a lot to gain by adopting an aggressive stance on this. Go Trav. Let's see some VENKY shifting shithousery please! VENKYS AND YOUR STOOGE PASHA & WORK EXPERIENCE GOBSHITE FECK OFF!

A space that feels even more connected to the club.....didn't they get rid of all the Rovers things on the walls in there? A bit like the murals on the corners of the JW and Darwen End. Could never get my head around them doing that.

The bit about Travis refusing to play is probably bollux anyway - but If we suspended him for say a month and in the meantime he said he was willing to play again and we refused Id say that would be a fundamental breach on our part entitling Travis to treat his contract as null and void and to walk out for nothing.

If that's the game that I think it was, it was absolutley perishing that day at Roker!