What an exciting summer its been so far Rudy and Pasha... 3 random foreigners in for peanuts with no experience or pedigree on low wages 5 first team championship experienced starters out plus all loanees saving a fortune in wages. No contracts sorted for any of our 1st team Sacked the CEO and made a load of backroom staff redundant Sacked off the women's team You are doing a fantastic job keep up the good work! Pretty soon we will have a cost budget to compete with Chorley FC and you can bask in the praise from our chicken overlords.

Pant goes! 5 down with a word in his ear from Archer, need Rahul now. 135,000 tuning in on the bbc app right now.

You've left out Mikael Nade which was again ridiculous wishful thinking from Rovers.

Yep, a top fan going back to early sixties who can count on two hands the number of seasons I DID NOT have season ticket(s) and for many seasons held half a dozen or so season tickets. Also bought corporate facilities. What's your record? Nowt wrong with betting against your team if you believe in a certain outcome. Wrong - check my postings. On match day, usually bet on a single outcome and additionally throw in a 'fun bet' eg correct score, goals over etc.

So, out of players we have signed/been strongly linked to over the course of the window so far (not sure if I have missed any): - Steve Kapaudi - No deal Marwan Al-Sahafi - No deal Ryan Alebiosu - Deal Sidnei Tavares - Deal Dion De Neve - Deal Moussa Baradji - No deal Ethan Pye - No deal Cody Drameh - No deal Sean McLoughlin (I am regurgitating an old name here, I can't remember the name of who it was but sure it was another Hull player) - No deal Prior to pre season starting, we'd reached 33% so already failed that expectation to Val 🤣

You made a good point that VI rightly wanted stuff sorting early. But this is daft - if those three are 90% of his wage bill, no wonder we’re screwed, it would put all three of them on around 6m a season 😂

Boro linked to Gilchrist this morning

Me neither, but PSG played like they only had to turn up to win it. I like to see big heads put in their place.

Maybe that's was suhail thought he meant, tragic

How hilarious. Valerian asked for 90% of all signings before pre seasons. He's about to lose the top 90% of his salary bill when Travis, Tronstad and Brittain leave

Let's say the offer from Broughton was to double his pay to £6k. He's turned that down holding out for £10k+ - an offer which wasn't coming. He's left money on the table backing himself to get a better contract elsewhere.

Seems very plausible to me Broughton who was clearly best ant contracts in his role couldn’t even get a response from Dolan in the summer of 23 then he found a new agent believe it to be the same one as Diaz who has likely been filling his head about potentials offers etc of all that’s messed up at our club this scenario we’re speaking about now I could easily see being the case and I put a lot of ot down to agent as opposed the player himself

He was definitely one of our better players last season and I think a lot of fans had confidence seeing him on the team sheet especially when he had the period of injury but you are right, I wouldn't call him irreplaceable; the issue is, we don't see him being replaced effectively should he leave and the chances of that happening are high. A lot of members within the forum are jokingly stating "we already have his replacement" and that is probably accurate... The club will likely spin this now and you'll see a lot more of Albieosu on the Social Media channels, not saying the lad isn't decent; I haven't seen enough of him to form an opinion... But being honest... Haha.

Dolan always had it in mind to leave even 2 years ago. This helpless narrative is exactly what the club will be wanting spread. I suspect it was a case of the offer not befitting what he felt a player with a number of years of Championship experience should be getting. Im not having that he decided unconditionally to run down a deal with 2 years left on the tiny contract he would have signed not longer after joining.

I'm a big fan of Callum brittain and think he was one of our better players last season. Is he as good as some people would have you believe and irreplaceable? Probably not. He had a great season but is suspect to injuries and will be 28 next season. We can't begrudge him a move and probably a last chance at a big contract on more money than we could offer. He's decent especially for this level but isn't going to have the same effect I think Travis or tronstad would have if they went. And if he's refused to play bollocks to him, if they want him get the fee we want and let him go.

I didn't watch it, but when they click they do look very good like at times last season. Not a club I have a lot of time for though.

You always used to post that you only had fun bets on Rovers

Top fan - showing your true colours regardless of the venkys madness any ‘fan’ who backs against the team quite frankly isn’t a fan

Correct. We won't be bringing in anyone else to play RB. I don't see how we even could do, the budget is set, none of the money received for CB will be reinvested. We haven't budgeted for a new first choice RB. Suspect, Alebiosu, Duru and Mongomery will be our right backs for the season. Carter at a push to play there if needed/injuries etc. allow for it.

IMO, his body language and demeanour indicate he's already p1ssed-off. I expect more frank views from him as the days unfold. Not released by the bookies yet but unless something remarkable and unexpected happens at Ewood soon I'll be piling in!

I am fully aware of all that but we still lots of experienced players here and we will bring another right side attacker who will cut in with the right back provide the width that side. I would sign another right back like Drameh and move Montgomery to midfielder to be box to box midfielder GB tried and Dolan didn't want a new contract. Think he wanted/knew he was leaving on a free 2 years/18 months ago Its where are CEO or/and DoF recruit from. It's been along time. Probably from Hughes from Wales. Ince flopped here after his move from MK Dons. King Kenny, Hodgson, Allardyce, Berg, Lambert, Mowbray, JDT, Eustace and Ismael Were all unemployed when they joined us. So after Eustace who would you gone for? Employed head coach and who please?

Crazy that a lot of their fans seemed to want him gone at one point or another last season. Chelsea fans aren't used to giving a manager / head coach time I suppose.

Given how shallow they came across when they first turned up that wouldn't be the least bit surprising.

Do you think they chose us because their logo is blue and white?

Ah the Brentford or even B###'##y model ! Yes it is quite straight forwards to any well structured and ambitious club but sadly the opposite applies here it's now sell to pay the bills. Then use the loose change from that to fill out the squad and expect the latest head coach to perform a few miracles with them.