All Activity

My first thought is that with hyam gone we may revert to a back 3/5. Utilising miller and Pickering as potential wide cbs. Something like this Carter. Wharton Mcloughlin Abeliosu. Ribiero Miller. Atcheson. Pickering Gardner-hickman. De neve

The trouble with this is that our reasonable anger/protests will be dismissed as mere racism. It is a dangerous side-track...(imho) They did manage to sell this line before.... Meanwhile, I am happy to go with an oppressive culture, run by an arrogant, over-promoted narcissist....but-as always- the coalition leadership must maintain focus on the disease not the symptoms...just saying...

I thought Halal meat had to be slaughtered humanely.

O'Grady-Mackens loan until january has been confirmed https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/september/02/harley-makes-loan-move/

I think Buckley is easier to like for a particular sort of person (including me) in that he's not a typical modern footballer. He's unpredictable, highly talented and skilled in a way that you often have a hard time wrapping your head around, but also uneven and seemingly a bit lazy or dispassionate. Modern football is becoming more and more uniform by the year with players seeming more and more like robots, and Buckley stood against that.

The sale of Hyam has turned this thread into the pros and cons of halal meat and wether brockhall is perhaps not a STC but a Muslim conversion centre. Fanbase is brilliant honestly🤣🤣🤣

I think by the bye most supermarket meat is killed exactly the same way, just one with a prayer. If you're going ethical routes then Kosher is probably the worst. My point isn't that it is OK for Gestede and co to enforce this on the players. My point was that a random message on a message board led to people googling where the manager prays as if there is a master cabal. It makes us look bonkers and a little small town!

That’s insane- so we just sign players to sell or short term contracts ! no long term vision at all

But not in the UK

In fairness, that is only true for around 12% of halal slaughter (a figure I saw recently, but I’d have to dig out a source). Overwhelmingly, halal slaughter in Britain does still involve stunning the animal. But even if the ‘risk’ of 12% is too high for some, I’d understand.

In Norway the animal has to be stunned

Not at all. If it is true then for me it is a case of Gestede imposing something on people and not giving them a choice.

Yep different discussion obviously but as someone who has witnessed this barbaric act there is no place for it in society in 2025 Britain it's disgusting. However to most people meat is just meat and they'll scoff it i'm sure young footballers are the same if they aren't brought up with a particular religion. Next step, oh we've got several new people who are vegan so Rudy bans all meat to save money save the planet and promote DEI !

So what now?

Centre Back in a back 3 yes, in a back 4 he is hopeless.

slitting an animal's throat and letting it bleed to death whilst not stunned https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/slaughter/religiousslaughter But I will not say any more on this

I agree, defensively we look weak. What I hope, which has been mentioned on this forum is that the Hibs fans said that CB was Millers best position.

Giving a prayer?

That’s just how he looks prior to the spice!

That clearly hasn't been implied the discussion is surrounding a halal meat only rumour and why that might be the case. What isn't rumour is that Brockhall has been taken over by a brand new clique and we want to know to what or whose tune are they dancing.

Without getting too political. If I am aware that a place only serves halal, I find somewhere else to eat. It sounds an unusually cruel way to turn an animal into food

I find it extremely difficult to believe that a woman was fired because their sleeves were uncovered on the training ground. Surely that news, and the inevitable legal action, would be everywhere in the public domain if it were true.

I feel a lot is going to fall on Morishita, Gudjohnson and Baradji, and I would have had some hope had we not shipped Hyam off last minute. Relying on McLoughlin (new), Carter and Wharton (crocks) and youth team players or full backs is a recipe for disaster defensively.

Yes you can, I have been going since 1969, I won't be going again under these owners. But I will always be a Rovers supporter.

Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl