Pre Season 25-26

[rigger]

The gym and the programmes looked very impressive, but how come we always seem to have loads of soft tissue injuries ? 

[JHRover]

Still no news on who we are playing on the weekend of 2nd August? Only 4 friendlies announced to date with no clarity as to the opponents in our two Spanish matches. 

Waggo was claiming he'd been arranging showpiece fixtures against sides in commemoration of the 150th anniversary so I'm intrigued as to who they have lined up here. 

[wilsdenrover]

7 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Still no news on who we are playing on the weekend of 2nd August? Only 4 friendlies announced to date with no clarity as to the opponents in our two Spanish matches. 

Waggo was claiming he'd been arranging showpiece fixtures against sides in commemoration of the 150th anniversary so I'm intrigued as to who they have lined up here. 

I assume this one will be a second string but you never know with our lot…

[GHR]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

I assume this one will be a second string but you never know with our lot…

Decent little ground that. I was there a few years ago and it still had a classic mid-terrace wall for pissing behind at one end.

Happier, simpler times, etc.

[simongarnerisgod]

5 hours ago, JHRover said:

Still no news on who we are playing on the weekend of 2nd August? Only 4 friendlies announced to date with no clarity as to the opponents in our two Spanish matches. 

Waggo was claiming he'd been arranging showpiece fixtures against sides in commemoration of the 150th anniversary so I'm intrigued as to who they have lined up here. 

afc darwen

[arbitro]

https://rovers.co.uk/news/2025/june/25/ticket-news--rovers-v-everton/

Rovers have announced ticket prices for the pre season match with Everton. Under 12 non season ticket holders are being charged £8 which I think is ridiculous. A nominal £1 or even free would surely be the way forward to potentially attract the next generation. 

Extremely poor but unsurprising for a hugely out of touch regime. 

[MarkBRFC]

21 hours ago, JHRover said:

Still no news on who we are playing on the weekend of 2nd August? Only 4 friendlies announced to date with no clarity as to the opponents in our two Spanish matches. 

Probably be like last season, where they were organising Friday/Saturday games through out pre season, and forgot to arrange one on the Saturday before the start of the season.

I'm not really sure why we aren't playing a match on 5th July either considering they will have been training for two solid weeks before that?

Unless they are doing something behind closed doors maybe.

[Mattyblue]

To rinse the Everton young support, they’ve no interest in attracting ours.

[Craigman]

So we have 2 matches whilst we are in Spain, (opposition still unknown), and 2 fixtures announced back here, surely there should be more, and announced by now?

[lraC]

1 hour ago, Craigman said:

So we have 2 matches whilst we are in Spain, (opposition still unknown), and 2 fixtures announced back here, surely there should be more, and announced by now?

It will look well for those who have already booked travel and lodgings, if the 2 fixtures in Spain are cancelled.

Surely the opposition must be know by now, as it is less than 4 weeks away.

[rigger]

38 minutes ago, lraC said:

It will look well for those who have already booked travel and lodgings, if the 2 fixtures in Spain are cancelled.

Surely the opposition must be know by now, as it is less than 4 weeks away.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Rovers didn't know what was happening tomorrow.