6 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

What makes you think they’d be remotely interested in doing so? Their attitude to us is like my attitude to the Netflix subscription that I have but don’t use.

I think you are wrong on your 50/50 judgement. A lot of people who would like to throw a snowball/brick/hand grenade at them are gone now. As a percentage of our vastly reduced crowd, it’d be about 15%. You’d have a slightly higher percentage who would cheer them and give them the heroes welcome they’d arrogantly expect; Some due to a desire to be the superest of fan, some like the tweeter mentioned above, because they genuinely think that by lavishing Venky’s with praise they will be allowed to run the club with their old school pals. The vast majority would display total indifference though.

I’ll tell you what is a shame - that they were ever allowed anywhere near our club. They should feel ashamed every day.

I didn’t intend for my post to reopen old wounds. If you thought that was the intention I apologise. I agree that overall their ownership has been a dismal failure, it couldn’t be judged as anything else.

I think they’d attend a game like that because they love basking in the glory of the huge occasions, when we’re playing one of the big six, cup final etc.

I think you would accept that the several different positions amongst the fan base cannot be reconciled. I just think this current truce is relatively painless compared to the toxicity of several years ago.

2 minutes ago, tomphil said:

There wasn't certainly nothing wrong with Eastwood as a 2nd choice he still in capably when needed.

That Birmingham home game under Bowyer still gives me nightmares. 3 nil down in what felt like 20 mins. Could’ve equalised in injury time too, Scott Dann fresh aired a shot in the box.

Half the support base want to throw a snowball on sight if they see them, the other portion want more visibility and communication. That gap can’t be bridged, so they’re better off staying away.

I still think that if we hypothetically got to a playoff final it would be a shame if they didn’t feel able or willing to come over to Wembley and watch the game.

Worse than Jake Kean, Simon Eastwood? I think we’ve airbrushed some of the players from the past 10 years from memory (for good reason).

Sacha Petshi and Fode Koita 

Every player in the current squad who is aged 26 or lower, so loads of them.

Sad to say that I fancy Burnley to make at least the top 6, maybe even the top 2. Lots of players through the door, but most look to have real quality for this league.

Talking about rivalries, I find the extras around our derby to be very unsavoury. It’s just ridiculous that away fans aren’t able to make their way to the respective stadiums.

My best mate from all the way back at school is a big Burnley fan, and the banter still goes back and forth to this day. I suppose that’s inevitable when half the school is Rovers and the other Burnley.

3 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Centrebacks are like busses at Rovers😂

Except that none have actually arrived yet, just the arrivals board predicts a cluster soon.

6 minutes ago, unleaded said:

Deals can fall its part & parcel of the scenes in the background… Everybody likes to hear who we are after not all get done ✅ … I personally love Glens input ….. but hope we can do better then young Hirst … 

Is Hyam contingent on Diaz going what you’ve heard? That quote from Nixon makes no sense.

I don’t even know where to start with that claptrap from Nixon but here goes:

1. If Hyam deal is contingent on a Diaz sale, why did we bid with money that we don’t yet have? Why did Mark Robins say he’d gone to Rovers just yesterday?

2. If Diaz was so close to going on Thursday as he claims, why did JDT say in his presser on Friday that nothing was close and why did he play yesterday?

Total tripe on so many fronts I think.

I’ve tried very hard to be as patient as possible throughout to the summer. But if this Van Hecke story is true, then it’s a complete and utter shambles.

After the dreadful performance at Reading (the worst since the Fulham 7-0 imo) my confidence is on the floor, so who knows what the players are currently thinking.

One thing is for sure though, another performance like that and we could be on the end of a proper spanking here. It’s a bogey ground and they have a squad packed full of talent and assembled with big money. One of the promotion favourites and for good reason.

My XI: Kaminski, Britain, Ayala, Philips, Pickering, Travis, Buckley, Hedges, Dack, Gallagher, Diaz

Nobody could complain about being left out after Reading. I can’t see anything other than a 2 - 1 defeat unfortunately. Dack for Rovers and Khadra and the big lad from Malmo for the blades.

Surely we can’t be as bad as we were on Wednesday?

To heed my own advice from just a few minutes ago, I’m lead to believe the Sepp Van den Berg deal is completely done bar confirmation.

The snag is the current injury problems at Liverpool, which is always the downside of relying on loan recruitment at this stage.

He’s referring to Van Hecke. Doesn’t make the attention seeking any more necessary though.

I can’t understand people posting hints on this forum without providing the info they claim to have. The phrase “put up or shut up” comes to mind.

I agree with some of the comments above that loaning Phillips back would be a total insult to the club and should not be entertained under any circumstances.

Downgrading of the squad, such as replacing a permanent player with a loan one, should not be tolerated.

If Diaz is to leave, Everton certainly seems like a good option for both him and us. Close to home for him, PL football and a decent wage offer no doubt.

Everton also tend to pay plenty for targets so we would be in line to receive a very decent fee.

As I said yesterday, the key thing is what we do if/when Diaz leaves. The clubs transfer budget doesn’t seem to shift regardless of player sales, the annual budget is set at the beginning of summer in India.

The notion that we have a wage structure akin to league 1 clubs is extremely misleading, maybe deliberately so. Rovers aren’t even close to the bottom of Championship wage bills. There is plenty to criticise the club for but that is total nonsense.

As for the Diaz contract situation, if the club had offered him a new 4 year 20k plus a week contract last summer this forum would have gone into meltdown. You know that and I know that @JHRover.

4 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

It fundamentally doesn’t matter though, does it? We didn’t sign them and still need more defenders….

And as I said in the very first sentence of that post, I agree with you. 

Just now, Sweaty Gussets said:

Why are Q's about transfer updates 'silly'?  Every footie journo in he land asks about them. The problem at Rovers is the dysfunctional set-up whereby the bloke who should be answering them has gone into hiding, leaving JDT to answer them.

I said silly because it’s clear that JDT can’t or doesn’t want to answer those questions yet they persist.

As for “gone into hiding”, I’ve seen pictures of Broughton at the training ground and he wasn’t wearing a balaclava.

2 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Running commentary? No, an update, so that Q's aren't constantly directed art JDT. Because if he doesn't give an update  Q's will keep on getting directed at JDT. And it's fairly clear JDT is getting annoyed by them. 

And JDT should not be accounting for Broughton's failures in the transfer window. 

To be honest I think they’d keep asking the silly questions anyway. It’s what generates those hits, much more so than who might not be available for selection.

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

It has been blatantly obvious since the start of the summer, and even before then given the loan status of Van Hecke and uncertainty on Lenihan, that signing a CB was essential. 

Yet here we are, 2 weeks from the window shutting, having not signed a CB, and seemingly the only significant progress on that front has been to try and get another loan from Liverpool and we now have to sit around waiting for them to decide what is happening.

Now if after all that time and opportunity we still can't or won't get a CB in - of critical importance - despite claims of a good budget regardless of the Brereton situation - then I don't think the omens are good for a Brereton replacement to be completed in a matter of days.

For all of Broughton's work - and I am impressed with what I have seen from him so far - it is clear that getting bodies in is still an issue here, with only 3 signings to date. The key of course is that ultimately he might be the best D of F around but if he's working on Venky time or with no money then he's not going to be able to get the job done. 

Anyhow - the media crew will be happy as they can divert the positivity of our excellent start away and turn it into panic stations about losing our key man. That's the way they like it around here.

I agree that 1 if not 2 CB’s are needed before the window shuts, but you fail to mention that we bid for both Anel and Ben Davies but both deals failed to come off.

Sharpe stated in the telegraph that a £3m bid had gone in but he opted for the higher wages on offer in Sheffield.

I will be with you to criticise the club if defenders aren’t brought in or any money from a hypothetical sale is not reinvested, but I’m keeping my powder dry for the moment.

Why are folk desperate for Broughton to give a running commentary on the transfer window? It’s quite clear that he will come out and talk after the window closes.

Not only that but he’s provided a small written explanation of each signing to date on the club website.

If I was him I’d prefer to be judged on concrete signings rather than lip service to the local media.

Just now, Sweaty Gussets said:

Around the 10-15% mark apparently. 

Of profit or total sale value?

1 minute ago, BRFC_Polky said:

Has to be minimum £15m before we look at accepting an offer. 
 

What is the sell on percentage that Forest are due?

Waggott negotiated it so no doubt the club had its pants pulled down.

If the offer from Nice gets up to £15 million and the player wants it, we would be silly to squander that amount of money on a player with 12 months left on their contract.

The most important thing though is what happens next. Have any contingency plans been put in place for a scenario that even the most silly of fans could have seen coming?

This is what we will judge Broughton and the club on at the end of the window.