0 points from 9 with Tronstad missing.

I'm presuming the players will not feel this way, realise it is still all to play for and remain completely professional. .

Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton as newly relegated clubs qualify for 49 million in parachute payments in the year following relegation. The year just gone the three parachute payment teams in Leicester and Southampton went up and Leeds finished third. Although they have struggled this season, Luton are flush with cash.

I don't think our manager and players will be as frightened of PNE as many on here. Home results were good all season until the last three or four games. Eustace constantly talked about a fortress. It's now or never if this group want individual and team success. Which all of them will. I believe they will re-group, roll their sleeves up, re-calibrate and go again. I'm expecting a fully committed performance and with a little bit of luck, a victory. Talking of luck, we had quite a bit in our decent run. And very little of late. Injuries, deflected goals, near misses, etc. Nothing lasts forever. It's the end of January and we are 7th. Time to stop flapping about our prospective loan or free transfer saviour firing us to promotion. The fans haven't turned on the players or manager. We understand the struggle. 1200 at Bristol, even though many thought we would lose 4 zip. Its high time we got our shit together, especially in local derbies. Rovers 2 - Nob End 0.

Mmmmm. We also lost to Hull, Stoke, Plymouth, Coventry, Millwall, Watford etc in very winnable games long before January. Our failure to replace Szmodics adequately has been the major problem all season.

Quite right. Meanwhile our crap wingers like Dolan and Hedges who do so much work defensively are never credited for this. Nor thd likes of Gueye and Ohashi back for evey corner and free kick.

Whilst my memory isn't the best they were all part of our championship squad circa 2012 / 13 when the parachute payments were being wasted. I could have mentioned others. I meant Rahem Hanley. Grant did ok for us. Orr and Goodwillie were disastrous. Formica. King, Kazim Richards, Gomez, Nunes, Riviera etc. We had a very expensively compiled squad of total underachievers paying out big salaries. I wish someone like Eustacd had been in charge at that time.

Squad players? Nope. You for example don't rate Ohashi (1 in 18), Gueye is the worst striker Rovers have ever had and Leonard should be out on loan. We can all read what you write.

I can name you ten players at least that people do not think are good enough to play in our first team. Yet we have been top 8 all year. Make it make sense. He conceeded from a deflected free kick on his side against Bristol. I think he was trying to ensure it didn't happen again. We enjoyed some luck in our good run of form. I dont think we've had that the last few games. And when you struggle to score a bit of bad run can be disastrous.

Toths been heavily criticised for the punch against Coventry and flapping for the header. But he's under huge pressure for the punch, with players crowded around him restricting his movenent. The shot is a total miss cue, JRC was pathetic defensively, our big centre halves had lost their man, Toth tried to make himself big in front of him and it sneaks between his arms. A very soft goal indeed which started giving away a stupid corner. Who was marking the centre forward? Is that the keepers job now? And yes Pears thoroughly deserves his place. We are 7th not 17th. This constant stupid criticism of players is out of control. Every player, in every team, in every game makes mistakes. Brad Friedal he isn't, but he's played well this season. The haters have been dieing to bounce on him for weeks, but haven't had any ammunition .

Posts like this arent helpful. You think they are selling a few chickens cash in hand? Fiddling our attendance figures amd gate receipts? The Venkys bought the club for £ 23.miilion plus £ 20 million of debt. They have spent north of £ 300 million of company turnover. They have now injected circa 140 million of their own money. They may be able to offset some taxes from profitable areas of their other businesses due to losses incurred at the Rovers. But the benefits will be neglible and the losses still huge. I don't think there is a cunning plan. I still believe they bought a high profile business to raise brand awareness in the UK in advance of establishing retail chicken outlets. A couple of stupid decisions later, their new business was in the press for all the wrong reasons, operating costs had spiralled, visibility was decimated, toxic brand aassociation heightened and their VFC plan was aborted. They then spunked all the parachute payments on the likes of Danny Murphy, Rochini, Goodwillie, Etuhu, Best, Orr, Hanley, Olsson twins, Miles fucking Anderson. We had a very, very expensive squad at that time. And terrible results. The club never recovered. It's been a series of terrible decisions for many years and all the financial strength created initially by Uncle Jack and then through our PL status has been completely eroded. And now we are totally skint. The company isn't functioning. 99% of all.other business would be shut down.

Mmmm. What does senior sources mean? I doubt he'd be telling all and sundry he wanted offski and there are few above the manager in football clubs. The three stooges wouldn't be running around gossiping about this. Who else is there? Bit of a non story in my view. All managers are always looking for better opportunities, which is basically what this post says. He's not after the Chorley job. Plus didn't WBA count him out due to a buy out clause or severance pay issue? As you were.

Over 1000 tickets sold to Rovers fans. Brilliant effort. Time to man up. We need a win.

Thank you. It's not off thread. These are all mitigating factors in why we sell our best players and look to recruit cheaply.

Interesting. Turnover and costs increasing. As a trend, media rights are growing and match day income increasing. Although they get criticised, commercial income is also on the up. How do you turn a billionaire into a millionaire?

Makes sense cheers. I couldn't find those on companies house.

In the trading year 18 / 19 the company turned over 16.7 million. With costs of circa 33 million. Pre-trading loss of 16.1 million. We lost a further 1.6 million on player trading. Total loss of 18+ million. In the trading year 19 / 20 the company turned over 13.5 million. With costs of circa 34.2 million. Pre-trading losses of 20.1 million. We lost a further 1.2 million on player trading. Total loss of 21+ million. In the trading year 20 / 21 the company turned over 14.5 million. With costs of circa 33.5 million. Pre-trading loss of 15.6 million. 13 million came in from player trading, but we also spent 3.5 million on player trading. Total loss of 6.6 million. In the trading year 21 / 22 the company turned over 16.6 million. With costs of circa 35 million. Pre-trading loss of 17.4 million. We successfully brought in circa 6 million on player trading. Total loss of 11.8 million. In the trading year 22 / 23 the company turned over 21.0 million. With costs of circa 38.5 million. Pre-trading loss of 17.8 million. We spent a further 3.1 million on player trading. Total loss of 20.9 million. I can't find figures for 23 / 24. If we average it out at 17 million losses. With circa 18 million incoming for Wharton, 9 million for Sammie, 5 million for Raya, another 1.5 bits and bats circa 35 million. 18 million profit for the year. Losses of 78 million for the previous 5 years. Losses over 6 years circa 60 million. Total losses north of 130 million. Total expenditure blown north of 450 million. So why do they still bother? 1) Indian pride / caste theory? 2) Skeletons in the cupboard theory? 3) Zero business acumen theory? 4) Zero football knowledge theory? 5) Cannot be arsed theory? 6) Tax write off theory? 7) The son of the sons plaything theory? 8) Hate Rovers fans theory? Whatever the reason, things are about to get worse for the owners. We have not re-invested wisely in either the stadium, facilities or squad. We don't have any valuable players left to sell. So those 17 million losses will soon need paying wholly out of their own funds. There won't be any player trading gains to offset them. I can't see that making them happy. And if they don't change anything then nothing will change. So I personally believe we are heading towards a critical period in their ownership. What would I do in this position? I'd do exactly what I believe Eustace wants to do. I'd focus purely on the short term. I'd gamble on getting in the play offs and getting promoted. I'd increase my financial exposure and get time served, experienced players in that can do an immediate job and try and wriggle into the play offs. If it didn't work, I'd sell up. As losing 17 million a year on a business i did not enjoy would be foolhardy. Like the rest if you, my family and I, have devoted a large chunk of their lives to this club. My mum and dad went to the Wolves cup final, I was there against Charlton, away at PNE, against Tottenham, against Liverpool. Therefore I'm hoping it's; 9) The fucking snowball theory. The most expensive snowball in history. That at least would be amusing. Where were you when Speedie dived?

A tad unlucky here. We've looked good and created some opportunities. Some good performances so far.

This season depending on what result we have just had and who is posting; Pears isn't good enough. Brittain isn't good enough. Hyam isn't good enough. Tronstad isn't good enough. Hedges isn't good enough. Dolan isn't good enough. JRC isn't good enough. ACD isn't good enough. Cantwell isn't good enough. Gueye isn't good enough. Leonard isn't good enough. Ohasho isn't good enough. Forshaw isn't good enough. Sigurdsson isn't good enough. Batth, Beck, Travis, Toth and Sanderson are currently good enough. Miraculously we are 5th with 14 players who aren't good enough. Eustace gets all the credit, but has still not played any minutes. Looks like im in the minority but I fully expect us to bounce straight back after the 1-0 loss to Oxford. Rovers 2 Coventry 1.

6 minutes extra time.

Big balls needed now.

Fuck.

Dangerous place to give a free kick away. Brittain booked.

Leonard, Hedges and Dolan.

0-0 half time. Just as we like it. Tronstrad is a blow. Gueye booked for nothing.