Hasta

After being unemployed for 11 months, Ismael will align on anything Suhail and Rudy say.

If he was French and Rudy’s mate he’d be getting his two years. I still think it’s under-discussed that we gave Ismael, a manager on the scrap heap, a longer contract in 3.5 years than Mowbray, JDT or Eustace when they were brought in on. This at a time when money is completely dried up.

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You beat me to it. In April, focus might have switched a bit to Europe, but they were in the bottom third of the league already by then. There’s very little evidence to back up that they gave up on the league.

To be fair he’s played 84 times in the Belgian top flight and he’s 23 so he can’t be passed off as ‘one for the future’. It worries me that he started the season as a starter for Kortrijk but from February on was getting subbed a lot and by the time of the 6-game relegation play-offs had been benched. So it’s not like he was one of their better or more trusted players during their relegation season.

Dolan and Hedges are 79, which tells you all you need to know.

https://x.com/HancockAnalysis/status/1860771068153049593?s=19 There's a chance.

If we don’t lose anyone under contract we will be ok. I don’t mean comfortably, it might be nervy, but I think we would have enough to stop up. If, for example, Travis and Brittain left I think we would have major problems,

I’d say there will certainly be a percentage of rovers fans who would either renew or purchase based on Rovers making exciting signings. Do you disagree?

The likes of Tronstadt , Hyam , Pickering, Cantwell and Ohashi will probably see us safe. The season after will be horrendous.

The club puts stories out to encourage fans to buy season tickets and stay invested. The likes of Jackson and Nixon peddle them to the fan base and some people lap it up. Nothing new. Of course we will bring new players in, but if there's a significant fee or other comparable interested parties we will lose out and not get them. I'd be surprised if any of the main players sign a new contract. If we can't get Baath and Weimann back in it tells it's own story. Reading between the lines with the player liaison lass that got let go, that was the final straw between some players and the clubs chiefs. Unless the recruitment team can pull some absolute gems out, next season is stagnation and the season after could be one of the biggest shitshows we've seen yet under Venkys.

In your context the customer is told "The price is £xxx" but pay for it now and you get a percentage off. Therefore it's all transparent. In Rovers case (and other football clubs), it feels like you are told "The price is £xxx, and it will go up by an as-yet undisclosed amount in so many days time. They clearly had no definite plan other than see how many we sell in phase 1 and that will make them decide how much to put them up by.

Gestede actually said:- "The plan for our squad is to give as much (acadamy minutes) as we can. The year before was 2000 minutes for our academy players, almost 3000 minutes the year before, so now we want to go back to those numbers." i.e we have set ourselves a target.

They’ll want the new Chief Exec in before the next meeting so he can be another one to say “Happened before my time, fresh start, I’ll look into it, blah blah blah”

I don’t disagree on the overall point, but that first season of Gallaghers was statistically better (just).

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With Ismael all of his good results at the end of the season came when he benched Gueye and used him sparingly. He clearly didnt fancy him.

Footage is circulating. It does seem to turn to plough into the crowd unfortunately. (no one post it please)

He did. An incompetent one.

Half of it was. The other half was about the ref being incompetent, which he was.

That’s the problem. He shouldn’t have made such a quick decision. The guideline state Delaying the flag/whistle for an offence is only permissible in a very clear attacking situation when a player is about to score a goal or has a clear run into/towards the opponents’ penalty area.

Villa scored, incorrectly disallowed and going to miss out on a Champions League spot here cos the referee has blown the whistle before the ball went in the net so VAR couldn’t intervene.

Any news on who is beating us to signing Batth yet?