G Somerset Rover

Another great piece from Rich. "There feels a lack of an out-ball to often, doubts about how will they fare against teams coming to Ewood and sitting deep, and an ability to chase a game should they fall behind?" The part in bold stood out to me as I was thinking about it the other night - sooner or later we will fall behind. How will this new look Rovers team react? How motivating it would feel should we claw ourselves back into the match, and dare I say it, even win. I reckon that would have even the most pessimistic of fans (like me) dreaming after years of the "we may as well all head home" feeling once we go behind.

Not posted for some time due to being caught up in family stuff, but just to say hats off to Eustace - I've given him some stick but he is getting so much right at the club at the minute. IMO exemplified at the weekend when he made Tronstad captain; it would have been so easy to give it to Hyam but he's clearly spotted that Dom is performing exceptionally without the burden of captaincy. Little things like that, the team spirit and belief he's instilled (just look at the final whistle) tells me we have a good one. A couple of smart January signings (yes I know), is the least this guy deserves.

Love a good party...just not a promotion one.

A shambles calling it off that late for their travelling fans.

Funnily enough, I bet Rudy’s targets cost a fair bit less than what Park has been putting forward.

As I suspected. All hail King Rudy.

"Head of recruitment" downgraded to "Chief Scout", possibly...or is that a vacancy that's been ongoing for some time? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rudygestede_job-vacancies-activity-7265365003459874817-hfOc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Officially gone X2

As above, I don’t think we’ll find out until the Wharton/Szmodics instalments dry up. Summer perhaps? Unless Carter has a stormer of a second half to the season and goes for decent money then the never ending journey continues.

Good luck getting takers for 9/10s of this lot!

Running out of sellable assets would seem to be our only hope right now of being rid of them. What a hope to have!

Great update, thanks. So in summary, they clearly do not want to pay these associated bonds. If this stance does not / cannot change, then we will reach a crossroads sooner or later with no starlets left to sell.

Yep. There is nobody else who would fetch much more than a million quid. I’d put good money on Cantwell having a v low release clause and nobody’s taking a punt (quite yet anyway). (Hopefully) slightly squeaky bum time in Pune.

Indeed. It'll be interesting to see what happens though when the Wharton/Szmodics instalments dry up because none of the current crop are fetching decent money.

Death by a thousand cuts indeed. The never ending story.

Haven’t read an article like this on us for quite some time: https://t.co/Y8BkeACin7. Very sobering, but well balanced and researched for a neutral.

Great piece once again, Ian.

I found it amusing the other night seeing the post-match reports saying how Stoke had won away from home for ‘only the second time this season’. Chance would be a fine thing!

Seems like a fair few are at it:

Good to see the death spirals are a thing of the past, eh?!

I saw some clips on his Instagram of him doing separate work with some externally renowned striker coach. Doesn't look like he's made a jot of difference to his game either!

2 in 7, DE 🤮

We have no Rhodes, Arma, BBD or Szmodics to pull us out of the mire this time. There’s no chance this lot can spread the amount of goals required amongst them. We’re going down.

He makes Browny look like Shearer. Every single fucker involved in his signing should be sacked on the spot.

430+ minutes without a goal. Fuck me. Jim, get the relegation thread going, pal.