Well it seems like there could be four kits. The main three and then a special one for the anniversary. If they are going with the coat of arms badge on the third kit then I'd expect they try different badges on the away kit and anniversary kit. I don't buy the shirts and haven't done for years but this is going to be one hell of an expensive season for those who buy the full set!

Ah ok, but that's not the corner of King William / Lord Street, that would be the corner of King William Street and whatever the other street is called that runs from King George's Hall up the side of Natwest Bank. Edit - seems to be called New Market Street

Fascinating 'news' there from Nixon. So a club that has lost about 8 players and signed only 2, one of which is injured, is trying to sign some more but success depends on whether other clubs accept our offers. And our next 'CEO' is going to be even less influential than the last one, which we've been saying from here for weeks is basically just a figurehead/human shield so that Chief Venky Stooge can continue running the show from the shadows whilst hoodwinking the deluded into believing that things are going to change under the new bloke.

So when it says corner of King William Street and Lord Street are we talking roughly next door to where McDonalds currently stands? I always had it in my head that it was on the corner opposite the old Apollo cinema/Town hall, just down from the museum.

The promotional material looks like it has been filmed in a toilet going off the tile effect. That's about right for this lot.

Have we even started to talk to Brittain, Travis or Tronstad about new contracts yet? The three players publicly confirmed no communications had taken place as recently as April. So things will have had to have changed during the last 2 months during a time when the players have been away on holiday and the club has been semi-dormant. I have my doubts.

In years gone by, when we partially resembled a professional and dare I say it ambitious football club, I agree that the people running it would be quite capable of taking the phone off the hook and ignoring / rejecting cash bids for our players even to the detriment of our finances. Recent example include ignoring bids for Rothwell in January when we were set to lose him for nothing 6 months later. But I think we have clearly turned a page on that chapter now and that behaviour is a thing of the past. This lot will do anything to achieve whatever it is they are trying to do. I suppose it helps when you've got half the fanbase believing that remaining in existence and losing key players to the likes of Derby County, Middlesbrough and Bournemouth is the best that can be expected. Fortunately the other half of the fanbase don't live in such a negative small minded world and do expect more and better from this club. Not that it will make any difference to what the club does, because they've made it quite clear that the opinions and values of the supporters are totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

Hopefully he goes there and deprives the Regime of any compensation money. They don't deserve to profit from his departure.

If Weimann's move was motivated by being nearer to his family home how did he cope with being in Bristol for 6 years? Just the standard one for an ex-player to throw out there as a reason for moving. Avoids getting into the nitty gritty of what really goes on or revealing some home truths. Amazing how this keeps on affecting Rovers.

We are undeniably weaker than we were last season. We've lost Batth, our best defender, 15 goals a season in Dolan and Weimann, together with useful contributions from people such as Beck and Sanderson, have failed to secure new contracts for any key players and are likely to lose more important players as a result. So how Nixon reckons we are in 'ok shape' just now is hard to fathom.

"Alignment" claxon again, the favourite word for those coining it in from football. Just need to learn how to spell it right

For several years I expressed a view that Rovers themselves were opting not to invest and spend money despite there being no restrictions on our ability to do so. Some posters shot me down on that claim, insisting that I was wrong and that FFP rules prevented us from doing any more. I think we can safely say that the events of the last few years prove that FFP is the last thing we need to be worried about. Even ignoring the vast amounts of cash banked from player sales and sell on fees, we are now witnessing the likes of Charlton, Oxford, Derby, Millwall and Preston comfortably outspending us in the market. It really isn't a great mystery as to how that can be - they have owners willing and able to invest in trying to support their clubs and make them better, we don't. They have staff employed to grow and improve their clubs, we don't. Their executives are tasked with trying to deliver sporting achievement and success, together with growth, our sole executive is tasked with saving money in every department, no more no less. Can only get away with this for so long. Something will have to give.

That's one excuse gone then. What next? Will have to be Batth's wife wanting to go and live in Derby.

I think that there was a power struggle behind the scenes. Back in 2017 Mowbray was winning that struggle, Pasha was pushed to one side after he had overseen relegation and Mowbray got his feet under the table by going to India after relegation and selling them a project they agreed to back. Since then Pasha has won the power struggle, and seen off Mowbray and Waggott. He did this by severing the direct communications between manager and India and stopping the annual jaunt to Pune. This means he can resume what he was doing 2015-17 after he got shut of Bowyer and then we had the familiar chaos with Lambert and Coyle - similar sort of managerial turnover and nonsense to we've seen recently under JDT and Eustace, with the club trying and failing to be self-sufficient by flogging everything of value and ultimately paying the ultimate price for that. I firmly believe that he is paid, or bonused, based on how much he 'saves' the owners each year by ensuring they don't need to transfer as much cash from India to the UK. He also enjoys the power that he has with absent owners leaving him to it whilst it costs them less and there's no hassle at their end. I don't think League One is necessarily the aim, I think they'd be quite content to float around the Championship permanently, but unfortunately due to a combination of factors, ultimately all going back to Pune and the owners, relegation back to League One is inevitable. You can't combine all the elements we have here - relentless cost cutting, futile attempts to be self-sufficient, failings on contracts and keeping important players, lies, deceit, cluelessness, constant chopping and changing, outrageously high turnover on staff, promoting work experience people to head of positions, prioritising financial concerns over everything - and not pay the price for it. You might be able to survive with no money if you are well managed. We certainly aren't that. Once we get back to League One unless the owners change course and quickly - and the only way that is going to happen is by someone getting to fly out there and sit around a table with the top dogs - then there isn't any coming back. Again not necessarily the aim but might as well be because it is the inevitable outcome.

4 months from now it is the anniversary. So far we've had nothing from the club to commemorate or celebrate this, save for a sticker on the back of the neck on the new shirt I notice Birmingham, also celebrating their 150th but with a far less glorious history, have released an anniversary kit that they are going to wear all season, including a gold theme and special badge

So there's evidence coming to light that Oxford United, Charlton and Wrexham are all comfortably outspending us in the transfer window, signing quality that we won't get close to this summer. Two newly promoted clubs and one that narrowly survived last season and wasn't long ago in non-league. Unfortunately this presents a problem for the Venky apologists as they can't lean back on parachute cash or '25000 a week' turning up at those places so they'll have to concoct some other nonsense as to why we are getting left behind by such clubs. The problem this presents is then finding 3 clubs that we are confident of finishing above this season. Sheffield Wednesday might be one thanks to their plight but another two after them? I'm struggling. I get the distinct impression that our summer incomings are done for the foreseeable. The rest will be at the back end of the window once the usual Brighton / Liverpool / Everton loans are let out and a couple of free agents might cave in and accept our offers (Cauley Woodrow one). All the focus will be on a sale or two to generate some cash and free up some more wages. Travis one of the few who will attract interest so they'll be beavering away on that one. Call me paranoid but I've seen nothing of him on the videos or photos released by the club since the first day back, suspect this is deliberate.

Yeah but what's the population of Bolton? Funny how that's only become an issue worth mentioning now that their crowds are comfortably outstripping ours.

They can't be trusted to tell the truth on pricing anyway. Last season they promised that midweek fixtures at Ewood would be capped at £20 for adults under Category C. Then Sheffield Wednesday came along so they put it at £25. Lesson to learn is they will just make it up as they go along, pointless planning anything with this lot.

Yes we are skint. That should be obvious to anyone with a passing interest in what goes on at Rovers. Look at the stadium, look at the cost cutting, look at the fact that there has been zero investment in anything beyond limited small transfer fees on the squad, look at the state of Ewood Park, Look at the fact that JDT and Eustace both threw the towel in after a few months of trying and failing to work under the restrictions imposed by the owners and their stooges. Look at the fact that there has been an exodus - some voluntary and some redundancies - of numerous staff behind the scenes, be that coaching, backroom staff, Waggott, the ladies at Brockhall, now David Lowe, this doesn't happen at a club that doesn't have major operational or financial issues. This isn't, despite your attempts to convince yourself it is, a situation where everything is normal and hunky dory and the only issue is that the money being spent isn't as much as we'd prefer. The club is in total and utter crisis, caused by these owners, their legal issues and their decisions. Expecting credit for us signing a couple of cheap players from Portugal and Belgium after bringing in millions from sales, sell on fees and compensation money is laughable. We all know those sort of deals are low cost punts on wages more akin to League One than the Championship. I bet that Eustace's compensation cash has comfortably covered whatever we've paid out. 'Problems in India' - a bit more serious than that Chaddy. This isn't just some minor technical issue that should all get sorted and then everything is fine. The radical cost cutting began before the Indian legal issues emerged so that particular excuse doesn't really stack up. But even if it did we are now 2 years into the 'problems' coming to light and they still haven't been resolved. The owners have to go to Court or comply with various onerous requirements just to be able to send enough cash to cover their obligations. Not investment, or a transfer kitty, but just to meet the wage and tax bill each month. If the owners wake up one day and decide they can't be arsed or perhaps if their issues don't go away for another few years or perhaps they get found guilty of whatever it is they are being investigated for, then the entire operation is in danger of collapse. So serious stuff. I'm also intrigued as to what the Venky apologists would think or have to say if they do get found guilty of financial misdemeanours / crimes in India whether these people are content / comfortable with their club being entangled in such activity and potentially used as a vehicle for some of this activity. Presumably all ok as well because at least they've paid the bills on time and the lads are still there to cheer on every fortnight?

I don't know whether it is deliberate or just the way you write but I get the impression from this that you are happy with how things are at Rovers and don't think there is anything wrong with how we operate? John Textor the bloke whose club has just won the FA Cup and qualified for Europe?

Dear me Chaddy, deary deary me.

Go and read about their finances. Their owner is not wealthy in footballing terms and he has been desperately searching for new investment for the last 12 months to help them. He's been putting in circa £13 million a year for 3 years to keep them ticking over (oh look, another club that loses an 8 figure sum every year even when they get better gates than we do and have managed to find a new owner prepared to fund it - one for the negative Venkys in people to keep in mind). You've answered half of your own question - they are going around trying to sign free agents - a clear sign of a club working to a limited budget yet still able to sign up our players. How are we skint when we've brought in £40 million from sales and spent very little of it?

I'm a little unsure how to feel about the Sheffield Wednesday mess. Of course at its most basic there should be sympathy for their employees/suppliers and genuine supporters who must be deeply concerned about the state they are in, and you hope their situations are resolved. It seems some want to use it as a 'be careful what you wish for' tool as to why things are actually ok at Rovers under Venkys because, look, it could easily be worse. Personally however there's an element of jealously. That might sound crazy / ridiculous but at least with them there's an end to their misery in sight. Light at the end of the tunnel. Their situation cannot continue, it is only a matter of time before they either change ownership or the authorities intervene like they did with Reading. It might not be quick, easy or smooth but ultimately they'll break the grip of Chansiri whereas we will just continue to rot under Venkys for years more. They'll have a new future to look forward to. What have we got to look forward to under this regime?

Maybe these players fancy going to Derby because they loved working under Eustace last season, were gutted when he left and are keen to get back working with him? That would mean more serious and longer term consequences and implications to him moving to Derby but hey, at least we've now got 'alignment' between head coach and work experience head of football and some compo banked for Eustace and his staff Happy days indeed.

Just for money? Derby are skint. The difference is their owner still wants them to progress and backs his manager as much as he can. There's no evidence other than the words of liars on the Venky payroll that any serious efforts have been made to keep any of our players. Most of the players have admitted this in public in the last few months. If we had really tried the odds suggest that at least one of them would have signed up. The fact that 0 have signed tells me that we aren't trying.