JHRover

Has anyone purchased the 2026 Official Calendar? It appears this is a 150th anniversary version, complete of course with the Yorkshire White Rose (does ANYTHING we have come with a red rose these days?) I'm slightly surprised they chose 2026 to be the celebratory calendar, falling after the anniversary, rather than the 2025 calendar. Hopefully the calendar isn't just the usual 12 players photos (half of which will probably leave in January/the summer) and they've actually made some effort with it being the anniversary special (e.g. historic Rovers photos of cup triumphs, league successes etc.) UPDATE - no, of course not, it is the usual 12 players photos, so actually nothing to do with the anniversary other than they've used the Maltese cross/white rose combo to make out as though it is part of the anniversary range. Anyone want to guess how many of the 12 players will still be here in December 2026?

Norwich seem to have an interest in Scandinavian appointments. Wouldn't surprise me to see him turn up there.

So we get promoted this season to the PL, and offer Tronstad a 3 year deal on double his money and a chance to play in the PL. Is he rejecting that to move back to Norway? No It is all relative. Make him a good offer he stays. Show him we want to accomplish something as a club he stay. Muck him around like everyone else, go nowhere as a club other than backwards and of course he'll leave at the end of his deal.

Could have signed a proper striker in the summer. We knew Gueye wasn't good enough. Convenient with Tronstad. Another one going for personal reasons and nothing to do with Rovers. Still helps us avoid a new contract and pay rise. Centre back - why didn't we sign a Hyam replacement?

Why does he want January signings when the 'owners backed us' with investment and 10 new signings in the summer and Rudy delivered the goods?

Nailed on home win this. They're doing well, have been very solid at Deepdale and will be typical Preston - up for it, physical, direct, organised and all round horrible. We will be nice and have lots of possession but get nowhere with it. Another downside to the 'project' of Gestede is some of these foreign signings won't know what has hit them in a Lancashire derby there. People who would have served us very well in this from last season - Batth, Weimann, Travis, Wharton - not here to be called upon.

TEN parties have already provided proof of funds to the administrators of Sheffield Wednesday. 'But who would buy us if Venkys left?'

Everything is 'after the international break' now that we are in it

Judging by the numbers sat up there it even looks like interest in Yasir's free bus is on the wane.

This is the folly of releasing FOUR kits over the course of a season. It is just ridiculous and unnecessary. Rovers need TWO kits - home and away. We could have used both this year to properly commemorate the anniversary - a retro / one off home shirt and then an away shirt - perhaps the gold version with other anniversary references. Job done. Get adequate stock in over the summer and ensure the shelves are full through the season. Totally needless for us to have 3 kits in any season. The blue and white halves does the job in most games and an away shirt to be used at Millwall/QPR/Preston/Birmingham/WBA/Leicester/Portsmouth Totally needless to release a 'one-off' special kit for the anniversary game. Why not just use this all season and make the most of it? And in the end the whole thing botched by people who have no idea (I'm not sure what commercial experience the likes of Suhail and Sufi have but certainly not enough to be running a multi-million pound organisation). You might have had people willing to pay £80+ for that white Maltese shirt for the occasion of Saturday. But are they really going to pay that much for a shirt released in January and never worn in a match?

It would also be a clear acknowledgment of failing on the part of Gestede to now go out into the free agent market in bring in someone like Craig Dawson to see us through. After spending the last 6 months talking about a project, recruitment, way of doing things, exciting times, bright new future and heaping praise on themselves and the owners for their investment and bringing in 10 new players in the summer, if they now accept that they've left us short and that we need to take emergency action to bring in defensive reinforcements it would basically mean them accepting that whatever they did over the summer wasn't enough. Not going to happen. It will be square pegs in round holes until at least January and to hell with the consequences.

We aren't going to sign experienced free agents because it isn't 'the project', we aren't paying competitive wages and our budget is probably maxed out from the summer. The accountants and Suhail will not authorise and extra wage or two on the payroll. If that means we get relegated off the back of it, then so be it. It will be the same approach in January unless they can offload people first to raise money, despite Nixon's nonsense about investment coming, which is simply an attempt by the regime to buy time and get them through the next three months. That's why Ismael is saying this.

Occasionally you might get a 'surprise' relegation - if Sheff Utd, Norwich or Southampton stay down there they would be huge surprises based on their squads, investment and expectations. In reality - and it seems Southampton have already turned a corner now that Still has gone - all three are likely to get themselves out of trouble because they shouldn't be going down. I am still struggling to work out who the minimum two other clubs are going to be that we need to finish above to survive this season. On paper you'd think Oxford and Portsmouth maybe, but both seem to have the ability to pick up results, particularly at home, when they need to. Swansea were my pre-season prediction to struggle and it looks like some rot has set in there, but I don't think they'll just sit back and leave it to chance - they'll sack their inexperienced manager and replace before too long. I suppose maybe QPR another but they seem to be competitive. It is going to be a close run thing in my view. You can't lose 5/7 at home and win 1 and expect anything other than a struggle. One thing is for sure - we aren't going to be anywhere near 7th this season so perhaps the chuckle brothers running the show could explain why we've clearly regressed by 10+ places in the table under their management.

When he joined we had Waggott and Broughton running the show. I've made my views on Waggott clear before and others don't rate Broughton but at least there was some facade of professionalism and footballing nous there. Within 3 months Broughton had gone, Waggott pushed aside and someone had parachuted Gestede into the top position despite having no CV or track record to warrant it. It has since become clear that Gestede is being employed to oversee massive cutbacks and a revolving door policy of predominantly foreign players. We are about as far away from what Eustace walked into as possible. Pretty reasonable to suggest that the goalposts moved and what he signed up for wasn't what ended up happening.

There seems to be a misconception that Rovers are, or should be, vulnerable to the advances of Eustace and the might of Derby County. With the exception of Beck and Sanderson, neither of which were our players to begin with, none of those who have joined Derby - Batth, Weimann, Travis - we needed to let go. We chose to. Our choice. We chose to run their contracts down, we chose not to engage them in talks about new contracts, we chose accept the cash offered for our captain. Reading comments such as yours it seems to be structured in a way that poor little Rovers are the victims of some evil scheme by Derby and Eustace to extract our quality against our will. But that is nonsense. We had the power of contracts in our favour for all these players including Eustace and his staff. We agreed those contracts could end and took the cheaper option of avoiding improving them and grabbing the compo. Our choice. We could have dealt with the contracts, improved and extended them, or even sold the players to clubs other than Derby. Our negligence has cost us. Eustace knows what an absolute shambles this club is and knows that we have a diminishing pool of quality players that the disgusting owners and board will grab cash for any of them even at the expense of results. Not our fault he's trying to do a good job for a club with some ambition. This is competitive cut-throat business. Not amateur hour although I think our lot would prefer if it was.

We can all throw figures around. 3 wins in 4 yes. 3 wins in 13 home games. 1 win in 7 home games. 5 defeats in 7 home games. 19th in the table. The 'players are playing for him' doesn't really interest me - it's a results business and if they aren't up to scratch then 'playing for him' doesn't really compensate or help. But remember that the ownership and management won't be concerned about results one way or the other. So we can chat all day long on here the only way Ismael gets the boot is if he turns the spotlight on Pune and their mate in the shadows.

No way old Tony could cope with the commute from Teesside to Norwich after his struggles with getting to/from Brockhall.

Norwich have sacked Manning at last so they'll be on the lookout for a new manager too. Russell Martin probably top of their list with his connections there.

Seems strange, only a few days ago Rudy was boasting of the owners' support and investment with their '10 signings' and now we have lost a few to injury and we are all concerned about coping with a threadbare squad. In reality they've left us short, again, by cutting corners and costs on recruitment, contracts and the squad. Only an imbecile would sell Hyam on deadline day with no replacement coming in and then seriously expect treatment table regulars Carter and Wharton to see us through a 46 game season. But that's where the difference comes in - this lot aren't arsed if it means we lose more games or plummet down the table. They'll just shrug shoulders and moan about 'bad luck' whilst collecting their bonuses for cutting the wage bill and bringing in millions.

We go to Bristol City it's 9 minutes added (Play over 10) when we have a narrow lead to protect. At Leicester it was 6-7. As usual when Rovers are chasing a game it is the bare minimum.

Not going to shift many of those surplus replica shirts by closing the club shop on a home game with 18,000 fans walking past the locked doors.

Loads of seats available in the Riverside if you want 3 together. Won't get close to selling out.

Well on numerous occasions, including Derby's manager today, you have accepted location as a reason for someone moving club. Being closer to home, family reasons etc. You did the same with Joe Rothwell to Bournemouth and others. So Rob Edwards, who comes from Telford and who played for Wolves for years, who actually seems to have very strong family ties to that area, yet you don't seem willing to accept this might play a part in him moving there rather than staying with Middlesbrough.

They expected to fill Ewood Park with home fans which is why they limited Derby to half the DE. That's right, a 12:30pm Championship kick off after everything they have done to humiliate, degrade and alienate and they seriously thought the floodgates would open for fans to come today. As it happens there will of course be over 10,000 empty seats for the biggest milestone in the Club's history. Something for them to pat themselves on the back over. I have no doubt whatsoever that the planned release of the anniversary shirt has been postponed either because they want to first sell off the remaining stock of the 3 main kits or because someone is annoyed that the anniversary shirt has been leaked online this week and is making a point not to release it now. Of course logically having FOUR different kits this season, none of which are particularly impressive efforts, was always going to stretch budgets and luck. The home shirt is the most boring effort I can imagine and has the halves wrong, the gold one I don't understand why pictures of the railway station and Wainwright bridge are being used and the green one has no connection to our history and includes a white rose of Yorkshire, but apparently matches a shade of green contained on the town coat of arms. But even if you loved all three buying them all and then being asked to cough up another £90 for a white shirt with an ironed on cross was a lot to ask. Naturally of course they should have done what was suggested on here - have a proper anniversary home shirt that was released in the summer and worn all season - an all white one if necessary - and then a decent away one like all gold to honour the occasion. Job done. Two unique shirts for a one-off season. No need for fiasco or confusion.

What if your Mrs told you she wanted to move to the Midlands?