Blimey..... Me and you post on a messageboard that is dedicated to all things Rovers. There are some Rovers fans out there who don't really know how the Venkys and Waggots have treated previous managers Gullible is believing in the idea that everybody knows what we do. They don't But what is happening is not what was promised. Plenty of managers have fell for it. Unfortunately, it is a cause of having owners with little understanding of ethics

He didn't When promises are made, you have to take people for their word. If somebody is told they have the final say on transfers but then don't you can understand their unhappiness But I'm not willing to get deep into the conversation. People have their own opinions on it

It probably isn't a smokescreen. Well, it isn't. I posted there was discontent days ago. There really is. Eustace is not happy. I honestly think he could walk this year. Waggott says one thing and does another. Can't remember the poster but when someone said Waggott needs to pick a side it is true - do Park and Gestede have the final say or do Eustace? This barrier is getting ever higher by the day I can see why it always come across as convenient but these problems will always happen when the stress is at its most. Typically, that is during transfer windows or busy periods. The lack of senior leadership creates this vacuum. Nobody has clear responsibilities defined because the person at the "top" isn't even sure himself. Every single year a new 'power broker' appears with new ideas only for them to be cast aside if it doesn't show immediate results The reason we have such periods of calamity is down purely to that absence in strong, determined and thoughtful leadership. We have no clear commercial or operational directives. What we do is exist. Year by year we continue to operate but with no 3, 5 or 10 year plan. This 'winding path' method of leadership means we twist and turn, therefore getting nowhere fast. Steve Waggott strikes me as a director who keeps the lights on but nothing more. There's no real aspiration because he doesn't think it possible with the tools he has or he simply cannot be bothered. Yet ultimately the blame has to lie with the real owners of the company. They could employ people to run the club properly. They choose not to.

Some frustration in the camp about incoming transfers. Where have we heard that before? I despise the Venkys, but throughout history they have occasionally found money for a striker. If they do find it then I hope Stansfield is good enough to hit the ground running. Gallagher got a lot of goals in his first season for us - look how that ended up I don’t think we can afford another Brereton period. It needs to be an instant impact

I hope this link will work - not a lot of you will have instagram so I do apologise But take a look at this bar in LA last night and its coverage of the Utd game https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-w08QqoKiG/?igsh=MXU4MGJxMXVycjRzNA== https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Cz47cAcTSmFasgNp/?mibextid=WC7FNe If you haven’t got social media I am sorry but I couldn’t find it online it’s like you are actually there! Incredible footage

😂😂 It can’t be none ending when it ended And it can’t be circular, because we ended with an agreement Behave yourself before I set Eddie on you

Yeah, in hindsight we haven’t made good business decisions on player trading. Which is remarkable for a club that has brought in around £40m in recent years I could understand the Brereton case somewhat. We were sat in a good position in that Jan market - league wise - and out of the around £8m supposedly on offer we’d have had very little to reinvest. The gamble may have worked The rest, just poor ownership imo

😁😁😁 Really isn’t like you to want the last word Matty We agree that Carsley is English. That’s good enough for me. Let’s just hope your mate doesn’t get the job because then we’d have to have an argument about something you don’t care about again

I haven’t shifted anything lol Your friend qualifies for English nationality whether he wants it or not is another thing. His country of birth is England and given he has spent his life here, could take up the nationality of English if he wanted to I take riggers point that it isn’t ALWAYS true and his example was a good one. Some people are born at sea, they aren’t stateless, and so my wording there was poor But in Carsleys case - he was born in England, grew up in England, educated in England, worked in England and is bloody English His country of birth is England. His nationality is English - but he clearly has a way to also claim Irish nationality It has ended in an argument because although you keep saying you don’t care about England and are a Rovers fan decided to challenge Chads on whether Carsley is truly English or not

Ok I take that point But if he was born in Germany, went to school in Germany, grew up in Germany, worked in Germany - he’s German

Nobody has said that. But that isn’t even applicable to the conversation being had Lets keep this simple Matty - where was Lee Carsley born?

What, that if you are born in England, you hold English nationality, you grew up in England, that you are English? There are two, maybe three, people disagreeing with that statement. I can’t see many others lining up to disagree

Good example Your son may have dual nationality depending on whether he ever took up his German nationality with it being an RAF base? Unsure But if he did take up his dual nationality, he would be defined as both a German and an Englishman

How have you figured that out? That just means that Marc Guehi is Ivorian but has qualified to play for England and so has chosen to What is so difficult to understand about this? The comparison isn’t even a good one. Guehi has lived all his life bar one year in England. Lee Carsley has always lived in England.

Chuffed that Dack has got another club Well on his way to the PL before those two horrible injuries. Shame what happens to men in this sport. The line between success and failure really is that thin

It really isn’t interesting Matty, trust me If you are born in England, you are English If you are born in Germany, you are German And so on and so on I can’t believe this has got the amount of posts it has. It isn’t that difficult to comprehend

Far too many people care about what Chaddy thinks Lee Carsley was born in England His passport will say his birth place is Birmingham He is English

I should correct my post. Any footballer to reach this level has bags of ability. They are all fantastic players But I’ve heard and from what I have seen Markanday doesn’t have enough to make it at this level. There’s so much off the ball work and that’s why most footballers end up going down the levels. They can’t maintain their fitness to a level required and as a result their off the ball work suffers. I think he’s one of them

I would be glad to see Markanday go. I have heard nothing but bad things about him in terms of ability. Great lad, wants to play, wants to improve, but he just doesn’t have the ability Football is a cut throat industry. He will find his level down there I think. The horrible part of English football is that there is genuinely very little difference between players in League 2 - Tier 4 of football - and players in Tiers 6, 7 etc. Markanday could easily find himself playing in front of 10 men and a dog before he knows it We paid £1m for him. We then got £3m I think for Phillips. Levy has had the Venky’s pants down

Anyone fixed this sky issue? Can’t see it anywhere

It's just not a good look getting rid of Peter Jackson, whatever the positive to the financial sheets In the grand scheme of things, is the cost of ditching them so close to the season outweighed by the thousands more it will generate? Probably not. It certainly won't be a deal big enough to make a substantial difference What it does do is provide an even greater gap between Club and town. Something that has been growing ever wider since the day they darkened our doorstep. The only solace one can have is in the words "one day"..........

Our midfield is looking weak on paper. If Tronstad gets an injury then it’s panic stations. We will more than likely bring a central midfielder in. A deal that may include Travis going the other way doesn’t do a lot to fix the issue though More than anything we need wingers. I reckon Eustace has really laboured that point. They are so important to how he plays I don’t think there’s an area of the pitch that I can say I’m totally happy with. You could argue the 10 role is covered quite well, given Sammie is still here. But that’s about it….and Sammie might not be here long

Surely if Garrett is to have a season at League 1 level then we are bringing a new midfielder in Or are they expecting Travis to fill that gap?

I don’t see a team being promoted with Pickering as left back. I’d say he is on the poorer side of full backs in this league. We are the only club he has played Championship football for. For context, Adam Henley had over 50 apps for us, and it transpired he was terrible I have lost count of the amount of goals we have conceded as a result of Pickering being beat or allowing the defender to run at him unchallenged. Same goes for Brittain actually, who I have lost patience with even for all of his attacking options If Pickering is the average standard for full back in this league then the standard is regressing

Blimey. We've gone back to Danny Batth He's not a very good defender. Never was, really. I can't believe people were begging to sign him last year when we had JDT With that said, he may actually be better suited to Eustace. He'd have got massacred with JDT as manager. Whereas with JE we are going to defend the box more, be deeper and invite teams on to us so we can try and break in the space behind Ayala was a good example of this kind of defender. Yes, he'd drop you a yard or three back, but in defending the box he was as good as any. Now Batth doesn't hold a candle to Ayala, but at this point it may make sense It shows how desperate we are though