Safe travels to everyone and hopefully it will be an enjoyable night at Ewood. I will be watching from home tonight with my three month old son. It’s his first game so I’m sure he’ll be asleep by half time 🤣

I do feel for the lad, left promotion chasing Crewe and barely played. In hindsight he should have stayed on loan with Crewe, similar to when we signed Pickering. Hopefully he gets a decent L1 loan move and comes back a better player.

I wonder? 🤔

Yes, that’s why I’ve chosen him to score tomorrow. He scored the winner at Deepdale in 2019 when we went 2-0 up after 15 minutes and bottled it 😂

1-1 Dolan to score for Rovers and Barkhuizen for Derby.

Steve Waggott:

It’s laughable when this should have been wrapped up after haggling over such a small fee (in football terms). Marseille have agreed €2m + bonuses so it was always going to be higher than our bid.

Let’s say the Ipswich move falls through for Szmodics. I know he’s a fit lad but he’s not played a pre season game since Accrington and he went off injured during that game. In the highly unlikely scenario that he stays with Rovers, our best player isn’t match fit…

My favourite comment 😂

Surely Newcastle have signed him to help with their homegrown quota. Why would they loan him out?

“Barnsley FC Sporting Director Mladen Sormaz said, “We watched Georgie at Motherwell a lot last season and we feel he is a top prospect for the future who also has the maturity to step straight in an make an impact this year. "We first entered into discussions with Blackburn in May, but they wanted to take him away for pre-season and assess him, so we started to work on other deals. However, we ultimately made the decision to hold out for Georgie as our top target in that position.”

This team has been crying out for experience, happy with the signings as squad players for the season. Hopefully we can add some more quality to the squad towards the end of the window.

Happy that Garrett is getting a loan to Bristol Rovers. It’s a decent level for him to play regular football and a good club to play for 👍🏻

It’s not the fastest back-line in the league, that’s for sure. I don’t think we’ll be playing a high line this season, one ball over the top and we’re done for.

Eustace will have to mix and match the centre back for certain teams we play. I would be more confident with McFadzean and Batth at the back against a direct team, compared to Hyam and Carter.

Yes, we didn’t see the same fanfare for Doherty when he signed 😂

“The lightning fast forward will initially join Rovers’ emerging talent group, where he will hope to impress for Mike Sheron’s side as he looks to make the next step in his career into first team football.”

Nixon says we want two centre halves… Hands up, who has his paetron?

One of the forums favourite journalists confirming the Chrisene fee was £1.5m. If we were actually spending the £30m+ incomings from the last twelve months, I think this would have been a sensible deal for us.

Fans Forum minutes confirming we’re looking for a keeper, left sided centre back, striker (Gueye), and an ‘7’ or an ‘11’

Gueye only needs two words of English… “John Bull”

This will be similar to the McFadzean deal, I’m sure of it. Agreed a deal more than a month ago and is only just going through. I bet Waggott went back on the deal and offered reduced terms. McFadzean is closer to the end of his career and turned down other clubs for Rovers. McFadzean doesn’t really have any other options so will have agreed a reduced deal IMO.