Just now, JacknOry said:

No it was the clubs choice not to sort out his contract. 

He was offered terms he chose not to sign them that's it and it's left him in a situation where he's taken a backwards step good luck to him but he could have signed up

2 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

He hasnt ended up as a reserve. FFS, he has had no pre-season. 

Good on him thanks for the service I'm not missing him so far. It was his choice to make a backwards step.

28 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

Lad has been with us for how many years and some neandathals on here attacking him. Came throuigh the academy. Great look for any futures kids coming through. Leave and Mani labels you as shit. 

No ones attacking him he was a serviceable rb who we have replaced he had every opportunity to stay up until the contract offer was withdrawn and he's ended up a reserve at Wigan good luck to him I hope he gets a game soon but he chose to leave.

Tbf van den berg can play rb too and if everyone hates ranking costello so much he will be as good as nyambe there any way.

I find Martins comments after the game very odd talks like they won the match basically 

2 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

How did the new fella play?

Did not do a hell of a lot as they had most of the ball popped up with a icecool finish to open the scoring

Just now, Gav said:

JDT actually came off the dole, but let’s not split hairs. 

As I said, everyone hopes you’re right, if we finish higher than 8th we’ll have improved.

He did but he chose  to leave.

2 minutes ago, West Yorks Rover said:

I can't help worrying that this team could be torn apart in the next few weeks.

We have all known that BD could go at anytime, but Lewis Travis is our midfield gem and

after his recent performances, richer clubs must be watching.

Just signed a new deal club captain think it would take a mental offer to even consider it

1 hour ago, SuperBrfc said:

As soon as I see somebody hesitate to bring in quality because they 'don't want to block the pathways', that's when I know we are on to a loser. That is what Broughton displayed a few days ago, in my view.

An extreme example, as he was a top class manager, but remember when Wenger refused to properly replace Vieira, Henry and Co because he "didn't want to block the pathway of the youngsters"? They persisted with those youngsters and went to shit (relative to their ambitions) and have been floundering for 18 years without a league title.

In our case, we've been floundering for 12 years and look set to add a few more to that as Broughton feeds us some guff about a youth project and "measures of success".

I'm not convinced that any of this lot (aside from JDT, maybe) are serious about promotion. It looks like it is all about developing kids, getting them minutes and hoping to sell them on for big fees further down the line.

You only have to read/listen to Broughton's spiel to understand what he sees as success.

One of the first things he said when he arrived was that Rovers would have to overachieve to make it to the Premier League. Inspirational stuff and exactly what you want to hear.

Next, he talked about how almost 40 percent of the minutes played by the Rovers squad last season were from Academy players, and how that needed to be maintained this season. Why? Is the aim to win football matches and try and go up or to give minutes to youngsters and crow about how many first teamers are from the Academy?

On a podcast about his time at Bodo, he talks about how one of the ways of measuring success was by looking at the 'R number' of the Football Club. That is done at any stage, over a five year average, by looking at how many young players from the Academy are in the first team. The more, the better, for the 'R number'. What a load of bollocks! I thought football was about trying to be the best, though? I've obviously had it wrong for all of these years.

Just like the 40 percent quote about the Rovers first team, he proudly mentioned how Bodo had 35 percent of their first team made up of North Norwegians from their Academy. This guy will do stuff all, IMO, and won't help us to get promoted. As long as the youngsters are getting game time, it's all good.

Bear in mind, he turned up at Luton when they had just finished outside the play offs in the Championship. They went on to suffer three successive relegations whilst he was there. Not saying it was all on him, clearly. However, in his own words, he had the autonomy to implement the vision of the Academy. Three relegations. Yet he takes the fact that youngsters got first team football and brought increased financial value to the club as plusses. Three relegations, but the above are positives. That should serve as a warning sign, in my opinion.

We missed out on Anel, Davies, many of us are after Van Hecke and another quality defender. Will he want to 'block the pathway' for Carter and Phillips by bringing in a couple of quality defenders? I highly doubt it. I'm expecting another cheap loan back there.

Our DoF would do well to remember what Alan Hansen said, and it still applies today 27 years on:

"You can't win anything with kids".

I'd perhaps steer clear of using a quote that made the pundit a laughing stock for a while to back up your point.

1 minute ago, 47er said:

I get the distinct impression you don't rate him!

Left his team didn't he.

6 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Why does this player live in Brentwood when he plays for Barnsley?

Rule No 1 of any transfer: you live in the area.

 

He plays for Peterborough 

1 minute ago, JBiz said:

 

It’s as if you only find the bad stuff!

No it's as if he trys to wind people up and constantly gets away with it.

Buckley was great today always looking to go forward with the ball brave play.

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

I can't agree that they are happy to let players leave for free - it's because they don't want to keep putting these extraordinary amounts in that we are seeing these cutbacks. But what about replacing the outgoing players? We have just paid £1m for Nyambes direct replacement and I'd wager he will be on what Nyambe earned on his deal. And what are we going to offer Brereton, are we going to exceed this wage structure? along with Brereton both Travis and Dack are out of contract next year although the club appear to have one year options on them. Will we see another situation like this summer?

Did Travis not just sign a new deal

Less fun is they are Erdoğans club and their rise has everything to do with him and supporters of him

Just now, Beanie01289 said:

Nah mate or West brom would have made the playoffs on Alex mowett alone.

43 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

I thought they sold the good ones from that team or their followed the 

13 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

A third of a relegated outfield team might be a risk...

Not if its the best 3rd that got them to 5th

1 minute ago, Irish_Rover said:

Some generalization there Sparks!
In fairness so were Chris Sutton, Damien Duff and Matt Jansen back in the day.
 

Roy Keane had just been relegated before he chose United over us 

2 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Relegation men...

Play off men also tbf.

3 minutes ago, neophox said:

Styles and Helik will not stay in league one.... see if we can get one of them...

I'd take both tbh.

1 minute ago, neophox said:

Think we need 4 more signings or 5 if Brereton Diaz leaves.

Surely if Diaz leaves it would give us scope to sign more than that.

Just now, Oldgregg86 said:

No problem with that. The weird bit is moving 20 minutes down the road to a weaker club for a one year deal. Did he want “ something new” that bad

It's a very strange one it seems like if the new structure had wanted to keep him they could have offered him the modest terms he was asking I can only assume the decided not too. For my part I would have offered him the terms he was asking for and we could have used him as cb or back up right back.

Just now, Sparks Rover said:

Id have given Ryan a payrise 

Tbh so would I but they never and I think brittan will fit in better for the way we want to play I'd possibly have signed him even if we had given him a pay rise and used him as a cb. I'm not a Nyambe hater in the slightest.