Hopefully they show it off on social media the day before.

I would love Rovers to do this. I remember Southampton doing it in the early 2000's...and I think Preston did it in the mid - late 90's with some of their BAXI sponsored kits...? Might be wrong on that. Anyway, yes, it'd be amazing...and a way to involve the community potentially with submitting designs forward for a panel to choose from. No idea how viable it is though, I just think it'd be neat (not just saying that because I enjoy doing the odd kit concept myself 😆).

Change the back of the shirt to all black instead of grey and it's an absolute winner.

Read my post again and you'll see that I state gambling as well. I have fought a gambling addiction for nearly 10 years now so I feel very strongly about betting companies not being given exposure in any way, whether that be on the front of a footy shirt or on a giant billboard. Very easy to sit behind a keyboard and make a judgment about someone without knowing their reasons for their opinion isn't it. As for booze companies...yeah, in this day and age I don't particularly like the idea of that either. As a kid I obviously have had a fair few Rovers tops with gambling companies and of course McEwans Lager on the front, but this was when I was young and didn't know any better. My feelings are that football clubs generally shouldn't be parading around with company logos of things that can cause mental or physical health problems and addiction. Am I wrong for thinking that? I don't know, it's just my opinion. Call it what you want; moaning for the sake of moaning or whatever but that is simply how I feel about the situation. I understand the business and financial side of things in regards to shirt sponsors, but I don't have to like it either!

Reminds me a bit of when Southampton got rid of Nigel Adkins and brought in Pochettino. It worked out alright for them, but getting rid of a head coach that has just masterminded a fairly remarkable and comfortable premier league survival with games to spare is quite a bold move! That said, it looks like a great appointment on paper.

Well I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't complain about Crown Paints because they aren't a vaping company. Like Gambling, having a Vaping Company on the front of the shirt just feels morally wrong. That is my issue with it. It also doesn't help that the Totally Wicked logo is absolutely terrible. I wasn't a fan of last seasons home shirt so I decided to pass on it anyway, but if this season's is decent the I'll be looking at getting the women's team version providing they have a different sponsor, as they had Watson Ramsbottom Solicitors on the front last year. Another misstep on the commercial side of things to go alongside the ridiculously expensive season ticket prices.

Bizarre take. Gets them European football in a higher ranked tournament for next season, and they beat a solid Italian team in the final. A European Trophy win is the stuff Rovers fans can only dream of. Other Premier League clubs should be looking at the Europa Conference League as an opportunity for silverware away from domestic trophies given Man City's domination.

What an utterly bizarre season. Going into it my expectations were simply 'don't get relegated'. Losing Lenihan, Van Hecke and Rothwell combined with hiring someone with no prior coaching experience in England could've gone south very quickly, especially when you look at how the summer transfer window went. If I'd known we were to finish 7th at the start of the season with no further context then I'd have been very happy with that return. However.... With how the season unfolded I can't help but feel a good chunk of disappointment that we aren't in the playoffs. I think we never dropped lower than 10th all season (correct me if I' wrong on that!), and spent the majority of the time in the top 6. To be 3rd in March after beating Sheffield United was uncharted territory for us as we're usually well and truly in our implosion phase by then. Recruitment was poor overall. Hyam the only player to hit the ground running, while it took Szmodics a good while to settle. Of the players we brought in, these two were the only positives in the end. Morton flattered to deceive. Brittain was injured too often but I have hopes that he'll kick on next year. Mola was terrible. Given the context of how we've missed out on the playoffs, it's hard to not look back at a series of awful refereeing decisions and plain old bad luck that cost us over the course of the season. Cardiff away, Huddersfield away, Burnley at home, Coventry at home, PNE away...the list goes on. Because the Championship is such a crazy league I will go to next season with the same expectation as the last, but the hope is that we are up there again and will have improved as a team. We've seen some brilliant youngsters step up and I hope we can build a team around the likes of Adam Wharton, Ash Phillips, JRC, and Hayden Carter. The summer will be interesting, the club have another rebuild on their hands with BBD gone, Dack and Ayala likely to follow. Uncertainty over Kaminski as well I'm sure after Pears took his place. It is perhaps less severe than last summer thanks to the emergence of some of the youngsters. The biggest challenge will be sorting out our attacking players and bringing in a proper CM. I don't think any of our remaining attackers are good enough to start at the moment. With who we have left its basically Dolan, Gallagher and Hedges. That is a bang average front 3. I think we need a whole new forward line 😂😬. I'd be looking to make Hyam the club captain. Travis has shown his limitations this season. He's been poor overall and for all the sh*thousing, he's really ineffective and makes some shocking decisions so I'm not even sure he warrants a place in the starting 11. If Brittain is fit then I'd be moving JRC into midfield at Trav's expense. JRC has gone from being the player that I dreaded seeing on the team sheet to my favourite player in this group. It's an incredible turnaround. If there's any justice, then 3rd place wins the playoffs. I don't have any ill feeling towards Mowbray and Sunderland getting there, but that might change if they end up winning the thing!

Think this will be a score draw. I can see Millwall being quite nervy. Rovers with nothing to lose at this point because its arguably already been lost for this season. I can see a scenario where BBD doesn't feature to avoid himself getting injured before his move. If Gallagher is fit then I'd go with this team. Pears JRC, Carter, Hyam, Pickering Travis, Wharton Szmodics Dolan, Gallagher, Hedges

Well there's not much that can be said about that, that won't already have been said or will be said in the coming hours and days. Would've taken a point before kick-off, but this feels like a defeat, as did the Coventry game. Oh well...onto the next one I guess 😬

Can't see anything but a Cov win unfortunately, and a match that plays out similarly to Norwich with Rovers utterly toothless in attack at the moment. 1 - 3 Coventry.

Reverting to Gallagher out wide last night was almost on a par with playing Bradley Johnson as a False 9. Gally has been shocking since we resumed after the international break, as has BBD, who for me quite simply doesn't deserve to be in the team at the moment. Granted Huddersfield where poor but I thought we looked a far more solid side with the 3 in the middle, so not sure why we switched back to 2. Wharton didn't deserve to be dropped at all. I think having that third man really helps our transitional play, because you can see that we struggle to play out from the back due to a lack of movement / space in midfield, which is why the back 4 give the ball away so much. Hyam in particular has been really guilty of some poor passes, some down to complacency and others I think are simply down to a lack of option. The substitutions seemed to help us play more direct, but it all happened too late. Make those change at half time and it could've been a very different story. It might be in our hands on paper but our run-in says that it is anything but. I struggle to see us picking up another win this season based on last night.

Good comeback, JDT got his subs right this time. JRC operating more in the middle for the 2nd half was a great move as he caused absolute chaos for Huddersfield. I'd like to see him in that position against Hull with Brittain coming in at right back. Shocking to go 2 nil down against a poor Huddersfield team after dominating the game. The team generally played fine except for the two soft goals they conceded. Hopefully it will be a confidence boost to the group that they can in fact come back to get something out of a game. Although he went off, I do think we're a much better team with Dolan and Szmodics together as it makes our forward play much more mobile and flexible. Leonard looks a decent prospect as well, seemed to adjust to the pace of the game quite quickly and showed good instincts on a couple of occasions. Hopefully he gets more chances between now and the end of the season. With all that being said, it is definitely 2 points dropped when you look at the game as a whole. We totally dominated and Huddersfield never really had a spell in the game despite somehow ending up with 2 goals. Warnock has worked wonders to get them out of the bottom 3.

Woeful from start to finish. Morton and Travis as a midfield combo is just terrible. None of the starting XI come out of that with any credit. BBD is already in Spain by the looks of it too. Less said about Gallagher, the better.

Doing Danny DeVito a disservice there!

This is a shocking performance so far. Lack of quality from Wigan but they at least look like they want to score. Rovers looking sluggish and clueless once they get into the opposition half.

Has Vale touched the ball yet??

When do we start the countdown to Rich Sharpe tweeting "I'm told Rovers' business is done for the day" 😂

We go through this every year. Deadline day comes and there's talk of one or two players that would be genuinely great additions...followed by absolutely nothing transpiring and then the club comes out saying 'we tried to do this, that, the other, etc.' There might be some different faces but the same shambolic incompetence behind the scenes. Hope they prove me wrong!

JDT ain't it for me. Nice guy but essentially the Danish Gary Bowyer. Won't be long before he's coining the phrase 'we gave it a right good go'. Summed it up for me that at 2 nil down yesterday the Sky cameras show him grinning like we're coasting to an easy win. The lack of fight in this team when we go behind is completely unacceptable. There is no backbone there, no fighting character to drag themselves over the line, which is what any successful team does when they're not at their best. That starts with the manager having, and JDT hasn't got it for this level. Hope I'm one day proven wrong but I think it's unlikely.

The 'young team' line has worn thin. The team yesterday was a reasonable mix of experience and youth so to use that as an excuse is total BS. The reality is, we have a reasonably decent group of players that are not equipped to play the style of football JDT wants. There are very few teams (possibly only 1 in Burnley) in the Championship that can play this way consistently with success. Rovers were a far better side last season playing on the counter and generally having less of the ball, and we even saw it at the start of this season against the likes of Swansea and WBA that when we play on the counter we can be clinical. The only arguable positive was Dolan and Markanday look like they have good chemistry. If JDT insists on playing possession based football then maybe start with these two who are technically skilled on the ball and can interchange really well, instead of Gallagher who has a horrific first touch and totally out of his depth with this style of football. If anything, Gallagher is the one you bring on when chasing a game and you have to resort to a more direct approach when the possession style isn't working.

It was as clear as day watching yesterday that this team needs an experienced central midfielder that can help drive the transition from back to front if we insist on playing it around at the back. Our current crop of midfielders don't have that in their locker between them and it shows when Hyam and Ayala look to pick them out, it usually ends up back with them or Kaminski, or we give the ball away and play ourselves into trouble, which is where we have lost plenty of games this season. Secondly, a focal point striker. Why on earth do the club think they need another 'flexible' attacker when we already have Brereton Diaz, Hedges, Dolan, Markanday, and Szmodics who can all arguably do that job. What we need is a Danny Graham type figurehead, who ironically we haven't replaced since he left the club. You could argue that Hirst was intended to be that player but what worked with Danny Graham is the chemistry with Dack and more importantly - the experience he had at Championship level. I'm sick to death of our new recruitment being so focussed on bringing in youth that we seem to be forgetting about the here and now. No doubt we'll bring in a couple of half baked loans from premier league teams when we're crying out for experience and we'll slip down the table. The club have zero ambition, it's all about being a feeder club to premier league teams and buying young to sell on for profit. If we ever get promoted to the top flight again it'll be due to an absolute fluke of a season ala Coyle at Burnley.

Very naïve and poor 2nd half to not expect Luton to come out and take the game to Rovers. I think we were all pretty happy to see the same starting eleven but I hindsight I'd have sacrificed someone like Dolan for an extra midfielder at half time to try and stifle the Luton midfield. Having Dack come on to sit deeper than usual and trying to pick out balls to Hedges and BBD on the counter would've been something that could've given us a bit of creative spark. For one reason or another I think we all feel that JDT doesn't fancy Dack in this team, which quite frankly is bizarre because he's the only one that can turn a game on its head with a defence splitting pass - see Blackpool away from a couple of weeks ago for evidence of that. We could have so easily been in front at the break and it seems that this team walks a very thin line based on whether they score first or not. If they concede first then they seem to fall apart, particularly the midfield, who can't handle the more physical and aggressive midfields of other teams. The games will come extra thick and fast up until the World Cup break now. Let's hope that they do some good work on the training ground during the international break and we hit the ground running for what will be a critical part of the season.

Same team as Watford please. Brittain might be in the squad but Id be surprised if he was thrown straight back in from the start. We'll need that same back 3 if we are to keep Luton's forwards quiet, especially as the midfield battle to be very tough, probably tougher than Watford given Luton haven't won at home yet and they'll be desperate to change that. Let's hope the team goes into it full of confidence and not the slow and tentative approach that we've seen in other games. Rovers really have been a Jekyll and Hyde so far this season. I'll go for a 1-1 draw. Rovers to score first, and we'll probably be hanging on a bit by the end but we have to draw at some point...right!?

Having S. Wharton and Ayala back in the quad and with at least one of them starting would be a huge boost. That being said, it won't count for much if the midfield don't have an impact on the game as we saw against Bristol City. Instead of 3 at the back, I would look to sacrifice one of the forward players to install a holding midfielder to beef things up in the middle. Not ideal but then Watford are a far superior side to Rovers at this moment. GK. Kaminski RB. Carter CB. Hyam CB. S. Wharton LB. Pickering DM. Travis CM. Buckley CM. A. Wharton RF. Hedges CF. Hirst LF. Brereton The concern of course is that Hirst could be very isolated, but if they can get the ball into him I think can do a good job at holding the ball up and bringing others into play.