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Tavares seems to have the ability, but lacks concentration, which in turn leads to him being sloppy in possession. Hopefully this improves with time, no reason that it can't TGH is a physical utility player for me. Useful to have on the bench, not sure he will impact the starting 11 when everyone is fit, but it's a long season & injuries/suspensions will happen. He was a sensible signing on a loan RE TGH, apparently his contract wage (he signed for Birmingham during the summer), is close to £20K/week, Rovers are paying half of that, so unlikely a permanent deal will get done given the current wage structure

We can't give ratings for TGH or Gudjohnsen, is that an easy fix?

I had him at 6 out of ten, and thought I was being generous

I was under the impression that they always do (and back again), to save on hotel costs

Pears still in a cap (45 seconds in)

I am willing to accept that some of the new players will come good, and in a couple of cases, given time, they may even end up being better than who they replaced. but there has certainly been another reduction in what wages we are paying

Morishita, Wharton & Carter start Gudjohnsen, Gardner-Hickman & Pears on the bench

The wage bill stated in the accounts staying roughly the same over the past 5 years (£25.5M give or take £200K apart from the 21/22 season when it was £24.3M), despite obvious cuts to the playing staff would indicate that something is not as it seems

I fully expect the next set of accounts to show that the overall wages paid are inexplicably the same as the last god knows how many years, which would then point squarely in the direction of certain non playing members of staff

Whilst what you say is true Toronto, If we ignore averages, our weekly wage bill for the 24/25 season was also stated above as being the 17th lowest out of the 24 in the division. and that was before Birmingham & Wrexham came up with much bigger wage bills than ourselves, meaning we are down to 19th out of 24, and Rovers then decided to cut our own wage bill on top of that. We are now comfortably in the lowest 5 wage payers in the league (at most). And possibly rank even lower depending upon how much we have cut the wage bill this season (and how much more our rivals are spending. Derby probably had a lower wage bill than us last season, probably not anymore based on their spending) Obviously Sheff Wed will have the lowest wage bill, as most of their players have now left. But our wage bill will now be comparable to Portsmouth, Oxford and Charlton. Even so Portsmouth are paying enough to take Chaplin on loan from Ipswich, Charlton are signing Kaminski, who wont come cheap, & Oxford are signing players who we were after)

U18s came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at home to Stoke this morning Sergeant started, getting an assist for Rovers first goal before Stoke were reduced to 10 men at the end of the first half Leatherbarrow, Joseph & Kelley-Quinn with Rovers goals Is Higgins injured? Not seen much of him at all this season (I seem to recall him playing once in pre season, but not at all since the season started)

Starts this weekend for O'Riordan - lost 3-0 - played the full game Connor O'Riordan 5 - Back in at centre-half after his successful right-back cameo last week. Struggled against wily operator Mullin, in truth, but chipped in with nine clearances (his centre back partner, Pearson, got 4, as did the keeper) Edmondson - won 3-0 - Taken off as a precaution after 12 minutes, presumably means that he is now cup tied in the FA cup Pratt - won 1-0 - played the full game, sounds like he impressed, presumably means that he is now cup tied in the FA cup On the bench Olson - won 1-0 - remained on the bench throughout Barrett - drew 1-1 - remained on the bench throughout Not involved in matchday squad O'Grady-Macken - won 1-0 Duru - lost 3-1

Specifically regarding the last line in your post that I have marked in bold Never mind why has the wage cap not been increased, It looks very much as though the wage cap has been reduced and is now below what some of these players are currently on (or at least below what they were on before they left and found new clubs who would pay what they are worth), however, they were offered terms equal to their current contracts on the long shot that they may accept, which would have been seen as an unexpected coup (at least by Pasha, Gestede et al) Not sure I have explained myself properly there, but for example, if Hyam/Brittain/Travis were on circa £10K-£15K/week, and the wage cap is now £10K/week, then whilst all new signings have that £10K/week cap, they are willing to extend our "star performers" on their current terms (but only for a year) It all screams short termism, and the 1 year extensions to our (former) higher earners were them attempting to cover themselves financially as they know where this is likely to end (relegation in the near future if not this season)

He is a 2nd year scholar (the same year group as Tyjon), which means he is 17 (unless his birthday was earlier this month in which case he is 18) In the same thread which claims Sergeant is 15, it also states Joe Boggan is 17, which is also incorrect. Boggan was a scholar a year before Tyjon and Sergeant which makes Boggan 18 or 19 nów (19 according to the Premier League) Scholar years in football work in the same way that school years do, 1st Sept until end of August 1st year scholars are basically 1st year college/6th form and likewise, 2nd year scholars are 2nd year college/6th form Full match report from the 1-1 draw with Coventry

We just have to hope that if he is as good as they think he is, that they get him fit and activate his buy clause before someone reduces the budget changes the project again

Its based on European numbering As the vast majority of the top coaches & managers from the past 20 odd years are European, the labelling has stuck, and now, given the amount of time it has been, younger English coaches have grown up with the European numbering, If we had a spate of Brazilian managers in the country for a couple of decades, then it would change and people would end up calling left backs, "6s", "3s" would be centre backs, and a 5 would be the holding midfielder

U21s are away to Coventry this evening in the Premier League Cup, 7pm kick off Preview score/update

I would be amazed if it did, he hasn't had one training session at Rovers yet Pressing triggers are hugely important to Ismael, which are difficult (if not impossible) to teach in a day or 2 Cameo off the bench for Gudjohnsen this weekend, and integrate him properly over the next week, rather than "hanging him out to dry" (like Henriksson on his debut)

Yep Also and and and

Toth starting for Hungary against Portugal this eve Gudjohnsen starts for Iceland v France

Jack Barrett makes his Tranmere debut (Jason Lowe also starts, with another former Rover, Richie Smallwood on the bench) as Tranmere play Nottingham Forest U21s this evening in the EFL Trophy Game is on Sky Sports +, kick off at 7pm Barrett - drew 2-2 - saved 2 penalties and scored the decisive penalty He was getting grief on twitter earlier from Tranmere fans for letting in a late equaliser

seconded, a wonderful job indeed Wilsden 🙂

No apology needed 🙂 You were just being nice, and the comment was appreciated nonetheless

Sam Barnes is now with Altrincham, played 5 games so far