Joined them from Accrington in the summer apparently, so guessing he must have been on trail with Rovers at the end of last season and not made the grade

Not sure if this has already been posted somewhere, but Football League World asked AI to predict the Championship table I nearly choked on my coffee, I think this is proof that we are indeed, far, far away from a terminator style future of machines ruling the earth Edit - I wonder if the AI that they asked was the Chaddybot 4000 X Series? But with the optimism dial turned up to max (sorry Chaddy 😉 )

Is there no Nixon fairytale for us today? Surely he hasn't given up on selling Brittain/Tyjon/Higgins for us yet? There is still a month of the window to go!

If he did have a bad knee injury which kept him out of the second half of last season whilst he was out on loan, then nursing him back may make some sense. Although it could just as easily be that he isn't as good as those who brought him in, thought he was I've still not seen any mention this pre season of Higgins, Leeming, Mansbridge, or Joseph. So wonder if they are injured or have maybe just been with the U18s? But they are all players who I would have thought would be with the U21s, at least in pre season

maybe the rules for League 1 or 2? which don't include U21 loan players as part of the 25

According to the EFL handbook (page 244 if you wish to check, this is last years book, I can't find this years but I assume this rule stays the same) "Under 21 Player’ means a Player under the age of 21 as at the 1 January in the year in which the Season concerned commences". This would mean that Harry Leonard and George Pratt are not U21 players, as they turned 21 before Jan 1st 2025, and Kristi Montgomery and Felix Goddard are U21 players as they turned 21 after Jan 1st 2025 Under 21 Players do not need to be registered Also, loan players, no matter what age they are, need to be registered in a Championship 25 man squad, but not if they are an U21 loan player in a League 1 or 2 squad for some reason

Broggan & Decania,, lol Should be Boggan & Decandia

Any idea who the trialist is?

I would think you would have Wood wide & Farkas in the middle from that graphic but it sounds right apart from that. Houghton played centre back last match too (despite being a right back) as all the other "more senior" U21 CBs are in spain with the main squad

Thanks for that Curzon calling him "Broggan" but yep, he is up front

Edit - Curzons twitter feed seems to be all there is for updates on our U21s game today Can't yet see anything online about what sort of team our U21s are putting out, although former Rovers U21 Charlie Weston starting for Curzon this afternoon. He did look solid if unspectacular at U21 level for us, but does not seem to have been fancied by either Barrow or Rochdale, and is now in the 6th tier

Amended my initial post, I was referring purely to Finnerans coimpo You are right on Telalovic, about £300K apparently

Wherever that is due, it will be at most £100K up front, the vast majority will be future fees, add ons, sell ons etc

Camden Schaper

Did well in his half season at Marine (6th tier) last year, where he was with with Montgomery, but yes, think he needs a 4th or 5th tier loan Olsen did well on his loan at Altrincham (5th tier), so loans for Atcheson, Litherland & Pratt, who are all ahead of him in the pecking order, should be minimally at that level, ideally League 2 as long as they are pretty much guaranteed starters

Half of that up front, but an extra £4M in "achievable add ons" such as Rovers winning the 2022 World Cup, & Kapuadi being the first man on the moon

I wonder if Moussa Baradji was (and possibly still is) seen as the "right wing" option, someone to overload the centre whilst the right back overlaps. The current option there (Hedges) isn't one to hug the touchline either

Mullarkey-Matthews has come off the bench on the right wing in each game in pre season, presumably because Rovers have not yet signed competition (it would be folly to expect anything more than competition) for Hedges. I cannot recall him ever playing right back (I think I may have seen him at wing back once or twice, but never right back) for the under age groups and am fairly certain he played on the wing in his loan stints at Bamber Bridge. Atcheson has come off the bench in each game in pre season apart from yesterday. personally think he needs a loan and regular minutes but can be a big player for us in the future, and one who is actually tied down to a long term contract which is like gold dust under our current owners Edit - Atcheson's minutes (roughly equates to about quarter of possible minutes played) Accrington game - 46 mins Everton game - 18 mins Qatar game - 30 mins Elche game - 0 mins

U21s play Curzon at their place this afternoon

It would be handy if Jackson "showed his working", by providing a link or similar. Although it is more likely that Waggott/Gestede once told him this was the case, and Jackson took it at face value

The only other lesson to be learned, would be making efforts to either sign up to a new contract (or sell) everyone who has a contract expiring the following summer (2027) (so most of our squad because of the short contracts that they have been handing out over the past couple of years)

A few months in La Liga followed by a £7M move to the Prem? 😉

Or alternatively, Dolan (or more precisely his agent) spending that extra 3 or 4 weeks negotiating a contract with several interested parties, has meant he has netted himself an extra £5K a week over the term of his contract than he would have got if he had signed a pre contract to join from the 1st July

Duru & Leonard started for U21s who lost 2-1 to Oldham's first team Doherty with our goal

At some point after the Accy game, he picked up a severe groin injury and will be out for a while