Jack "the Messiah" Vale will save us this season!

From your comment, I am assuming you were there? What did Saadi look like? beyond being "neat and tidy" Still quite confused as to why he was offered a new deal, and would have thought Whitehall would be ahead of him How did Vale look? Was it 4-2-3-1 in the 2nd half too? with either Buckley or Garrett in the number 10? Or more a 4-3-3?

Especially if he does become the next big thing, those there can say "I saw Tijon before he moved to Real Madrid for £500M" Just so that I am clear, Rovers will sell him for well under market value to Brentford etc, and they will sell him to Real Madrid for £500M 6 months later

Ref is a clown

I wondered who would take that tap in

He is the messiah!

Gent played left wing back last season for Motherwell, saw a few games against Rangers & Celtic where he did ok Better going forwards than back in my opinion though. Could easily play as an old school winger, not sure how he would do as a LB in a back 4, but he has time to learn.

Anyone have a clue who Barrett is? Edit - Apparently a trialist Surprised that Saadi is there over Whitehall

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But if he gets 2, he is... right?

U21s also playing at 2pm this afteroon, at Hyde

Just about Pears Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering Tronstad JRC Gallagher Garrett Dolan Tijon Hilton/Eastham/Michalski Duru O'Riordan Gamble Gent Travis Buckley Markanday Vale Gilsenan Leonard/Telalovic Apparently Hedges not ready, and Sigurdsson & Sxmodics will play a small part (subs) Disclaimer - I am not advocating Gally out wide, just fitting what is available into two starting 11s

Wait for the next one, "Head of mismanagement and managed decline"

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/july/06/rovers-appoint-adam-owen/ Just been announced,... another head of... “You just have to look at Adam Wharton as a real success story and I think the key point is ‘who’s the next one?’ Lots of clubs are becoming a bit more sustainable from that point of view and I think the way this club wants to go, in terms of developing their own and seeing them progress, that’s one of the reasons why I’ve joined the club.” So there we have it, lets get those young players developed and sold off asap!

Re-open the cake/biscuit thread!!!!

Parker is awful, with both Fulham and Bournemouth, he should have achieved promotion far easier than he did. Like Russell Martin at Southampton, the quality of squad and money to invest will probably see them over the line in spite of the manager

Just looking at the final tables from last season in the top 2 divisions of women's football is quite eye opening https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/womens-super-league/table https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/womens-super-league-two/table In the top Division, the top 6 were the big 6 men's clubs, and the rest of the top division were made up of clubs fairly established in the men's Premier league, with the exception of Bristol City who got 6 points and finished last by some distance Crystal Palace won promotion from The 2nd division, the rest of the division was made up of mainly men's Championship teams (including Rovers) Newcastle (another club with money) were this season promoted to the 2nd division, without knowing anything else about their players/team etc, I will hazard a guess that they will win the division at a canter. It is fairly obviously something that can only realistically be supported/funded to what the pundits and journalists would call an "acceptable level" by fairly established men's Premier League teams who do not have to worry about going bankrupt. Maybe if the journalists petitioned their bosses at various media companies, they could convince them to give better tv deals to women's football to make it more feasible. It irks me somewhat that Venkys haven't put a penny into any part of the club in some time, and nothing has been mentioned by pundits/journalists etc until something which is en vouge is affected Edit - If there is decent money available in the women's top division, then what appears to be a 1 up, 1 down system of promotion/relegation doesn't offer much incentive for many of the 2nd division teams to take a chance on promotion, without something like play offs to give them a helping hand

Ryan Nyambe to score the goal that knocks the Dingles out of the play off too! lol

or we already have a promising young left back who has done well at at lower level but is currently unproven at Championship level in Gent? Not much difference between League 2 and Scottish Prem for me

I do

I seem to have a blind spot in my memory when it comes to Fleck (its quite nice, others should try it too, at least one painful memory erased)

And then when injured they would be given an extension (Gladwin)

Wasn't the Telalovic fee just the cobbled together loose change from underneath Broughtons and JDTs sofas?

Welcome back Chaddy, I was genuinely worried about you for a minute there, don't think I have ever seen you go a day without posting before, and thought this week might have broken you. Glad to see you are still as positive as ever. In answer to your question, we would have known O'Brien's and McGuire's wage demands before making a move for them too, and it didn't help in either of those situations. Edit - I think you are right with the first point that Hyam became available so we pulled out of the Caulker deal (which sounds like a sensible choice)