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As Telalovic has been brought up, he's doing really well in a poor bundesliga 2 team! Hope we have a sell on clause with him. Strange how he's doing so much better back in Germany and at a similar ish level to the championship.

Dele Alli? He will probably end up at a championship club

Just seen today is the 700th consecutive match day squad, so that answers half of the question. Must be a while without a starter though.

No academy graduates starting today. When was the last time that happened!?

Interesting read. https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/07/why-are-bournemouth-fulham-and-brentfords-womens-teams-so-behind Seems like we are, along with Reading, one of the few clubs that's bucking the trend.

That's a shame! I was hoping to catch a game whilst visiting home

Is there likely to be another friendly game squeezed in between Stockport away and the Derby game at the start of August? Don't we usually have a 'big' name home game before the season starts?

Is there likely to be another friendly game squeezed in between Stockport away and the Derby game at the start of August? Don't we usually have a 'big' name home game before the season starts?

Imagine buying a season ticket for the women's team after today's revelation....

That is awful and is up there with one of the worst things I've read during the Venky period. So a significant portion of our income comes from the clubs award winning charity!? Surely, this isn't normal and doesn't happen at other clubs.

It looked like we were making good progress developing the women's team. Highest ever position, record attendances and I assumed closer to going full time than 9k a week for 30+ hr?? a week job. I'm not sure how the figures stack up, but the wages of a team in the 6/7th league in Germany won't be far off, with similar crowds and presumably less sponsorship than Rovers. Maybe there are appearance related bouses too. Eitherway this decision has destroyed the team and we would do well to avoid relegation this season.

not sure if it helps, but the menu icon the on bottom right of map lists available seats per segment

Looking at the average attendances over the last 15 years, we have the highest since our prem league days. Not sure how the away fans influence this number though. Of course its only a minor increase and a lot less compared to almost every other comparable team in the country. I would be happy if they took 2 million from the sale of our local boy and knocked it off the price of season tickets for the local fan base.

I hope Johnson is now in change. Another point to add to the list of things wrong with this team is our attempts at long throw ins. The fullbacks wind up like Rory Delap and it barely makes the edge if the 18 yard box

Just seen that the game has been added to ESPN in thr US.

Hoping for a 2-0 win. Sammie and Dolan to score. 19k attendance. I still think we will survive this season whatever happens tomorrow.

Would you keep Telalovic or Vale? I think Vale has a more impressive record so I would keep Vale if we were to keep one of them. I haven't seen enough of either this season to make a decision though...

Yeah I think we're safe now. We would need to lose all 3 games and an almost perfect set of results from those below us now. Still would like to see us finish off the job tomorrow infront of our fans

Sounds like we are playing our strongest team tomorrow. Be interesting to see how many of our players can compete against an upper mid-table Premier league team. With a bit of luck and a more competent structure we could have been playing these teams every week. I watched the arsenal game and they can be beaten. However, we are not arsenal, so I'm going for a hard fought 1-2 loss. Our highest attendance this season of just under 21k may also be broken.

If you sell your best players and don't replace them with at least equal there's only one way you will go.... We've been like this for 12 years now. Just been lucky that our academy has filled them holes. One season it won't.

This team has some serious problems. Play attractive possession football, concende 3 goals a game. Play hard man percentage football, concede 2 goals in 45mins. Also sad that we seem to have replaced our more technically gifted academy players for older journeymen bruisers. Only seen 45 mins of this new era so maybe I'm being a little harsh.

I put up to 5m. If we don't spend or unearth a wonder kid from the academy we will be relegated. It also depends on what the agreement is between Venkys and the Indian government. If its they can only cover losses, then the sales have probably balanced the books for the next 12 months. Eitherway we are at best just treading water and at most probably going downwards with these owners.

If those numbers are correct it'll be a good crowd and atmosphere. Bigger crowd than moat league games! Closer to 17k by KO on Monday. No idea what the score would be, but probably a classic high scoring cup game. Hoping for an Adam Wharton assist or two too...

These cup runs are quite lucrative for both teams. We received 105k for beating Cambridge (plus ticket sales etc) and the winner of the 4th round gets 120k (plus ticket sales etc). If we win, that could be close to 500k in revenue, quite a lot of extra cash for us. 5th round winner gets 225 in prize money...

Maybe the club knew we would lose Hill and decided to sign the Crewe defender as a replacement. Short term I'd image he won't be as good as Hill, long term better for the club as we would be developing one of our own players.