Can’t watch the game but I was at Reading. One thing that was infuriating me was every time a pass through the middle was made it went to the opposition. Hoping the same thing isn’t happening in this game?

Was always going to be a tough one after they took a battering against Rotherham. I think Ince has done well to get a response from his players but that’s exactly what we need now. A response to a poor performance. If Reading can do it against us, no reason why we can’t against Sheffield United.

On their forum some Reading fans are saying that our good start reminds them of the good start they had a couple of years ago which soon was negated after the bubble was popped. They think that after Wednesday we won’t sustain the same run of results. On the flip side some are saying we are their first real challenge of the season and for them to only have 3 points against the teams they have played is a warning sign of things to come. Hopefully we win comfortably but this is reminding me of the run-in towards the Hull away last season.

I agree that it would have a better for the table but I’ll take it for what it is and celebrate it either way haha

Perfect weekend. Rovers win dingles lose Man U lose

Da, da, da da da da, Darragh Lenihan!

Two teams that hit good form last season and tailed off at the end. Both had management replacements too so it'll be an interesting opening game as these two clubs are somewhat mirrors of one another in recent times.

That's the one yeah. Just imagine it in blue and white and id be happy with it. I know the opinion is controversial however. I like what you say about it being an away kit though. That would be good in black and red wouldn't it. Glad at least someone likes the idea. I find the "dashes of the opposite colour on each half" idea quite imaginative. I could go for the odd splodge of blue on the white part and vise versa. Hahaha love how blunt that comment was. Thanks to everyone for being respectful in agreeing or disagree with the original post. Can be some quite harsh people on here who wont only disagree with you, they will attack you personally.

I was telling a work colleague about what Macron could do with our home shirt and he dared me to post it on here after I told him. He said it won't be well received but here goes anyway. The Forest away shirt by Macron last season was a two colour half shirt with the fading of the colours where they met in the middle. I said "I think it would be different if we tried something like that instead of the straight cut line down the middle for a change." That's when he dared me. Be kind please...

I agree, the silver line of that period of time where the club couldn't get a sponsor sorted in time, was that we could buy a shirt without the sponsor on it at the start of the season.

Yeah that’s what I was going to say. I think there is a good chance the sponsor will be like that as I think the sponsor last season had to be the way it was to cover the up the recoverite logo.

I’m used to the totally wicked sponsor now. I think it won’t be as bad as last year as it needed to be that big to cover up the previous sponsor. Hopefully it’s more akin to that on the training kit and isn’t as dominant with the big licence plate size block on the front.

I believe the mancs call it a ‘Baaaaaaaaaamcake’

Rays Up!

I go to the home games but as I have other life commitments I only tend to go to one away game a season. This seasons away game for me was Reading which I did actually really enjoy despite the game being awful to watch.

Is it worth someone making a new 22/23 thread for this topic?

Hope Macron are quick to design and make the new shirts for the 22/23 season. Would make a huge change.

I agree that teams need favors from other teams somewhere or another. Those favors are useless if you don't do yourself a favor and capitalize on them. Rovers have been failing to pick up wins when favors have been handed to us. So all in all my take is, teams do half of the favor. The other half of it from yourself.

I remember going to an Accrington Stanley cup game against Bournemouth that Accrington won while in the conference, and Bournemouth were in league 1. For sure would have been unthinkable back then.

Anyone know when Dack is expected back? Not much of a like for like but he does have some amount of ball carrying ability.

From what I’ve gathered since speaking to people I know about the new shirt sponsor, the ones that are complaining about us promoting vaping have never expressed a problem with vaping before (and having the sponsor on the training gear or stadium). When I’ve called them out on falling victim to their own cognitive dissonance, when in reality they think the sponsor looks hideous and the sponsor name sound ridiculous, they have been stumped. In short they don’t like the look or the name and they don’t see it as a good enough reason to be outraged so they decide to be offended about vaping companies when they couldn’t care less.

I disliked it from the very first time I heard it. It's just become a really annoying, over rated, and over played song like Mr.Brightside.

Sorry to sound like a 'Negative Nancy' but I've always hated that song.

I feel like this comment will have resonated with a lot of Rovers fans. Well said buddy!

This happens with a few clubs. Preston and Bolton to name a couple. They treat their games against Rovers like a cup final and to Rovers fans they are just another English team. Our rival is Burnley, end of. They need to realize that and end their obsession with us.