40 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Makes it a bit lot of a farce. Shouldn’t have restarted this season. But at least the PL clubs get their TV money.

You also said constantly throughout the first lockdown that football should never have restarted last season. So according to you, not a single professional match should have been played since March. 

If the world had listened to you, football would no longer exist.

And using the same logic neither would cricket, golf, cycling, motor racing, horse racing, rugby union, rugby league, athletics, swimming, snooker, darts or international chess tournaments. 

In the face of incredible government incompetence (not just in this country) many sports governing bodies deserve a lot of credit for keeping things going. ECB deserve particular credit IMO for delivering a full international season and a credible domestic season in these circumstances. 

12 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Forget luxuries like Downing now, another keeper for no 2 should come before him  if nothing else.

Seriously?! How many No2 keepers do you want? What have Pears and Stergiakis done so wrong in their first couple of weeks? 

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Only 6 games in but on PPG heading for at best mid-table. Looking at our upcoming fixtures I'll be surprised if we've more than 14 points after 12 games which is borderline relegation form over a full season. May be helped by the Wednesday deduction and Wycombe standards.

Yawn.

But congratulations on bringing "relegation form" into the discussion, with 40 out of 46 games still to be played.

Moved from the Transfer thread, cos probably worth its own space

I think the revamp of the goalkeeping department is really interesting. It's important to look at the ages of the players. 

Kaminski 27. Pears 22. Stergiakis and Hilton 21. Eastham 19.

Had Pears been brought in before Stergiakis, I'm not sure you'd be questioning [from original post in transfer thread] either signing, because we'd all have assumed Pears was automatic 2nd choice to Kaminski and then the Greek lad was just a cheap low risk punt for some time in the future.

Now suddenly there's a clear No1 who is 5 years older than any of the other keepers, but the battle to be No2 is going to be intense. 

Compared to the goalkeeping department last season, it's a revolution. Out go Flappy Walton and an ageing Canadian, and also Fisher who made some dreadful errors in preseason. 

In have come a clear No1, and a couple of potential No2s who will have to scrap like mad to prove themselves better than the other. Which in turn will keep Kaminski on his toes.

Hilton and Eastham will be galvanised to perform to the very best of their abilities - it's suddenly career make or break rather than I'm next in the queue.

Nothing not to like. 

Just now, 1864roverite said:

Well for once deadline day has been good and it’s been a marked change on here with hardly any bitching biting or abuse for once??

Shame about the other 670 pages!

I do sometimes wonder whether people realise how clubs at Championship level actually work. It's not the PL where there can be two superstars for every position. 

Some of the same people who want Bennett evicted from Rovers asap also complain about the lack of strength in depth at CM and full back.

He is the cover. His clear affection for the club can't be bought or loaned in as a replacement, you need the Bennetts (and previously Smallwoods) in the squad, if not on the pitch. 

Also, what about 11 v 11 training - for the first team to succeed it's really important that the likes of Bennett (and previously Smallwood) are in that mix. Just chucking in some kids to make 22 players doesn't work at this level. 

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

So why can't Rovers do it then? ?

That was the general thrust of my post, I really don't think anyone is expecting the Club to do anything unreasonable at all yet you make it sound as if they're asking them to split the atom!

As far as I know, most maintenance staff are still on furlough (presumably this will change at the end of October). Those that are working are keeping Ewood compliant for matches and Brockhall safe for training. 

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I'll have a look later after work.

Excellent ?... If you take one of those litter grabbing stick things and a bin bag I reckon you'd be done in 15 minutes. 

(Although I wouldn't touch the bin bags referred to in the end terrace at the Darwen End. Just looked well dodgy, might be unsafe waste) 

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Good Grief.

Is that the best you can come up with?

No. Perhaps you could comment on the 4 paragraphs you didn't quote. Or alternatively get down to Ewood and see for yourself 

3 hours ago, MCMC1875 said:

The backstreet is reasonably tidy. The eyesores are the parking bays which the club have ignored for 10 years. 

Well I had to drive past Ewood earlier today so I went to have a quick look. And would have to disagree with you. 

Going towards Kidder Street from Tweed Street, there are a few cans and some McDonald's packaging up against the walls on the parking bays. Certainly nothing "piling up" as alleged a few posts up. If I lived in one of those houses I'd just litter pick it myself - and they quite possibly do, but maybe it just comes back every Friday night when kids do what kids do down back alleys near fast food places. 

However a couple of the houses choose to keep their bins on the alley, and there were some overflow bin bags, but on the opposite side from the parking bays. 

Going the other way from Tweed Street to the Darwen End, hardly any litter by the parking bays, probably because it's further from McDonald's. However the end house on the terrace (where the burger van parks) had the back gate open, and the yard was full of bin bags, and a couple of the bin bags had made their way on to the back alley. 

Like I said, if I lived on that row I would tidy it myself, but each to their own. All the traffic lights on the A666 / Kidder Street / ridiculous bus lane junction were out of action so as soon as I got home I emailed Steve Waggott to ask why the **** Rovers hadn't sorted that one out ?‍♂️ 

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

So if you lived in say  a terraced house on a Public street which was littered with rubbish outside your house, you wouldn't tidy it up a bit?

I don’t think BRFC should be getting grief for anything on the left of that fence. Because yes, I absolutely would tidy my own back yard, and would never expect the neighbour from the right hand side of the fence to ferret around my parking space clearing my rubbish up! 

9 minutes ago, Mercer said:

IMO, pathetic.  Reflects badly on the club and it would take one person an hour to sort it.  Just feckin do it!

Don't think he knows arse from elbow.

Think Jack would have fired Cowell on the spot for such an email.

I think that the Bolton Road residents who park their cars in that area should look after their own back yards. I don't expect my neighbours to clean up my parking spot ?‍♂️ 

34 minutes ago, 47er said:

If we don't end up signing a left-back its a disgrace and will surely come back on us.

It's not a disgrace at all. It means a decent option (ie an upgrade on the current left back) hasn't been available at a price we were willing to pay.

I find it bizarre given some of the absolute dross that's been signed over the last few years which has drained massive money from the club, that any Rovers fan would be saying "just buy any LB". No. We'll just have to wee with the willy we have. 

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

What about dishing out contracts to Mulgrew for 3 years, Bennett, Smallwood etc as "rewards" for getting us promoted without the foresight to see that we would be lumbered with them?

I don't remember anyone complaining about those contracts at the time... in fact quite the opposite 

36 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Yeah I agree.

Come January the project will be to get him shifted for a reasonable fee. That will then go for running costs.

Before then they need to hoodwink supporters into believing that he has been offered a fair deal but isn't signing it. This will shift any culpability in the eyes of fans away from Mowbray or Venkys and onto Nyambe or his agent.

'Not our fault, we offered him a fair deal but he turned it down under advice from his agent'

Of course the question will be whether he has been offered a deal and what sort of offer that is. By the sounds of things nothing has happened on that front.

You don't half over think things in this constant quest to spread bad news about the club. Absolutely nothing you have written here is factual, it's just wild storytelling ?‍♂️ 

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Obviously it is the League cup, but was unsure where to put this.

But Sky Sports couldnt have seemingly chosen 2 less educated and less informed pundits in regards to a Championship club in Brentford and a recently promoted Premier League club in Jamie Redknapp and Paul Merson.

Considering the amount that they charge (I think I have a good deal getting the sports package on Now TV for £25) the regularity in which the pundits fundamentally do not know what they are talking about is crazy.

The pre match coverage consisted of Merson dismissing Benrahmas value "because you can get Barkley on loan instead and Benrahma didnt even show up at Wembley" and then the pair trying to figure out exactly what Antonee Robinson was in terms of a left back based on a brief montage having clearly never seen him prior.

Sky seem to have had a cull this summer but I am not sure how Jamie Redknapp and Paul Merson survived it, and indeed what the likes of Akinfenwa who has been on Championship duty despite not knowing various fairly well known names is beyond me.

What do people think about the standard of punditry in general? Roy Keane is a bit of a guilty pleasure in spite of his presence purely to cause friction, and its difficult not to like Souness and Shearer. In general, the actual knowledge behind it seems to be on the wane.

Hargreaves is decent on BT sports, refreshing to have what used to be a standard ie a bit of actual knowledge, and they do have more expert analysis albeit usually of other European leagues, although the commentary of Steve McManaman is as aggravating as Jamie Redknapps punditry.

I agree Redknapp and Merson are both absolutely dreadful. But they'll be there because it's Liverpool v Arsenal after this game. Not that I expect either of them to add anything of value to that match either. 

4 hours ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

"We've done everything we can" (in relation to making ST's affordable) - Waggott (about 12 minutes 20 secs in)

Utter shite. 

Why quote 5 words (1 second) from a 22 minute interview? Perhaps you just looked for a soundbite? Overall I think it's a really good perspective on the challenges every single club outside the Premier League have to face. 

5 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Absolute rubbish. The current structure would have sufficed, whereby the details were very much in the main statement and not in the small print.

You've completely missed or ignored that I was referring to Bolton's dishonest 8000 sales and their small print, not our honest 2100 where you agree the details are clear and up front. 

6 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Probably not. The T&C's would have stated that games played behind closed doors due to Covid were not refundable. 

What and that's now suddenly OK?! I must have been reading a different forum all summer. Because if Rovers had taken money since May off 8000 fans and then invoked the small print last week after the latest government restrictions, this place would have gone up in smoke.

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

And Bolton shifted 8000 for the 4th division. 

You're putting your head in the sand.

Of course individuals have difficulties. But our sales have plummeted by two thirds on last season.

I haven't renewed yet and don't think I will. Not because I can't or due to Covid 19. But because I can't tolerate the way the club has behaved and won't sign up to sit behind a Diamond Club member in priority.

And Bolton will now be working out how to pay those 8000 people back, or grovelling for their good will to keep their money for no product, or defer for jam tomorrow. 

Rovers have been far more honourable, what has been put on sale is clear and understandable and honest. You don't seem to understand that 8000 sales v 2100 sales is completely irrelevant. The only difference at this point is how many people each club has to refund (and the associated admin costs involved). 

The last paragraph doesn't surprise me. For the entire summer you have moaned about every single aspect of BRFC but most loudly about how you would buy a ST as soon as they went on sale because you could afford to and wanted to support the club. All mouth and no trousers springs to mind. 

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

IMO, we got Kaminski more by accident than design [...] 

You think what you want Chaddy but it's often wise to sit back and reflect with a nice glass or two of your favourite tipple!

Well much of what you post on here doesn't make any sense in the cold light of day, including this ridiculous overthought theory that Kaminski is some sort of accident.

IMO, of course. 

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

You're right of course, it's the sensible thing to do. Done.

Relax everyone, with my normal luck in betting that probably means we'll be 3 up inside 20 mins and never in any danger.

Well I hope you had a bet on that!!! 

Just now, Bbrovers2288 said:

Jack Wilshere loan until xmas 

What are you going to do with him?