We’ve been poor, but 1-1 at half time is a fair score. We desperately lack pace.

I’m just a bit chuffed we appear to have 2 good strikers to choose from.

They don’t lose many at Ewood. I’ll stick with my 1-1 prediction from earlier in the week.

The only good option for a loan is if the player you loan is better than what you’ve already got.

It’s not really a success rate if you say to every link ‘that’s not happening’. Another way of looking at it is that you’re 100% wrong on the ones we have signed. But, yeah, Stansfield isn’t happening at £6m.

We know all that. We also know that money is not being reinvested. So the likes of Rushworth, if he’s an improvement on Pears, are good short term signings. This is a club operating on a hand-to- mouth basis. That’s just the reality.

We don’t, that’s the problem. That money is disappearing.

Why is it an issue from a footballing perspective? Surely the idea is to improve on Pears, who is a liability.

When asked why WATR weren’t calling for the owners to leave you responded with the above. Re your last sentence: now that August 20th has come and gone with no resolution, is the discussion on WATR’s ‘future direction’ underway? Or is it still ‘Venky’s In’?

Agreed. No history of big followings from Oxford, like you say they just don’t have the fanbase. 1300 is good for them.

That was a crazy day. About 28k home fans, most of them bladdered. Rovers fans getting battered by other Rovers fans trying to get back on the BBE after the pitch invasions during the match.

As Jeff Stelling would have said, we’ve more chance of getting Lisa Stansfield.

Which means there’s no tangible benefit to the club of their ownership.

It’s encouraging just how many negative posts there on the Rovers twitter page in response to the statement from the owners.

Not a great result but Palace scored 3 of their goals in injury time. Palace will also have vastly superior resources even at that level. The ambition for our U21s is to produce players for the Championship.

I’d imagine that’s a load of shite.

Just wondering if Rovers had been on to them. Or Travis. Reputational damage is a thing.

Think you might be quids in there. Luton might need to get 3 though!

Are there an ITKs in the world of media? Why would this be deleted? On the back of a threat of legal challenge etc?

Interesting stat: we’re one of only 7 teams across the 92 who haven’t suffered back-to-back league defeats in 2024. The others are Citeh, Liverpool, Villa, Arsenal, Ipswich and Lincoln.

Which Cooper? The defender from Leeds?

The weird attention seeker called Nathan has said on twitter a keeper deal has been agreed and will be announced early next week. So, in the last week of the window, we’re going to sign a keeper, which the club has said we need. Nathan is a prophet.

He’s been injured and he isn’t fit. Let’s see how he is when up to speed.

He’s had a poor start to the seaso, but he isn’t fit yet and has also played with an injury niggle. He suits the way JE wants to play though, as I don’t think he wants 2 out and out wingers in the same team. We need a quick winger so that Hedges and JRC can fight it out for the spot on the other side of the pitch.

Not sure if you’ve read it but there’s a good tactical analysis in Norwich thread about how we set up. @Exiled_Rover posted it iirc. It shows how deliberate the JRC moving inside thing is. JDT liked to put an extra body in midfield by putting a full back in there when we attacked ( also how Pep does it and a few others). JE does by making JRC go inside and having Brittain play pretty much as a winger. I think Duru also looks perfect for that role due to his pace.