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Intrigued to see how the team will look come first game of the season and worried for the season ahead if we really won’t spend anything / venkys can’t send money and we need to blood a crop of youngsters into the first team prematurely due to selling anything and everything of any value Concerned it could be a starting 11 of toth duru s Wharton hyam pickering buckley JRC (if neither find a new home) hedges Ohashi kargbo gueye

With Waggott being master Teflon - his departure, along with the very fast phase on ticket deadline as JHrover pointed out does hint at a very bleak summer ahead possible outgoings with value £ - brittain, Travis, tronstadt, cantwell, Carter (not the value we once hoped) no real money for Dolan too cheap fee outgoings - pears, Buckley, JRC No idea what to expect inbound but imagine a bunch of unknown quantities who are unproven at this level

Love the ask for a follow back from Miss Bangladesh amongst this :-))

couldn’t agree more!! Every game we have him, it descends into chaos and never has control over the game poor ref all about himself

Gavin ward hates us If he wasn’t a ref he’d be a traffic warden

I have no excitement or enthusiasm for a Rovers game. It’s a Saturday and been a long week and that 3pm escapism and the excitement ahead of the game is just a void. Nothing to play for and nothing to be fired up for. Well done Venkys and the stooges - where there was passion there is nothing

If there’s a 3 month break clause - and we pull the plug a month and a half early, would we only pay compensation Upto the break clause? Surely ripping off the plaster now for a month and a half wages makes sense if that’s workable?

Unique sports group I think

Disappointing result, but not unexpected especially with that starting 11 Ismael has to be the worst manager we’ve had in at least a decade. The fact he does nothing to motivate, encourage, inspire, drive the team - just stands there hands in pockets, expressionless. Hard to motivate a team if you aren’t motivated too… There is a lack of anything encouraging about him, I can’t name one positive and seeing the abject nothingness from him makes me more angry … you are being paid very well to instil pride and ambition into the team. Act like it at least

can’t believe anyone actually signed off on offering a three year deal to this clown?

A very baffling choice or two in that 11 hope they prove us wrong, but feels like it’ll be a turgid watch

Have been reading fan reaction and comments on various platforms and seems everyone is united behind this apart from that deluded bunch of LET commenters.. one chap is still banging on about Mowbray in the comments over there . Crazy. well done supporters groups - hopefully the exec ewood team are feeling the heat now the spotlight is on them. Be interesting to see how it plays out with them in attendance for todays game…

Wonder if Ismael will put some blame on the long coach ride on the Waggot Super Bus when we get beat on this one

I’d like us to offload: Buckley, Dolan, pears, hedges, hyam no contract renewals on the journeymen other than Batth Wharton coming back will be “just like a new signing” would keep ribero expect us to be really struggling and see us in and around the bottom 3 with a demotivated group hopefully the young ones coming through hit the ground running, have ambition and fight and want to prove themselves - they’ve so much more to gain by fighting for the shirt - all Forshaw, Hyam, Woodrow, Weimann have to gain is finding a new club or retirement by going up

Mentioned earlier in the thread - apparently Gestede told fans to fuck off about something Travis having a go at a fan in riverside at the end

Is there any more about the Travis / Gestede arguments with fans? seems like a very unsettled ship Ewood if truth behind these

The lack of desire, emotion, reaction, anything from him on the touchline makes me more angry about the whole thing either way; good for him, he’s secured a payday and some compo when he’s sacked - journeyman to the core like the rest as a player there’s no inspiration if he’s listless and disinterested

Ismael “we have to show desire and conviction from the first second” what a prick surely that’s a given

I’d like to two foot Cozier Duberry and Pears too

No ambition for the players to make playoffs how many would be out of a job if we did get promoted? Journeymen payday grabbing fucks ismael looks so uninterested - where’s the furore or emotion See you next season, open the relegation thread ready

No ambition for the players to make playoffs how many would be out of a job if we did get promoted? Journeymen payday grabbing fucks

Ismael and team - clueless 3 year deal … fucking baffling

Oh so predictable

Predicting we will have a howler in the first 10 mins, Pears pass out from the back to Hyam, Hyam back to Pears, Pears to Hyam and Hyam to one of theirs 10 yards from the edge of the box… Hyam shits out of the challenge, Pears flaps, 1-0 Cardiff we kick off again, Dolan breaks down the flank, does too much - loses possession Cardiff break, we flap, cross comes in, Pears punches it to one of theirs, they smash it and it’s wide, goal kick to Gueye, play’s Dolan in to run at defence, he spins, twists and turns and loses possession we pass the ball around to shadows before the break we have a good chance, pass played forward Gueye offside somehow we scramble an equaliser, time waste for 30 mins, end of game - 1 point in, fuck all to play for, VI talks about observing improvement and resolve Chaddy is buzzing that we got back into it and optimistic for next season

Saw this line up suggested on the LET site as a potential solution…. What crack are some people smoking Pears Britain, Carter, Hyam, Ribeiro JRC, Tronstad, Buckley, Cozier-Duberry Gueye, Woodrow Lose this game and season is truly over