Enjoyable day all round. Just a couple of thoughts. Tronstadt reminds me of Mecky - for those of my generation. Industrious, unspectacular, link up play. Left foot in obvious awe of the right one. Some obvious confusion between goalkeeper and defence early doors. For example, passing almost into trouble inside the penalty area, miscommunication between Hyam and our GK. These things don't appear on the stats but they're crucial. It can't be easy for a keeper coming into a team leaking 3 and 4 goals per game. This is such an important position. We have to make the Wahlstedt experiment work. Juggling keepers is going to bite us on the ass otherwise.

I think we'd better comparing German football from the point of view of their fans' match day experience. It's so much more connected. Beer, fans mixing, pricing structure, building alocal identity. German clubs started off as, and many still are, sports clubs with football being just one community aspect. The fan experience reminds me of rugby league. We have only overarching problem: we don't get enough people into the ground on a regular basis. But these fans are there. And the fan base isn't fixed and static. It can be grown. If I were Swag, I'd be tapping up the Lancashire rugby league clubs like Wigan and St Helens and asking them how they've survived and thrived on relatively small gates and catchment areas. And seeking their fans' opinions. Rugby League is brilliant for fans of all sorts because they embraced change. We need an imaginative and informed five and ten year plan to get fans in. Without more fans, it doesn't matter who owns the majority of shares. (Posted from my bath.)

Is he holding on to nurse For fear of something worse... A poor man's Stevie G?

They even mention ex-Rovers players in their songs. Bobby Svarc anyone? https://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/a-to-z-svarc/

You're not a Half Man Half Biscuit fan by any chance? 😉😁 Sky Sports TV is bubble wrap for the age... https://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/csi-ambleside/give-us-bubblewrap/

This was always going to be AW's season - good or bad, either way. He's got the brain but has he got the touch? (Sorry, Shania.) Like most people in jobs, if he can't handle responsibility, he'll be just another bar room bore in twenty years time.

We're 8 games in. If we can stop leaking goals, we'll go up. There. Said it.

Is he John Williams in disguise? 🥸

As sweeping statements go, that's pretty sweeping.

Play off predictions? Rovers beat Boro Luton grind down Cov Rovers 0 Luton 1 (Bell 3:02) PL aghast 🤦

BBE & DE = 7k, 4k lower + 3k upper.

BRFCS is Mercer's Only Fans site. 😉

As far as I understand it, assisted and expected touchdowns are the origin of these terms. They're imported from American sports. As well as the notion that stats - and more stats - are an intrinsic part of the game. Tugay proves that's not true. Not everything that matters can be measured. He's a classic case.

They are stewards not bouncers any more. The club has trained teams for the physical stuff. Someone gets their arm broken by a kid in an orange jacket and the club would be in more trouble.

The 3 pm kick was a 19th century idea. Football grew up in industrial areas like Lancashire. Factory shifts on Saturday mornings were the norm then. Three o'clock kick offs gave people time to finish work and get to the game.

Mark Bunn. Never made it here. Back up specialist to Brad? But moved on to better things if memory serves.

The monarch dying isn't unprecedented. And she was 96 years old. Hardly a surprise. The football authorities should have had contingency plans in place already. All this frowning and chin rubbing by the PL and EFL just shows them up for the overpaid incompetents they are.

Opinions are free.

One trick pony who will be doing stepovers forever into his thirties if he's not careful. Needs to broaden his repertoire, decision making, passing range, tackling etc., or he will end up in National League tout suite. Not a player we can rely on. My heart sank when I heard.

Our expectations were raised too soon. Win loss win loss win would have been more realistic. Slowburn Rovers. Believe.

He ran the game at Bradford.

Sky sports reporting Mowbray new Sunderland manager. 🥹🫢

Exactly. You nailed it. The fella has a class football brain and failed here for the same reason JDT might...🤔 And so it goes and so it goes.

Can't say after half a dozen games. What's incontrovertible, this is Mowbray's team. Go to Jail 👉, do not pass Go, do not collect £200...