Exiled_Rover

A second division club with no history and no sizeable fan base. Meanwhile the Venkys continue to strangle the life out of our club with their cold, dead hands.

I'd be pretty frustrated with that as a Derby fan. Would smack of lazy scouting.

I mean it's like Sunderland running out in horizontal red and white stripes. Other than that it's an ok kit...

When does the FFP roll over? We must quickly be approaching the point where we couldn't spend the Wharton / Szmodics money even if we wanted to because our turnover is so low (the commercial and football side of the club is running well though, no need for the new CEO to get involved with that).

And the fact it's not a Rovers kit sits where on this list?

Didn't we get 4 ESC slots on the back of how many English / home grown players we were playing? Can't imagine we still qualify for 4 looking at the current squad.

They got last year's kit right. It's not difficult. It's deliberate at this point.

What good PR?

He's a club legend so I'll temper my language by saying I'm very disappointed he's involved with this.

A retro style kit (with the sponsor's logo on) with the old badge would have been a lovely touch. Instead we get 'Halved kit style 3' from the Macron catalogue.

The halves aren't even reversed. It's another shit Macron kit off the rack. Awful. They continue to spit in our face.

To be fair we've been practicing that for a while - a local vape company and a local solicitor firm are hardly going to pay much.

It's genuinely fucking miserable being a Rovers fan.

It'll be him trying to sell another Academy graduate.

I play football with two Rovers fans who both handed back their season tickets years ago due to the Venkys (one goes away occasionally). I'm friends with another Rovers supporting couple who also no longer go due to the lack of interest from the owners. Anecdotal, yes, but that's five Rovers fans right there. As we've repeatedly seen against Burnley / any cheap ticket offer games, the fan base is still there. 13k does not represent a sizeable portion of our fan base, just the absolute worn-to-the-nub hardcore.

Which sadly reflects a small minority of our fan base these days.

It'll obviously never come to that - this is change found between the cushions of the sofa for them - but again it does beg the question with all of this going on why are they hanging onto a very public PR disaster? Surely they'd sell and batten down the hatches?

They clearly KNOW they're going to lose the case, which is why they're so reluctant to put any money into the bond with the government.

You'd have said that to who? The manager clearly wanted to keep him. Imagine 20 goals from the #10 instead of whatever Cantwell / Weimann contributed - we'd have been comfortably in the playoffs.

I think if anything they've had it so easy over here for years because we're powerless to rid ourselves of them. They're arrogant billionaires who never fall foul of the EFL or HMRC - they always put in just enough money to satisfy the two bodies that could force them to sell the club. They're despised by the vast majority of the fan base, but it's irrelevant to them as they simply never attend.

I can't remember the last time one of your sources came through.

Just like the last 5 years.

At a properly run club it wouldn't be an issue. There are plenty of minutes to go around and we ran Travis and Tronstad into the ground last season - both picked up significant injuries because they were overworked. At Rovers we're expecting an Academy player to back up our starter, so yeah it's unlikely to happen.

He's a better crosser than the lad we've just signed.

The question has to be asked again, what the actual fuck do they get out of owning this club?