1 hour ago, Silas said:

Ronaldo on loan for season 250k a week = £13 million loan fee.  

I'd sign that off in a heartbeat if he was committed and happy.

Despite the gamble and knowing the risk to the club finances. Because the potential rewards are so big. 

I don’t think he’d fancy the high press. 😉

6 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

What if he's sold and replaced with Styles and two of Evjen / Bowler / Birmančević?

That'd be good business. We have to hope Broughton and JDT have a contingency plan in place. 

That would not be good business. You’ve been super eager to sell Ben all along. I think most now what to keep and take a risk. 

4 minutes ago, BRFC_Polky said:

Bowler with the winner for Blackpool tonight, if Diaz does leave we should signing him ASAP.

We’d need two Bowlers to replace Ben. We’d have to spend every penny of the transfer money and even then I don’t think it’d be worth it. If he’d scored his recent goals for Norwich or Watford they’d be on Sky Sports news every five minutes. £30 million price tag for me and maybe a defender coming the other way on top. At the rate he’s improving he could be up there with our best. 

4 minutes ago, neophox said:

Think Dack may start tomorrow against Reading...

I clicked a link on the LET site yesterday, saying Bradley and his girlfriend had a new addition to the family and thought he’d quite that quiet. Turns out they’ve got a new dog! Hopefully he won’t pull anything picking all the poop. Maybe he’ll do a goal celebration? Like the Bebeto one? But for a doggy; pretending to a squatting dog by the corner flag probably would go down in history. 

3 minutes ago, Gavrover said:

Wrong thread but ouch

That must have been bloody awful, at home too. They wouldn’t have had any time to sneak out either!  Did they win on possession though and XG’s though? 😉

7 minutes ago, rigger said:

500 miles by the Proclaimers. The FA cup semi-final against Chelsea at Old Trafford. It went down a treat. 

4 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Wouldn't want it at Ewood, but it was fun that day! Wasn't that the year Peter Kay made it No1?

Was brilliant at Old Trafford that day.  “I’m a Rover, I’m a Rover”. 
 

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I wouldn't even say its the England team's song either as It from cricket firstly. But every Rovers fan know the song and I believe its Travis is have decided the music at the start of games and when we win, so lets back his choices. Its got to 

any of enter sandman by Metallic would be totally no from me.  I had to google that to find who song that was. 

The boys are back in town and simply the best are from the past. Time to move on from those songs now. 

Do yourself a favour Chaddy and listen to some of the Black Album by Metallica, it’s a great starting point for your heavy metal education 🤘🏻I’ve got an image of you being a big Phil Collins fan

😉☺️

Am I the only one that misses ‘Song 2’ when we score? 
 

Slide Away by Oasis would be good after a win or maybe Live Forever? 
 

Any one have a link about Trav choosing the music? 
 

2 hours ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

Not sure if you ever listen to Quickly Kevin, but there's some doubt that he actually wrote them. Some whispers that the just put his name to them to get more publicity. I choose to believe the legend though. 

 

On a similar vein, was there any talk at the time that Matt Jansen laid down a couple of tracks on an album in 2002, alongside Ron Atkinson, Ally McCoist and Frank Sinclair, amongst others. Strange days. 

 

I totally don’t remember this! I don’t remember any talk of it on here, but could be mistaken. I surely would have bought it, if I’d known about it 😂 Can’t find it on Apple Music 😔

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Which biscuits? Which crisps?

They like Hob Nob(ender)s 😂

27 minutes ago, rigger said:

Subutteo.

Antiques roadshow. 

1 hour ago, CD_93 said:

No f's given by JDT about how good the opposition are, just that we can deal with anything if we play it right.

We spent too much time previously worrying about the opposition instead of letting them worry about us. 

6 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Interesting amount of PR being done as well. 

Football Focus, NW Tonight, The Times.

When was the last time we had anything like this amount of exposure? The build up to the FA Cup QF with Liverpool, maybe?

Been a while that’s for sure.
 

There’s definitely some good stuff going on behinds the scenes that’s for sure. All this positive exposure will have a knock on effect; hopefully help bring both new players and also the fans new and old to the club. Who is pulling the strings on this? Gregg? 

23 minutes ago, BRFC_Polky said:

 

I’d love to see one of these presentations. It’s a good thing that he wants the players thoughts and views. I Imagine it’s a massive change for the players. In my job some of the best managers I’ve had are ones that engage you and value your input. It’s difficult not to get carried away, it’s early doors, but it feels like we’ve stumbled across a real gem here. I don’t recall him being top of anyones list and most of us wanted Farke or the guy that was at Sheffield United. Massive credit must go to Gregg for pulling this out of his hat! Doesn’t seem that long ago we had Coyle and his doughnuts; I couldn’t bare to ever watch an interview with him and now I’m on Twitter everyday hoping for more interviews with JDT! He radiates positivity, he seems to be having the same affect on the players as us fans too. 
 

Shall we crowdfund a statue?? 😂

I go on a video games forum, they have a few football threads. I noticed they were talking about reliable sources on a man Yoo thread and linked to this Reddit page; https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/wiki/transfer-reliability-guide/

Nixon is top rated according to this 😂 Maybe he just doesn’t know anything when it comes to us or maybe he’s got everyone fooled? 

8 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

None of them are acronyms.

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

TBH, the use of acronyms such as CB, LB, RB, RHM, CF, CH etc etc all the time is completely OTT. If folks are too lazy to post decent English they'd be better to STFU

I knew you had a SOH Jim 😉

19 minutes ago, DanielMB said:

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

I just hope he gets him PDQ. 

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

proper job in journalism?

Oxymoron? 😂

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

The first people to say they are impressed and pleased with what they inherited are JDT and his staff.

Both in ability and attitude with a good team spirit here already so that is the biggest compliment to the Mowbray era.

The squad has been crying out for new voices ideas and direction for a few years though. So hopefully for once under this ownership we actually have the next step in the building process now.  

Goodbye water treading and hello realistic ambition but NOT expectation.

He did build a good squad, but he mismanaged it and the death spirals every year held us back. So frustrating. At times it was like he didn’t want to be here, the season before last it was almost like he wanted to be sacked. After the new year last season it was just bizarre at times, he completely lost the plot. Add in the disgraceful comments about the supporters and for me he soured any fond memories. 

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

Rovers’ good start will have been noted by the rest of the league. Bruce is a good manager and he will have looked at the way we play and adjust his team accordingly.

I’ve a feeling the mini bubble might burst and we’ll lose this one which might not be a bad thing in reducing inflated expectations of this Rovers team. Hope I’m wrong

Will Bruce be able to predict how we will play? The tactics for the last two games have been quite different. We’re also quite dynamic now, feels like we actually may have a plan B now, unlike previously. 
 

I’m feeling positive(I never learn!),but I just want us to play with the same intensity and passion we’ve shown so far, hope for a little bit of luck and get a result. We are at home, so I don’t think 3 points is expecting too much. A good performance and a draw wouldn’t be too disappointing, but it would be lovely to keep the 100% record going. 
 

I wonder if the Lemon Drizzle has been replaced with some nice Danish Pastries 😋

22 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Just any one of those five would be handy at the moment.

I quite miss being the bully boys, instead we were often bullied in recent seasons. Todd, Nelsen and Samba wouldn’t have taken any shit off Luton Town and Sheffield United!