MarkBRFC

I have seen the "closer to home" argument already on social media since the announcement. Usually when a player leaves a club at the end of there contract, both the club who he is leaving and the club they are joining release confirmation at the same time to announce the move. Nothing from Rovers side. Be interesting to see what they do when Dolan signs for someone.

Jake Batty done. Only a 1 year contract (with an option) which I think is a bit odd. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/01/jake-signs-new-rovers-deal/

That was in 2017, not far off a decade ago. Surely you can see that a lot has changed since then?

Maintained it all along that League One is the end goal. Hence only a handful of players contracted past June 2027 as things stand. They want a third division side run on 90% academy players on very low wages, complimented by the odd loan and foreign second/third division prospect topping the squad up. Loads more redundancies at the club to cut costs more, less fans around to complain about things. Eventually we disappear even more out of the spotlight. All depends for me when we actually get there, if they keep the lads out of contract next summer and just let them walk away for free I think we can be fairly competitive again at this level next season, sell them and replace with more cheap, young foreign imports and I think we could be in a lot of trouble this season.

We're not even in the market for good free transfers at this level. Wages/signing on fee rules us out. Only players we are signing are like the ones already done 100-400k over the course of a 3 year deal Transfer fee made up of add ons that will never come to fruition Willing to accept wages of 5k per week Players that nobody else wants They will be complimented by a few loans of premier league kids and Cauley Woodrow types.

When Venkys took over this club, Oxford has just been promoted back to the football league after 4 years in the Conference. Now 15 years later, we can't even compete with them when it comes to signing/buying players. Sums up this regime perfectly.

The football club is skint. The owner's aren't. We are skint by choice, the owners could change that at any point.

Can only quote what you said, which was "no contact". Quite plausible that you're scenario has happened.

I think loans are usually until the end of May, aren't they?

On Dolan, I wonder if someone will try and agree a fee with us to stop it going to tribunal like Peterborough/QPR did with Poku recently. Tribunals can take months to sort out.

Probably not true in Dolans case. We have to offer Dolan a new contract on at least the same terms as he's on now to trigger compensation in case he moves to somewhere else in this country. Surely we have at least managed to do that!

Eustace came out within days of moving there seeing that it had been claimed that he moved for those reasons, and that it wasn't true.

At a normal club you would think so. Here? Who knows.

My prediction is that it gets moved to the Friday night for TV, and Yasir and co will make it a category A game. Everything possible to try and keep the numbers down.

I'm fully of the opinion that our 11 on the opening day won't have one new signing involved.

I'll give it a 5% chance incase Legia crumble and accept a low fee

We won't go to that price for Kapaudi. Next.

This isn't true. It has been like that the past two seasons, but before that it was how Rev described for the previous 4 seasons, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22 & 22/23.

Two years ago, we played Huddersfield and Hull away 26th and 29th and played Rotherham at Ewood on 1st Jan.

All games up to the end of September by 3rd July. All games selected up to FA Cup 4rd round weekend by 31st July.

No but I think Duru is still injured from the back end of last season.

Scored a few goals on the training vid in day two. Only person I haven't seen on anything so far is Forshaw.

This whole saga will still be going on in the year 2035 at this rate.

Where is this from?! Only been on the training pitch 2 days!

£30 for the 30 year anniversary wasn't it? https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/21/season-ticket-prices-reduced-for-2024-25/ But yes hardly a reduction that was going to move the needle. Thick as mince they are.