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Concentrating solely on the left back position, a definite positive. Absolutely no way we can carry on with Bell. Just a shame he’ll need weeks of acclimatising like Tosin, I mean if he’d have been picked instead of Charlie, it could’ve turned into a debacle of an afternoon...

If he’s actually gone or not, yesterday just proves what absolute folly it was to give him a new 2 and a half year deal a few months ago. An 18 month deal would’ve been bad enough, but at least after a season’s loan he would be off. Now even after that he’d be back, as one of our big earners and egos with a year left. Then this circus starts again. Another loan? Paid off? Last season’s liberal allocating of new deals has come back to haunt us... just like we said it would.

Lack of sales? We’ve sold our standard amount. Why would last season’s 15th place finish and average to poor window have led to flogging more?

Now it gets interesting. Sale blocked by High Court. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49286229

£13 on footballkitsdirect.com. https://footballkitsdirect.com/collections/umbro-stadion-jerseys/products/umbro-stadion-jersey-ss-tw-navy-white?variant=13022404083755 Slap a Rovers badge on... £50 Shameless.

From the EFL regs: 33 Conduct of Matches 33.1 Behind closed doors. Save with the consent of The League or as a consequence of any disciplinary or regulatory proceedings, no Club may play any League or Cup Match behind closed doors so that the public are excluded from the ground. So every chance it goes ahead behind closed doors...

Yet he lamented on his Coventry sacking that not bringing in a hard bastard centre half cost him his job. We’ll see by tea time if he has actually learned...

"I shouldn't have to answer every question that comes along on my decisions on my players and as I have said before if we get it wrong too often you lose your job in this business. When you are a manager of a football club you make decisions and live and die by them and that is what I am happy to do.” Just shows how often he gets an easy ride by our local supine media, that when he gets even a slightly pointed question he reacts like that.

Behind closed doors is supposedly against EFL rules... so yeah you are probably right.

What do you like about EB at right back? I’m intrigued.

Don’t think some people up here realise that we have a large number of southern based fans. The Rovers London Branch is probably our best organised supporters association. So that’s why we always have more fans at say Brentford than Middlesbrough. Even the likes of Neil Yardley will say something like ‘the 1700 who have travelled from Lancashire’. In reality I bet not far off half of the away end will be folk that live down there.

They would’ve minded. I’ll tell you now those Bolton fans that usually walk on would largely have turned up. Whilst a hell of a lot of their long standing ST holders won’t have bothered. We see it with cup ties. Sunderland couldn’t believe they had their lowest gate of the season for their play off semi - why? Because loads of ST holders don’t buy match tickets. All part of the reason they won’t be £24 when they go back on sale.

Well obviously! But £14 a game ain’t £24

Season ticket holders aren’t used to having to cough up standard prices at home...

Tickets didn’t actually get put on sale this morning...

The money they’ve spent to make us also rans in the second division. ?

‘Marginal gains’ like having 300 away fans rattling around in the upper tier instead of the lower. Yeah real Dave Brailsford stuff that Steve

Aye ok Merce! You’d have said exactly the same whoever we had next ‘If you are looking to bounce back *checks fixture list* QPR/Forest/Luton/Sheff Wed/add A N other Championship team would be your opponents’

Away at one of the favourites for promotion would be who you would choose? I know these posts are for a reaction, but at least try and be subtle!

No season tickets but matchday tickets for their home game on Saturday go on sale in the morning. £24. £12 for kids. No sales on the day. It hasn’t gone down well with their fans...

With great difficulty.

Maybe, but whatever the reason they largely aren’t interested in the Rovers.

Indeed. I was deemed a football ignoramous because I didn’t appreciate the ‘game management’ of our new midfielders.

Even the LT below the liners are on the turn...