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What isn’t fantasy is that Mowbray is on record saying that he had to hold Venky’s back on spending. Can’t say I’ve ever heard a manager anywhere say such things. This latest ITK tidbit from J*B only adds to the seemingly very odd set up at this club.

Nobody has said it’s rubbish...

I like it. Traditional Rovers kit and back to normal. Look forward to seeing the lads play in it. But I do get what JH is saying. It’s £50, but not dissimilar to our last few (last season aside), so I doubt i’ll be buying it (if that’s ok with you, unsall).

Way to pop his balloon CLB!

Big Dogg said a few people wanted him because of what they saw in a Rovers shirt. He offered very little and couldn’t get in our third division side. What he did three years ago at Huddersfield doesn’t come into it. Not that it matters as we obviously weren’t interested in him, and quite right too.

What’s that got to do with what we saw at Ewood?

Be interesting to see if club crowds now rise. An average of 800 a match in the Super League last season...

It was baseless, because there was nothing remotely in his game that said he could step up to top half of the Championship... as just proven.

Ha was that aimed at me? You’re an angry bugger these days I felt that did need pointing out because it was a beyond daft thing for fans of a club with supposed aspirations of the top end of the Championship to be coming out with. (Though obviously a sign of desperation).

It was those backing him up promoting it as a signing too, as I recall...

Jack Payne has signed for League 2 winners Lincoln. Obviously reached his level, though a fair few on here wanted him as Dack’s back up!

About to be thrown out their training ground too (City’s old one).

Horrendous sponsor aside. A proper Rovers kit.

Free to air TV, who’d have thought it? Take note ECB...

23 million? Last night? That’s some increase from the 7 million that watched the quarters...

Posters being banned a half dozen at a time might have something to do with it...

Crafty sleeve roll up, doesn’t want the dreaded T-shirt tan!

A week of ‘teasers’, ain’t social media great.

Cheers Tony!

Now that’s the level of ITKer-ness we want!

The Newsquest papers like the LT, Bolton News Etc know feck all. Marc Iles (Bolton local hack) was tweeting on Sunday morning that Luca Connell was going nowhere for the foreseeable, this was AFTER his move had already been announced on the Celtic website.

We obviously can ‘compete with Bristol City’ who have spent £8 million on the back of a £12 million windfall. We spent £7million on ‘potential’ on the back of selling nobody. Wrong priorities does not equate to no money.

If it’s got a red trim then the signs are good...

Surely every poster on every football forum knows a summer transfer thread will be full of gossip, rubbish, over positive folk, over negative folk, ‘ITKers’, links to obscure sites linking us to player x,y,z, folk slagging off the ambition of the club, the inadequacies of the manager and on it goes. It was ever thus, certainly on brfcs. But for some reason this isn’t allowed when Mowbray is involved, he’s a nice fella, doing a decent job, but he ain’t immune to a slagging off on the Internet. So can we please stop with the daily arrival of his knights in shining armour telling people what is and isn’t acceptable to post.

Very realistic posts. Yet you know it will be the fans getting abuse on the LT ‘below the line’ for ‘too high expectations’, ‘the need to get real’, how can we compete with the likes of Middlesbrough?’ and so on. It’s only the manager that keeps banging on about top 6.