Mattyblue

5 hours ago, pick32 said:

Exact Same kit as Waterford in the Irish league ?

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.

Just now, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

Interesting that many are lauding some teams buying largely unknown players from abroad. People have short memories  - remember the Portugeuse experiment ?

This window will be defined by whether we get a half decent out of contract central defender. Also huge pressure on Tosin coming good.

For all the criticism of TM - I wonder how much he has been limited by our wage bill. For which the lack of season ticket sales won't have helped.

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:

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.

Just now, Harry The Bass said:

I would say he is far less of a problem than Bell this season.

I like Nyambe too - I just don’t think it’s as obvious, for instance I think Nyambe will end up converting to a wide centre back.

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. 

1 hour ago, HowieFive0 said:

Yep reduced average price for paying upfront ! im sure most who cough up for the season (probably miss 3-4 games as well so that 14 quid rises ) wont mind paying  24 quid game by game knowing that their team may go bust rather than  lose 350 quid that they ve paid upfront!

 

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.

Just now, HowieFive0 said:

Nope they just pay upfront for the whole season ..

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 

Just now, Mercer said:

I stand by my post.

By your argument (Charlton being one of the favourites for relegation), I was fully justified in forecasting a Rovers' win and indeed they should have won!

Why bother playing football matches - just let the outcomes be determined by the bookies' odds?

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’

6 hours ago, Mercer said:

If you are looking to bounce back then Fulham 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...

19 minutes ago, Stuart said:

So how do we turn ‘passing interest in football / bragging rights over my mates’ into ‘watching live football even if we lose is great’?

With great difficulty.

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

Just now, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

I posted similar in the transfer thread earlier. Even the Chaddy’s of the world seem really peeved at the now infamous ‘defenders are coming line’. Funny how it’s only since Charlton bagged a couple against us though. To think some folk in the summer were peddling the ‘we’ll be fine with a new keeper and Johnson operating in front of the back 4’ line.

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...

1400 sold so far. 

It’s a nice place for an away, but a good following nevertheless less at £30.