Get a 2nd mortgage before you go, the prices are off the scale right now. Rovers 3 Stoke 1

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Thanks rover23.

Would I be right in thinking that we shouldn't actually be looking at the September 1st transfer window deadline, because we rarely buy players these days anyway? We usually do our business in the loan market, feeding of the scraps and that doesn't close until later in the season?

I’ve just ordered a can of Shandy bass, a John Bull with lashings of peas and gravy. Fools and money are easily parted, just ask our illustrious owners. Onwards and upwards.

Rovers have sold 900 tickets for this one, not bad after the last 2 away games.

Rich Shape recently said we don't, not under Mowbray in recent years, a direct quote from the club. But this is all immaterial, we need players in and quick, or its a relegation dog fight that we could lose if Saturday is anything to go by.

This has been dumbed down somewhat phili with respect, anyone would think the original intention was the fool posters into thinking we actually had a £10m transfer budget, with extras on top, or my mistake maybe. I'd seriously dispute the Mowbray claim also, we paid less than £1m in transfers fees last summer, we don't pay loan fees for players either, just partial wages and they would be nowhere near £6.5m.

One or two keep telling us we have £10m to spend Jim, hold your never, players must be coming and decent ones at that!

Didn't you tell us yesterday he already had? and was on well over £5k a week now?

Tosin stood out because he was a quality defender, he could pass and defend, his positional sense was exceptional.

Sounds like Venkys and Rothwell January 2022.

Is that Rob Coar who has done bugger throughout Venkys time here other than to threaten fans with his solicitor. The mans an Arsehole. John Williams and Tom Finn and you’d have a point.

Spot on. Sheff Utd have brought in a central defender for £3m and 4 loan signings already, now thats a team going places and it showed on Saturday. If we're not careful we'll be fighting relegation this season, the current squad are simply not good enough.

Bryan Douglas looks about 12.

You only have to look back 1 season, to this time last year, where we found ourselves in exactly the same boat, its no different this year other than the manager has changed and we have another level of bureaucracy to navigate in GB. We are looking for scraps from the Premiership dining table right now and those only appear right at the last minute. The manager has changed but our methods and owners have not......

If Joshua decides to keep on fighting he needs to busier than he has been throughout his career so far. Training for 8 months of the year and fighting just once isn't enough for Joshua, he's got no ring craft that you gain through the amateurs, he needs more fights. He reminded me at times on Saturday of a poor mans Frank Bruno, a very limited fighter out of his depth. He's made more money than he'll ever be able to spend, maybe he should just pack it in, but boxers rarely do, I think we'll see him back and I think the public will continue to pay to see him, but avoid Wilder at all costs, he'll end his career in my opinion.

I spoke to someone with a foot in the Rovers camp at Sheff Utd yesterday, when I mentioned JDT has £10m to spend he burst out laughing, he also said Brereton isn't going anywhere unless someone bids £20m in this window. Make of that what you will.

I agree with what you’re saying here Jim but in my opinion it’s not a Waggott project, it’s a Venky project. Its a Venkyism that we’ve heard many times over the past 12yrs and means we’ve fooked up another managerial appointment.

Correct.

They have to be cheap and not wanted by one of the bigger budgets in the league. We’ve been here before…

Bradford beat Hull City live on Sky in the last round and I wouldn't put it past them to knock us out on Tuesday, been invited on corporate by a City fan, be rude not to. Last time I went to Valley Parade it was standing on away end and lively walking back to the station. Bradford 1 Rovers 2

Its like they all went on holiday in the summer and nobody came back, this isn't down to one player, its across the group. Its not like this wasn't predicted, you can't lose half a team over the summer and expect to compete.

This site has an obsession with signing Van Hecke. Don’t get me wrong the lads a class act, but a Mowbray signing, that’s surely where the story ends. Brighton won’t want him coming here unless we buy him outright, JDT is his own man with this own ideas, why would he be after Van Hecke? Time to move on.

£33 a ticket to watch that toothless rubbish yesterday, great effort by 1500 fans that made the trip, we were badly let down.