Mercer’s Curse 🤝 Tony’s February Slide I hope we can turn this around but I’m officially uncomfortable…

I did J18 rather than J28 when looking to try and find him a better way in traffic, I thought he was just past Swindon!

You’re absolutely right, there is! I never knew that. I’ve only ever done Swansea via Chester, Shrewsbury. Looking at the map the M6, M5, M4 route is a horror, well done anyone that’s done that journey. It’s obstacle after obstacle… Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff..!

Wait has he backed Swans?

Yep - if you’re not past Cardiff when you’re reading this you’ve no chance.

Where have you set off from? If you’re on the M4 from Blackburn you’ve gone very wrong!

By the same token, if both QPR and Bournemouth win every game from now on they’ll both finish above us. The stats say we’re slowing down, if 2nd is a genuine attempt then we urgently need to start scoring more.

I’d rather be in Bournemouth or QPRs position right now, it’s in their own hands. Appreciate that might not be the general consensus, but it’s mine.

There’s no way someone on here doesn’t know the team. What’s the situ? I hate waiting this long for a game on a Saturday. For what it’s worth, whilst we are 2nd, I actually consider us 4th. If Bournemouth and QPR win their games in hand that’s the true situation.

And perhaps more selfishly, how many more times does he need to go to Chile before the end of May?

No, he didn’t. J*B went through a role playing exercise with you, explaining how players ultimately have control of their careers rather than clubs.

No pressure Ben and Reda, but this is all on you two…

Sorry, my phone autocorrects it because “Gilks” is a piece of equipment used at work. Its 11:24pm and I’m tired and I’ll be really honest my friend, I’m going to stick with it.

Side note I’ve just read Liverpool couldn’t sign Carvalho from Fulham because “the EFL don’t accept deal sheets”. I know Sharpe has already confirmed it, but that confirms it will be Gilks only.

Our promotion hopes rely on our new striker.

Rich Sharpe says Rovers “Haven’t gone to bed yet”. I’ve got to be driving at 7am tomorrow morning. Does anyone have any speculation as to whether or not this is just Gilks, or there’s something else coming? I can’t stay up for just Gilks.

Every refresh gets me closer to my dream of providing a free BRFCS bus to Wembley.

Bugger it. I’m going to the politics thread. Looks like Giles on loan and nothing else.

Bournemouth have just announced Cantwell. They’ve really gone for it. Parachute payments making a huge difference. They’ve got so much talent in that team, I wouldn’t be surprised if they challenged Fulham for first. Book your Wembley hotels.

It’s that “deal sheet” nonsense. So we only have to have a player set to sign by 11 to be able to sign them tomorrow.

I’m not sure how important that is. We’ve been playing a right wing back as right striker, a defender as a centre forward, a defensive midfielder in a back three, a central midfielder at left wing back, a classic number 9 on the right wing and a central midfielder as a false 9. Tony’s way past straight thinking like that!

Rothwell potential replacement? Or do we have the ~2M for a player hanging around without a sale? If it’s the latter… you’d expect someone to be coming in considering we’re second in the league and could go to 4th if teams win their games in hand.

Maybe. But equally, maybe not. It’s clear as day to me something changed overnight. All of the journalists - Crooke, Sharpe, O’Rourke (the sky guy, forgot his name) all said the same as I did, APART from two things 1) Rothwell was in Bournemouth 2) it was 100% done. Now my lesson has been learnt - I’ll never say something is “100%” again. And to be fair, I was told “Rothwell has been told to travel to Bournemouth”… for all I know he didn’t or only for so far. It’s clear that he didn’t get there because he was in for training this afternoon. So let’s dissect this: I was first to say there was more to the Rothwell injury than meets the eye. I was first to say Rovers thought the transfer was on. It sounds to me like Venkys put a stop to it, based on Glen M’s post. One things for sure, the Rothwell side - who where passing the info to me/Joe H/Crooke (we all said the same thing) - thought it was happening. But it didn’t happen, for whatever reason. As it happens, as soon as it became apparent it wasn’t happened I put my hands up and said well done to Glen on sticking by his sources saying the deal wasn’t happening. Like he replied, things move quickly in football. I’ve not bothered talking about this all Sunday night for some sort of ego trip, I just relayed the info I was being told because the source was reputable and I would have wanted to know if someone else was getting the info. Although perhaps I did get ahead of myself, which I can admit. So will I change my sources? No, I’ll just not post them. Not because I want some replies for my ego saying “no, please do post them!” but simply because people like yourself don’t want to read them and make it unbearable if I get them wrong. I was right about Markanday being a perm deal and right about us signing Ayala ahead of time, My advice is listen to unleaded and Glen and Kamy who are pretty much always right. But don’t take anything as gospel until a scarf is being held up - isn’t that the famous saying?

It’s on the hedges behind the scenes video posted 5 mins ago. Filmed this afternoon.

I absolutely agree. Unless anyone can evidence it, we’re not allowing it.