@Miller11 I'll send you a PM!

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I take the point if the belief is we can manage until then. I’m not sure I entirely agree - ie let’s say Buckley gets a red card on Saturday, or Travis does his hammy… who are we bringing on and playing for the following game? Obviously the ideal is you try to sign everyone before the first game, which is what every other club in the league seem to be doing… I guess my worry is I don’t think we have enough to even manage until the end of the window. But we will see. Rambling idiot, signing out for the day.

Yes but during those five weeks we do still have to play professional football and compete for points. This mindset of ignoring the first 5 weeks of the season bewilders me.

I know you’re only joking with this but for anyone else reading this — I assure you, it makes no difference to whether or not people get warnings!

It’s a Turkish website, is it not? If so, it’s probably true they have an interest and have made a move. They’ve got plenty of money and are splashing the cash this summer. Their owner is Turkish so it wouldn't surprise me if Turkish media where given tip offs.

Rovers would like JVH if he’s available. We’d also like Salah, Benzema and Mbappe as our front three.

Very naughty.

Now is the time for a ST sale check @goozburger

It did!

Test

1. Where will Rovers finish? 11th 2. Who will be the Rovers (official) Player Of The Season? Kaminski 3. Who do you think will be the breakout/breakthrough academy player this season? (Let’s say under 23 at season start & fewer than 10 1st team appearances to be eligible) Carter 4. Who will win the Championship? Watford 5. Where will Burnley finish? 3rd stolen Joe’s, who’s stolen Rog’s.

Give me evens on Burnley finishing in the bottom half of the table Chaddy?

Cheers Rich, Sunday ruined. There goes that optimism.

Markanday is definitely Armstrong quick. Vale is quick. Gallagher isn’t quick but covers ground quickly… if that makes sense. After that, it’s limited… we need another as quick as Markanday.

The Lincoln no.8 just left a bit of a late one on Adam Wharton… a couple of minutes later Scott Wharton took him out

Rangers are announcing the signing of the Besiktas left back for 5m quid. If there was any interest in Styles, that must be the end of it. No way do Besiktas sell their left back unless they’re confident they’ve got a replacement.

8K a week? Get on the phone Greg.

Well, we tried. I usually don’t do this, but let’s trial it and see if it makes a jot of difference… @Paul Mani - if you spoke to someone like you did on here in the pub before a game, you’d deserve the punch up that follows. There’s absolutely no way you’d do it in real life, so why on earth you think you can do it here is beyond me. @Revidge Blue - if you’re going to swear at someone then honestly, just do it. Misspelling the swear words gets the same ban as actually saying them. @Sparks Rover - you got away with it by the skin of your teeth. If you can feel the metaphorical red dot on your chest, it’s the moderators waiting for you to do it again. If any of you don’t like this, attached is the crap that our mod team have to put up with… with some key details removed. Again, I wouldn’t usually do this but desperate times call for desperate measures. These people are moderating this website for free and trying their best. They won’t always get it right, but they are always trying. This happens every pre-season, so I know it will cool down eventually. But we’re at the stage now where this is impacting on the teams health, it needs to stop.

A touch too young, sadly… I remember Shearer as a Newcastle player!

This is a fun game whilst we wait - when you think of numbers, which player do you link to each? 1 - nobody specific 2 - Gary Neville 3 - Ashley Cole 4 - Vieira 5 - Zidane 6 - Roberto Carlos 7 - Beckham 8 - Lampard 9 - R9 10 - Ronaldinho 11 - nobody specific

Patrick Vieira would be furious

A centre back nowadays! The ‘traditional’ numbers are all change now, how I long for simpler times… 1 2 5 6 3 7 4 8 11 9 10 FOUR FOUR FUCKING TWO!

Meh.

Very interesting read Glen, although I’m going to have to hide your final post… Swag being one of the good guys is not good for BRFCS business!