@StubbsUK

Good, give Ben his chance and give Rovers an opportunity.

The club are very disappointed in the leaks and there’s going to be a full investigation into them… I wouldn’t want to be the new person in the retail team.

Helpful tip for anyone that really, really hates the sponsor but always buys a shirt. Macron don’t produce male and female kits - they’re the exact same styling and fit. That’s why the shirts look so bad on the women in the launch film. So you can buy a version which is exactly the same as the ‘mens’, with the Watson Ramsbottom logo.

Good knowledge! Macron don’t design issue different fits for mens and womens teams - it’s the same shirt. But they do print different sponsors on to different shirts, eg 3000 with the mens sponsor and 500 with the ladies sponsor. If you don’t get them to do it at source, you use a company like Elms to add the sponsor once the shirts arrive in the UK - but that costs you (Rovers) money to print every kit. So again, Steve (if you’re reading), why have Rovers had to have the sponsors added at our own cost, rather than at source, and exactly how much did that decision cost?

Those are all, 100%, the kits. A very simple question for those of you that meet with Steve Waggott, which he should be able to answer: When other kits are produced, they’re sent with the sponsor already printed to the shirt. Why is ours different? I’d love to know his reply.

I knew it wouldn’t be us when it became apparent someone had paid for a private jet to get him into the country quickly.

Christ I’ve got Sunday brain - poor Dacky! I’ll change… Kaminski ??? Ayala Wharton Pickering Buckley Travis ??? Dack Markanday Brereton

I honestly can’t put together a team… Kaminski Carter Ayala Wharton ?? Buckley Travis Pickering Brereton Gallagher Markanday I don’t think we have a right back or right wing back - Brown and JRC haven’t shown me any capabilities. The above team has ZERO central defensive back up. No backup for LWB. Central Midfield - no adequate back up. Not convinced by the number 9.

A couple of injuries away from a relegation battle if that’s the plan. It would take 4 windows (2 seasons) to assemble a team capable of that.

He would need a medical, an unveiling, plenty of paperwork… they go to Portugal tomorrow.

We don’t have the players to play like this. And to be fair, not all 10 outfield players press in the Liverpool side… and they’re the best in the world at it.

We’ll see — I think JDT will see a lot of himself in Dack and will make him captain.

There’s no way Waggott let’s GB hire a plane. He’d be asking him to get the Ferry or something. Can’t see it.

It’s all too convenient.

I’d take unleaded making something up at this point

This is actually working really quite well so far from my point of view. As a side note the grace period of discussion on the WDWY subjects has now ended. Nobody has questioned where the discussion has gone for 14 days, so that can’t be an excuse!

Can anyone name a worse number 7 than Edun in Rovers history?

But that’s just the point… Giles was injured, but we still had Pickering. Zeefuik was injured, but we had Nyambe. Johnson and Clarkson where both squad players, but again filled in when needed. Davenport again a squad player, he wasn’t needed on the pitch hardly… but he played a role within the squad. Poveda I’ll give you. James Brown has almost zero experience at the standard required. I hope he’s good enough, but we haven’t seen any evidence that he is. Which of Lenihan and JVH do you think Phillips is good enough to currently slot right into? As much as you rate him, the answer can only be neither. Who’s our second left back?! It’s Sunday and my head isn’t working.

There’s nothing that optimises BRFCS pre season like arguing about the size of shorts

At least two right backs, at least two centre backs, one left back, two central midfielders, one winger, one striker. I make it 9…

After getting slated for the discussing the weather at Brockhall the other day, I’m astonished you lot are getting away with size of shorts you like wearing.

Our strongest first 11 from last season has lost: Nyambe, Zeefuik (back up RWB), Lenihan, van Hecke, Giles (back up LWB), Rothwell, Johnson, Clarkson, Khadra, Poveda, Davenport, and will soon lose Brereton. That’s a combined 19,291 minutes of first team football last season we don’t have this season. Yes, some players will step up from U23s. But we need some major first team ready signings.

Good morning, Steve.

If the money is similar I agree. If there’s a +5% swing I suspect he will go where the cash is.