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Based on the discussion on the terraces today I suspect Sharpe may have jumped the gun. I think if he had signed a pro deal it would have been on the website.

Garrett, Phillips and Dolan the only ones to come out of the first half with anything worth considering. Carter looks OK, but no better than Phillips and I was expecting better. There certainly isn’t enough in these young players, based on that, to have loads of them around the first team.

Markanday looks good. Travis playing well. Kaminski, Wharton and Ayala playing well. Brereton doing a lot with not much success. Gallagher playing 9 but not getting much. The rest… meh.

It’s the 9th. Why hasn’t it been announced?

Update - he hasn’t. He looks lost, physically not strong enough but perhaps most importantly Ayala has had to explain every single thing to him so far. It’s like he hasn’t played football before. Release him on a free, he has no future here.

The away terrace at Accrington is basically a discussion about Phillips refusing to sign and moving to Spurs

Sounds like Phillips is a gonner… on a free. Good work, Steve.

It’s arguably the best thing I’ve done whilst owning this website. It wasn’t my idea… but it turns out if you let adults be adults they behave like adults.

Same applies until further notice 🙂

Luca Toni’s son is one.

@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.