6 hours ago, J*B said:

I personally think we have a club wise issue with how we recognise success. As far as I’m concerned — and if I was Chairman — I would be saying if we don’t finish top 6 we may as well finish 21st. 7th and 21st both equal the same thing. 
It makes zero difference in this league, the financial benefits aren’t the same as the PL where each position is worth X amount more money. I would rather finish 21st playing JRC, Nyambe, Wharton, Dolan, etc than finish frustratingly close to the top 6 and then have to send back our key players when their loans end and rebuild. 

What you are saying does make a lot of sense , but fans are not that patient and to finish 21st in this league means losing a lot , losing games to teams we feel we shouldn’t , the mob will get angry and frustrated and before you know it those young players  you mention will find themselves playing in a poisonous atmosphere 

25 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Understand City only interested in a permanent deal and would be about £4million plus 25% sell on profit.

Money for old rope that ...be worth £20m in 2 years time 

Errr ... torn on the Hanley link ...assuming his fitness levels are there right now is he a better option than Mulgrew and Williams then yes ,  could he be the type of “man” Mowbray said  he was looking for then yes But I don’t think he’d compliment Lenihan as he’s far too similar to him and I would still believe there are better and probably cheaper options still out there 

9 hours ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Lindsay loan?

Not for me ... bit of a piss head isn’t she ???

Just now, J*B said:

Brace positions...

Don’t like sound of that

3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I saw worse as an young amateur player. One guy got a bad break, he was crying out, it was cold and wet but we couldn't move him. We sent for an ambulance but the security guys couldn't find the key to unlock the gates to let the ambulance onto the pitch. Eventually they found the keys and got the gate open only for the ambulance to bog down on the pitch. We had to get the poor bloke onto a bench and carry him to the ambulance. Then we had to push the ambulance back onto the road. All in all in must have taken about 3/4 of an hour to an hour to get off the lad off the pitch.

I've never forgotten that one.

Many moons ago I did I judo and dislocated my knee cap , the 10-15 mins it took for the ambulance to come was the worse of my life so I can fully understand where you are coming from 

4 minutes ago, RovingRover said:

Rob Elliot is a name we are looking at as a second goalkeeper. Available on a free after release from Newcastle after 9 years. When was his last competitive game?

34 years old and only played 191 games ... waste of a career if you ask me 

when Tony said he wanted men to do a mans job in defence that I instantly thought he was looking for an older more experienced defender than Kipre and to be honest Lindsay nor Sarr sort of match that description either.. I think there’s is somebody else as well someone we haven’t heard mentioned yet

10 hours ago, Swanson said:

https://www.transfermarkt.com/florian-hubner/profil/spieler/85822 This guy? Still under contract it says.

Could be .. the lad told me said he was out of contract but could have been mistaken for last year of contract I suppose ?

Huber or Hubner ??? is the lastest name I heard German C/B on a free but Norwich also in for him 

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

So lets believe that we have £3 million to cover everything this summer including wages. Bear in mind that we have in Downing, Graham, Samuel, Smallwood, Leutwiler,  Hart, Walton and Tosin shed probably possibly in excess of £100,000 a month off the wage bill before bonuses, appearance money and signing on fees. That's probably a saving of £1.5 million straight away.

Not really much of a budget after you take the above into account.

If Mowbray is really now having to offload either Mulgrew or Williams to raise the cash for a Kipre to come in then we are in really dire straits. Having lowered the wage bill substantially even with a well paid goalkeeper we should be well below what we were last season. We have next to no options in defence and yet the plan to bring a defender in is to offload what experience we do have left at the back? Scary.

A proper experienced keeper and a proper experienced CB should have been done and dusted by now. We've known about those positions for 6 months or more. We should now be putting the finishing touches by getting in a back up CB and GK, and another option up top.

But how many of our current squad would you like to offer new improved contracts/pay rises to ? Dack Armstrong Travis Nyambe ??? Some of the youngsters maybe ??  Where does that money come from 

24 minutes ago, tomphil said:

When you watch back old vids Sellars came inside an awful lot imo.  He was a good tricky winger but didn't always play traditional wide wingers role.

Cracking little player one of my all time favs.

Fantastic little player could turn a full back inside out and could put the ball on the proverbial sixpence as fans we all thought he was great .. Dalglish on the other hand preferred a Wilcox.. ? but what do we know eh ?

11 minutes ago, Grez said:

Tin hat time - in current financial climate and with shirt sponsor exercising break clause, would it really be that bad if rovers signed a shirt sponsorship deal with Venkys?

Glad you asked because I was thinking that ?

3 hours ago, JacknOry said:

He would be bonkers not to, his stock is on the rise, he is young and would likely have aspirations of the PL. Football careers are short, what 15 years on average? And we expect AA to sign for close to half of what he has left in the game without anyway out if a top club comes calling?

Preaching to the converted ? I suppose that’s 2 of us that don’t play football manager ??

Some players will insist on them .. no clause no deal

8 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Whiteman update, met Tony last Wednesday....they want him but not before they've bought a goalie and a left back.  Midfield is the 3rd priority. If there is 2m left over we will put a bid in.  We have a pot of money.  Derby are very interested too.  The player wants the championship,  not necessarily Rovers. 2m gets the player.

Well that’s about rights isn’t it ? 
 

we’ve no GK 

our left back options are either crap , want to play C/B or a young right sided midfielder 

midfield Travis Evans Johnson Davenport Buckley at a push Bennett 

if a midfielder is our 1st signing I like many others will be pissed 

Lee Camp??? 35 years old now but a steady pair of Gloves alongside a younger Keeper perhaps ?

9 hours ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18618770.defender-interested-england-return-amid-rovers-transfer-links/

More on Maghoma

I smell a trial when pre season arrives

Just looking at this Maghoma chap he went on loan to Yeovil 2015/16 season , admittedly he was only 18 at the time , didn’t play a single league game and they finished 19th in league 2 ..... and he couldn’t get a game 

1 hour ago, LDRover said:

Are they reopening Martholme Grange?

Never pulled an ugly woman in there .... woke up with 1 or 2 though??

If I was in Bilic’s shoes and knowing we’d agreed £15m in Jan before Dacks injury I think I would be offering £10m too ... test the water... and if we agreed straight away be very worried ?

Reece Burke would be a good signing , relegated with Hull

18 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I'm surprised by that Chaddy. Wouldn't you think the club would be saying to all the staff " No foreign holidays until further notice lads ? " Let's hope he's not coming back in the nexr two weeks. I'm supposed to be out there now but staying local seemed to be the wisest move.

Armstrong’s out in Ibiza too

30 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Probably rollocks, but Tony’s dropped a big one either way: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/12222563/arsenal-city-summer-transfer-brentford-raya/

Can’t see it but , he has won Golden Gloves for championship this year and If Brentford don’t go up I could see a PL team taking a punt on him ... was there a sell on clause ???

9 minutes ago, Lucimo said:

I'll be hated for this but I think hendry was massively overrated. Sure he stuck his head in where it hurts but only to rectify his own mistakes a lot of the time. Now Berg, he was a legend!!!

Hated no ...disagree with certainly Hendry was not particularly quick but even up against the quicker strikers in the league such as Wright Cole Ferdinand etc was rarely done for pace and if you wanted to mix it with him he was as strong as on ox and the times I’ve seen him throw his body on the line was usually down to somebody else’s mistakes