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Wondered where I'd fit this in. Kean-managed Melbourne Victory lost 3-1 at home to MacArthur in the A League a few days ago. Scorer of 2 of their goals----MATTY DERBYSHIRE!!! Scum 1 Rovers 3!

Johnson always give me the impression he could have a good gamse if he felt like it. Either that or past injuries/age have caught up with him. It occurs to me that TM realises he can't rely entirely on new young players next season and that they'll need help from the more experienced. Johnson shouldn't be one of them though.

One of my favourite Rovers. Very under-estimated player.

We didn't produce star players under any manager.

We had some stars and a thin squad.

I am!

No but we are not doing as well now as we did then with hardly any facilities (Little Wembley!!) I must admit to being so excited when the Academy was announced and started up. I assumed we'd have an endless production line of new stars! Naive maybe but we haven't done nearly as well as I expected back then. Dunn and Beattie were pre-Academy, what have we had since then? Hoillet? Raya?. Yes we have a lot of young players in our first team squad but Jack didn't shell all that dosh to finish 15th in the second division.

Its a shame Parson, all we older fans do is to look back. Things were better for a Roverite then.

In that case look at Brereton's scoring record. Gallagher not much better. Since we are also accident-prone at the back........

Douglas,Clayton,Newton,Pickering and England---that was a superb achievement.

Season ticket sales will be a sorry story. Its obvious he's desperate to sell Armstrong to give himself some sort of transfer budget. I doubt he'll spend it wisely.

Holtby had good things to say about Carter today.

What---nothing for the defence again?!!

I'm sure they won't be sharing the Club with anyone else, they wouldn't even share a Rolls with each other! The three(four) of them came in 3 Rolls-Royces after all!

Oh Joy!

Its much greater than Barnsley's.

TBF, the players suffer from poor management. The team changes every game---supposedly to counter the strengths of the other side. Players are regularly forced to play in not their natural position. He makes several subs a game, seemingly at random with little relation to how the game is going. No player can flourish in this environment and they haven't.

To quote Ted---"for the love of Jesus,Mary and the wee donkey"

Who'd be the wide two?

PS Souness was 68 yesterday.

but wisely rejected it! 😢

He could build up our defence?

I'd assume that no new investor could possibly be as thick as what we've got. But you never know I suppose!

and never got out of Div 1.

"Life is a journey. When we stop things don't go right".( Pope Francis.) Unfortunately this means Tony's journey will never end till he does.