tomphil

Dads army more like.

I think they'll turn out in good numbers at 10 quid a ticket. Strange lot Brum, anyone remember when they brought 143 for a league cup night game?

This 100% Nothing else needs saying.

Loved him so much they shut the purse strings 2 years ago, ignored him and let his deal run to an end without even holding a phone call ? Jog on 🤣

Not allowed sticks in this era only carrots, got to be careful not to offend them either.

Brereton was an investment signing (allegedly) the whole idea - once they realised he wasn't going to make the instant impact they thought and Tony changed the narrative - was to grow him. To nurture him into a valuable good player who'd either get sold for profit or be a long term asset helping us up the league. So to have no contingency plan to supplement that just shows you the bunch of useless wallies there are stealing a living at Rovers. The whole idea was to give him time hell enough blue & white speced fans on here shouted everyone should do just that enough times. To see that huge investment in both time and money leave for a few mill or nothing after 18 mostly productive months with the best yet to come is another total F up. No other way of dressing it up but at least we aren't getting the usual club blames player nonsense that a lot like to lap up.

Nothing wrong with that if the guy coming in is any good and oven ready. That is the Brentford style we so obviously aren't managing to follow yet so i won't hold my breath.

I'm beginning to worry a bit about this DoF i hope we aren't trying to make signings for the sake of it to justify himself. Not sure how much of our summer business was down to him as we were in for Brittain and watching Hyam before he arrived its been said. Hirst and Szmodics seemed to be at his doorstep though going off what he said himself so that's a bit alarming. Hopefully there is a plan here being worked in with the keeping positions i just hope cashing in Kaminsky isn't part of it.

I think it's self explanatory but i'll leave you to work it out, good luck.

Keepers especially at his point need games if they are ever going to get established as a number one, anywhere not just at this level. It's the only way you can iron out the mistakes look how Raya has done that and he's at a higher level than his error strewn time here. Ok Pears isn't going to be him but there is a steady keeper in there somewhere imo.

Oh come on get real the guy has spent most of his career as a third choice apart from when he was here. It means jack shit if he was any good he'd have been challenging the first spot there but he never has. If you're seriously telling me you rate him after his time here you've got goalkeeper issues !

Might be in a minority but i think Pears could turn out to be an ok keeper he just needs games now. He's no Tommy K but he hasn't got half the experience of him, Wigan nightmare aside i certainly think he looks more capable than Steele ever did.

Threadbare my arse.

Season tickets are the number one factor and they obviously have Horwich and area on their doorstep where they now monopolise support. One of the biggest things for them now is the amount they draw from Chorley especially amongst the youth. The club recognised all the support on their doorstep coupled with their rebirth and piped into the feel good factor. All our lot do is increase prices there was a similar feel good factor after league 1 promotion but they did nothing.

He has a tendency to go missing this time of year anyway i'm wondering if the heavy pitches are a bit of an issue for his style of play. He always looks like a thoroughbred race horse in the early months before becoming very laboured in midwinter. No surprise he did well with Chile and has constantly been linked with going somewhere there is sun shinning.

He sounds just what we need but what would happen to him when these continental football mentality coaches get hold of him ! Sounds a bit of a Grant Hanley but i'd wager if that ball on Sat for their first goal came in either would have met it and got rid. Then we aren't 1 nil down inside two mins. However when you are being told and coached to do that it muddies the waters and we are back to square one.

Indeed but if we miss him which is highly likely then option B is the Leeds kid ? That's quite a swing and lets be honest the option B more fits how we operate so i'd say it's far more likely.

That's been talked about for over a year now so no real surprise and no big deal. If we weren't going to sell him for 15 million then there was never much point really. Why don't we accept we are stlll 3rd this season because of his goals contribution and it was a large part of finishing 8th last season. No gamble there at all unless we turned down double figures which we never did but i suppose we'd all have been really over the moon now if we'd got rid and were sat 15th.

I'd like to see some fresh blood but some of these names people seem to clamour for are just signings for signings sake imo. Where is the PLAN ? Why isn't it to improve the team now whilst we are in a good position rather than just puff it out with bodies. False economy pissing money down the drain paying big wage contributions to Prem teams kids when they have no real pedigree other than a contract at a bigger club. Surely there must be a few more seasoned forwards with a bit more experience who'd come and have a go.

This Leeds lad what pedigree for goals does he have at any level in recent times ? Or is he just another Hirst ? A Leeds fan told me he runs around a lot, well so does Jack Vale but we need someone who'll at least try and have a pop in and around the box. Is it really wise to be paying 10/12 grand a week just to let other clubs players run around in our team, not exactly investment is it.

Get in their faces be a bit more direct and aggressive with the ball and move it with purpose and aim to get it and some players in their box. Get a goal and it's 60/40 we'll go on the win but i said exactly the same before the Rotherham game and we were a goal down before half the fans had taken their seats. It's almost like you can script it. So it'll either be the Norwich Rovers who turn up and win or more likely the Burnley/Reading/PNE/Rotherham version who role over after gifting the opposition a goal from some powder puff nonsense at the back. There's nothing in between with this lot so there'll be no draw nor late winner you can put your house on it. Brizzle 3 Rovers 1

We've pulled off a few wins but the team since the WC break when they had time to work with them looks like its regressed imo. We've seen several performances that reflected that Burnley defeat after which we were told the months break would iron that out. That's an issue, teams don't even have to play that well to turn us over but they know we are a soft touch. One of the main problems is the soft gooey centre were the weakest link starts every game and those next to him get swapped about almost weekly. Then heads get scratched as to why there is no consistency but is it any real surprise ?

I thought they'd sold 12/13l season tickets ? Only 11 thousand on on Saturday i believe, typical Preston they can't even get more than us when they are giving them away.

It's a plodding mentality and clearly when these people have the jobs offered to them it comes along with very minimum expectations by the owners. Just do enough and that's enough don't bother us with talk of 2 or 3 year promotion plans.

Bigger income we keep getting told so that's how others navigate the FFP better. Now if these incompetent wage drains running Rovers in England had got a million or two for one or even all of the three that walked for nothing we'd have more in the pot now. THAT is how some others do it but all we here are crowds crowds crowds blah blah.