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The owners will be delighted with Broughton. Selling a kid for £20+m - a kid they wouldn't recognise if he knocked on their front door. Broughton will be feted by that lot as he has saved them from embarrassment amongst the Indian elite.

Palace were tracking him after his debut at Blackpool. Freedman was at the next game we played after Parrish told him to watch Adam. But there was lots of interest from big clubs, most of whom have watched him at some stage since Adam made his debut. I have been told Palace only stepped up their interest last week by talking to Broughton and Adams representatives. I was also told his agent has also had direct contact with Venkys.

Adam knows the financial situation and probably feels some burden to leave and alleviate it. If you honestly believe that the money from Palace will be invested in the playing side then you must have been asleep for thirteen years. The wages can be paid now without approval from an Indian judge, the lights can stay on and the milkman paid.

We have sold top players, of course we have. This is different as he never asked to go, only recently signed a new contract and was extremely happy living at home and playing for Rovers. There was no release clause in his new deal as far as I'm aware. Join those dots and it tells me he was pressurised into going so the club can stave off possible administration. Duff, Dunn, Jones and Phillips moving were completely different circumstances to Adam leaving.

Adam has become collateral damage in the circus that we have become. Just imagine a 19 year old kid being pressurised into leaving because of the mess we are in, a 19 year old local lad who loves the club and never, ever indicated he wanted to go. I just don't believe we will see another Adam Wharton again and thanks to the idiots running this club we are being denied seeing him in a Rovers shirt for a bit longer. I feel cheated by these charlatans once again.

Our cup games this season have yielded an amazing amount of goals. In total there have been 37 goals in 6 games. We have scored 27 and conceded 10.

A really enjoyable night at Ewood as we pretty much dominated from start to finish and could really have win by more. We started well with quick play and good movement and it's no coincidence that Dolan was back allowing us to do just that. We had a sloppy few minutes then where we gave the ball away cheaply and gifted them a goal. Whilst frustrated I wasn't overly concerned and once we got back into our groove we battered them as they couldn't handle our pace of movement. Winning and going through was the priority tonight and the icing on the cake was playing well, playing at a good tempo with crisp, accurate passing. Another pleasing aspect was how we dealt with their physical threat and how our centre halves look more confident with a better keeper behind them. P!ease can we unban those gobby Wrexham fans for a while now, I'd like to read their ramblings after getting mullered😄😄.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/january/23/ticket-news--rovers-v-wrexham/ According to this you can but I thought I'd read originally that no tickets were available after 5 pm.

All tickets go off sale at 5 pm.

It was bitterly cold at Leyland today and the game didn't really do a lot to take my mind off the cold. We were the better team in the first half but it was a particularly low bar with Newcastle looking poor. We should have had more than the one goal we had as we created some decent chances. Newcastle made a couple of changes at half time and it was a role reversal from them as they were the better side and caused us problems. They deservedly equalised and at that point you would have said there was only going to be one winner and it wasn't us. We made a couple of changes and started to get back into the game and the winner came from a Gilsenan near post corner headed home smartly by Nsangou. It was pleasing to see Isaac Whitehall back on the pitch although clearly it's going to take him some time to get up to speed after such a lengthy period out. Joe Hilton made some really good saves in the second half to keep us in the game. Another highlight was Gilsenan almost scoring from forty yards as he saw the keeper off his line and tried to chip it over him but it just drifted narrowly wide.

The under 21 team to be announced soon for today's game will give a strong indication of who will be on the bench tomorrow.

I don't think that conceding in open play irrespective of how we play is the problem. Defensive set pieces has been the real Achilles Heel for me. Wahlstadt has been exposed more by crosses than any other aspect of his game, in fact in general his shot stopping is decent. I do believe though that the players are more jittery knowing that the opposition are going to exploit this and that his failings have a detrimental effect their confidence too.

To a lesser degree that is what happened in the Summer as we didn't build on what we had. We'd had our best season for a decade, did really well in both cups and the sensible fans felt we could really kick on under Tomasson. A couple of good signings would have done it for me. Then the errant ones, once again pull the rug from underneath us and destabilise the whole club by slashing budgets and once again we have to scratch around for the scraps others don't want.

Rovers fans flying the flag at Zwolle yesterday.

It's only digital for away fans which is Wrexham's own decision. As a Rovers fan you could have digital, a paper ticket or even your season card upgraded so you can use that.

I agree Gav and to me it represents proper history. I wasn't interested in the Battle of Hastings and the like when I was at school but reliving some of those stories from the 80's fascinates me. Early in my Football League refereeing days I refereed Rotherham against Chesterfield (1996 I think) and I keep hearing the chant 'scab, scab, scab' and didn't really understand the connotation behind it. I asked some Rotherham fans in the bar after the game and was told in no uncertain terms why they were still vitriolic towards anything from Derbyshire.

We made quite a significant amount of money in the FA Cup matches last season along with the plethora of live league games. Sadly none of it was given to improve the squad but instead it went to reduce the owners financial input (as per Waggott's confirmation to the FF).

I watched the first episode on Thursday and found it compelling - I can't wait for the next episode. It was pretty much warts and all as it focussed on Shirebrook but next week is about Orgreave.

I have just listed what I think is the strongest starting eleven in no particular order. With those available it would be 4-2-3-1.

Pears, JRC, Hyam, Wharton S, Chrisene, Tronstad, Wharton A, Garrett, Dolan, Gallagher, Szmodics.

Of course they should be up for it, any player should. It's just that they wouldn't figure in my starting eleven as I believe we have better. I'm certain that Tomasson won't be taking Wrexham lightly irrespective of what league they are in.

Sorry I can't agree. This represents a chance of progressing in the FA Cup and gives us all something to get behind and if we get through another chance to make some money. I will be hugely surprised and disappointed of Tomasson doesn't go with his strongest available team.

I wouldn't have described his performance as poor but he lacks a lot of awareness particularly defensively. We have better options I think.

Rovers have miraculously found more tickets for Wrexham. I wonder now if this lessens the chance of marauding Welshmen buying home tickets the club will allow home fans to buy tickets up to kick off. Somehow I doubt it 🤔. https://www.wrexhamafc.co.uk/news/2024/january/ticket-update---additional-blackburn-rovers-a-allocation-on-sale-from-12pm-tomorrow/