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The wage cap such as it is is rumoured to be for new players coming in. We all know Cantwell's way above that and Travis, Brittain, Hyam would have been above it as well. Oddly enough Id imagine Pears is one of the only ones remaining apart from Cantwell and Tronstad above it. Maybe also Pickering and Carter? Not sure what Wharton would be on.

Yep. This 25p in the pound rule is ludicrous imo. For every £10m they inject from now on just to cover bills and keep the lights on, the potential purchase price to a new owner goes up by another £2.5m. A reward for bad ownership.

Going all the way over the M62 in January can be no joke.

Can you dig out the average for years 6 -10 and the last 5 years if you've nothing better to do? 🙂 That should prove quite informative Id have thought.

The forecast I've seen is light rain between 09.45 and 10.45 otherwise clear all day. It was atrocious most of the night. SHOULD be ok you'd have thought, but then again there shouldnt have been a problem on Saturday. The fact this game and the last are in any doubt at all show there's a major problem and will just keep re occurring until fixed.

I agree. The more I stew on this, the more I think it's a complete con job. The Club were finally absolutely on the ropes with this one, no excuses whatsoever, even with the overwhelming majority of the LT brigade. Then after being holed up for a couple of days, no doubt desperately wondering what the fuck they could say, up pops Ismael to save the day by saying "It's all right lads - take it out of the transfer budget!". As RF 99 would say, they deserve no credit whatsoever for fixing the pitch. They have no choice but to do that now, otherwise we won't be able to fulfill our fixtures.

The worst. Of no real interest whatsoever combined with a fair chance of going out.

I bet there'll be quite a lot of the fan base on the LT comments section end of the scale who will be perfectly content if they see transfer activity reduced even further to fund pitch improvements because they saw that Ismael said it was ok.

They do or certainly did before the Court case "pump in" £x m p.a. I know they didnt and still don't deserve massive credit for that as it was only really covering losses at the level they chose to run at at the time. However you seemed to trivialise that financial support to the point where you almost pretended it wasn't occurring. They could for example have chosen to fund the Club from the very beginning at the sort of subsistence levels we are seeing now. I mean quite some time again now they were paying Mulgrew £20 k p.w to play for various League 1 Clubs after Mowbray fell out with him. Now we seemingly have a blanket wage cap of £10k p.w. for new players, even for the best first teamers. What you seem unable to grasp is that whether you like or loathe the owners, and no matter how calamitous their ownership had been previously, that original level of financial support provided was very significant and not to be sniffed at. Not many owners would have been able to provide that level of support without blinking and had we had better people on the ground over the years it should have yielded far more success. Responsibility for not employing the right calibre of people lies fairly and squarely with the owners of course. So ultimately any respect for the amount of money they were putting in is largely cancelled out by the fact they were ultimately pissing their money up the wall. Yet there was always that faint hope that if they could get the right people in........ What we needed was a JDT or a Eustace in for a decent period on Mowbray levels of support. Unfortunately it never quite happened and seemingly never will now under their ownership. I know we dont agree on this, so there's no point going back and forth endlessly like you and chaddy do. As you are uncomfortable with me at times, I'm similarly uncomfortable with your seeming desperation to exonerate anyone on the ground from any blame at all. Imo we've had a number of people in key positions over the years who were either only in it either for their own ends or who were fully "aligned" with whatever the project was at any given time. So for me, whether you're Pasha, Anderson, Kean, Waggott, Mowbray, Venus, Broughton, Gestede, or Ismael, imo you're fully on board and a willing accomplice. You don't get to evade all blame for the ultimate destruction of the Club, you signed up for it and went along with it for varying degrees of time. Edit: Anyone who was ambitious, railed against it, and tried to stand up for what was best for the Football Club as opposed to what was best for the owners or their lackeys (JDT and Eustace) should be lauded.

The Head Coach has made public the view that he doesn't mind if funding is diverted away from transfers and into sorting out the pitch. Of course it's an excuse they'll latch on to.

The suggestion that Pasha doesn't like bothering them has been made numerous times on here by various individuals. Neither of us know for certain whether they have or haven't been asked at specific stages. That's not deflecting blame away from the owners, they should be hands on and invested enough in matters to be broadly aware of what's going on at the Club without having to be told everything that happens by Pasha. However I suspect that apart from a brief burst of enthusiasm after we got promoted from League 1 that's never really been the case. Im surprised you think they're particularly hands on, I suspect they set a budget at the start of the season and apart from receiving routine briefings that's the extent of their involvement unless an emergency crops up.

If it's any help, I wouldnt know how to make a small contribution to the cause even if I wanted to. Are others in the same boat or is it just me being dense?

If Pasha has even referred the matter back to the owners or is intending to. Hypothetically, if a £2m transfer budget had been set for January (we had a c £2m surplus in summer remember) Ismael has just given him the perfect excuse not to bother them.

I should have added the caveat that the 2 or 3 players wont be outright additions but will be cheaper replacements for ones sold.

Can anyone reproduce it on here?

Dear Rovers Fans For Christmas this year you can have EITHER A pitch that lasts 90 mins whenever it rains OR 2 or 3 more players who aren't good enough for the Championship. No, really, don't mention it. No need to thank us, it's what we do! Love Rudy, Pash, Val and the rest of the Rovers Crew. x

Well, there are more certainties to life than death and taxes, as soon as I mention the words "Waggott" "Mowbray" or "Gallagher" you charge in on your trusty white steed to defend them faster than Nicko comes in with a good news story now to deflect unrest whenever the **** hits the fan. Views on Rothwell vary, for me you don't sell a key player to your main rivals in that situation under any circumstances. One of the few things Venky's ever got right. I do find it bizarre though you continue to deny the fact that Mowbray dissuaded the owners from spending after promotion from League 1. Even though he cheerfully admitted it himself in the local rag.

4 hrs with a stop and no delays.

Fair enough. Cutting it slightly fine if there are any problems on the motorway Id have thought.

What sort of proper manager does that? He should be insisting the pitch is sorted AND there's a workable transfer budget. It reminds me a bit of Mowbray trying to dissuade the owners from spending or wanting to sell Rothwell to our major rivals for promotion.

I think he's here until the end of his contract come what may but we'll see I guess.

1-1 right on HT though. They might draw a bit of confidence from that. It would be really funny if they beat the Red Scum.

Perhaps VI knows his job is safe whatever happens and (like Suhail and Gestede) isnt bothered whether we stay up or go down. Therefore might as well do the pitch.

You'd have thought everyone from the Oxford end would be well on the way by then.

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