RevidgeBlue

In my opinion yes.

Disagree. We'd be the thick end of £10m down on TV and gate revenue alone.

Id imagine the plan is or was to retain Championship status whilst getting a side out on the pitch as cheaply as possible. They're going to come a right cropper financially if we go down.

Pasha allowed Lambert a break clause in his contract back in the day. Im not sure whether the potential problem is Rovers only want a deal until the end of the season. You'd have thought a break clause to allow everyone to take stock would be beneficial to both sides if we went down. If despite that everyone was happy with each other there's nothing stopping them extending or re-negotiating the deal.

Who presumably want exactly the same things as him. A decent transfer/wage budget and for the team to be successful.

That may well come to pass but in the meantime we HAVE to as a bare minimum stay up imo.

I can't decide whether you're a Rovers fan or a Dingle. Nice dig at BRFCS and the coalition in the background BTW.

If true, vaguely positive, might have a job agreeing terms, but at least they're showing a bit of urgency.

Not many! Assuming Toth Alebiosu Gudjohnssen Cantwell Tronstad and maybe Carter would be leaving anyway Id only be looking to keep Pratt Atcheson Litherland Montgomery and Wharton. Anyone else good enough?

Need two up top minimum - maybe even two plus Jorgensen.

People may not agree but I think whist he was here, he was just as "aligned" as Ismael. imo was fully committed to the idea of turning us into a Championship version of Crewe Alexandra. When Wharton was sold, write a report recommending keep a bit, spend a bit, keep another bit in reserve. (why on the last bit?) That's me, job done and arse covered, couldnt care less whether we actually spend any, now where's that bubbly Balaji? Just had one deadline night disaster too many. Like a rubbish player who suddenly turns into Pele following a prolonged spell in the treatment room, it shows how bad things are now when some people are lamenting the loss of complete blaggers like Waggott and Broughton.

100% that's it imo These idiots seem to think they can extract extra value by signing players from obscure European Leagues, (many of whom whose Clubs have just been relegated) and/or by signing players who are either not match fit or injured. There must be a reason why no-one in the Championship has attempted it before!

Changed my mind. Get him hired! 😂

We'll probably lose out in summer if other Clubs are interested by then anyway. Don't know this player from Adam but if you're confident he's the one for you it seems bizarre to me you'd risk losing him for the sake of £1m.

I like Ainsworth and I would have definitely taken a punt on him when he was at Wycombe but maybe not now. I didnt realise his recent record was quite as bad as it is tbh QPR: W5 D4 L19. That's Coleman at Sunderland type territory Shrewsbury: W5 D5 L12 Gillingham: W14 D19 L10 All that said, assuming he would take the job, we need to find someone else who wants it first!

Is that without including the FA Cup game? We've definitely had 3 games with no efforts on target recently that I can recall. Hull, Ipswich and yesterday.

I take the opposite view. Thought Broughton was an absolute disaster and that if we'd only appointed a proper experienced DOF at the time to help Thomasson instead of an over promoted Academy Head we could have scraped over the line. 3 strikers that never scored a goal between them, Ennis, Telalovic, Hirst, another window the majority of the budget spent on Wahlsted. Those are the key ones that spring to mind, he signed a lot of other dross as well. Also oversaw the O 'Brien/Brierley/ and Mcguire debacles as DOF in successive windows. Rightly or wrongly took responsibility for the first of those 2 windows and assured everyone it wouldnt happen again.

Yeah, that's not happening is it. Seems to me as though we're nowhere near anything being agreed or finalised.

"Two main issues left to resolve" So apart from the fact we're miles apart on length of contract and transfer budgets, it's in the bag!

Typical Nixon Rovers set to offer Rowett deal in shock move! Next day......... Rovers move for Rowett breaks down in shock development!

Manager wise starting to think maybe the only sort of manager who can thrive under these idiots might be an up and coming Ken Furphy type who can successfully wheel and deal domestically on a shoestring. Would Challinor fit that description?

Exhibit A M'lud.

Wasn't there a rumour that a players delegation went to see RG demanding the removal of Ismael? Cant blame them for that but If that's true the players have properly mugged themselves off with that 2nd half performance today. The thing that worries me is that Oxford have a lack of quality but a bit of fight about them ditto Portsmouth and Charlton. I think Leicester and WBA have a bit of quality about them albeit they're currently in disarray. Do we possess either attribute?

Leicester losing and down to 10.

If the role of a holding midfielder is doing fuck all for 90 mins then he suits it perfectly. I somehow doubt that's what the role is really meant to entail.