16 goals in Serie A last season. IMO outweighs the 22 in the Championship. Not sure I'd say it makes him FAR superior per the OP, but I view it as more impressive than BBD's haul.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62256634 For those who criticised the club for 'only' getting an initial batch of shirts to sell, this is an interesting read. Supply chain issues mean some prem clubs still aren't selling kits, including fellow Macron team crystal palace

A marquee signing is exactly that and generally a one off. Without wanting to get all 'Football Manager' , wage budget needs to be adhered to or you knacker your finances. Had Nyambe been given 15k, a lot more of the squad would think they'd be worth that and our top earners would seek more. Barcelona are a prime example - and they had one of the world's best 2 players. But by continually increasing Messi's salary, they had to increase everyone else's in relation to it. Now they're 1 billion in debt and selling off future broadcasting rights.

Don't know much about him but Wiki says he wears number 7. It's back to the days of Emerton at RB, or better yet, Ben Marshall wearing 10.

Im sure it'll end badly, but didn't Crawley do this and sell £3m worth? Not that I endorse NFTs in any form

Depending on when the promo photoshoot happened, perhaps he was on his extended break?

Turns out not quite so much credit is due to Macron

Lots of credit going to Macron, but do they actually design the kits or is that Rovers? Given designs are in place around 12 months prior to release, doesn't that indicate Rovers actually design the shirt?

Like the away kit, too much of the detail for my liking. Last season's rose was beautifully embedded and more subtle, this is all over the place.

Just because designs are approved a year before, doesnt mean they get produced immediately. My interpretation of the statements from the club is that macron would have had shirts delivered, say, end of August but we negotiated/paid for a batch to be produced and delivered earlier. Macron have a massive portfolio, I doubt we are high up their priority list.

Liverpool might be willing to negotiate a pay off with him, should he be willing to leave for a lower wage. As for us potentially paying him £20k, it's a great way to piss off the rest of the squad, especially if he doesn't justify being highest earner when he plays. Breaking the wage structure for Arma, BBD and to a lesser extent Lenihan would have been understood by the squad, they'd have earned that standing. Much harder to accept for a new signing unless it's a genuine marquee player.

I may be wrong, but I believe you can still go on Rovers' Twitter or Instagram pages without being signed up to those sites

Rovers website or their social media

Away shirt officially unveiled. Like the idea of the crest in the fabric, but too many of them for my liking, looks a bit messy

I also tried this, with the same result. Gutted to get an email from macron this morning offering £10 off for leaving it in my basket!

All sizes up to 4xl initially showed as available online

The talk of Ayala playing up top got me thinking - could we have a xi of players completely out of position (joking aside for the likes of Pears in goal and Gally RW)? I can think of the following: GK - Smallwood, albeit forced. RWB - Dolan had a go there I believe. CB - Johnson False 9 - Johnson - double duty RW - Giles ST - Ayala Surely there's some more?

Zebra was pretty bad. Probiz was awful, possibly worse than this.

Reminds me of a quote attributed to Zlatan on Lukaku - said he'd give him £50 for every good first touch and never had to pay out. This encapsulated Roberts - incredible strength and decent pace but his finishing needed help

All for trying something different but the forest one was too extreme for a halving of the colours. A smaller section of fade might work. There's other ways to try it - Atletico Madrid have wavy stripes next season, but I'm not sure a wavy line for the halved shirt would look good. Maybe a red pin stripe separating the halves? Dashes of the opposite colour on each half?

Unsure but have you looked at the kids training range? If it is/was on that then I'd expect it on the shirts

Plus wage increases to those who renewed - TK, Trav, Gally....

A local sponsor is nice, although I actually see it as a sign of a club's declining appeal. Generally speaking, the lower down the league you go, the more likely you're to have local companies be your main sponsors. Vaping isn't an ideal sponsor, but I see it above gambling firms. Vaping can be positive, if it stops people smoking tobacco. But at the same time it could easily be a gateway to cigarettes. We've seemingly taken a financial hit by moving away from gambling firms. For those against Totally Wicked, would you accept a smaller budget and less competitive team if we had got another sponsor?

Whilst his success rate is questionable he correctly called out the DoF appointment happening before the Head Coach and said it was imminent days before the DoF was unveiled

A company isn't going to want to pay sponsorship for their logo not to be on the prime position. Any time a crowd shot or picture is shown, it's potentially dozens of ads for your brand. The sale of a few hundred more shirts wouldn't likely make up the difference in lost or reduced sponsorship funds if we went with no sponsor or negotiated to not have them on replica shirts.