davulsukur

Will it just be Everton that get punished with a points deduction? Surely they have now set the precedent and other clubs will follow.

Man City and Chelsea are the most obvious candidates but it just feels like they will both get away with it. Newcastle? Although I feel like they sold a player or 2 to comply, plus I'm sure there would be a brown envelope being passed over from there owners to avoid any real punishment, if they have breached the rules of course. Forest also spent a lot of money the other season, not sure if they should be a bit concerned?

20 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Broughton has revealed what happened last January window. What more needs to be said? 

Our recruitment departments finds players and then recommend players to GB and JDT. A Director of football doesn't find players so you don't understand what and how the role works. 

I would just add that our recruitment team can find good signings like Hyam, Szmodics, Brittain, Tronstad, Sigurdsson, Hill(as loan signing). Ennis and Telalovic I think it is far too early to judge them as we haven't seen much of them to be able to form an opinion. On Wahlstedt I think he is work in progress signing and you can see why we signed him 

Too early to judge Telalovic, i agree.

Ennis is a strange one though, something's not right there. He's 24, has over 100 career appearances at first team level, admittedly at League one level, and has made 25+ appearances in the last 3 seasons. He had his fitness issues/injuries but is surely past those now. JDT opts to not play a striker and doesn't always bring Ennis on if we need a goal.

Not sure if it's caution with his previous injuries, not showing enough in training or just not good enough?

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I don't see back up in any position as a priority. We don't have a striker worthy of the name at the Club  and we have 2 dodgy keepers. Until those issues are addressed we aren't going anywhere, or at least nowhere positive.

I don't disagree with what you're saying but the club's hierarchy's only concern is to develop players for a future sale. Results are secondary.

5 strikers on the books (however poor they are) and 2 keepers on long terms contracts suggests that we won't be looking at anymore for either position unless someone is sold.

48 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

The only way we bring a striker in is if Gallagher is sold. With Szmodics having the season of his life (so far) and being amazingly top of the goals scoring charts, I'm sure GB will say there's no need .

Really not sure where we would look to recruit in January tbh. Apparently left back not being locked at either.

NB

Just starting to get over Friday night, too gutted to comment at the time.

Thought a draw would have been a fair result, considering the injuries we had ,thought we coped really well.

Special word for Scott Wharton, who looked somewhere back to his best, and Travis, who gave it absolutely everything despite being hampered with a knock thoe last 1/2 hour or so

 

Left back would be the one position I thought we might have a look at. Not to replace Pickering but Batty doesn't seem to be making much of a breakthrough, so I thought we might be looking at another youth player to bring on.

We've got 5 strikers at the club (1 being Vale out on loan), the manager doesn't play any of them, although I suspect Gallagher would have played the majority of games if he was fit.

Any thoughts of bringing in a striker in January will be way wide of the mark. Gallagher the senior/experienced striker (when/if fit) and Telalovic, Leonard and Ennis to keep gaining experience/developing (if JDT ever plays them) with a view of shifting for some profit down the line.

Chances of bringing in a Billy Sharpe type (I'm not saying we should be signing Billy Sharpe, just an example name), to come in and "block pathways" are basically non-existent.

The most Rovers thing ever.

Fucks sake.

FFS

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

And the fact the ball stayed out of the net 😛 

Ha, fair, I thought they bundled it home after.

My bad.

Saved by the flag

Great ball from Dolan there, just needed to be finished

Great goal.

Now get the winner!

Siggy needed to bury that.

Can't deny it, that was some block by their lad to stop Sammie getting on the end of that cross.

Just now, jim mk2 said:

Siggi at left back… where’s Harry? This isn’t going to end well 

Nar it will be Trav and Brittain as the full backs.

That's a very weak bench

Just now, Trinidad Rover said:

There’s stretched then there’s us currently. Pickering now injured.

Any guesses on the back 4? 

Trav, Hill, Wharton, Brittain

It was my birthday yesterday, so all I need as a present is 3 points for Rovers!

🎁

3 hours ago, Tugayisgod said:

JRC looking like he's facing a lengthy lay off with hamstring injury.

Fuck knows what the team will be on Friday.

It's not a case of whether to appeal Whartons red card, think they have no choice

Disappointing about JRC but not all that surprising. The lad has a history of decent injury lay offs. He's obviously a decent player and gets in pretty much everyone's starting 11 but this injury has just been a matter of time.

A. Wharton back into the team alongside Tronstad or Trav for the foreseeable at a guess.

18 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

I imagine most of that was spent this summer.

According to Transfermarket they spent around £23m, so yeah the bulk of it spent this summer alone. 

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I thought we played really well today, thought Szmodics and the much maligned Dolan were excellent.

The momentum of the game obviously turned on the sending off, I thought it was a marginal one, whilst it appeared as though Scott just about got to the ball first I'd have been wanting a red if it was the other way round. Really at 3-0 up he didn't really need to go to ground and give the referee a decision to make.

Wahlstedt- Christ an absolute liability, he makes Pears look like Gordon Banks. How do we manage to find all these useless keepers like Walton, Pears and Wahlstedt? As jim says there must be solid options throughout the League who do what it says on the tin. Why can't we find one?

Have to agree with Wheelton Blue on Tronstadt, like him I felt today's game completely passed the player by. I didn't even realise he was playing until the camera panned in on him in close up second. That's fine for the referee, not a player.

Also have to agree with bazza that jdt is doing a lot better than expected given (imo) he's having to contend with the owners recent financial issues, a CEO who seems to be on a mission to empty the stadium and who doesn't particularly want us to succeed as it will upset the comfy (for him) status quo and an overpromoted Academy head as DOF who has overseen some dire recruitment since his arrival (and the case of January non recruitment)

I still can't see us doing anything this season but it looks like we might well survive which I thought would be a very tall order given the striking options or lack thereof.

The question will be , whilst muddling along in lower mid table in no imminent danger of going up or down might be Waggott's wet dream, will it be enough to keep JDT interested in the medium term?

Well done to JDT and the players today. A very entertaining watch.

JDT won't stay beyond his contract. Waggott and our useless owners have seen to that over the summer. 

Another club comes in higher up the food chain and he's a gonner. Otherwise, he's here next season and walks free at the end of his contract.

Luton v Liverpool and Sky sports just put a "tale of the tape" up beforehand.

Lutons transfer spend since 1992 = £32m

Liverpool's = £1.8bn

Absolutely insane.

I was out all day (the Mrs wanted to take the kids out 😢) so missed the whole game. Just saw the result. 

Excellent win and good to see Sammy back in the goals.

Didn't see that Wharton got sent off, what did he do? Could be a problem if we can't get either Hyam or Carter back fit for the visit of Preston.

No shame in losing that. £420m starting 11 Vs ours that was bought with half a curly wurly and a packet of lovehearts.

Didn't see the game but didn't sound like we took an absolute tubbing and we had 2 penalty shouts turned down.

It is, what it is but that's the state of English football unfortunately.

Just now, Ricky said:

Is there no VAR today? 

Nope. All the money in the game at the top level but no VAR when little old rovers roll into town

Dang, 1-0 Chelsea.

Scored by some guy I've never heard of.