davulsukur

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.

It's the £418m starting 11 against ours that cost, what? £2m tops?

5 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Happy with that. It was always going to be a tough game, regardless of what team we put out.

Hopefully we do ourselves proud.

50 minutes ago, Blow-in said:

Sorry, this is insane whether or not you think we can get a result.

To say nothing to fear from a team that cost the guts of a billion to put together vs a team that likely will have cost sub 5m is foolhardy. 

They have wasted a lot of money but we would have something to fear from each and every established Premier League club, we got a great result against West Ham last season but they were heavy favourites and the team that takes the field tonight will be miles off last season's team through lost players and injuries.

I dunno about it being miles off, the team against West Ham had Edun, Vale, Markanday and Mola all starting. Hirst came off the bench:

7 minutes ago, Polky said:

https://x.com/bbcr1/status/1719327217694457936?s=46&t=eQpRIP77C9LnHMZexFr0xg

A dingle being forced to wear a Rovers shirt on Radio One 😂

As soon as I saw socks and sliders the video was closed.

Sheff Weds owner is telling the fans to raise £2m to pay wages and HMRC to save the club. 

He told The Sheffield Star: "With HMRC, if we don’t pay until, say, November 5, then that means it's been 14 days, but if we don’t pay wages as well then that's five days - that means a total of 19 days. Each issue counts separately.

"If 20,000 people gave £100 then it's £2m, and it'd be clear - so we can finish it. That would cover everything, HMRC and the wages. That would need to be done before November 10 if they don't want to pass the 30 days, but that means that there can be no next time. It'd need to be before to make it safe - if it was on the fifth then there would be 10 days left… If we were to hit 30 days then we'll get a ban for three windows."

Chansiri added: "They (some fans) want to protest and for me to leave, but nobody comes to save the club. The more positive ones, who backs me up? Then show me, back me up. We don’t have money. The first thing you need to do is save the club. If we don’t pay in 30 days we have a big issue. 

"If you want to save your club, this is your chance. Do not protest, save your club. If not, we will get a transfer ban over three windows, there’s a possibility we will go to League Two or the National League. Maybe the negative fans would be happy, they wouldn’t be able to moan that things are too expensive. 

"So now you have the right. If the positive fans want me to stay, then this is their chance to save their club

3 hours ago, rovers11 said:

There's no doubt Telalovic was on our Z list of targets. As the deadline got closer, a decision had to be made on whether we sign a Z lister or no striker at all. No striker at all would have been a PR disaster. 

Telalovic is so far off it that I don't think he'll ever get a run of games here. Once Gally is back I don't think Tel will even make the bench. 

Only seen brief cameos like everyone else but I'm pretty confident in saying he won't make it. Leonard, on the other hand, is a real prospect. Think he's going to be a very player. Ennis is a good player too but completely out of shape.

I reckon that now Swansea have ended our 3 game winning streak, playing without a striker will be consigned to the bin and Leonard or Ennis will actually start games. With Gallagher coming back as well, I wonder if we are looking to loan Telalovic out in January? He was signed on a 3 year contract with the option of another 12 months, so assume the club are happy (even if JDT isn't) to give him time to develop but he'll need games for that.

4 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

I've gone a step further and put together every Rovers' manager of all time that has managed at least 10 games for the club.

Venky's appointments highlighted in yellow. The fact that they've managed to appoint 3 of the worst 6 (statistically when looking at win percentages) the club have ever had - suggests JDT was a fluke. 

All figures taken from Wiki. 

Agree with others that win % doesn't tell the whole story but it's an interesting list none the less.

It's a bit poor that the 3rd best manager in the whole list will only take us to midtable in the championship.

2 hours ago, Hasta said:

Not unless you are French or Norwegian.

It's daft that this competition can now be broadcast abroad, but not streamed by the clubs themselves.

Yeah it's ridiculous really.

Is this not on TV?

16 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

No real surprises there. Let's hope Wharton has a blinder.

The Saudi sports washing is working well on some fans at least.

Try and keep the team the same if possible. Hyam might not make it, if not, assume Wharton comes in from the start.

I'd be tempted to stick Ennis in from the start so that we actually have a striker on but it's worked for the last 3 games, so perhaps leave it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it and all that.

4 hours ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Underrated first goal. Had them chasing shadows. 

Right backs assemble, to score a left footer.

Superb result!

Proper under the cosh at times but somehow managed to dig out the result. 

Great goals by Brittain and JRC!