Pete O'Rourke (although seems to be getting a lot of Rovers stuff wrong these days) Rothwell joining Bournemouth

Yeah, you'd imagine he'll have his pick of Man City loans.

Dingles saying the same thing. "Don't even know who that guy is?" "Everyone knows Kompany, had to Google your bloke"

Sharpe seems to be under the impression he's signed for Boro, just waiting to announce it.

That's the only place Dack could probably play but he isn't going to be chasing down players to same level as Dolan. Gallagher isn't exactly mobile either tbh.

4-4-2 With the attackers chasing down the ball. Where/how is he going to fit Dack into that?

I see Lowe has managed to cling on. As he's mentioned in the article, I doubt he'll be going anywhere anytime soon.

Welcome JDT. Don't forget, you've gotta do the double over The Dingles this season. No pressure 🤗

After all this, watch it be Woodgate.

I suspect we'd be firmly in Woodgate/Carrick territory.

Absolute scenes!

Deffo agree with it being a transition season, which sounds defeatist but I think that's how it will end up. Time has been against us as we've taken an ice age to appoint both the DoF and the Head coach. Players are already back in the building and JDT isn't even confirmed yet. We're likely selling BBD as well, which just adds to the problems, certainly if, as usual, the money won't be reinvested (or not much of it anyway)

Just imagine. Opening game of the season, Gallagher lines up on the right wing, Travis as a false 9 😖

Nothing official on Rovers website but SSN reported it's expected to happen within the next 48 hours.

Did we ever find out for certain of their contracts were expiring soon? Do we have any idea who JDT will bring with an assistant or any coaches?

We're into Venky-time now, no reason why a dodgey agency can't strike a last minute deal for Tony Pulis (or similar)

I'm kinda split, half and half. One part of me if excited, a totally different manager than what I was expecting, a world away from the likes of Adkins, Warburton etc. JDT as a manager is totally unknown to me, no idea on his teams style of play or anything like that. Which adds to the excitement. The other part of me is cautious that he brings no experience in English management and not a great deal of management experience overall. It's more of a risk than going for a bread and butter championship manager. Obviously this might not be a bad thing. In any case, I'll be backing him and hope, as we all do, that he is a huge success for us!

Same to be honest. I'll back him for sure but I just get this feeling he's going to struggle.

https://www.foottheball.com/manager-in-focus/who-is-jon-dahl-tomasson-ac-milan-legend-manager-malmo-tactical-analysis-champions-league/amp Couple of concerns in that article: "Predicting the way Tomasson will set out his squad ahead of a game is almost unpredictable. Malmo plays a myriad of formations depending on their opponents but Tomasson always makes sure that they are well spread all over the pitch and utilise the wide areas to the fullest. Even if they are playing with 3 centre-backs, they use their full backs like wingers and their go-to attacking instinct while on the front foot." So Mowbray all.over again, constant tinkering. "Although defensively, their performance hasn’t improved much, they have started scoring more goals under Tomasson and that is the only thing that matters at the end of the day." Sounds like another who doesn't know how to organise a defence.

If he was one of the 3, as reported by Sharpe, then that leaves JDT and Ainsworth? Maybe?

Shame really, Knutsen would have been a really interesting appointment. Wonder who else got a second interview this week?

Stay well clear of Drinkwater.

I assume that's what the DoF football would be here for but, yeah, a concern for sure.

Can't believe we still haven't appointed a manager. Players back in on Monday, shortened preseason, not looking all that promising with the amount of work the squad needs.

We might very well be looking back in a few months, when everything has gone tits up, at not being able to bring in Carvalhal because our shambles set up tried to impose Lowe and Benson onto him. Shambles