davulsukur

In other injury news (following Carter's latest injury), Owen Beck has returned to Liverpool as his latest injury, which he picked up during an U21's game against Rovers, requires surgery. Shame for the lad, really good player for us, hopefully injuries don't wreck his career.

You've just reminded me that Pears will be in goal for us tomorrow. Thanks for that.

FFS. No surprise on Carter but I thought we might get at least a handful of games out of him as he made the bench for the Derby game. Managed to pick up what must be at least a reasonably serious injury, as he has no return timeframe, during the 2 week international break. The lad is made of glass. We are constantly reminded of why every Rovers fan though the last minute sale of Hyam was a disaster wating to happen and here we are with just 2 fit centre backs vying for 3 places. Abysmal planning. Truly abysmal. He'd better not be sticking Hedges at fucking centre back again, blokes a clown (Ismael)

The club read your mind/post

They are in administration but have been granted permission to sign 2 free transfers, as they have been able to present an improved cashflow forecast to the administrators. Cooper took one slot and both Nathan Redmond and Duncan Whatmore are training at the club, with the possibility one of them signs in the future. A bit mad that a club, which only a few months back couldn't pay their staff/players, can now present an improved cash flow forecast, whilst in administration in order to sign some free transfers (and pay their wages) Our hierarchy, have cut costs to the bone and would unlikely be willing to sanction the wages for a much needed experienced centre back, such as Cooper, who would possibly command a higher salary than either of McLoughlin or Miller. Instead we play Ryan Hedges at CB.

Regardless of any potential clauses, appearance triggers or anything like that, he must be our highest earner and the club will absolutely not be standing in his way if there is a chance to get him off the books. As you say, these types of situations have been consistent with the current ownership and it would not surprise me in the slightest if they have undermined the manager and told Cantwell to seek pastures new for the January window, to get him off the books.

Yep, the cost cutting really comes to the fore when we have a couple of injuries/suspensions. Playing Hedges as a centre back just typifies the whole shambolic process.

He's just gone up in my estimations.

Why? What's happened?

Yeah, he shouldn't really be playing but he absolutely will be.

I think what he really meant was, that free transfers such as Liam Cooper, will want wages and we aren't prepared to pay them.

Confirmed

Yeah, I don't disagree but it at least confirms that it wasn't rumours/scaremongering as a lot of people said at the time. Not many cared at the time either, sadly.

I think a lot of people (Rovers fans as well), have dismissed a lot of stuff that we know happened as speculation/rumour. Now a load of supporting documents have been released, it puts the evidence out there for all to see.

Norwich set to appoint Phillippe Clement as their new gaffer.

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On the first bit in bold, i get the same from non-Rovers fans all the time. The response is always a mix of surprise, disbelief and laughter when they ask that question though. On the second bit, you'll struggle to point to a single action they've taken in the last 15 years that suggests they want to restore us to any former glory.

Assume there is more to that article if you're a paying subscriber? None of it's a surprise, stuff we've known about for years on these boards. Are there any smoking guns in the cache of documents he mentions?

Probably was Bentley, seem to remember he pulled out of the U21's and was then booed by the England fans when he made his full debut because of it.

Edit, thought we were talking about PNE, my mistake

What a finish that was. Just superb.

Duncan McGuire, I'm guessing.

No idea what the state of the Norwich squad is like, whether it's really poor or Manning was just a dreadful manager. If the squad has enough quality, JDT should be able to come in and have a decent impact there. The wheels fell off here but it was probably because the owners pulled the rug, rather than JDT's management. If it's a poor squad, he's probably not the right man for the job.

Figured if the mics were broken, they would just call it a day. Doesn't seem to take much for them to pack up the courts for the day.

Did the case get heard @wilsdenrover?