Those rumours gaining traction pretty quickly. We're in serious, serious trouble. Down by Christmas as it stands.

Nice one, cheers.

I'm sat here, reading this and shaking my head. Not because the post is wrong but the fact that the post is 100% correct and I'm shaking my head in disbelief that I know I'll be reading the same posts about reinvestment, which will never happen.

A reliable twitter profile, what's the @?

Was thinking the same thing about him being "left out as a precaution" on Saturday. He's already stated his desire for a Premier League move, so can only see 1 outcome of this. We're already facing a relegation battle, not 1 I'm confident that we're winning either, but without Szmodics we're heading for the bottom of the pile.

So long Sammie 🫡

Absolutely spot on, as always 👏

Despite a few tenuous links, I'm not convinced we are even looking for a new keeper. Pears and Hilton to be No.1 and No.2, the Everton lad to drop into the U21's/3rd choice. If we signed a other keeper now we'd have to sell 1 or 2, feels like we have a few now.

Oh yeah for sure..... ..."I've been thinking about you all day, can't wait to see you later. If you wanna know what I'll do to you later, sign up to my patreon!" Real romantic stuff.

It's only pre season but it's been a horrific watch. I hope we aren't working on shape or anything as we've looked like a Sunday league team.

Brittain was captain in the last gave I think. Must be sharing it about during pre season.

All its taken is 2 players to be unavailable and we look shite. #VenkysOut

Indeed it is 11/2 on Skybet right now.

Tbf, that outage stopped me doing any work all day. And if it's stopped us signing Telalovic MK2 then that's a double bonus.

You'd imagine that our first choice pairing would be Carter and Hyam anyway. Cooper will get plenty of games with injuries/suspensions/cups but he'd be good enough to fill the gaps when required.

He said it would be a busy week this week. He wasn't wrong, the lads played golf AND did some training.

The next England manager probably will be English because the FA are fairly useless and will just pick the easiest solution to them, rather than showing any ambition. OK, so it's done, if the next England manager isn't English, you'll not be supporting them until an Englishman is appointed 👍

August 20th can't come soon enough. Not sure the club media team can keep pushing Markanday, Hedges, Vale, Gent etc "like new signings" positive line until then though. What a depressing summer.

So, there is no logical reason for your 5 man shortlist then, ok no worries. Anyway, if Klopp was announced tomorrow and won England the Euros in 4 years time, you'd be the first to champion him and change your stance on English only managers. So it's all a bit moot really.

It is but you've listed 5 managers and only 1 of them has any international managerial experience? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at with how well known were Fuente and Low before they were appointed. Low held 6 club managerial positions (with varying degrees of success) before being assistant to Klinsmann for Germany, so pretty well known. Fuente might not have been well known to the general public but he managed the Spain national team at U19, U21 and U23 levels, so would have been very well known to the Spanish national set up.

Yes, you constantly repeat it and yet because of it, you can only produce a list of third rate managers and some utterly shocking suggestions like Lampard. If I told you, that you could pick any current manager in the world to manage "Football Club A"(with no restrictions) and that's all you knew, you wouldn't be going anywhere near any current English managers.

Is Jim White still "coming for you Venky's"? No one outside of Rovers gives a toss about us I'm afraid. Even if we go into Administration it would just be a small piece about how sad it is and how badly we've been run but then onto the really important football news like who Man City are signing for a £100m.

It's a poor showing for English managers if that's the best we have. Gary O'Neil might turn out to be a good manager in time but he's managed just 82 games so far and only has a 34% win ratio across them both. Eddie Howe probably the only one right now that would be worth an approach but the FA have to be asking the question to some of the elite managers (Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti), they'd all be a significant step up from Howe, Carsley, Lampard (😂), Potter. I don't think the FA will be particularly creative tbh. Probably a half assed attempt at Howe before Newcastle knock them back and then it'll be straight to Potter as he's the cheapest, simplest and laziest solution around.

I saw Leonard and Gilsenan were injured and not part of the travelling group to Austria but are they out for the longer term?

Yep looks that way. Sticking with Pears would be comfortably one of the worst decisions the management have made for a while (with regards to the playing squad). I can't believe for 1 minute that a championship manager could look at Pears as anything other than a complete liability. Hopefully the plan is to bring in another keeper and sell Pears.