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I find it hard to fathom how anyone (let alone rovers fans) can deem a full replay with 11 vs 11 and at 0-0 a fair outcome to the situation. Its the most likely purely because its the easy option for the EFL and we aren't a Leeds/Boro/Sheff Utd who wouldn't stand for it and gain a lot more media/legal attention.

Maybe Pasha has sent a crack team to take it down

WTF is going on with the forum?

Well I’m glad the club is fighting our corner as it’s clear a few fans on here certainly wouldn’t if they were in a position to.

I would be fine with that and if they don’t want to travel up they can forfeit the result. It happens in Spain I was told at the ground by someone but they could be talking nonsense. As others have said there is no precedent here so will just be a full replay and we get shafted.

In a fair world we get awarded 3 points or worst case replay 10 mins with them a man and goal down. But you just know the FA will fuck us over and the game expunged and replayed with a clean slate. I won’t be going on principal.

JDT was out his depth in the championship, massively naive and just tried to outscore the opposition regardless of their quality. Made for some entertaining performances but also some total disasters. Unless he was given two incredible centre backs the quality of Van Dijk it was never going to work. Ismael I still think will be gone once we get a few injuries and bad results pile up with our squad depth so poor. He seems a bit too fiery and mental to just stand in an interview and keep his mouth shut. Selling Hyam I imagine massively pissed him off.

Hyam sale probably bought them another couple of months operating costs, Pashas in the good books.

I am sure the squad is overall weaker. However some of the signings on early performances look good enough to perform as well as those that have left like Abeyiosu, Morishita, McGloughlin. The problem is a few injuries to them or the OG's and we are replacing with those that I think aren't up to the standard for the championship. Its at this point we suffer and risk our championship status.

On the footballing side if we sign a contract for a player at 10k a week for 5 years does inflation come into play? Sorry if a daft question I just expected that was it for the 5 years

Great 3 points and great performance. Don’t think we have played badly in any game I’ve seen us in yet and with more luck have more points in the bag. Early days but you can see which of the new signings look the part and which don’t. Promising signs from Gudjohnsen in his cameo.

I like how Miller is now a centre back and was always Hyams replacement they just thought he would have left sooner. Even though he was clearly Brittain's replacement earlier in the window.

So looks like there is £12million winging its way to rovers asap? Biggest chunk of money they have sent since the one end of 2023?

just in time now that the window is closed and they don't have to spend anything.

Said it all summer but we are in big trouble this year. Already lost 4 out of 5 and replaced all our experienced pros with foreign gambles. I think the manager is a dud, the executives rotten to the core and morale of staff/players already at the floor. Package all that against a very competitive league this year where even bottom feeders and promoted clubs have spent considerable funds improving their squad with experienced pros. The only real disaster club is Sheff Wed which leaves 2 more spaces up for grabs of which I am fairly certain we will be one.

The fee means nothing to me as it’s no use to the team and just goes into Pashas back pocket to make him look better in the eyes of Venky’s. I would rather all of them stayed and run their contracts down before leaving for free.

Scum. All they care about is money, the football club is secondary.

As we only seem to buy foreign randoms from distant lands unless they are already in the building we likely won't be signing anyone today.

Not heard a single rumour about Pears finding a club all summer but imagine he is one they are trying to push out the door today. If I had my way would be buying another striker and winger with pedigree today.

I imagine Ismael has been told that league position is irrelevant this season. He seems far too relaxed at the moment for someone as fiery as he is whilst overseeing this shit show. The goal is to polish some of these turds into profitable assets and reduce the amount Venky’s need to send over when the rest of the transfer sales runs out.

Hedges set the standard for effort and hunger today, the lad chased down everything and drove forward every time he had the ball. Shame none of the others followed his example!

Apart from Abesiou most of the new lads look crap. McGlloughlin cost us the game with a stupid red, Kargbo and Tavares with two of the worst performances I’ve seen in a long time at Ewood. Even then we still had chances to equalise or take a lead and messed them both up due to our pony attack. Genuinely think we are in massive trouble this season with our recruitment and lady luck deserting us most games. Hedges MotM for me.

Pasha needs to leave asap. A man who knows literally nothing about football or rovers making decisions is a joke.

Tomorrow should be a good marker of where we are at after a set of good performances but only one win. looking forward to it and the sense of mystery still about all the new signings. Fingers crossed for 3 points and a performance to match!

Based on that I watched the game and they looked a league two side. We could have scored 10.