If Russell Martin was made of chocolate, he’d defo eat himself.

‘Too much ego, too much self preservation’.

But enough about you, Russell….

I’m honestly not trying to bait anyone or pass any comment on Bazball, but, however you want to look at it, dropping six catches in one match isn’t good enough, IMO.

45 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Rovers Women have a new Head Coach. I'm not sure who he will coach though. I was told the trials the had recently were a disaster with very few turning up.

I wonder if he is known as Jimmy Mallett? 😂

 

Keith Lemon from Temu?

28 minutes ago, yankfan said:

No foooking way we loan him out...shouldn't sell but if they're offering 6 million quid we have to take it so we can buy a replacement for 500,000

As much as that? I admire your optimism.

Snoop Doggy Dogg- Who am I? (What's my name)

Let’s have your predictions in the following categories:

1. Winners of the Championship

Ipswich.

2. Automatic promotion (runners-up) in the Championship

Souhampton

3. Four Play off semi-finalists in the Championship

Sheffield United, Middlesbrough, Norwich, Leicester.

4. Three relegated sides from the Championship

Sheff Wed, Hull, Charlton.

5. Where will Rovers finish in the Championship?

14th

6. First Championship club to change manager (after the season starts)

Hull

7. Winners of the Premier League

Liverpool

8. A notable wild card prediction of something that will happen in the Rovers universe during the season 

Pasha scrans his first chicken balti pie on the pitch at half time of the Brum game, to a chorus of boos.

On his return inside, he suddenly falls ill and has to be taken to hospital. However, the car he gets into, breaks down next to KFC at Queens Park. He ends up running into KFC to vomit profusely in the toilets, then his driver (protecting their name to protect them from shame) has to give Pasha a piggy back the rest of the way to A&E. In A&E, Pasha ends up rowing with one tooth Terry from Infirmary Ward.  This all originated from Terry dropping his last £1 on the floor,  and it ends up by Pasha's feet, who refuses to return it to Terry and Poor Terry was going to put that towards a brew.  Amongst the commotion, Pasha's driver one times Terry, is then arrested and Pasha has to suffer an agonising 8 hour wait in A&E on his jack jones.

Hey Alexa play 'All by myself' by Eric Carmen.

Any excuse to loop Oasis in......

It's just absolutely rubbish having a 1230 kick off, it's a proper faff getting over and just ruins the day.

Shite.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjey097w872o
Stuff like this, it just makes a mockery of the whole thing. They aren’t the first team to do something like this, either.

20 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

7 games moved for TV between October-January, including our anniversary game against Derby.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/29/sky-selections-confirmed/

 

Fuck Sky TV.

41 years old and this is my lifetime team.....

                                   Friedel

Berg                Hendry           Nelsen         Le Saux

Bentley            Tugay             Dunn            Duff

                     Bellamy             Shearer 

29 minutes ago, Mike Graham said:

I should have added that when we challenged the club on the postcodes of those with ST’s they came up with a high figure for BB postcodes and said they were from BwD until we explained many of those with BB postcodes lived outside of BwD.

The corrected figures shared with us showed approximately 50% of ST holders were outside of BwD.

Shows how absolutely clueless they are.

I’ve pretty much always lived in BB postcodes, but none of those the ones I’ve lived in, are in BWD 😅.

Annie Lennox- Walking on broken glass

LIV Golf can get in the bin for me, but always nice to have an obscure fan!

7 hours ago, Gav said:

 

🤔

Looks like I was wrong, these things happen.
Hindsight sees in 20/20.

Basically, I’m not breaking confidence, as, this is the only current communication open with the club.

Breach that and we’ve nowt at all.

I understand the frustration and so do the entire Forum, but that’s the lay of the land.

Aye, can’t see them reaching 311, with that start. Even if they do, will be a very quick run chase, I’d have thought 😅.

26 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

Mate, ffs….since when was there an “expectation that people hold their hands up when they’re wrong” ?? The amount of absolute shite that gets peddled in here and then is consigned to history the day after is huge.

I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen anyone accept anything! 🤣

One thing is for sure though, a low risk (basically free) move to Espanyol is NOT proof that Dolan is any better than Rovers or any other mid table Championship team, and with due respect I trust my own eyes over 100+ games over your opinion. On a personal note, I would’ve been 50/50 on whether I offered him a contract at all. Same with Hedges. Poor players.

So once again, why don’t we wait and see if this all works out or he’s on loan at Derby by January.

I’ll wait and see nothing, thanks.

Example, I got it wrong on Szmodics, I got it wrong on BBD, I got it wrong on Callum Brittain and I admitted it every time.

How is your view of ‘100+ professional games more valid than the same sample size from anyone else?
What makes your views superior to anyone else’s?

Anyhow, how are those bids for Buckley looking?

22 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

Crazy, you spend your whole life preaching that everyone is entitled to an opinion and then suddenly because Dolan gets a move to Espanyol, then the people who doubted him are “wrong”.

Listen, for the very last time. I hope to god I’m wrong, because there’s no doubt he’s a great lad. But in 100+ games, I’m saying he’s crap. He won’t be the first crap player to get a great move. He’s extremely low risk in terms of wages and fees so it’s probably best if everyone sits back and sees how things work out for him there before we start deciding whether anyone was right or wrong. Eh?

People are allowed their own opinions, but there’s definitely an expectation that people should hold their hands up when they get it wrong. 
At the moment though, people that said he wouldn’t get a move anywhere good, are wrong. I’m saying that’s okay, but to then say ‘let’s see how he gets on’, I don’t agree, I’m afraid. ‘Let’s wait until I might be right again in a few years?’ Do me a favour.

He got a good move, then if he fails and ends up back in the Champo on loan, then fair enough, but he’s currently a La Liga player, when some said he was lower Championship or League one at best. 
They were just factually incorrect, to be fair.

28 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Last comment on the subject: let's see how much he plays before people start demanding others eat humble pie.

There was great crowing about Brereton-Diaz when he signed for that Spanish team - they couldn't ship him out quick enough once they saw him in training. 

Right, but that’s in the future- right now, he’s playing in the top division in Spain, not a league 1 plodder or bottom end championship player at best.

No need to worry about being wrong sometimes, it happens.

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

Lad released from PNE after playing at Clitheroe, grafted his arse off to become a regular in the Championship from 20, now playing in La Liga at 23… still, ‘big head’, ‘League 1’ player, or something .

I do wish humble pie was on more menus on here. We all get stuff wrong from time to time, I’ll never understand why people just can’t admit when they are wrong.

It’s life, it happens.

I reckon a lot of the posts with people trying themselves in knots, over the last couple of pages could have been avoided, if people just held their hands up and said ‘I was wrong’.

Three words, you know how to spell them.

In the words of the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket: ‘Sound off like you got a pair’.

Petition to stop calling players a ‘6’ or an ‘8’, as this isn’t rugby union.