13 minutes ago, robfranlong81 said:

Just seen Boro are selling Rogers to Villa.  Follows on from selling Akpom in the summer. 

Clubs have to trade and that invariably involves losing your most valuable assets - i.e the ones that will command the biggest fees.  Unfortunately it's the way it has to be. 

That’s true- as long as the money goes back into replacements for the departing players. History tells us that isn’t always the case here. I’d obviously love to be proven wrong on this one!

5 hours ago, damo100 said:

Just reading back from last night's game, particularly when we were a goal down, some posts on here were embarrassing. 

People are reactive during a game, as emotions run high, it happens.

4 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Cardiff battling us for Nat Phillips.

Something tells me that’s a battle we won’t win….

£500k loan fee for Ennis. 🤣.
If any proof was required that Mr Nixon was clueless….

Just now, wilsdenrover said:

Aren’t you too old to have a bed time? 😁

Not ashamed to admit I go to sleep at 9pm mid week, so I’m not shattered all day!

7 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

8th May 1995

My 11th birthday, was well worth the late night and being tired at school the following day!

‘If we get £2 Million for Gallagher, we can spend it on Yates’.

If we get Yates, it’s on loan at best and the Gallagher fee goes into the black hole with the Rhodes and Armstrong money.

(Just a heads up, for anyone that hasn’t paid attention to Venky’s Modus Operandi closely).

16 minutes ago, Judge21 said:

I will wait to see how he gets on in a Rovers shirt as not bothered what he has done for anybody else.

Players don’t fit into every club, management styles etc so don’t look into the past too much.

Obviously he gets a clean slate.

But people are still allowed to talk about his pedigree and his experience, if he’s potentially coming to the club, that stands to reason.

2 hours ago, bazza said:

Whenever he smiled, which he often did, I thought "What a lovely big set of dentures he's got". I'm sure I'm wrong but they really look false.

He’s defo been Turkey, let’s be honest.

11 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

f*****g good shot though,sailed over his meathead bodyguard and landed flush on the chicken murderers head😂

I say sir ‘bloody good shot sir’.

35 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Well,  "unfortunately" it would then be down to him unless you don't believe anything about the alleged intervention of the Indian authorities and subsequent restrictions.

All the more reason we should have appointed a proper DOF in the first place. That is something else you  can blame the owners for.

Doesn’t matter if we employed the best DOF on the planet anyway, if our budget is 3/5 of fuck all tbf.

P.S- not sure we ’wheel and deal’, more, we sell and the money goes to cover what we owe to the owners.

8 minutes ago, alex l said:

Respectfully disagree. If the money isn't available soon it could force us to sell an asset to cover general outgoings and leave the squad even weaker than it is. Relegation then becomes even more of a possibility and the loss of even more players. We go from barely treading water to head under the water line. 

In any case, what a shit situation to be in. Relying on Venky’s getting their shit together and sending money over.

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

FWIW can this be brought up at the Fans Forum please?

The Club can hardly complain about being short of money when they're pulling stunts like that.

Absolutely it can!

Doesn’t matter if that court day is tomorrow, next week, or next month.

We’ll still get the bare minimum to spend on the playing squad and be told we should be grateful that they’re keeping the lights on.

Venky’s out.

He’s an absolutely vile cretin that, along with all the above, once stubbed out a cigar in a youth team player’s eye at Man City. He’s clearly spent all his Bristol Rovers severance pay on nose beers and he’s going on a rant, cancelling himself.

Fuck that guy, now, forever and always.

Prick.

Whilst GB has obviously signed some shite and that’s on him, it must be difficult for him to do his job properly and sign good players, when his budget consists of 3 buttons and a curly wurly.

(This obviously doesn’t absolve him of blame and he got us a keeper that costs us goals and strikers that don’t score any, hardly any wonder we’re struggling, is it?)

That’s on Venky’s. There are always reasons why they can’t do things, instead of why they can do things. It’s an embarrassing and pathetic way to run a football club. When the primary concern isn’t winning football matches, the club becomes a little bit pointless tbh.

43 minutes ago, roverandout said:

They're offended that we view them as small time

They’ve got that mentality by the sounds of things.

18 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

But Nicko said…🙄

Been a while since he said anything worth listening to, tbf.

Whilst I do think the criticism of Benson in the past has been a little OTT, it he’s our set piece coach and we don’t defend them well, it’s surely to be expected that he’s in the firing line?

9 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Set pieces are always reflective of coaching on the training ground. Those numbers do not reflect well on Tomasson at all.

I don’t think it’s just how we defend set pieces either. I don’t remember our set pieces ever being this poor before.

I’m incredibly concerned. Not just for relegation, but for the existence of my club tbh.

15 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Please word it like that at the next fans forum…

I’ll probs be a bit more diplomatic 😃.

But, I’ve mentioned it before and will definitely mention it again. Genuinely totally fed up with Rovers and struggling to see the point of us any more. First time next season (bar the Coyle season), where I’m genuinely considering not renewing. 
(ST holder of 30+ years).

9 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Sammie and Wharton aside, which of our players are worth more now than when the season started?

None of them, the model is shit, because it’s not focussed on winning football matches.