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Think it's time for Rovers to stop pissing about with SS and de Lange deals. Reportedly, we now have differences of £500k and £400k respectively. In the overall scheme of things, these amounts are chicken shit. Our season kicks-off in 3 days and JE, our group and the individuals themselves need clarity and to know where they stand. When you are so close you just find a feckin way through accepting very rarely will you get the price you want for a sale and, conversely, you end up paying a bit for a purchase.

Agree with the sentiment but on a substantial 3 year contract will take some feckin shifting!

If I was a Stoke fan I'd be seriously worried about this season's prospects if Travis follows Gallagher and Ennis there. May well be looking for a new manager before a dozen games have been played. If Travis goes, we will need 2 new midfielders, 1 defensive and 1 offensive. Overall, we are still half a dozen players light. A big concern is all these players arriving so close to the season starting - no time to establish a pattern of play and to gel. We need a fast start to get confidence, momentum flowing. We might not recover from a slow stuttering start.

If I remember correctly (after nearly 40 years), it was Vince O'Keefe against Ipswich in a night match and Simon Garner went into goal and Rovers won!

and I wasn't the only one!!!! Anyhow, delighted Szmodics proved me wrong in his second season with us. As for Dolan, I'll stick with my opinion, however, I would be absolutely delighted if he has a storming season for us but I wont be holding my breath! By the way, have you found Dyche in La Manga yet!?!?

Agree - at 21 years old he aint showing anywhere near enough for me. As posted before, when he first broke through thought we had a 'find' - sadly, IMO, regressed badly under Mowbray. A decent fee and he'd have to go for me. Dolan's 'pressing role' should be only to the exit door. IMO, overrated, flatters to deceive and a little upstart. I know video highlights can be misleading but de Lange looks a 'proper goalie'! A good tall physique, reads the game well, very athletic and really strong hands - totally different class to Pears.

Has very, very little football intelligence. The great Bobby Moore was slow but the first few yards were in his head and he rarely got caught out.

Not a Pickering fan - think he's bang average. Gallagher has not developed - best form for Rovers, with goals, was ironically under Coyle. Had high hopes of Travis when he broke through and we was box to box and funnily enough could then pick a pass or two. Sadly, Mowbray changed him for the worse and the lad has badly regressed.

Fingers crossed for a keeper who clearly comes in as our number 1 !!! If a keeper comes in to 'challenge' Pears then IMO, he can be no better than the calamity we already have! Think Dolan and agent(s) playing a game. He simply aint that good - would cash-in now providing, and that's a big proviso, we could use the monies to strengthen.

If I had a tenner for every time Chaddy has come out with this since the Accie match then I'd be able to buy Rovers myself! We get it Chaddy!

As posted before, we shouldn't have signed O'Riordan. Having played 70ish league games including a loan spell in Scotland, he should have been ready enough and good enough to play games in our first team. Heard JE is not a fan - if correct, another pointless signing especially as we paid decent money for him.

Good luck Big Mac - I really hope you are feckin sensational!

May well be Ipswich know we are absolutely done for money and these potential signings are dependent upon pocketing some sale proceeds for SS - like any good management, would, trying to screw us down. Think the gap is close enough for it to happen as we are absolutely desperate. The alternative - don't let SS go and have one hugely disaffected player in your ranks and send the potential new signings at Brockhall back. Tractor Boys have played a stormer just like Wee Dougie did with Wharton. Oh for some nous at Ewood.

The great irony is it was Coyle who got the most out of Gallagher in terms of performance and goals!

Read this thread this morning and thought how sad and depressing. Just catching up with the latest on here and now even more sad and depressing. Think it's clear we've become even more of a shambles, if that's possible, under Waggott and Pasha - I think the club's stock must be at an all time low in the game. Hope I am wrong but think these latest signings, if we even manage to get them over the line, reak of utter desperation. IMO, will take a miracle for us not to get relegated this season.

More depressing by the day. Shouldn't be going near Fleck even with the proverbial sh1tty stick. Just why on earth are we even thinking about Baker at Stoke - we have far more pressing needs. Bad news about Leonard and Gilsenan. Particularly concerned with Leonard's shoulder injury - high chance dislocation will happen again in a physical contact sport and then it will be the inevitable surgery. Does anyone really think we will get half a season's games out of Siggy - another injury prone liability

He's a Cheshire 'boy' as are many footballers - Mobberley, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Knutsford are the popular areas. Some stunning properties all 2 to 3 times as much as even the Ribble Valley.

Why wouldn't Gallagher not be interested in a Stoke move - he lives in Cheshire (think it's Knutsford - seen him out and about there on a couple of occasions) and is therefore some 20+ miles c;loser than where he travels to now and he'll have a longer contract with more dosh at a club with more ambition and serious owners. A no brainer.

Let alone what we will need to pay Posh with their sell on clause.

Think it's clear the end game is approaching. Seems like we can't even afford a half decent wage to get anyone who is a quarter decent player. If I had bought season tickets, I would have felt grossly betrayed and disgracefully p1ssed upon. Would think Eustace is utterly p1ssed off - whether you rate him as a coach / manager or not, you just simply can't keep treating your coach / manager like this. It would be no surprise to me to see Lowe and Benson in charge of the team before Christmas arrives - a frightening thought but just think it through. How far we have fallen and we haven't stopped falling yet!

Heard City offered Delap to Rovers on loan in Mowbray's last January window and it seems Mowbray said no!!!

I admire your unswerving optimism and loyalty Chaddy but there's not a snowball's chance in hell that SS will pull on the Rovers' shirt again. The deal will be less than £10million. Simple as. Clubs like Palace, with wee Dougie, and Ipswich have senior executive management who know what they are doing.

Think most supporters realise we haven't got a pot to p1ss in. Seems like we can't even afford to pay a decent wage. The fact we still haven't got McFadzean over the line and have yet to make a single senior signing tells you all you need to know. Will actually be surprised if we even manage to sign the Japanese lad on a free. Sadly, think the games up, or very soon will be, for Rovers.

Seems like Ipswich have now pulled a trigger point which folk keep denying exists. Ipswich are no mugs and presumably they know of a trigger point of around £8million so fully understand their reported opening offer of £6millionish. Some can squeal / fantasise all they want but we were never going to get £15million upwards. It was always going to be less than £10million. Thanks for the memories Sammie, you kept us up virtually single handed last season and good luck in the PL - you deserve a shot at it.

As we are strapped for cash, as we were in the Jan window, why on earth spend money on a 20/21 year old player who is not ready, and might never be ready, to play in our first team. Defies logic. Think it's clear Eustace doesn't think he's good enough for our first team.