A tough start and a tough finish to what increasingly looks like being one feckin hellish season. Not seen any relegation odds for Championship yet but think Rovers and Sheff Wed will make a tasty and profitable double!

Very bad news if correct. To miss 4 of the 6 weeks pre season means the lad wont be ready for the start of the season and he could be trying to play catch-up for months to come. These things happen but we seem to suffer more than most with injuries - think our once much vaunted sports science / medical department has been dumbed down, like all areas in the club, beyond recognition. There's always a price to pay.

Quiet and depressing. Seen reported half a dozen or so Academy lads training with 1st team - Ismael must be gutted. Scores on the doors from last season: 'Gone': Dolan, Batth, Weimann, Beck, ACD (5) 'Going': Travis (90% probability), Brittain (90% probability) and Tronstad & Hyam (50/50) In: De Neve, Tavares (2) So that's 5 seniors (4 of which good/steady Championship performers) out the door with another 4 in the 'revolving door'. Neither of our 2 signings have pulled up trees at their previous clubs and highly unlikely to hit the ground running - 2 big risks. To coin an advertising slogan - 'the future's bleak, the future's black' !

You don't half talk some crap Chaddy. Other than Rovers, who the feck wanted Forshaw!?!? A pure desperate signing. Clearly, Batth and Weimann have known about the Derby deal for some time and so will have other clubs who may or may not have spoken with them. Nicko does not know everything that goes on in the football world and you know even less.

Surprised by this appointment - Gibson going to be treading water again. Really surprised by this one - no real track record and bombed in his last two jobs.

As has Aynsley Pears !!! Football is about opinions (managers, coaches, fans) and opinions differ at even the highest level as we've seen with Tuchel's selections including the sidelining of Wharton and selection of a washed-up Henderson. Absolutely agree about the player trading - think it's metaphorically criminal when you think about the talent to leave Ewood for nowt in recent times (Lenihan, Rothwell, Brereton); though the 3 mentioned haven't set the football world alight, you would think that £20millionish has been flushed down the sh1tter. Dolan, Brittain, Hyam, Travis, Tronstad etc - where is it all going to end!? I know it's another era and maybe before your time but Bob Lord at Burnley was a master at flogging players at the right time for big bucks and generally keeping Burnley competitive in the First Division (now PL) for a good 15 years or so including a title win and half a dozen or so top 4 finishes.

If Dolan had put the same amount of effort he showed in the last few weeks of the season into his earlier Rovers' career, I suspect he might have already moved on. Clearly, put himself in the 'shop window'. A very frustrating player who, IMO, lacks the two essentials for a forward with PL aspirations - pace (Rhodes had none and bombed in PL) and football intelligence (Adam Armstrong has little and also bombed in PL). As for 'circle spins', Stuart Metcalfe liked a few though in fairness Metcalfe was a talented footballer who for various reasons didn't make the most of his abilities.

We are losing 3 steady Championship performers and so far we've recruited, IMO, a washed-up Forshaw who we didn't want at the end of the season (that is desperate), Tavares who managed 15 starts out of 34 for Moreirense but only completed 3 of those games and De Neve whose move to a Championship club astonished a local Belgian journalist given his seemingly very modest playing ability. I'd down a few Guinness if I was you and they might help you to see the ludicrousy of both your argument and Rovers' plight!

So, tomorrow no Dolan, no Batth and no Weimann. However, Forshaw, De Neve and Sid will be there! Ismael will be so excited.

If the advert we've seen is correct, no self respecting individual would take this job. A C-suite level job my arse.

Still trying to defend the indefensible shambles I thin̈k Rovers have become. I don't give a monkeys whether our players are from UK, Europe, Africa or Asia or are young or old. The only thing that matters is can they feckin play and get us back to the PL?!?! All the bullsh1t about journeys, projects, style of play is feckin nonsense. Only results and promotion matter.

3 shrewd signings by Eustace - a pragmatic manager who wants results now and isn't sidetracked with all the 'project' or 'journey' bullshit. Think Weimann and Batth will be 1 year deals and will be big Rovers' misses. Defensively, we weren't the same when Batth didn't play and Hyam was markedly less effective in Batth's absence. Weimann was a great option from the bench when we needed something to happen. Don't let anyone pretend they are in the 30's and don't fit Ismael's playing style and won't be missed - that's feckin nonsense. Our 3 signings so far provide little comfort.

Hope we get a 'gentle start' to give us a chance to get some points on board. A tough start with few if any points may well be difficult to recover from. With our player trading so far and no contract renewals on our key players, difficult to have any confidence.

The lad's 20 now and not improving. Don't think the spell at Stanley did anything for him. At one stage, thought he was a good prospect. Time to move him on.

Style and opinions! Well Byron, Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth were all poets who were thought to have a similar writing style! As for opinions, 90%+ of a political party share the same opinions, don't they? I am not unique and don't pretend to be and I am pretty sure there are many out there with both similar opinions and similar ways of expressing themselves. I'll leave it there.

As I have said before, I AM NOT ONE OF THE TWATTERATI. Do you have difficulty reading and understanding? I don't give a feck what this bloke on Twitter posts. By all means have a go at me (though you do seem to have an unhealthy obsession with me) but don't attribute comments from someone else on another social media platform to me.

Would think we've probably given Moreirense their money back and promised more if he comes good and we win the PL and Champions' League!!! Perhaps this guy is their Leopold Wahlstedt!!! Chaddy you just don't get it do you? They have more than likely been spun a huge dose of bullsh1t and 'favours' have been called in! Why not trust sporting journalists - are you kidding everyone on here!?!?!? From what I have read about this lad and seen in the odd clip he is NOT THE BOX TO BOX Ismael wants and will be a piss poor replacement for either Travis or Tronstadt if and when they leave. De Neve and Sid, IMO, are not ready or good enough for the Championship. Carry on with signing players like this whilst losing the likes of Brittain, Batth, Travis and Tronstad and we will be done for by Christmas.

Forshaw???? Feck me. No, no, no .......... Pasha, Gestede, Raos - get the feck out of our club.

Not a snowball in hell's chance. PL, Pears is your number 2 and your number 1 gets a serious injury with Pears having to cover for up to 4 months - that's season over for that club. For ANY Championship club he makes too many mistakes and I can't see any club paying even £1million (or anywhere near) let alone £2million for a goalie not good enough to be number 1 in a poor Rovers side. Loose change only for Pears - anything beyond that is for the fairies. TBH don't think Barrett or Goddard up to it - Barrett is 23 and hasn't made an appearance for ANY senior club whilst 21 year old Goddard has circa 50 games with non league clubs of the ilk of Bamber Bridge and Marine!!! I wouldn't hold my breath about those two. Michalski is only 18 and only seen him play once - think he has a chance but would be a huge risk to have him as our number 2 with such limited experience. Think we need an experienced back up to Toth.

Think there are a few of us who remember Butcher! When Paul Bradshaw left for Wolves I remember Butcher's girl friend telling me at the time 'John will be better than Paul and go on to play for England'! Think my response was simply 'let's wait and see'!

Strikes me as having neither nous nor gravitas. IMO, Gestede should simply not be in that role, novice or otherwise - he is fathoms out of his depth. and there you have it - IMO, 3 footballing nobodies and the dumbing down process to all things Rovers is further entrenched. There is absolutely no doubting the club's ambition. The one factor that might just hold them back is their manager Phil Parkinson. A decent track level BELOW Championship level but he's failed to cut it as Championship level with other clubs. Would not surprise me if Parkinson is not an early managerial casualty as the ownership want success and quickly - they aint interested in 'consolidation' or 'projects'.

Posted this over a fortnight ago. Seen nothing to suggest this will not happen. Think Batth would even take a 1 year deal with Derby over Rovers - we didn't cover ourselves in glory with him a couple of seasons ago. Anyone who thinks the mood music around the Rovers is anything but poor and depressing really does need to give their head a wobble.

Waggott left a box of pork scratchings in his office.

It's simple, IT'S CALLED AMBITION and emanates from the ownership. I think it's clear, Wrexham as a club are everything Rovers are currently not. Feckin Wrexham!!! Stop bellyaching and start accepting reality. Jack will be spinning in his grave.

Think any out of work manager with a chequered history would grab a 3.5 year contract that might well give him financial security for life. So presumably you are saying Gestede is out of his depth, totally inefficient and useless? We will be lucky if we retain 1 of Brittain, Hyam, Travis and Tronstad - smell the coffee beans!!! Like we did under Jack! 'Rovers have held talks' - wow, could be as little as 'hi there, how's your summer going'!!! Just why the feck do players NOT WANT TO BE HERE!?!? - aint feckin rocket science Like we did under Jack! You never give us trying to defend the indefensible - can you not see this?