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and that is down to JDT and his 4 stooges!!! They pick the players, pick the formation, choose a style of play, do the coaching and motivate, or otherwise, the players. We are a bigger mess than a Coyle Rovers' eleven or a Jim Iley Rovers' eleven and that's saying something!!!

Great signing for them - will 'mix up' their playing pattern, possession and directness.

He signed that new contract because he would have been an idiot not to! Who would turn down longer term security and a bigger wage!?!? If a bid for Sammie ticks the box for our owners then he will be out the door irrespective of any new contract. It really is that simple. I will be very pleasantly surprised if he is still with us on 1 Feb.

Always a danger of papering over the cracks. Give JDT the Huddersfield game, we scrape a win and then what next? My reading of the situation - JDT's relationship is fractured beyond repair with Waggott and most probably Broughton. JDT's decision making now reeks of stubbornness resentment and anger though couched in his affable way. Think the relationship between JDT and players has also gone. The fight on the field has gone. This can only end one way. IMO, our owners, Waggott and Broughton have made a real pig's ear of this and that is where the blame lies.

Please enlighten us. JDT has four coaches assisting - Remy, Lowe, Benson and Johnson. Just wtf do they do? Whatever it is, it clearly isn't working. Think dressing room has been lost.

Proving his fitness before moving on......!

You would think our goalkeeping 'expert' coach Ben Benson would have signed-off on this! Think it's been clear for a few matches now - JDT has most likely lost the dressing room. JDT needs to go now before his reputation is in absolute tatters. Haven't a feckin clue just what Remy, Lowe, Benson and Johnson do. Performances and results suggest, to me, they are all a bunch of tossers who need sacking.

We've had some feckin bad ones but I can't recall one of those 'bad uns' who made a mistake costing at least a goal every match. The lad needs taking out for his own good before his confidence his shot for ever. Some rave about Benson our goalie coach - I think he's in his early thirties, a lot younger than some notable goalies still playing - so put the fecker in our team and lets see how it goes.

We've had some feckin bad ones but I can't recall one of those 'bad uns' who made a mistake costing at least a goal every match. The lad needs taking out for his own good before his confidence his shot for ever. Some rave about Benson our goalie coach - I think he's in his early thirties, a lot younger than some notable goalies still playing - so put the fecker in our team and lets see how it goes.

That would constitute a miracle.

Agree with much of this but really feel JDT is aboard a sinking ship at the moment and it's difficult to see how his reputation doesn't suffer unless he jumps off! Prospective employers look at the results' board which is at rock bottom at the moment and has been for some little time.

Feel sure @Mattyblue and others on here have better things to do than research potential recruits for Rovers. It is not our feckin job. I am pretty sure we would make a better fist of it than our anonymous bunch of faceless wonders. For example, take our head of UK scouting Sutton, who the feck is he and what has he ever done in football? I think there are folk on this MB with more experience and nous to spot a talent than either Sutton or others in our recruitment team.

If true about the Ipswich offer then it would be madness not to sell him for both financial and football reasons. IF Gallagher stays, I would not be optimistic about us getting half a dozen games out of him and a mere 2 goals. Given they play in blue, perhaps they should become Ipswich Rovers with Travis, possibly Gallagher and even Sammie (with his strong family connections in the area) heading that way. Think the reality is that no one is not for sale!

The only thing that matters is results. I want Rovers back in the PL ASAP - the rest is irrelevant bullsh1t. Sadly, IMO, our club is in such a mess, and is riddled with incompetents from ownership through to management from top to bottom, that in my lifetime, the PL seems the impossible dream. The happy clappers need to smell the coffee and get a grip on reality.

We haven't a prayer on Saturday. Think we are in for a 3 or 4 goal tonking. All the time, JDT's reputation is diminishing. Think someone posted on this MB JDT unsuccessfully applied for the Stoke job and was interviewed. If correct, think that's indicative of how far his stock has fallen - JDT v Schumacher in the summer wouldn't have been a contest.

There were posts on here on Saturday that Leonard and Garrett were going out on loan the following day (Sunday). Thankfully, this hasn't happened, at least as yet, given our threadbare squad. Are there any updates?

Should Spurs contact Rovers about Wharton it should be a very easy conversation 'Have you £40million - no add ons'. If the answer is no or there's any attempt at a negotiation then 'well feck off and call us when you have £40million'.

Pretty sure there are no direct flights - with connections / stop overs, quicker by car. Trains longer than car with travel to and from stations.

You are right with exec. directors' remuneration costing £491k, however, you also need to add on employers' NI at circa 14%, circa £66k taking the total to some £560k. Cost of Waggott in those accounts to Jun '22 - salary £271k, pension £1k, NI £38k, total £310k!

That's about 180 miles (3+hours' journey time) back to his missus' lemon drizzle cake. Twice the journey from Ewood / Brockhall. Has Mrs Mowbray lost her touch in the kitchen or was 'being so far away from home' just more Mowbray bullsh1t!?

We need a goalie as neither Pears nor Leo are up to it. On average, I reckon our two goalies have averaged a mistake per game leading to a goal meaning you need to find a striker capable of netting at least a goal per game in order to 'stand still'! Mission impossible! If it was up to me, I'd be trying to offload Leo (there was competition for his signature when we signed him), accepting it wasn't working out for either party and use whatever we got to sign another goalie. If that enabled us to sign Beadle permananently then surely we would be no worse off?!

Think you are right, however, pretty sure Rovers have been having discussions with many clubs about many players and Beadle may well have been a conversation before Ayari was agreed if indeed it was a loan deal they were seeking.

Hear Rovers have asked Brighton about their young goalie Beadle. Highly rated but not the experienced goalie we need.

Great to be in the hat for the next round. Sadly, we are Sammie Rovers at the moment and goodness knows where we would be without him. Is there any official news on Sammie's injury - is it a groin or a hammy (heard it's a hammy issue)? Poor game management by JDT - Sammie should have been off after 65 minutes (at the latest) when we went 4-2 up. Today's win just masks all the problems we have as a football team and I expect 'normal business' to be resumed next Saturday with a resounding defeat at The Hawthorns.

So? If one of the likes of Ipswich, Leicester, Luton, Brentford, Palace etc come in with an acceptable offer to Rovers then little Sammie's leg wont touch the ground as he races off to bank his little fortune! You have been around long enough Chaddy to realise loyalty in football in the main is to the bank account!