Oh come on

No, he’s normally in full stone island sat next to a lad with a big nose.

Getting a reputation is Jim 😂

Significant investment? 😂

His celebration was a lot of fun for the JW end 😂

Dolan was really influential today - I know its unlikely but would be great to hear him sign a new deal.

He didn’t put it all on Eustace - he explained that this has rumbled on since last summer and should’ve been sorted. You can say JE was lied too, but then you can also say he took the piss and used the situation. We all would professionally.

I guess it goes down to reputation of knowing the transfer business - something @unleaded has plenty of. The sarcastic point about sabotage, just shows how you seemingly can’t see how this sort of power battle is caused by poor management. You can criticise the directors for this too you know? They allowed this argument to fester, they hired JE and the recruitment team. They’re most culpable! None of that absolves JE from manufacturing a better scenario for himself, whatever reason you might accept.

The way people can jump to that sort of opinion on players so quickly is embarrassing. You negate any valid points you could ever make if you’re calling someone shit who you’ve never even seen start a league game. Equally people, players take time. Look at the way Big Mak played the other day? Does that make me a venky brother for saying the recruitment team did well?

Perhaps if a protest was based on “X in” it might work better. Obviously that means finding someone who could entertain those sort of costs, but it would be much easier to get behind.

Love our captain btw

This was the first post I read in this thread today so I’m ignoring everything else and just accepting this as reality and going to bed. Night lads

Business spectacles on - applying for jobs, and those comments on bbc Sunday… It’s not a one way street. These lads know what they’re getting into. It would also be career suicide to just jump without a net, that’s the point of agents, his stock is probably as good as it’s been right now. It’s the engineering that gets me. At least JDT did it on the radio, JE has done it whilst preaching family, it just doesn’t sit well.

Money and the opportunity to (re)build a cv come to mind. Do you need 500 words with an evaluation?

Middle ground reached between us there, couldn’t agree more.

Monkey tennis?

You’re probably right but you’ve said the same things umpteen times and then “Tony Hawked” your way into 3-1 rovers predictions by the weekend. I personally wouldn’t like Edwards either. I hope whoever it is gets sorted this week though. That happened last time, as tiny as that prospect may be.

Really bloody odd to hear someone having a go at Damien Johnson but this is BRFCS. I must be in a strange mood to engage with this, and despite many reoccurring “Rao induced” themes you post about on every subject and thread, you’re missing the fact football (again) is a business. You put a club with a decent squad (sorry but there’s more opinions than just here) 6th in the league, open to a new manager. Taking someone from another club aside, it would take some mental gymnastics not to see this as a better proposition than the previous times we’ve stuck up the VACANCY board. There is very little to lose for any of those out of work managers who could take over a well organised and well drilled John Eustace team. Mid table mediocracy as probably worst outcome is likely more enticing than you’d ever expect. Whilst I don’t think Waggott could find his arse in a fog, I’m yet to fall down the “Gestede is a schill” rabbit hole many here are.

I would take anything in the press with a pinch of salt. Remember I said there would’ve been no approach if he hadn’t already talked to them.

It’s an obvious lack of commitment despite expecting it from players, staff and fans.

I don’t read nixon news or posts if I can help it, especially Twitter. It’s all so monetised now, you’ve no way of disseminating what’s fact or opinion, and most is click based. Wouldn’t be surprised he’s trying to engage rovers fans into arguments to get a higher monthly pay out. Re the contracts - there’s plenty of posters who would drive dolan hyam and hedges to derby with John, so this “contracts expiring” isn’t as simple as that. Also loans cost money, and many of those leaving are on loan, that could be argued as opportunity, especially if we’ve money in the bank. On a specific contract, I think it would be pointless giving someone like Dolan 15k pw for 5 years, and as an example of that - his advisors will know that his best wage will come from free transfer - we aren’t going to beat that for numerous reasons, the main one being 150+ games into his career his final contribution be it shot or pass is often shite. Eustace has done a very good job at rovers with the Willy he has wee’d with, but it’s surely not a surprise to anyone that many passionate rovers fans would be frustrated at the timing an obvious manufacturing of this scenario! You never know, I’d imagine the CVs are flooding in, despite what we know about the Rao’s. Managers will see 15 (18) games to get a huge tick on the CV and very little chance of a X.

Shots fired 😂 You know controversy gets hits? Being serious though, can I unequivocally state that I regularly reflect and rue the day, that we ever ended up on the shelf of a billionaire conglomerate. Thank god I wasn’t born in 1997 (sorry @Gamst21)

Actually love this post - however @47er would be the first to admit he’s always been “spiky” 😂

When am I guest starring on one of these podcasts anyway 😂

To me it seems painfully obvious he has engineered his way to derby, the culmination of this announcing it on IPlayer Edit - you don’t speak to a club you haven’t already spoken too, if that makes sense