Anyone remember when Ryan Nyambe was a ‘thing’ ? Thank GOD we’ve moved on 🙏🏽

Aged well….😉

Who knows? He’s been absolutely shite, but we don’t have anyone else available and Vale is even less effective that Gally. Which is why, honestly I’d just keep playing him in the hope that one crashes in off his backside, he regains some confidence and scores another 5-10 goals between now and May. He is a handful when he’s on it 🤞🏽

Same 👍🏼

Same team, bar Carter for Ayala. Fingers crossed Diaz on the bench instead of Vale and ready to come on with 20 mins to go, for Gally and get the winner! FWIW - watching Brittain on Tuesday only cemented my opinion that he’s the best fullback we’ve had at the club in years. But for injuries, he’d be held in the same esteem as Hyam, if not better. Which is high praise since I rate Hyam the best CB we’ve had since Nelson and Samba!! JRC magical at RB, and the little tactical move to switch to a three in defence when we have possession and tuck him into midfield is working at treat. The ball he played to Sorba for the goal on Tuesday night was filthy!! Keep proving folk wrong, Joe! Szmodics is a good player too. Looking forwards to him getting a run and showing people what he can do. praying Gally can shake these horrific performances off to play himself back into form. There is a handful of a player in there somewhere, we need him fast!!

Pears JRC Carter Hyam Pickering Travis. Buckley Sorba. Szmodics Dolan Gally Subs - Hilton Ayala Brittain Morton Hedges Leonard I think Dolan’s best games for us come off the left, he just rarely gets a chance because of Ben. Gally needs a goal Rovers 2 - 0 Blackpool Gally and Szmodics

I think, what’s clear is that no one in the Prem fancies him. If they did, with the money floating about, someone would’ve taken him by now! Ben is probably hoping for Spain, but looking down the barrel of France at the moment. If he can’t get a good enough offer from there then it absolutely makes sense for him to sign a £30k per week contract with us. He hasn’t done much since November to tempt anyone to part with some cash. So maybe this contract offer has some legs? Either way, if I was in charge at Rovers I’d encourage him to sign, provide the platform for him to have a grandstand finish to the season and take the highest bid, anyone was willing to pay in the summer. Knowing us, we’ll sign him up for another year, he’ll have a shit hot end to the season, Venkys will turn down every bud in the summer and then we’ll let him go for nowt, next summer!! 🙈

Unlikely, I agree.

100% agree, but what if Ben and his advisors currently have no decent offers on the table for him? Maybe at £30k we’re 25% above anything he’s got on the table? He’s not loyal to the club, he’s shown that by refusing to sign a contract for nearly two years….but he does have a new baby at home, so maybe a million quid and another year in the Ribble Valley playing every minute of every game is appealing now, in context…🤷🏽‍♂️

He’s been after a move for a long time mate. We just haven’t accepted those lower bids so far. He’d get a lot more than £30kpwk in Spain or France….my guess, assuming we don’t go up (when no doubt he’d want another raise) he’d be off like a shot in the summer we’re we to extend his contract and then accept a bid…

I think you’ve missed my point. We were discussing this new contract they’ve supposedly offered him. Which IF he were to sign then any team wanting him would have to pay a fee for him this summer. Which is a dream scenario for Rovers.

If we sold him in the summer, even for £5m, after agreeing an extension this month then we’d have a bit of cash to go and get a couple of players, surely. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to offload Gally either. Doesn’t look like JDT rates him.

We turned down £8m didn’t we, last year? It wasn’t enough then….what I’m saying is, I’d let him sign the new contract and then invite bids. Sell him to the highest bidder, whatever the amount and we’ve had a dream vs currently losing him for free.

It’s true, 100%

I think Ben might have worked out that in spite of his ‘global rise’ and the three subsequent transfer windows since he became Diaz, no one has stumped up the cash for him in spite of record spending levels in the top leagues. It would seem, if the rumours are true of us offering him another contract, that he has nothing sorted im Spain either. Honestly, speaking objectively, if I were Ben, I’d ask Rovers to extend that year to 2yrs and do the deal. If I were Rovers, I’d agree the £30k, 1yr deal now and sell him to the highest bidder in the summer. £3m, £5m, £8m…is all better than nowt!!!

Pears. Brittan Carter Hyam Pickering Travis. Buckley Thomas. Dack. Brereton-Diaz Dolan Hilton, JRC, Ayala, Morton, Szmodics, Hedges, Gallagher *ive only put JRC on the bench because he’s touch and go. Think he’ll give a rest and a bit more time to heal. Rovers 2 - 0 Swansea - Goals from BBD and Dolan

They don’t want to see us struggle. They just want to be ‘right’

I know the manager is getting flak here and I understand it…but honestly the players he was left with in the summer are absolutely dross. Mowbray never had a squad as bad as this, including the year we went down. It’s an absolute miracle that we’re safe from relegation.

Finally someone who has removed their emotion. If BBD or Gally were in anything better than diabolical form we’d have beaten Wigan by 3 or 4 playing the same way tonight. Goals change games and we / the manager are getting badly let down by the forwards at the minute. Which is the reason JDT is fuming with GB etc.

Did enough to beat them comfortably. Most did ‘ok’, the standouts were Sorba, Trav and JRC. Vale (non-entity) Brereton (might not get a club at this rate) and Gally (Stump) absolutely dog shit…we’re just waiting for them to turn up again before we can win a game. JDT musr be going out of his mind!

The biggest compliment I can pay JDT in how he’s heightened our expectations is that we start tonight’s match expecting to win, with JRC, Carter, Pears and Vale playing!!

Hope you’re right. I’m not saying JDT will resign but it wouldn’t surprise me. I’m gutted it’s turned out this way….had we signed Undav and O’brien on deadline day on top of Thomas and progressing in the cup, the feel good factor would be huge now. As it is, the clubs reputation is in tatters internally and externally.

That interview of JDT on the Rovers website is interesting. He’s obviously pissed off but he goes a bit further for me…he completely (and rightly so) ‘outs’ the other side (GB’s side) of the club. Which is risky. But the most salient point for me is the one he makes about ‘his side’ overachieving. It feels like, for the first time, he’s peacocking which is what you do when you’re looking around for other options? Ive said before, it’s my belief that JDT will go LONNGG before he’s pushed. He’s a born winner, incompetence like this does not exist in his world! I would not be surprised at all if he resigned.

Tbf he’s publicly taken responsibility there…but I can see some fire in his eyes. He’s seething and I reckon he’s on the fuckin warpath behind the scenes. A good leader would never demolish a colleague publicly….you do that behind closed doors. The LOB thing is really sad for all parties. Including GB and his administration, because this signing would’ve signalled a ‘stepping up’ in quality.

The facts. Go and look for yourself.