maybe we're desperate enough at this point to try our luck with an appeal?

anyone else unable to pick a seat for the pl international cup games?? edit: looks like you can pick for the individual games, but not for the packages??

to be fair to Zeefuik, he was either played out of position or injured for the majority of his time here, so it isn't hugely surprising he didn't particularly set the world alight during his spell. it's a shame, it seemed like he had the potential to be a top player for us before his arrival.

wasn't it hedges who nodded the ball down to travis??

as someone who hasn't renewed this year (cost), i find it absolutely staggering i haven't had an email, a letter, a phone call, a text, anything, to ask why that is! nothing about what they can do to change that or to even just try to convince me to pick one up! baffling!

am i right in thinking this open training session was an alternative due to the lack of a curtain-raiser friendly at ewood? or do we do do them often and they've just passed me by?

you're quoting the uefa rules for teams in their european competitions. in the championship it's the efl ffp rules. they will be changing soon, but not to uefa's.

where from? last seasons were so popular they seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth

this is brilliant glen, stellar work as always. cheers. can't wait to read the rest!

especially if he gets half a season doing well in our first team before the world cup

only through grandparents. he was born here

that's one view, sure. or you could look at it as he's getting a completely fresh, unmarked squad of talented youngsters that he can spend a season moulding and consolidating into the type of team and types of players he wants. add in some experienced players this summer (hopefully..) and in january to build them up a bit, then go again next summer with a full season of said moulding under their belts. pretty sure this is the plan, and is part of why there's more of an appetite to get the right deals in, whether that comes before the season starts or in the weeks after. i know it's bloody frustrating for us as fans, but it makes total sense outside of our biased, tribal gaze wanting us to win win win and kick off on the front foot, always immediately chasing promotion.

couple of celtic questions.. do you just get the seat the rovers ticketing system auto-assigns you or am i just completely missing the option to choose your own? does anyone have a clue as to where we'll be sitting? can't find anything for the seat # and row it's spitting out at me. the only info it gives is the option saying "restricted view" up front.

it's interesting to me that i've seen no one mention, or there's been no discussion, about the possibility the private jet from malmo link could be spot on, but perhaps it was carrying a different malmo player..? it'd link up with "signings early this week" and we have been linked with a good few of their players now. perhaps the serbian winger, or berget, or both considering we've potentially splashed out for a private jet? or a lad we haven't heard of considering how under wraps everything has been so far! just a thought!

did have a glance at some images, but didn't spot the broken nose!

scanning the faces at the end of that new promo video.. there's one that looks remarkably like tom lawrence.. but it could also be bucko.. the cropping makes it difficult to see for me. any thoughts?

i think rankin-costello especially will benefit massively from a change of manager. his development stalled a while ago, and imo it was entirely to do with being moulded into a right back/wingback. once we get some cover in, i hope jdt will experiment with him back in some midfield positions. hope the lad can still get there after his injuries

as in they're on the opposite side to usual, or that it's a quartered design?

20 total for armstrong, wasn't it? but the 5 mill top up of the initial 15 is / was drip fed through clauses and such. unless there's a bidding war as the window progresses, i would imagine any deal for bbd would be structured much the same

he had the dual (triple?) role of assistant manager and director of football / technical director, but was only officially known as the assistant manager. i think.. cue someone a bit more in the know to clear that up a bit!

does he really? that's interesting! he's a local lad round here, has (had?) a cheese shop/café in the neighbouring town and was a mate of mine's p.e. teacher. when i saw he'd gone into representation i really wasn't expecting him to ever be so high up the food chain, let alone be up there already! out of pure interest, who else at rovers does he represent?

tbh, with the shopping spree eg group have been going on, you could have a pick of pretty sizable businesses on the kits if that relationship was there and well-maintained. could even have a different one for each kit! e.g. leon on the third, asda on the home, boots on the away! take your pick!

https://www.brfcs.com/forums/topic/35399-which-utterly-brilliant-manager-will-we-be-delighted-to-welcome-next/?do=findComment&comment=2331918 not sure how to insert posts from closed threads, but i predicted as much had happened. it's nice to be proven right!! i think the nonsensical "manager first, dof second" approach was simply so waggott could have his name and face attached to the new man, in the hopes it was someone like farke, to try and claw himself some credibility back amongst the fanbase and solidify his position in the process. broughton's utterly embarrassed him and his acumen in about two days, if i'm honest.

same here. was gutted about the recoverite debacle. didn't have the pennies for one first half of last season and by the time i did they were forced to have that monstrosity slapped across them, and i don't just mean the big blue cover-up box. a shame, the home and third kit were the first of our kits i've truly liked since the league one season. i did quite like that lighter blue number we had first season back up actually, far more than most seemed to, but that awful betting logo ruined it. it baffles me the club can't sell some sponsorless shirts when we're linked with such businesses. obviously no thought even given to the various religious communities that don't agree with gambling etc? essentially cutting out a huge chunk of their market right off the bat? mind-boggling.

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