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How he was seen here (during the summer) is one thing, how (and how often) he was seen on the pitch by scouts from League 1 & 2 teams is another. Its not a secret that Rovers cut costs where possible, so the title of "squad player" doesn't mean much, what will matter to scouts /ata analysts etc is performance on the pitch, of which there was not a lot to go on at Championship level

Montgomery didn't really play a lot of games or minutes before the summer window opened (featured in 3 games totaling 136 minutes), even then he was sent off in one of those 3 games. Pratt by a necessity & lack of options, will probably play a fair bit by the time the next window opens. If hre performs well before January, then other clubs may start to pay more attention to our U21s Completely agree with the 2nd bold part

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Indeed, there is a zero percent chance that Rovers would keep playing a player who is more susceptible to injury because of a lack of thought with their summer transfer business. Look at how well they managed Carter & Wharton, we have nothing to fear

Also possible, but that doesn't change that he has 1.5 years left on his contract & will not be offered fresh terms at the level that he will accept for him to sign an extension. He will leave either in January or summer, I still think Derby/Birmingham/Wrexham are the likely destinations

Even if not a fall out, entirely possible that when he hits 50 games, he will to trigger a pay rise and/or Rovers have to pay a fee to Rangers. Would not surprise me at all if a move has already been agreed based on his form earlier this season Derby/Birmingham/Wrexham would be my guess as to his destination

Cantwell apparently got a small kick against Stoke, played the full game, hasn't been seen since. That was nearly 2 months ago now

2 potential games for our loanees on Tuesday Tuesday 3am (UK time) Duru - score/update Tuesday 7:45pm Edmondson - score/update Thursday 8pm Barrett - score/update - game on Sky Sports +

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They will decide that Morishita & Henriksen are enough, and then say something about pathways for Tyjon (who is probably off at the end of the season anyway)

Why would we sign a new left back? We now play a formation that doesn't call for them & we already have 2 that we don't/won't use in Pickering & Ribeiro. Imagine those in charge will be happy with Hedges & De Neve at left wing back In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if both Pickering and Ribeiro were sold (which would actually makes sense if the fees/wages were used for a right wing back/centre back/striker). But in actuality will probably just save them a few more pennies 😉

its 50-50 at best

You would think/hope that if Pratt pushes on and makes a few more appearances and does ok, that clubs higher up the pyramid than Chorley will be looking to take our players on loan. At the same time, it is possible that those enquiries are coming in, but Rovers are being overly cautious about which level to send them to? Olson did well in tier 5 last season, cant get a sniff with a newly promoted team in tier 4 this year. On the face of it, trying him up another level made sense, but it hasn't worked out O'Riordan doing well in tier 3 this season, but couldn't get anywhere near at Bristol Rovers team fighting relegation last year Markanday last year dropped off a cliff once he was moved up from tier 4 to 3, similar to Olson, moving him up a level made sense at the time Both of Garrett's loans last year were badly chosen I can see based on those why they may prefer to play it safe and send players to tier 6 Chorley, rather than have them struggle to get on the bench at tier 4 Oldham. However, after Olson's success in tier 5 last year, I would be surprised if we didn't field a few enquiries from that level for other players (such as Pratt) during the summer

Yep, Brad Friedel's initial time at Liverpool want great Bergkamp & Henry also both took a little time to adjust at Arsenal (both took about a quarter of a season to register their first goals)

Pratt was playing in grassroots football up until 2019 which possibly accounts for him being a bit of a throwback compared to Litherland & Atcheson who both grew up in the academy system