Ghost7

This will be an interesting test of transfer policy. Rudy's cheap obscure European buys and bad squad planning vs Preston's solid championship experience and smart Premier League loans. I think I know who my money's on........ but would love to be proved wrong.

It does feel like we won't be seeing any players of Cantwell's calibre at the club for a long long time once he is gone.

Our best player. By far.

Got to be some of the worst most desperate squad planning I've seen in years. Feels stretched and not up to it despite multiple international breaks. It'll be in bits defensively by January and I suspect Rudy's transfer arrogance will be well reflected both against Preston on Friday... and by the league table come Jan.

It was a slap in the face to the fans that had already bought a season ticket that's for sure.

Never rated him.

You are right and no, the owners have no interest in investing properly. I think we can be clear on that after 15 years of the same question being asked again and again.

Can someone explain to me why on every Lewis Miller long throw, we don't have two of our stronger players aerially stood here where the Brighton players are or anyone in fact stood in this exact corner of the 6 yard box where the ball is likely to go? Brighton are in the correct place for their throw trajectory and Palace are doing the same for theirs. Simple stuff.

The model attracts "crap" in both the player and manager section, obviously. We were inside the playoffs comfortably during a manager search and ended up with Ismael. They still couldn't attract anyone decent with barely any games to go which truly said it all, and didn't go after anyone good "in work" to give us the best chance, and a stronger platform for the following season if we missed out. No one thought to use it as an opportunity. We had ZERO chance of convincing Cooper, Edwards or O'Neil to join even in such a strong position, the club aren't serious and can't get anything major done. Yet some of the fans still support the regime. Far too many dim Rovers fans with their head in the sand, pretending Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth and Burnley don't exist in the Premier league. 5,000 more fans turned up with ease yesterday. They'll be there weekly under new owners and up to it footballing executives.

Didn't feel like we were undone by 3 changes to the side today. It felt like we were undone by careless, amateur transfer business in the summer. Importantly the complete negligence in sanctioning the Hyam sale without a last minute replacement - a player who played all 46 games last season. He should have been under lock and key until another CENTRE BACK came in. If they didn't make it in time, no deal Wrexham... whatever the price. I'm all for selling with 1 year left but they were far too late in the day with their bid. Whoever agreed the decision was sensible and for the good of the club needs firing immediately. The problem is it was likely an agreement between Suhail Pasha, Gestede and Ismael. Idiots the lot of them! They have either severely underestimated the league, miscounted the number of true senior centre-backs or decided to gamble with the future of the club by handing nearly every team in the league an advantage for the first half of the season. It's a farce. Who was Ismael trying to kid at the end of the window that this wasn't an issue? Of course it was going to be and it is already. He's starting Championship games with an attacker at left centre-back. It's insane stuff. Plenty of managers would have their names into other clubs again (Eustace, JDT), MOST WOULD HAVE THREATENED IT ON DEADLINE DAY IF HYAM WENT but he was seemingly part of the plot. Anyone who has watched Rovers enough last past 3 or 4 seasons could have easily predicted that Wharton and Carter would not be around for decent parts of this season. Why would they be? They've got some of the worst injury records in the league. 16 appearances last season for Carter. 0 for Wharton. Zero due to a major injury, a player who struggles to make 25 games a season in a good year and has had multiple career harmful injuries. There's 46 games in a Championship season, sometimes 3 a week....... is our CEO even aware of that? We have a guy called Moussa Baradji at the club to come in and play attacking midfield? Never heard of him. We didn't need him. We needed senior defenders on decent wages! That was clear at the START of the summer. They are asking fans to pay for this. The club is a total circus and it's getting left behind in the division by nearly everyone. Gestede has got to go and whoever else was involved.

If he or Henriksson offered for the ball in midfield, the CBs wouldn't have to keep playing hopeful 60 yard balls into the forward line..... terrible setup today asking defenders to do things they aren't good enough for. Still major question marks over the manager, whoever signed Tavares and whoever sanctioned the Hyam sale.

The player he skinned for the assist was left back Victor Kristiansen who Leicester signed for £17 million and he got nowhere near him.

It's nearly every team so far this season that can't handle Alebiosu. Excellent to have someone that can stand defenders up and run at them with pace. Really pleased for Gudjohnsen and glad the manager stuck with him. Two outstanding results but so much more to do. Hopefully there's more to come from this team.

I agree part of supporting Rovers for me or any football club is about an honest journey towards success that the fans feel part of, whether it works out or not doesn't matter if it's something you know everyone wants and is trying for. That was taken away from us the moment Venky's bought the club.

I bet Gestede fancies some loans in January looking at Preston's results. What an imbecile.... That's what happens when one of your top men is work experience.