NeilInBristol

Yeh it’s poor business and we have history of this interesting quotes from VI last month about the 2m man Tavares: When asked whether he is injured, Ismael has said, as per a report by the Lancashire Telegraph: “No, it’s a decision. At some point, as I said after the game, we were in a transition. So a lot of new players, 10 new players. I think we gave enough time to all the players to settle, to find an apartment, to make sure that they feel comfortable. To help them to understand the way we want to play, the way we want to train. “My feeling is now the players need to understand that the performance has to be judged now, in the training session and in the game. It’s all about competition now within the team. If you are ready to compete, you will have your chance. If not, the other one will take care of your spot. Now it’s about everyone fighting for his position.”

Such a joke of a club!! We’ve been doing this for way too long, there should be some governance or oversight of this stuff but there isn’t even in the PL it’s a joke

Agree above especially about the row z stuff, injury free etc just read his interview on LT and I hadn’t realised he was out for almost 18months with injuries poor lad hopefully that’s all behind him now but I wonder if our medical staff need reviewing (especially considering trons clearly played with an injury and now he’s out for a while)

Not sure ! We have poor squad depth Say he got injured in the game and maybe he wanted to come off but was told to play on and it’s worse than they had hoped Or maybe he was playing through pain and didn’t say anything till after the match Either way we may not have him in the qpr game

Agree entirely we aren’t arsenal, no need to try to pass it around the box which is suicidal if you haven’t got the right players and concentration which of course we won’t have we are an average championship side at best currently, hoof the ball in to row z, re compose, move on to next phase in play - suits us well Pratt seemed to play with that sense of pragmatism too, hope he kicks on for us and he becomes a mainstay of our defence

He was excellent not sure what some people expect!!

The boy did good on his debut recalled from Chorley and straight into the line up Clearly knackered by 70mins Thoughts on his future?

Vi admitted we have no defence he’s playing pratt He also said we have no room in the squad Todd will be sold in Jan likely destination? Derby?!

It’s clever- distracts the opposition!

Great to see glad for the lad 🦾 I know he doesn’t play for us anymore and I know some aren’t happy about that but I will always consider him one of our own thinking about it, when was the last time one of our own youth players made it to start for England? In a competitive game too! can’t have been for a long while?

Thanks for confirming!what a joke

Back to the question ( the thread has taken an Anderson turn) anyone know if this happens? We need any income we can generate for squad players as them lot won’t invest much

Yeh he came on for Anderson though- do rovers get the £2m fee?

Wharton makes his debut- do rovers get a payment as part of the deal?

Alebiosu is a top guy too- he stopped for a chat before the game when our paths crossed in Bristol!!