StHelensRover

My gut instinct is that they will not be here in 5 years time. Not sure how that is going to happen. I imagine we will be in the lower reaches of League One if they are still here at that point, if they don't exit fairly soon. I think we may scrape staying up this season but if they stay I think we'll go down next year based on their current operating model. I think being relegated again to League One would be the beginning of the end. The club will take many years to recover if it is relegated again.

Look forward to him getting his 1st goal for the club against Borehamwood in the National League as he goes into fifth year of his current deal.

I'm in disbelief at how shite that was. To top it all off, hundreds of our fans were clapping and waving at our gormless players and manager at full-time like it was a hard earned point.

Crazy to think that Bannan would probably get into our team

They've not won a home game, I think they might have only won one game altogether. They're as bad as the table suggests, even without the large deductions.

Owls started dead nervous and just sat back and let us have the ball. They eventually realised we are nothing to be scared of and completely toothless so they came and had a go, looking more likely to score. Rubbish. I don't know how we're going to fashion a goal but we've got to. Anything less than a win is unacceptable.

Fingers crossed he's doing something he should have done years ago, making it clear that these owners need an exit strategy because this situation will never be reconciled. I'm in fantasy land, he's probably telling them what a great season we're having and how much money he's saving them.

Only a couple of more days now til I hopefully see Gueye and Tavares joining Bamber Bridge for an undisclosed fee. As the heat's on those at Ewood with talk of the boycott, I'm very excited to see which stars we bring in from the 3rd Divisions of Western Europe 🙏🤞

I'm still not really a fan. I won't be won over with some decent away performances as the home form in 2025 has been appalling and unacceptable. Last season he inherited a decent team in 5th and guided them to 7th from a very promising position. We have done some spectacular collapses under the Venky regime, but I think this was the worst one. I think even I might have got us into the playoffs if I had taken over when he did, given the fixtures we had in that run in. Last season the playoffs were an open net when he took the job and he put it in row Z, rubbish. This summer and this season some have felt sorry for him with how downgraded the squad has been, but I don't feel sorry for him because he took the job when there is tons of evidence in the public domain about how this football club operates, an ambition-free basket case. People defending him have acted like he's some naive underdog who has had the rug pulled from under him when in reality no one would take the job without understanding how the club will be run. If they then find out "the project has changed", they move on, see last two managers. This guy has barely raised an eyebrow and fairly recently didn't seem to want to be drawn on questions about whether this season's team is better than last season's. I did want him sacked at one point but I don't really care anymore he's only a small part of a much bigger issue and I don't want him sacked to appease some portions of the fan base when the blame is at the top.

Although initially on sale to ST holders, I reckon a lot of the boxed ones will eventually go to non-rovers fans. Like rare trading cards, there are lots of people out there who will collect 'rare' football shirts and will like owning one to add to their large collection. I've no issue with that, as I can't see 500 Rovers fans paying £200 for a boxed shirt when we only sold 8000 season tickets

Me, every day since about 2013.

£80 for a polo shirt with a Macron logo stamped on it, £200 for it in a 'special box' presumably signed by Balaji Rao personally or something.

It would have been a big ask, because it's an evening match and the tickets are £30, but the club should have tried to sell out the Leppings Lane end for this. It currently only holds about 4,000. It looks like we've sold about 3/4 of the upper tier, based on what I could see was for sale when I bought my tickets. This is a must win match, during the festive period, against a team that are already relegated with nothing to play for. Our away form is also much better than our home form. We shifted 5,500 tickets for the game against PNE which was on telly and an evening game, we should have shown some ambition and really tried to drum up demand for this game. Maybe even offered a few free coaches. We tend to chuck games at home when there's a big home crowd, but big noisy away followings seem to have a positive impact. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.

Just seen the notice from the club that they're going to work with Sheffield Wednesday to get tickets back on sale. Why didn't they work with Sheffield Wednesday from the start to ensure availability of tickets for a match during the busiest week in the entire football calendar. Why are we less organised and well run than our opponents who are in f***ing administration? To the those talking about annual leave for club staff. Give it a rest. If you go to work in an industry like professional football, it's a given that the Xmas/NY week is the busiest of the year - every club playing Boxing Day, NYD and usually inbetween, you're going to accept that you'll probably be working while others are off. It's only like working in hospitality, you're most busy when most other people are off. On the game itself, it's a must win, nothing less will do, otherwise the point gained and hard work at Middlesbrough counts for far less.