Dont work yourself up, there is no chance of him coming here. Stuck with Mowbray.

No reasons will be given aside from superfan nonsense, nothing constructive. The fact that the post is specifically in a transfer thread within a summer that we spent much of it under an unnecessary embargo and have yet to make a signing suggests to me that the posts are provocative and with the intention to wind up.

So basically you are coming onto a messageboard where people discuss different things, and your response to constructive criticisms eg an unavoidable transfer embargo, a paper thin squad, regression in the league table, an out of his depth manager etc is totally unconstructive, to merely "stop being depressing." The superfan rhetoric is nonsensical, we all support the club hence why many are repulsed by having owners who dont give a shit, a CEO who hasnt got any grasp over the Rovers fanbase and an incompetent manager. Fair enough if you want to take the attitude of feeling that supporting the club removes any critical faculty. But I suspect that a messageboard whereby people talk about transfers, tactics, results, management, pricing, ownership etc, that discussion may go a bit beyond "support your club." We all do, we show it in different ways and you dont support the club or care about the club any more or any less than anyone else on here. Equally, if your standards are low enough to consider not being like Bolton to be a benchmark, fair play but appreciate that others may not share such low standards. Whether it needs to put us in an embargo or not, they are the rules. Not only did we not submit them within 9 months, which a few other clubs also did and also seemingly went under embargo. But unlike them, even though we knew that we couldnt register players until the accounts were submitted, we still waited until the very last second! Missing out on targets in the process. And to rub salt into the wounds, they didnt even have the decency to explain and be transparent. Your continued desire to defend actions that are to the detriment of our football club is crazy.

Our embargo dragged on because we left it until the very last moment of that 3 month extension. Cardiff have done all of their business now, Luton have signed a number of players and Coventry have made signings too. Even when in the embargo, it seemingly didnt provoke any urgency. You seem to be desperate (perhaps mischeviously) to make out that people are just moaning without reason simply because of where we are in the league system. You dont offer any reasons to be optimistic or take on the point that we are not being run anything like efficiently or effectively all stemming from negligence from our owners.

Its nothing to do with being depressing or optimistic, positive or negative or supporting through thick and thin. People are constantly criticising because it is on a messageboard and people praise or criticise when appropriate. Its impossible to put a positive spin for example of being in an unavoidable embargo due to negligence, to having such a thin squad or even keeping a manager who is underperforming and not being judged on results. The issue is not to do with money or being wherever we are in the footballing pyramid. There is no desire from our owners to make the club the best it can be. The losses are massively inflated due to incompetence, on the pitch the product is poor yes but also the marketing and ticketing is piss poor, as is the management of playing assets, other clubs buy low, sell high, replace at a fraction of the cost and remain competitive, we dont. What is there at the moment to be optimistic about, constructively?

It does, it is the disinterest and negligence of the owners that has led to us being in an unnecessary embargo and not signing any players, for example. Investing 20 million pounds per season is a little misleading too.

If he or any of them cared, they would strive to get the correct expertise in place, but they dont care. Hence us being a dysfunctional mess.

Those are shockingly low sales, depressingly so, and a clear display of quite how bad a job that the owners are doing of running the club.

You have tried to justify your bizarre comment that we aren't a dysfunctional mess without being able to deny any of the points outlined. Do you think Venkys are suddenly going to change and start taking enough of an interest to put in a business plan? No, so needlessly pissing money entails a dysfunctional mess. If your standard is merely being not as chaotic as that season with Kean, Berg and Appleton, then your standards are lower than a snakes belly.

Watford last season were promoted in their only season below the Premier League since 14/15. I wish that we were so dysfunctional.

Davenport looked busy at times and a little hectic and ill disciplined at others during his fleeting appearances, his Rovers career has never got going mainly due to injuries. I don't think that we can hang our hat on him but hopefully he can have a bit more influence all the same. Johnson has had some really good games for us, far better than Davenport has had but they are few and far between and he should have been let go at the end of the season. We need at least 2 new midfielders. I don't see who else would have signed them, Mowbray said that he chose Brereton off the back of a game we played against Forest in our relegation season. I think it was at the time arse covering for those trying to defend the signing.

I emailed before and they have just replied. You will not need to show any proof at the turnstiles so it is a case of strongly advising a test rather than demanding evidence. Doing a lateral flow from home will be sufficient.

Really the club should have provided far more clarity. Can you do a lateral flow test at home and register the result, or does it have to be a specific one? Is it even enforceable or just recommended to do a test? So many unanswered questions. Having to go to a test centre for example would be a right ball ache and put a lot of people off. Doing tests at home would be much easier. Easier said than done, the virus is so rife at the moment and we have seen with cancellations that there will be plenty of infections.

Its about quality over quantity, we are lacking both at the moment, especially with the risk of unavailability due to covid. Still no evidence that he is up to it as of yet. Hopefully he can break through this season but a big if at the moment.

Crooks seems to be more of a goalscoring midfielder and I think that Warnock has said that he wants a lot of signings having learnt his lesson from his squad becoming too stretched for his liking last season. Boro are also signing an Argentinian midfielder who is going to the Olympics first but have lost Savile to MIllwall so maybe they will sign Mpanzu aswell. Oh for a manager who appreciates the need for a good squad.

Elliott is quite clearly better than Dolan so as an individual choice, I would always side with the better player. Dolan got plenty of game time in his first season in professional football. Plenty of problems last season, none of which included signing Elliott who set up and scored plenty of goals and we will be worse off without.

I am double vaccinated and have the app which provides the certificate, but there is nothing on the very vague guidelines given on the club website to suggest that this will be acceptable. We have lateral flow tests at home which shows the results but actually on the test rather than via message, I am not sure if this would be sufficient. Again, the club website is unclear. Having to go a day or 2 before every game to the test centre to do it that way would be an unnecessary logistical nightmare, especially for someone who cannot drive so I hope that common sense prevails and that I do not need to do that. I suspect that games will be regularly postponed due to positive tests as mentioned previously.

Can't say that I have seen enough of Ruddock Mpanzu to hold a strong opinion either way, but seems like Boro are the front runners anyway. I suspect that the question was more around your bizarre insistence that no matter how good, that you would never consider a manager with links to Burnley, yet with players you don't seem to be as bothered. Correct on Neil, Mercer again making up nonsense.

Main links in the last few days are that we have offered former Luton midfielder Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu a deal according to the LT but he seems to be going to Boro most likely, we have along with half the league been linked with Tommy Doyle on loan, a kid from City with only one senior league appearance, and yesterday Watford were linked by Nixon of wanting Armstrong and offering Andre Gray in return, which seems unlikely due to wage demands.

Of course you are.

If they are better players than what we already have, then they are successful loans. As I touched on, there is loads of other things wrong with our squad, but that doesn't make Elliott and Harwood-Bellis anything other than successful loans. If we had from the start of the season taken the attitude that we may as well just play young players that we own as we wont go up anyway, with a team full of kids (inferior ones to Elliott) we would have likely gone down.

Middlesbrough have Rotherham midfielder Matt Crooks in for a medical today, although I suspect that there is a chance that Lewis Wing will be going in the opposite direction, Warnock mentioned a swap the other day and he was at Rotherham last season: https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/exclusive-middlesbrough-closing-in-on-signing-27-year-old-medical-booked/ They are also close to finalising a deal for Argentinian midfielder Payero who is currently at the Olympics. Wonder where this leaves any deal for Ruddock Mpanzu.

But they are obviously not as good as Harvey Elliott. Whilst I stop short at fawning over him as many did, he was undoubtedly a successful loan signing. The aim is to create as good a team as possible, if a couple of those players are loanees then so be it. We would have finished lower without Elliott. Obviously, there are so many things that we did get wrong, wrong manager, many other poor signings, tactics, contracts, you name it. But if loanees we can attract are better than what we have already, we should sign them.

The information is so vague regarding the testing for the Leeds game. Do we need to show proof of a negative test, is it enforceable, is being double vaccinated adequate? I don't think that it is viable to need to go and do a test at a testing site before every game. Also, Blackpool and Bolton have had games called off. There I suspect will be so many cancelations in the near future.

What is the evidence for the individual? Just because he is from City doesnt make him directly comparable to the other 2. He may be good, he may be not, at senior level there is no evidence so it is a stab in the dark.