He said it's clear it needs a lot of investment and is in a bad state. I spoke to a former physio a couple of years agol and he told me similar and that we basically do just the very bare minimum to keep the Cat 1 status in respect of available facilities

Listening to Deeney on Talksport now after a private chat with Eustace this morning. Says he had been promised cash to spend if we kept us up and the long term future and backing from the board. Wouldn't extend Eustace's or other player's contracts especially those expiring this summer. Wanted to stay apparently and wanted assurances about the future direction of the club before committing either way, whichever way. Deeney saying the training ground and ground are in a mess after visiting both last summer. Says they are not reinvesting in the squad after getting big money in from Szmodics and Wharton and we are in a mess and Venky's should sell. Something is clearly running deeper here but its fantastic people are seemingly sitting up and taking notice. re the above is probably paraphrased a bit due to typing whilst it was ongoing.

I think it'll be Carsley. Wouldn't be my choice but I think Waggott will be dreaming his pants at "ex-England boss" taking over at Rovers. I can't myself see it working at all but if we can get even any kind of bounce then we will likely get in the playoffs. Id personally go all in on Allardyce until the summer

Quite interesting to see Lesley Fields Instagram story. She is usually the first person to wish a colleague well and says she will miss them...last night's was "We win together, we lose together, we stick together.." Maybe towing the party line but seems a peculiar one...

Spin spin spin

Has there been any post match words from Eustace? Did he give a little lap of ta-raa after that game?

Forshaw embarrassed himself for that 2nd. Watch it back and watch him drop off in to the middle instead of pressing the man. He was the last man he should be busting a bollock to chase him down no matter how far off he is

Terrible dive. He was in as well, the divvy

Bad call that

Not read much of this thread, but if Rovers have said they "expect an approach" from Derby then he is as good as gone. I imagine Eustace has told them that's what's going on so it'll be down to cash now. We might luck out on another appointment and we stay in the playoffs but honestly this is really fucking boring now isn't it. Can't keep any decent players, can't sign any and can't keep good managers happy. Nearing the end of even giving a shit now.

Is Chaddy actually Suhail?

I think its more a case of Travis "rallying the troops". Would be unwise of him to come out and be like "This group of players as it stands aren't good enough. We really need some help to reach the playoffs". When we are back to full strength its more than feasible to think we can go a good stretch of games again without defeat and back-to-back wins...just that it will likely be we won't ever have our preffered XI on the pitch all at once and even some of those need improvement. I genuinely think we need better reinforcements with pace and players prepared to be direct than an out-and-out goalscorer. Gueye is proving to be good foil now he's got up to speed but we do need some more direct wing play to chip-in with substantial goal numbers and assist....although of course both would be nice and indeed if we had SS this season we would be well embedded and an almost shoe-in for the playoffs (did I just massively contradict myself!? 😂)

Aasgard just scored fur the pie eaters

My Mrs is (very sadly) a staunch Liverpool fan so recently watched him in the cup vs. Southampton and I thought he did very well and even finished the game at right back and still did well. He still is, however, VERY lightweight. Needs a few good chippy dinners. Definitely not up to being in a midfield two due to this, although if we had a formation change and he was part of 3 with Travis and Tronstad he could very much dictate a game

One of my all time favorite games that one. Immediately after the absolutely battering by Fulham too IIRC