Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 5:52 am  

number 6 wrote:

apart from Salford, it looks like all the other 11 sl clubs are financially stable and don't need to sell players unless a club offers stupid money, going to be difficult to recruit british born players if clubs dont need to sell anymore.

When have clubs ever really sold players in the modern era anyways? It’s quite rare, I know Salford sold Ackers and Croft last year but that was again because of financial difficulties. You only get one high profile sale of a player every few seasons at best. 20 odd years ago maybe was more common when the Sky money was first introduced, the likes of Bradford and Saints buying Vaikona and Sculthorpe etc but hardly seems to happen nowadays.

We bought Sneyd for a substantial fee, again that was rare though and was 10 years ago, and I’m sure at the time Salford were throwing money about themselves under Koukash they just didn’t rate him rather then having to sell him.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:34 am  

Theeaststander1 wrote:

dont disagree, they arent ready yet, but with the limited playing rules and also the toll summer games/cc cups games take they are perfect covers

both young players with plenty of scope to push on

And now Ruan, honestly seems Rovers have no interest in youth development or Peters isn't bothered, wants to gamble on short term success.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:42 am  

Dave K. wrote:

And now Ruan, honestly seems Rovers have no interest in youth development or Peters isn't bothered, wants to gamble on short term success.

Kick in the teeth for Tennison and Fishwick thought they were next off the rovers conveyor belt

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:43 am  

Yippee try yay wrote:

Kick in the teeth for Tennison and Fishwick thought they were next off the rovers conveyor belt

I'd make an offer for Tennison, he'd get a few games next year here.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:46 am  

Dave K. wrote:

And now Ruan, honestly seems Rovers have no interest in youth development or Peters isn't bothered, wants to gamble on short term success.

I know right, imagine picking up young, cheap British players that could turn out to be absolute gems in the game at the detriment of playing academy players who obviously just are not ready or good enough? bonkers!

It seems to get you all very wound up on here about our youth set up, lets see how you go in a couple of years when you can actually afford decent players and how many youth come through for you, you have a history of bigging up young players to be future superstars and many of them simply fall from grace very early.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:00 am  

Funk-Doc wrote:

I know right, imagine picking up young, cheap British players that could turn out to be absolute gems in the game at the detriment of playing academy players who obviously just are not ready or good enough? bonkers!

It seems to get you all very wound up on here about our youth set up, lets see how you go in a couple of years when you can actually afford decent players and how many youth come through for you, you have a history of bigging up young players to be future superstars and many of them simply fall from grace very early.

Whose wound up, it sounds like you, you early post on here, but are straight in this post.

We could have easily signed Ruan and Kershaw, but we'd rather play Staveley and Martin, I'd bet these two both go on to be better players than those two.

Kershaw will be 26 next season, thats hardly young and I'd doubt he will be that cheap.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:02 am  

I do agree we have talked up our academy in the past, and these players play at international level amd our youth sides are regularly top 4, but we have been poor developing them into SL players, something I think the club knew and it's not surprising when you look at the staff we have employed the last few years.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:06 am  

Funk-Doc wrote:

I know right, imagine picking up young, cheap British players that could turn out to be absolute gems in the game at the detriment of playing academy players who obviously just are not ready or good enough? bonkers!

It seems to get you all very wound up on here about our youth set up, lets see how you go in a couple of years when you can actually afford decent players and how many youth come through for you, you have a history of bigging up young players to be future superstars and many of them simply fall from grace very early.

We’re not talking about gems though. We’re talking about Richardson, Kershaw and the God awful Ruan.

Re: Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date : Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:09 am  

Funk-Doc wrote:

I know right, imagine picking up young, cheap British players that could turn out to be absolute gems in the game at the detriment of playing academy players who obviously just are not ready or good enough? bonkers!

It seems to get you all very wound up on here about our youth set up, lets see how you go in a couple of years when you can actually afford decent players and how many youth come through for you, you have a history of bigging up young players to be future superstars and many of them simply fall from grace very early.

If you look at it the other way though we deemed the likes of Lewis, Adbull, Litten and Hadley ‘not good enough’ when we had a semi decent side, to our detriment long term. FWIW I’m not sure Rovers will ever have to produce loads of players, McNichol has deep enough pockets but your current side only has a small window to win something, you’ll have a big rebuild at some point soon you’ll have to get right. We know that from experience.