This is sad news.

I had hoped that Crooks would be a mainstay of the team for years to come.

However as things have turned out this season its prov=bably in the best interests of both parties.

I'm not sure what to make now of AP's comments last week that Crooks could still have a future at the club. I'm not sure that retaining his registration is what most people would have understood by that comment.

70k BMW aswell, the only 1 of its type in the city, Little show off.

Well, they lost another £900k across the 2 years to November 2013, despite big fees for Taylor and Green. That's before the repayments kick in for the North Stand, of course.

A couple of questions.

Multiple assertions from Rovers hierarchy that Burns would not be sold without a better player on board. Yet Hudgell says "We are now on the hunt for a new half back". Mutually exclusive those statements? Actually, maybe he means for Keating, who's already looking for an out. Unsurprising given the rich amount of scapegoating in operation, and unfair seeing that Hodgson was only allowed to pass to Burns.

It's £160k in fees inc Hodgson, but Hudgell now saying the fees will now allow spend up to full cap. Yet you say you were only £60k shy of the cap anyway. So where's the other £100k going?

Anyway I think the answer is the offer of £180k you have tabled for Danny Brough. Lunt and Brough, that's good going.