Must admit, your team wouldn't be my specialist subject on mastermind.

Well there must have been a great deal on at the bar from about 9.35pm, as most of the north stand were on the concourse if they were still at the ground

Really? Do you want to edit that post?

So by the sound of it its going to be eight in / eight out as usual. This is why Rovers will never be a big club - the likes of Wigan and Leeds have stability and continuity. Making so many changes yet again will accomplish nothing.
Right now I would rather Rovers be in the lower leagues again, SL is basically a waste of time unless you're one of the Big Three.

No way osay we are hear and I hope we stay, but I see certain posters who have not been on hear for a long time have raised their heads must have won some thing

I agree with you to a certain degree, so much squad change is not good, it's like we're scratching around to find the magic formula, throw so much away and you're bound to miss a gem.

Where I disagree is Rovers being in SL.

I'm a little bit older than you (and this is, and please do not take this as in any way patronising) if we had not got promotion in 2006 we would now be Batley or Hunslet or maybe even Bramley.

Rovers have been decent in the nineteen twenties, for a bit, the fifties, for a bit and the eighties for a bit.

This is the club we're born into.

If we hadn't been promoted in 2006 we would have gone to the wall again we through everything into getting promoted that year and there is no way I would want to return to them barren years of the 90s because they weren't good times

We also won the premiership final in 1991. If you cannot remember that one to, then you have no chance remembering the last major final you lot won.

Disagree mate: back-to-back titles, a Wembley win, beating Hull at Boothferry Park - what more do you want? Lol.

The only way to compete with the top sides is to get your youth systems right, both Hull clubs were miles behind, but are closing the gap.

Its alright having a decent youth system but its keeping them that seems the issue. Will be interesting to see how the current few coming through develop but i honestly see only one or two of them going on to do anything of note.

Can that be anything more than short-term competition though? I.e. because as soon as a young player gets noticed at either Hull club its not long before they're on their way. It's especially baffling with Hull because you guys can (for the most part) match the big clubs in many aspects, so if you're a Hull lad at FC and they're getting to finals you'd have no reason to leave. That's why Hull need a top coach fast to get them to where they need to be so that young players don't feel a need to join Leeds or Wigan.
With Rovers I just don't know how the club can ever get to a level it needs where young players want to stay, eg top four and with 10,000 every game.

That's a pretty pessimistic view of things things can change if you get a group of hungry skilful players who want to stay together as a team regardless of financial gain aka Leeds and win trophys . sin field alluded to this when he said money offers is not the issue. Of course the last two seasons we have had a high turnover of players which does not help the cause nor does swapping out coaches.

And have a Davy or a Moran or a McManus. Or maybe a Koucash, eventually.

Don't get me wrong, what Hudgell and Crossland do for us is fantastic and i'd see this as Silver-age for Rovers. That people are even down in the mouth that we struggle to compete with Leeds and Wigan is testament to how far they've brought Rovers, IMO.

Pearson clearly wants the best for Hull too. But he's not just in it for the glory, and he's up against some well structured and well resourced opposition.

It isn't easy. Unless you've got a a fair few million you don't mind not seeing again and a fair wind behind you.