Kelvin Wilkins

IT’s going to be a huge challenge this season with most clubs improving on their squads, while we’ve had to compromise ours.

However, much has been spoken about the togetherness of the players, and that is more important than ever.

It isn’t as though we are without talent still – Ben Marshall and Craig Conway will be particularly integral to our success.

With a more stable back four we have a chance of edging close to the play-offs, although I think as fans we have to be realistic.

 

Paul Yates

OH dear, here we go again, hoping for the impossible!

Unfortunately this will be the season when the pigeons really do come home to roost. Historical own goals and the mismanagement of our strikers last season will mean an uphill struggle for everyone connected with the club.

There will be no dreams of the play-offs but the nightmare spectre of League One.

I won’t be happy but I will be relieved if we finish outside the relegation places.

 

Simon Smith

TO predict what will happen by May is possibly beyond the gods. To guess who will be in a Rovers shirt come Saturday is hard enough.

What’s in Rovers’ favour is that at least 15 other clubs are similarly much of a muchness. As things stand, to finish atop the four-club mini league of us, Bolton, Preston and the massively weakened Burnley is the aim, and should things look brighter by 2016 then, who knows?

A week can be a very long time in football. Eight months feels akin to a lifetime and will see many twists in the tale.