Icki to Derby? NOOOOOOO!

[Lolmorgan]

If the lad goes to Derby Carnt blame him , good luck. He will get a substantial pay rise. We have to wait and see what players come in but we Carnt afford to lose our better players.

And only 7 weeks before the new season starts we have got to start replacing them & with our track record it could be after the season starts.

[Ronners]

Exactly.....and Ladapo should be brought into that equation as well.What he did was poor in my opinion,but it worked.It was all about agitating the club enough to not trigger the 1 year extension. It's highly likely that Smith is deciding on which club to join on a list of which Rotherham is not on.

With you mentioning Ladapo Jimmy, and apologies if this has already been posted and I've missed it, but I've just seen this decent parting shot at our club from him when he joined Ipswich.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/footbal...wich-town/amp/

[Nardendee]

If Ikkie moves there it will be an own goal.

[Ronners]

If Ikkie moves there it will be an own goal.

He's scored one or two of those in his time here 😆

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

And only 7 weeks before the new season starts we have got to start replacing them & with our track record it could be after the season starts.

Correct, it's not the losing of players, good luck to them, it's all about attracting replacements of a decent standard

[millersrus]

Hard to replace icky. For me one of the better performers whilst we struggled after Christmas.

[mellowmiller]

This is why TS needs to share the clubs ownership with somebody worth a bit of cash then eventually selling up outright when he knows the new investor and can trust him . We cannot keep messing around with small contracts in this division up and own every season is ****ing awful. We lose Smudge to the PIGS and Icky to Derby then it is embarrassing. Imagine the twitter feeds now Rotherham lose players to teams in a lower division

Who cares what the twitter tw*ts write?
The reality is we will be playing in the Championship next season and, regardless of their arrogance, those two clubs won't 🙂

[MillersTime]

I understand it is about money to a large degree but fighting hard all season to get promoted and then dropping when you don't have to feels weird to me. Money is a huge factor but what about furthering yourself? Idk.

Easy to say when I'm not in that situation but I can't imagine battling to go up and then choosing to go back down again.

[Nardendee]

Bizarre MT ….if true of course.

[CAMiller]

I understand it is about money to a large degree but fighting hard all season to get promoted and then dropping when you don't have to feels weird to me. Money is a huge factor but what about furthering yourself? Idk.

Easy to say when I'm not in that situation but I can't imagine battling to go up and then choosing to go back down again.

I get your point but maybe he foresees yet another season of battling to survive in the Championship with RUFC (the 4th time with us?) less of an attraction to possibly a promotion chasing season with DCFC. Not something we'd like to think about but we could be swapping positions again in 12 months and if that's the case and DCFC get their house in order there may be a push for the promised land. Add on top of that say a 3y contract at even a moderate 2K/week extra then it starts to maybe make sense?