Is it just me being impatient?

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It may be co-incidence, but the bookies on Oddschecker have dropped us from 11th to 14th in League One. Clearly the bookies are lowering their expectations of what Rovers will achieve. Personally, I think Marquis's procrastination at signing up doesn't help and is distracting DF. Lack of activity/failure to make more quality signings is cause for concern. Maybe we have lost out on some preferred signings, but still need a plan B executing. I didn't know both teams share the cost of loan players, and I have no idea what players get paid as it is not public information, but I can do the sums to know we need more players of a high quality to compete comfortably and we seem to be currently losing out.

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I said on the 9th that “That's a shortfall of 4 or 5 players. I see a lot of activity in the transfer market but not much for Rovers”. Now Kiwomya has an ankle injury and Steven Taylor has slipped away. It should be obvious that we need a stronger team for league one than we had in league two where we came in third after a pathetic end of season performance. I see little to fill me with confidence so far with a week to go to the start of the season.

I don’t know if issues around Dick Watson has affected this year’s budget. It’s sad to lose such a great supporter and few will disagree that Dick did a massive amount for the stability of the club. My condolences to Dick’s family. But I am now convinced the budget is a major issue this year as Ferguson has done so little and left it all too late now.