Ryan Howley

Defensive Midfielder - Bristol Rovers
4 Jan 2027
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13 Edition

The Bristol Rovers Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match24 Oct 2026

No mercy from Bristol Rovers

Salford City will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bristol Rovers were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Mees Rijks takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match24 Oct 2026

Bristol Rovers make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bristol Rovers have 5 straight wins of it.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from Joshua Duffus at 21 — 7.83

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joshua Duffus did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Mees Rijks in the eights

A performance of 9.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Harry McKirdy falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces26 Oct 2026

Bristol Rovers supporters have found a favourite in Mees Rijks

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mees Rijks has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Isaac Hutchinson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Ryan Howley signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ryan Howley commits to Bristol Rovers for another 4 years.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Bristol Rovers Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Ajay Matthews says Bristol Rovers went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Ryan Howley at Bristol Rovers

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ryan Howley is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Bristol Rovers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joshua Duffus is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Bristol Rovers

Dru Yearwood and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Gino Parodi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gino Parodi and Bristol Rovers agree another 3 years.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

A promise honoured for Joshua Duffus

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bristol Rovers told Joshua Duffus something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market12 Oct 2026

Still no ink between Bristol Rovers and Haji Mnoga

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bristol Rovers, another week without a signature from Haji Mnoga.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Promise Omochere has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bristol Rovers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market12 Oct 2026

Bristol Rovers pick up Gino Parodi for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Gino Parodi arrives at Bristol Rovers with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief