The Bristol Rovers Courier
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$8.6M settles it between the clubs for Anis Mehmeti
Ipswich Town have accepted the money. What Bristol Rovers do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Dayann Methalie 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alfred Gomis keeps Bristol Rovers in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Brad Young
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brad Young will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bristol Rovers the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Bristol Rovers
Dayann Methalie and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Bristol Rovers
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 unbeaten for Bristol Rovers
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bristol Rovers did not have in the autumn.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run at home goes on for Bristol Rovers
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ryan Wintle 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Bristol Rovers rebuffed over Andrea Favilli
- Match Bristol Rovers find a way past Stockport County
- Market Bristol Rovers promote Jonathan Hunter from within