The Tranmere Rovers Gazette
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Sam Taylor out for 64 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tranmere Rovers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Harry Howell, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.88
A mark of 7.88 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tranmere Rovers
Luke McGee was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Charlie Whitaker
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Tranmere Rovers supporters have found a favourite in Harry Howell
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Harry Howell 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Tranmere Rovers find a way past Barnet
Barnet made Tranmere Rovers work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lewis Warrington 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Owen Foster asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market7 Sep 2026
Tranmere Rovers and James Plant are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Luke Thomas
- Market Tranmere Rovers put Jason Lowe up for sale
- Market Window shut, Patrick Brough still here