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Impossible to discuss anything beyond wildly hypothetical what the best option is as we have no clue when we'll be out of this. At best I think we'll be looking at starting the next season on time and that's only possible if we decide to can off the current one. If we keep the current one going then we'll do well if this doesn't impact the season schedules for a few years yet.

The Prem lot won't want to play any more regularly than they have and will chuck their toys out of their pram if they don't get a summer holiday so it's all a bit of a mess.

I worry that if the players return straight into competitive football after perhaps 3-4 months without playing any football, there is the potential to sustain a lot of injuries in a short space of time.

Davies injury is a long term one and THD seems to be constantly injured anyway, so we wouldn't have too much depth. The loanees give Garner options and mean we have a stronger bench.

Some nice sentiments here, but if I had some spare pennies, it would go to family & friends in need. The FA, EFL, PFA & PL, TV companies, should be the ones to address the issue.
I would suggest most of us have gone through financial difficulties at some point, and from my experience there has been little help from Banks, BS or the State for that matter. I’ve been lucky to have the ability to get my head down & work through it. There are a lot of low paid workers that will lose their jobs over this, in the next few months or have to take pay cuts. There will be some able to get their heads down & get through it too - but a lot won’t, some will be Rovers fans. That’s just financially, there is the health issue too.
However, to put things into perspective, we only have 4 home games left this season, if it costs us £50k per game, in lost income, then that’s £200k less income, than what was expected last week. Now I realise that some clubs are run so badly that £200k could well be the difference between survival or not, but in our case, to help through the shortfall, some sort of player wage sacrifice could be adopted to include the first team, coaches & manager. Along with that, we have an employed CEO, who despite not knowing much of what’s going on, I’m sure he draws a decent salary, so some reduction should happen there. I’m also sure that the authorities will allow some space on the FFP rules, so the owner could ‘top up’ if so inclined.
No apologies for the negativity, it’s how I feel, regarding the way the club from top to bottom ,is being run.

it worked out well thanks. The club used Tony Craigs 600th appearance to turn any negativity into positive energy well before the match even started. Players were transformed by playing for one of the squad leaders instead of the manager and it was back to business as usual without anyone dragging their heels and not playing near their potential. The fans could smell the gas and players like Alfie were stoking the atmosphere up even more before kick off. A fine effort from fans and players alike and a reminder of how the Rovers should be. Fingers crossed for a change of mindset from the lads, a better understanding of what motivates the players and another win or two to secure safety in the league and steady the ship.

Interesting to hear Garner in his pressie saying he's "not looking down the table"....

Comforting.... Not....