Your top six.

[Usher wide.]

Time to ‘test’ your knowledge, your mettle, your heart over your head.

10 points for correctly guessing I mean predicting a teams final placing.

5 points for correctly predicting a team in the top six.

The poster(s) who gain most points get a pat on the back & pay £10 to the Rovers academy, (you’re on trust).

Here’s mine.

Luton
Cardiff
Bolton
Blackpool
Huddersfield
Rovers

Best of luck.

[bpoolrover]

1.blackpool2. Luton 3. Cardiff 4.bolton 5. Huddesfield 6. Orient

[graingrover]

Rovers , Cardiff , Plymouth , Luton, Blackpool , Bolton .

[Spilsby Red]

Rovers
Orient
Luton
Bradford
Huddersfield
Blackpool

Bottom 4

Wycombe
Peterborough
Port Vale
Lincoln

[Barmby Rover]

Luton, Cardiff, Doncaster, Orient, Bolton, Huddersfield.

[Bessie Red]

Blackpool
Luton
Huddersfield
Bolton
Stockport
Plymouth

[Reg of the Rovers]

Wigan
Luton
Huddersfield
Cardiff
Stockport
Plymouth

[Pintolager]

Luton
Stockport
Cardiff
Bolton
Plymouth
Huddersfield

[keith79]

Rovers top 6 all day long

[jmt23]

What has changed within the club?

Last season Grant was bullish from the off "we will win the league" at the end of the season he was saying "we will give league 1 a good go" which I thought ok, we are aiming mid table here. Today in his YouTube interview, he wants to win the league and wants the lads to believe.

He has a calm confidence we will be up there!   

Fingers crossed - may be time to stick a tenner on

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.

[scawsby steve]

Bolton
Cardiff
Luton
Reading
Wigan
Rovers

[karldew]

Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.

We just need a “I think we can still catch Luton” coming out his mouth in the January meet the owners meeting haha

[Reg of the Rovers]

Yes, he's gone and said it now! Nowt like raising expectations although I suspect as fans, we'll remain a little less confident. Nothing wrong with aiming for the stars but, just getting into the play offs would be yet another big step forward. As a ball hasn't been kicked in anger yet, it'll be a while before we get over excited.

We just need a “I think we can still catch Luton” coming out his mouth in the January meet the owners meeting haha

[Upton Rover]

Cardiff
Huddersfield
Reading
Bolton
Luton
Doncaster

[Nudga]

1st Rovers
2nd
To
23rd not arsed
24th Rotherham

[Rovers91]

Plymouth
Luton
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Cardiff
Stockport

I think we will surprise a few but not play offs.

[richtherover]

Reading
Plymouth
Cardiff
Luton
Bolton
Stockport

Down

Mansfield
Northampton
Stevenage
Wimbledon

I think we'll have a good season and surprise a few but if I tip Rovers it's usually the kiss of death.

[colincramb]

Would love to be wrong, but with the squad as it is at the current time I just can’t see us troubling the top 10. Still think we are a striker short of the quality needed (Ironside was a passenger last season, Billy is nearly 40) and I’d still be concerned about the midfield. We don’t know how the new CB’s will go and barring JM it’s a completely new area of the team.

[tommy toes]

Stockport
Cardiff
Bolton
Rovers
Luton
Plymouth

[RoseTInteD]

Luton
Plymouth
Cardiff
Stockport
Bolton
Huddersfield

[Goldthorperover]

Stockport
Relegated championship team
Relegated championship team
Hudds/Bolton
Hudds/Bolton
Relegated championship team
Rovers in 7th

[Avsuptem]

Luton
DRFC
Blackpool
Lincoln
Plymouth
Huddersfield

Relegated
Port Vale
Exeter
Burton
Northampton

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Reading, Stockport, Huddersfield, Bolton, Wigan, Rovers.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Would love to believe we could be up there for top 6 but at present do we really have the goals to get close. Couple of very good loan players in that area of the pitch needed imo

[dknward2]

Personally I think we will score more goals from all over the pitch i.e defenders and midfielders scoring more than they have in recent years.

Expecting Billy to get his 10 and same with moly but expecting between 5 and 10 for the rest. Think we will score more from set plays too

[Branton Rover]

1) Reading
2) Luton
3) Wycombe
4) Leyton Orient
5) Huddersfield
6) Blackpool

I would’ve have gone with ‘uddersfield as certainties for promotion but Ive factored in their new manager/coach who is Lee Grant a rookie boss and also an ex goalkeeper. I can’t think of any ex keeper who’ve been good managers - perhaps Dino Zoff but he’s the exception.

[Bessie Red]

1) Reading
2) Luton
3) Wycombe
4) Leyton Orient
5) Huddersfield
6) Blackpool

I would’ve have gone with ‘uddersfield as certainties for promotion but Ive factored in their new manager/coach who is Lee Grant a rookie boss and also an ex goalkeeper. I can’t think of any ex keeper who’ve been good managers - perhaps Dino Zoff but he’s the exception.

Mike Walker did okay with Norwich City, but then failed with Everton

[Chris Black come back]

Nuno Espírito Santo.

[ForsolongaRover]

Predicting a top 6 seems to me akin to expressing a fairly devout faith in the cause rather than making a truly reasoned judgment

If the Rovers team were unchanged from 2024/25 we could at least make some estimation of their likely performance for this coming season. As it is, anyone expecting them to get into the top 6 must be expecting them to be stronger, but without seeing the new team playing.

If people had studied League 1 last season they would have some knowledge of how 17 of the teams competed against each other plus knowledge of the 3 other League 2 promotees.

It would also be necessary to make a judgment of the variation in strength of those 20 teams.

No doubt McCann is better informed than most of us, but his optimism is surely aimed principally at the encouragement of his players.

I’d say that the champions of the league below ought to be capable of a half-way finish in the league above, but that only a team that had finished very comfortably ahead of second place would be an obvious serious contender for a top 6.