Mark Atherton

Swapping footballs for beach balls during yesterday's down time ⚽️🏖️ #Rovers 🔵⚪️

📺 Highlights: #Rovers 1-0 Elche 🔵⚪️ rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july…

It was a tough and exciting battle. Wishing you the best of luck for this new season 🤝💚 See you out there! 🌹 @Rovers #PreseasonLALIGA

🗣️ "𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩!" Balazs Toth spoke to RoversTV after last night's 1-0 win against Elche. #ROVvELC | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

🎤 @DomHyam_95 mic'd up on day 4 of our training camp in Spain. Watch in full on YouTube 👇 #Rovers 🔵⚪️

Pape just loves it! 😆 @makhtar96738 | #ROVvELC | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

⏱️ Full-time: 🌹 #Rovers 1-0 #ElcheCF 🇪🇸 Makhtar Gueye's strike is the difference against our La Liga opponents, maintaining our 100% pre-season record 🙌 #ROVvELC 🔵⚪️

🔢 The team news is in... 🌹 Scott Wharton returns to the starting XI. #ROVvELC | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

Thank you and good luck, Tyrhys Dolan 💙 The attacker, who joined the club in 2020, has today completed a move to La Liga side Espanyol. #Rovers 🔵⚪️

𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸! 🤣 Armed with stickers of his big smiley face, we challenged @makhtar96738 to sneakily get them onto his teammates without them noticing 👀 #Rovers 🔵⚪️

Tyrhys Dolan is on his way to Espanyol, by all accounts. A blow to #Rovers, who will get far less in compensation. A look at the numbers they'll receive and background on their efforts to keep him. lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25340506…

🎾 The best bits of the #Rovers player and staff #Padel tournament during yesterday’s down time. 🔵⚪️

🗣 Cantwell on his relationship with Ohashi. "Yuki's an intelligent striker. He makes good runs & I think that's something I probably didn't do enough of last season. We probably didn't have the connection & we need to build that so I can feed him & feed Pape." #BRFC | #Rovers

🎥 𝗥𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 - Gym session in Spain 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube 👇 #Rovers 🔵⚪️

🐥 Someone got a birdie! 🤣🏌️‍♂️ @CallumBrittain1 | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

🌹 Two of our brightest youngsters, Kristi Montgomery and Igor Tyjon on the Spain training camp so far - from advice and encouragement to pranks and banter with the senior boys! Watch the full catch up on YouTube 👇 #Rovers 🔵⚪️

🥅 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗺 An alternative angle of all five of our goals last night. #ROVvQAT | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

❓ With a big clue in today’s opponents, we tested the lads before breakfast with a bit of football trivia: 🌍 Where was the last men’s World Cup held? #RoversAbroad | #Rovers 🔵⚪️

🗣️ "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙗 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙪𝙨" 🇸🇱 @augustuskargbo on scoring his first in #Rovers colours and meeting the fans afterwards. Swipe 👉 for a @makhtar96738 gatecrash! 🤣 🔵⚪️

Montgomery wins it back on halfway and passes forward to Gueye, who controls with an excellent touch before racing to the byline and sends it across the six-yard box for Kargbo to tap home from point-blank range! #ROVvQAT | #Rovers 🔵⚪️