Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl

No we haven't. Shame - as out of the players linked up top, he looks a good profile for what we want.

I was there. The handball was on or around the half way line mid way through the game. It was game over after that and we got battered. Dumb football. Like that Kevin Ball “ tackle “ on Dunny. Brain dead. Whatever chance the dingles had of getting something out of the game went with him.

Have we still got a ESC space left? Afimico Pululu is a name that keeps cropping up. Club is looking to sell as he won’t sign a new deal - wouldn’t cost 5 million either 😆

Our total lack of structure and inability to press or screen played a massive role in them looking like this in that game. It was VI’s first game and the first 45 minutes was embarrassing, we basically let Duffy walk the ball through the middle of the pitch half the time

Before the Sheffield Utd game in May…

Unlikely as VI has already stated he isn't a fan of loans especially if it'd going to hamper development of our own youth. A striker and a centre half would make sense though if there's anyone decent knocking about.

Will be interesting to see if we get any premier league kids on loan. When was the last season we weren’t starting and relying on them in the first XI

Yuki has song competition now hehe Heyyyyyy hey Mori ooh ahh!!!!! I wanna knowwwwwww if you'll score 14 goals and assist another 14 this seasonnnnnnnnn!!!

Random musings. We can blow Wodz out of the water in transfer dealings even under Pasha restrictions if we want to. Buckingham is the Saudi Manager, Buckley is that rarely, a Rovers player under contract, so some sort of transfer fee is possible. Henriksson collected yellow cards at his former club for fun with the odd red for a bit of variety .It worried me how he disappeared from the game at WBA after the ref had a word about his persistent fouling. Seems a bit uncoordinated physically from the evidence to date. I wouldn't bet against us screwing outgoings as badly as incomings with Buckley, Travis, Pears and Leonard Rovers players this time next week. I find it amusing to see the same people rightly decrying January slumps and extremely weak Rovers benches currently saying we have too many CMs etc. I like the idea we potentially have extreme competition for places.

International break coming up if he can get a training ground knock to avoid having to go to Japan. My wife is over there currently and it's a 16 hour flight avoiding conflict zones..

Yuki I still in Hull arguing with whoever operates their scoreboard

Chaddys consistent inconsistency aside, I do agree its too early to say whether VI will be a downgrade on Eustace. Eustace maybe has a few more runs on the board, but its not like VI has been a perennial failure and there's something to be said for having a manager who can function in a strange, chaotic environment. Eustace clearly couldn't and while you can argue our managers shouldn't have to, at this point its as useful as yelling at a wall. If VI is able to better manage the cretins higher up then well probably see benefits flow through to the pitch.

Did you see his goal last week? Just got named to Scotland squad.

I haven't seen him play, and numbers aren't everything, but this made me curious about this Bowie you two mention. 22 years old with 8 goals in 20 SPL games. Those are only really David Goodwillie numbers when he signed for us at 22, having scored 17 in 38 the season before. Minutely worse actually. Is he really all that?

Are you Hibs and Rovers mate? I thought it was just me that was cursed with that. Know loads of Scottish Rovers fans, had a strong Scottish contingent through the years. Bowie is some player, btw.

I didn't think he touched it myself. I was looking for it, my first thiught after we score sometimes is how is the ref gonna dis allow it. Perhaps I just missed it

I saw something earlier that suggested he is keen to try his hand in England.

Perhaps like the poster from Legis said it would be good for him to have a couple if weeks rest and get adjusted to new surroundings and Ismael's master plan. Then get stuck in all fresh like.

Waste if a shirt and a wage. Just did not care at all.

Ismael has been very consistent in saying that we wanted one more, before sales, a right winger. Therefore I was always reasonably confident that we would get one. I am not sure if this new lad is specifically a right winger but he is an exciting addition to our attack and I am assuming that he is the winger/the 1 attacker before sales that we anticipated. We absolutely desperately need a striker but its never been mentioned by Ismael and it doesnt really align with any of the potential exits that now seemingly needs to happen. Its also hard to read into exactly what the policy is. Travis is leaving, was Baradji considered to be his replacement or was he a seperate case having initially failed a medical? Buckley was frozen out, will he be considered as someone who needs to be replacing? Will Pears? Leonard didnt even go away on tour, does he need replacing? Does the 1 in 1 out policy mean only direct replacements positionally? Could shifting a few mean that a striker is possible simply because the budget has been shifted about? I am not convinced by the likelihood of this transfer link. No way are we coming close to the fee suggested, and he seems to be strongly linked elsewhere, albeit at a much lower amount. But either way, it is of paramount importance that we bring in a striker. Its hard to predict exactly what will happen. Still lingering is the situation with Tronstad and Hyam. Considering the shrinkage of the wage budget and their subsequent increased importance, there is no excuse to not give them improved deals but it seems like its not being considered.

If only Eustace could convince Venkies to follow him there

100%. Couldnt say a bad word about Tomasson until he left then regularly laid into him. Now predictably the same with Eustace. Will also only judge on results but still prefers Ismael because specfically he likes what he says in the media.

Interesting that Morishitas best stats (and majority of games) have come from games where he’s been playing on the left. I’d assumed he was bought in for the right but his stats aren’t great from that side.

I guess Morishita could go straight in against Norwich. In an ideal world we would want a few impact options from the bench. I guess this would give us Morishita and Gueye. Feels like we need a couple more. Another perm striker it is very good to hear we are chasing and I wonder if we will take a punt on a prem loan winger as well?