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In a relegation fight you’d keep him clearly.

given his importance to the team and likely fee, Tronstad worth far more in the team for the next 6 months. Same applies to Hedges

We can, but players running/being allowed to run their contracts down is also a fact of football life. I wish he'd sign but if both parties are at loggerheads, would you sell or keep ?

But we can recognise patterns

Well yeah, maybe they have. Depends what suits one's narrative a lot of the time. If he's hellbent on moving nearer home, then he will do. If he moves to another British club then someone was telling porkies. Dilemma still remains though as we don't know the facts, if it's sell him or keep him and lose him for nothing, which would you choose?

No sign of O'Riordan, Tyjon still pointlessly with the squad though. I genuinely wonder at this point if the idea is to use him as 21st man for every game in the first team, U21s & U18s in an effort to force him to move in January so we get a bigger fee. Either that, or someone is simply being petty and small minded. There seems no footballing reason why he should be dragged along to each game when as per Ismael, we have no intention of using him

I just wonder if the general standard outside the Premier League is dropping too (though not at the speed of Rovers decline). I'm not sure - and could be that, rather, the Premier League is accelerating away but it's the impression I get of the Championship, at least.

Or the club could just offer them the going rate, & do so without waiting until they have 6 to 12 months remaining on their existing contract

And he’s bound to score against us. Just watch this space…🙄

It's the age old dilemma. Well, not that old, only in recent years has the player held the power.

Very exposed. The only game kicking off before 3pm anywhere. Lets see if Rovers TV are allowed to show it. Wrexham will force a higher energy performance from us than we put on at Hillsborough- either that or we get utterly humiliated.

Because losing him to a tinpot club and keeping out our attackers when he should never have been sold

Absolutely battered this lot already this season, let’s hope we can get a win against a crap fc Disney plastic team

Well yes but we're not a well-run club and our financial woes mean they probably won't be much good aka De Neve etc

We do have some talented wide players at U21 & U18 level, not "retraining" them as wing backs/strikers/midfielders (I am sure there would be different solutions for different individual players) means we end up with talented players who we cant use in a year or 2 Obviously if there is no plan to continue with the back 3, the above is not a concern, but that will instead throw our entire January window into the bin at the end of the season

I dont know is the honest answer

It's not that long ago we should have beat them, couple of key differences though...we had Gudjohnsen, Alebiosu and Morishita in the team that day. Worth noting their away form isn't great though, last away win way back in September. If I was a betting man, which I am, I'd be backing the draw. They've drawn 5 of their last 6 away from home. We've drawn 2 of the last 3 at home, 5 out the last 7 home and away. 2 out the past 3 H2H also draws. Just hope it's not another 0-0 draw though, a goal would be nice. I think we'll get one too, Hedges is due a goal. 1-1. Another draw isn't really much use in the grand scheme of things mind. On a rather negative note I remember us drawing too many the last time we went down to league one, 4 in a row in one spell. It's all a bit too familiar folks.....erm on that note - Happy New Year fellow blues.

Reyes would probably a striker if he can him. He could work the channels like Ohashi and run in behind whilst Gudjohnsen stays more central and be the fox in the box/focus point

Why wait? If there is a plan, then implement it now We do have some talented wide players at U21 & U18 level, not "retraining" them as wing backs/strikers/midfielders (I am sure there would be different solutions for different individual players) means we end up with talented players who we cant use in a year or 2 Obviously if there is no plan to continue with the back 3, the above is not a concern, but that will instead throw our entire January window into the bin at the end of the season

I think the under 21's and every group will move to playing 3 at the back at start of next summer if we are sticking to back 3 long term

Happy New Year! Let’s get off with a big win over these, should have beaten them the other week.

yep

Seems possible, especially with the Reyes link, but selling Pickering and pursuing Gibson says back 3, though completely illogical planning is our forte. Whatever is cheapest today is the plan I reckon, tomorrow be damned

Wow that's a top find Ian