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  1. Well that was about as crap as I predicted. You can see our second string are bereft of confidence. Game changed when we brought Perez and Shelvey on. Was a penalty for me, but I think it's fair to say we didn't deserve a draw. Your lot were up for it from the off and while we had 19 shots, none of them really troubled your 'keeper. Hope the lads who travelled had a good time in Newcastle. re: not having sympathy for fans of clubs with shit owners. I don't get it? I know I speak for Newcastle fans when I say we feel for you having to suffer the Venky's, and for the Blackpool fans suffering Oyston, and Charlton with Duchâtelet. It shouldn't be "We can't feel bad for you because we think our owner is worse", should it? Everybody's battles are their own and I'm sure there's an owner out there who's worse than our fat chancer, your lot, and so on. Doesn't mean your owners aren't shit, or ours, or Charltons. It's not shit-owner Top Trumps.
    15 points
  2. From BBC. Man of the match - Lewis Travis - Blackburn Lewis Travis 21, was brilliant in Blackburn's midfield, winning possession 9 times against the Premier League team, more than any other Blackburn player.
    10 points
  3. Load of shite, Raya will be playing in the top flight very soon (and it won’t be for us). I’m yet to see a better keeper than him in the Championship and he’s just turned 23. We will soon be holding Raya back, not the other way around. Amazing that people who have watched football their whole lives can’t see how good he is.
    9 points
  4. Credit to TM for the high press preventing Newcastle from playing out from the back. For respecting the support and the competition by picking a full strength side.
    7 points
  5. The best keepers in the world make howlers every now and again, Raya has made what? 1 this season? That is fewer than De Gea, Ederson, Alisson, Lloris etc. etc. He’s 23 ffs, get a grip.
    6 points
  6. I thought we played superb today and it hurts we didn't take the win. Travis is everything we need in the middle. Yes he gives the ball away sometimes but he is very confident for such a young lad. His work rate and effort are exceptional and when he wins the ball back his first thought is how can I start an attack. He was always looking for the forward pass whilst being mature enough to not give away possession in dangerous areas. If anyone should be given the potential tag it's this lad because he has all the signs of becoming a very accomplished midfielder. For such an inexperienced player he isn't afraid to take responsibility. A leader in the making
    6 points
  7. I just feel that some people are perhaps underestimating quite how crucial he is. Especially his goals. We will really struggle to get near replacing him.
    4 points
  8. I think that might be true for the TV audience but there has been lots of inconvenience for the fans who watch the games live. Early and late kick off times are one of the bane of the travelling supporters life. A few years ago I'm sure the FA said they were going back to the old traditions which people of a certain generation would remember well. The draw for each round would be 12.30 on the Monday after the previous round they said, the majority of games would be played at 3.00 on Saturdays they said, replays would be the following week they said and there were other things. Now the FA Cup has been devalued by the suits at the FA who have really sold its soul for commercial gain. Still they had to pay for Wembley somehow. Custodians of the game my arse.
    4 points
  9. I think it’s partly down to the fact that we had so little sympathy from fans of other clubs when the chips were really down for us. Many opposition fans felt (and still feel) sorry for how “Rovers fans treated Kean” and we’re delighted when we were relegated from the PL while Kean allegedly got another pay rise. Without any understanding or caring to find out exactly why Kean was so despised. If the football fan family had been a little more understanding it might have been different. Cashley and the Oystons both got their teams promoted to the PL. In Cashley’s case he spent a lot of money and you have a Champions League manager. Meanwhile, Rovers had 7 years of misery and only just now (by a fluke) look like we may have turned a corner by getting out of L1 first time (but so did Bolton and Wigan). We are only ever one error from our absent owners jailers from falling again, and “owe them” over £150m and still climbing. Charlton and Coventry probably share our pain the most but even Coventry won a trophy! I’ve nothing at all against Newcastle and hope that you do well - except when we play you of course (!) - and we have a common bond in our love for Alan Shearer (as well as a few shared manager’s and great players over the years) but it’s hard to have too much pity for a side still gracing the PL when we have (still) had more relegations that promotions since the loons from Pune rocked up.
    4 points
  10. He jumps away from headers, chases nothing , lazy, effortless, his first touch is appalling, constantly offside and out of position. 7 million or not this lad needs putting in the u23s and to win a place over nuttall there before going on loan before he destroys any potential he has because to put it bluntly he isn't ready for mens football
    4 points
  11. You have to see the bigger picture with young keepers, ala De Gea. He is a natural shot stopper, athletic, agile. The rest is mentality and will come. He will be a top keeper imo.
    4 points
  12. I haven’t read anybody blaming Brereton for surrendering the lead. However I have read a few quite rightly querying his application when he came on. For the record I have been sticking up for brereton in public, I’d never have a go at him in the ground and I cringe seeing a couple of morons making comments about his transfer fee on his twitter feed after he signed. Indeed i really want him to come good and take positives when Graham describes him as his protege and is mentoring him. However he was invisible when he came on and I’m entitled to voice that on here in private with fellow Rovers fans; it makes no odds as Brereton won’t read it. He should have been chomping at the bit; he has just signed permanently, glowing comments from Mowbray, coming on at St James Park etc. All he had to do was put himself about for 10 minutes as one would expect from a 19 year old keen to make an impression. Instead he was off the pace, blowing out of his backside and not challenging for anything. If he had reacted as one would expect from a sprightly 19 year old he would have been through on goal from an underhit backpass. I also accept the service to him was poor and desperate; but he should at least try and win a header! He is 6 foot plus and a striker; isn’t that what tall strikers are meant to do? He ducked a couple of times whilst ‘going up’ for the ball. Evans will cop the blame for giving the penalty away but he has put himself about as much as any other player this season and at times during this game he was very influential. I really want Brereton to come good but at some point he is going to have to put a shift in, do a bit of the ugly work and hopefully it will lead to a goal and fans getting onside.
    4 points
  13. As an academic exercise and also because I don't like to be bettered by a shit Sammysung phone I did a copy, paste on a gmail page for space, edit, copy and paste transcript as follows. Quite easy really: "Even now, almost a half-century on, Tony Mowbray, can remember when he first fell in love with the FA Cup. It was watching the final, starting in 1970, when his father would draw the curtains at their house in Redcar, North Yorkshire, get the TV ready, and his mother would lay out the cold beef sandwiches. “Dad always seemed to win the meat draw at the social club — must have known the committee,” Mowbray says laughing. “He used to have all his mates round, 12 blokes sitting there. I could never get on the sofa, so I’d be laying in front of the telly, a telly you turned the dial to tune in. The FA Cup final was such a massive event in our house. 1970 is the first I remember: Leeds v Chelsea, long throw, [Dave] Webb coming in at the back stick [to settle the replay]. Then Liverpool v Arsenal 1971 . . .” And the following season, a fifth-round replay on February 29, 1972, a day that will never be forgotten by Mowbray, eight at the time. He was at school, when his father, Clive, a scaffolder at British Steel, burst into the classroom. “What’s my dad doing here? ‘Come and watch Georgie Best,’ he said. Manchester United were coming to Ayresome Park. The coal strike was on, no floodlights, so they had to play in the afternoon. My dad used to drip-feed me on George Best, and that’s what a footballer should be like. Unfortunately for me, I became a big rugged centre half, not George Best. “My dad was driven on football. Loved it. He was in the social clubs constantly with his mates, and I was the little lad left at the door, while he had a quick pint, then, ‘Get your scarf ready’. We’d walk through the streets, he’d pay to get in the Holgate End, I’d nick in front of him and we’d go through together. It was buttons to get into Ayresome Park. Now football all seems corporate. “The memory I have is of walking up the concrete steps in the Holgate End and seeing the oasis of green. It left a lasting effect on me of how sacred football was amongst all the working-class people in their grey and black coats, and the smell of Bovril. In the middle of the Holgate End, the crowd swayed as shots came in, feet off the ground. “At nine and ten, now and then dad would take me in the middle before the madness started. As I got older, I got closer to the middle, in with my mates, thinking this was what life was about, really. Ayresome Park is not there any more, it’s housing estates. Sometimes I find myself just driving down the road to go past where the stadium used to be.” As the third round of the FA Cup quickens today, Mowbray oversees his 100th game as Blackburn Rovers manager, heading to St James’ Park where he made his Middlesbrough debut in 1982, marking an England legend. “I remember the nervousness of playing against Kevin Keegan, thinking, ‘I hope he doesn’t embarrass me.’ I only had one fear, letting people down.” He did not. The game finished 1-1, and Keegan never got away from him. “Whenever I have a day off, I meet Gary Pallister in Yarm, and we talk about life and football. The driving factor of a lot of players like me and Pally was the fear of letting down the people you love, your family. I don’t want to be the one who costs us the goal, who loses his man in the box. It churns your stomach. “My mum was always critical of me. I have kids — nine, 11 and 14 — who all play football in their local Sunday teams, and I’m very mindful of trying not to be overcritical of them. I have a 14-year-old who is nearly as tall as I am, can run like the wind, wins the cross-country and 100m, and yet he hasn’t the hunger I have in my belly, burning away. ‘Why did you let that kid push you about?’ I tell him. ‘Get stuck in.’ He’s trying to figure out at 14 that he knows how much his dad loves him but why is he pushing me so hard? I want him to survive in life, let alone the next football match. But he’s on the PlayStation and this Fortnite game all the time.” So why not turn the wifi off? “Listen, it’s chaos then,” he replies. “I say, Go in the garden and play football’. I spent my whole life as a kid walking to school, and kicking a ball about. I’m really worried about the next generation of players, not Harry Kane and Dele Alli — they’re great players — but the next generation on their PlayStations.” Mowbray is tempted to show his eldest son a picture he keeps of what he was doing at 14, standing in the tunnel at Ayresome Park as Graeme Souness strides past. “The tache. The long hair. He looks like Magnum! The shorts in the 1970s were almost obscene [short] and he has these legs which were always shining. I see Souness now on TV, and you can feel in his analysis that if you haven’t got a bit of bite about you then you’re weak. He’s from an era where he played against Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles, and if you don’t look after yourself you were in trouble.” Mowbray could certainly look after himself as one of Middlesbrough’s most cherished players, blossoming under Bruce Rioch. “I’d had Jack Charlton and Malcolm Allison, managers with big reputations, yet Rioch made us think two or three steps in front,” he says. “He taught us a lot about positional play. He was an amazing manager for me with successive promotions from liquidation, not even administration, to the top flight.” A famous diving header in 1988, in a victory over Aston Villa, helped Middlesbrough on their climb to the old first division. “I had a daft blond flick with peroxide hair,” he says. “That picture has been in lots of magazines. People do send me pictures to get signed, and the lads pin them on the wall before I get to them. I have still got the bottle of champagne from that game, unopened, man of the match. I was a young boy from the town, being captain, being successful, does it get any better?” Mowbray went on to play for Celtic and Ipswich Town, and has managed 625 matches, impressing at Hibernian and West Bromwich Albion, but often doing jobs in difficult circumstances. “Have I ever gone into a calm club? At Celtic, I didn’t survive a year in a job that needed dramatic change, with an old team. Second is nothing at Celtic. If you’re losing, you get absolute pelters, and you are the bad guy in the story that is Scottish football. It’s the brutality of that job, the brutality of green or blue, win or lose, goodie or baddy, dealing with five or six national newspapers every day, that didn’t suit my conscientious side. “I went back home, went to Middlesbrough. For three years I toiled hard at that club. That was the most painful time. I had young children who went to Yarm School, all Boro fans, and they were getting, ‘Your dad’s just got sacked.’ It was a tough time for my family. “I took time out. I tried to be a dad for six months but football dragged me back. Joe Royle phoned me up and said, ‘What are you doing? Coventry City, are you joking?’ I said, ‘Joe, listen, I need to get back to work, a group of lads who I can mould, give my values to, my integrity. We had James Maddison, Adam Armstrong and Jacob Murphy. Joe Cole came. I left Coventry because they became a basket case [with the politics about the ownership and stadium].” Then the controversial Venky’s family offered him the Blackburn job. “Joe Royle phoned me up and said, ‘You are a glutton for punishment.’ Yet this is a proper football club.” As he walks along a corridor at the Brockhall Village training complex, Mowbray points out the pictures of the title-winning Chris Sutton and Alan Shearer, the huge badge in reception with 1875, and we stop and talk to his popular PA, Lesley Fielding, part of the human fabric of Blackburn Rovers. “It’s a proper club with proper people,” Mowbray says. “I met the owners, I think they are nice, humble, honest people. They talked about family, which appealed to the conscientious side of my nature. I have great aspirations to help the owners to try to put Rovers back to where they and the supporters feel it should be. The highs of being a manager are greater than being a player. “But unless you have your tactics, words of inspiration and selection right, and you get beat, nobody knows the depths you can fall to. I’m not nice to be around when we’ve lost. I have to go back to three boys waiting for me, and when the lights come up the drive they all come running to the door. They are consoling. You have to be a dad then and yet the wife [Amber] knows when she can start a conversation. Mowbray has managed seven clubs in a career in the dugout spanning 16 years. “I have to switch off because I have to take three kids to matches, and try to watch their games but I have yesterday’s game in my head. With modern technology, I can watch the whole game back on my phone. Football . . . I do it because I love it. I do it for my kids so they can go to a nice school, and get an education and have a life. I toil with, ‘Am I doing the right thing by my children? Am I spending enough time with them?’ Life’s a juggling act.” Perspective on his profession is not far away. On our walk through Brockhall, Mowbray encounters Mark Venus, his assistant manager, who chats away, not giving any hint of recent bereavement. “His wife died on the 18th of December of breast cancer,” Mowbray says later. “My wife [Bernadette, his first wife] died New Year’s Day 1995. Breast cancer. He [Venus] hadn’t been to work for two and a half months. He’s just come back. There’s perspective for me. Somebody I’ve known, and his wife, for 30-odd years. He’s just buried her. It’s horrific, really.” Mowbray cares for his staff, and such compassion was confirmed when he was psychologically profiled. “You answer 60 questions, and there are four elements of a profile: dominant, influential, steady or conscientious. I’m stuck on the line between dominant and conscientious. I’m a football manager. I have to be dominant for 60, 70 people — the whole building,” he says. Spending brief time with the leading managers in the land gave Mowbray further insight into the importance of emotional intelligence, being conscientious. “We played Liverpool pre-season, and Jürgen Klopp came in afterwards, and we talked for half an hour. Wow. I sat next to Pep Guardiola at a dinner. He has the ‘dominance’ factor, and yet he’s conscientious, caring too. Klopp and Guardiola are two of the world’s greatest managers and yet you could feel their humility. “I care about people here, make sure they get a card, a bottle of wine or chocolates on their birthday. If they’ve got a problem with their family, ‘Forget about the football go and look after your missus or kid’. I feel for players when I leave them out. I make sure I explain the logic. The only time I’m not conscientious is when they let me down. I shout at them. They have respect because they know I’m shouting at them to try to make their careers better.” Mowbray cares. HIS MANAGERIAL RECORD Ipswich 11 Oct – 28 Oct 2002 Played 4 Won 1 Draw 1 Lost 2 Win % 25 Hibernian May 2004 – Oct 2006 Played 108 Won 52 Drawn 16 Lost 40 Win % 48.1 West Brom Oct 2006 – June 2009 Played 140 Won 58 Draw 30 Lost 52 Win % 40.7 Celtic June 2009 – Mar 2010 Played 45 Won 23 Draw 9 Lost 13 Win % 51.1 Middlesbrough Oct 2010 – Oct 2013 Played 153 Won 61 Draw 37 Lost 55 Win % 39.9 Coventry Mar 2015 – Sep 2016 Played 75 Won 26 Draw 22 Lost 27 Win % 34.7 Blackburn Feb 2017 – present Played 99 Won 47 Draw 30 Lost 22 Win % 47.5 Team Honours Championship 2007-08 Individual honours Scottish Football Writers’ Association Manager of Year 2004-05 League Managers Association Manager of the Year 2007-08
    4 points
  14. Bit selfish but I really hope Newcastle come down, what a weekend! Absolutely love the place and can't wait to go back. As for the game, we were unlucky to be fair. I know it's another late goal but I wouldn't really say we bottled it or anything. Sure both teams are a bit miffed off at the prospect of a replay, honestly wish it just went to penalties like the league cup
    3 points
  15. Thought Ollson was a decent lb for us personally
    3 points
  16. The lad needs games. 15 minutes won’t do anything for him or his confidence. The club needs to swallow some pride and put him in the U23s (as there’s little chance of loaning him out).
    3 points
  17. Raya does make mistakes and has cost us points this season and last but he's still young and is not the finished article. I'd stick with him because the team needs strenghtening elsewhere more urgently but if a good offer came in for him I'd be a seller. There's a few solid, experienced 30-year-old keepers around on the edges of PL squads who we could get as a replacement
    3 points
  18. The back four trust him massively you weapon, I know this personally after speaking to one of them. He’s made one error leading to a goal all season, which is pretty excellent at any level. His shot stopping is fantastic and his command of the box is good (and getting better all the time), his distribution needs work admittedly but it’s by no means horrific.
    3 points
  19. Travis MOM again, like a new signing this kid. Talk of loaning him out should be well out of the window now and should be one of the first names on the team sheet each week. Such potential and already so good now - kids gonna have a great career.
    3 points
  20. He came on today at a time where Newcastle were starting to press, a few minutes later they had a penalty and Dack was substituted and he was literally on his own with no support up top trying to win (not very well) aerial battles which he was never going to win. I’ve been critical of his cameos but today isn’t a day too be to harsh on him.
    3 points
  21. Word to the travelling support- you were magnificent! Heard you loud and clear out-singing the Newcastle supporters. "Going down with the Dingles"?
    3 points
  22. Gallagher would suit a 3-4-1-2. They’d be a greater emphasis on pressing and unlike Brereton when he was here he worked very hard and harried everything despite the rest not following suit.
    2 points
  23. Its quite clear that looking at the strikers we have had under Mowbray; Armstrong and Brereton this season and Samuel and Antonsson prior, not to mention Gallagher himself. He has not trusted anyone bar Graham because he has the skillset needed to play as a lone striker (with Dack as a 10) in that he holds the ball up. Gallagher is flimsy, weak, like Brereton in terms of his inability to win flick ons despite his height, and thus is incapable of doing the same job. His assets are more that he is a fairly quick runner who can carry the ball. It would make absolutely no sense to sign another striker who would most likely be stuck out wide, where he is not very effective, and one who doesnt have the skillset to come in when Graham is unavailable to play that same role. He has already spunked 9m up the wall on strikers that he doesnt trust to play that central role due to an inability to hold the ball up. If he wants to modify his style of play when Graham isnt in the team, then he may aswell persist with the 2 permanent strikers he has already signed, rather than loaning in another bang average striker. I think I would prefer Armstrong to play as a centre forward over Gallagher, and Breretons price tag means he is under pressure to at least try and get a return on him. Thankfully I suspect theres at least a chance that it is just lazy journalism. We are linked with the same handful of players, predominantly former loanees like Gallagher and Chapman, hopefully Mowbray is casting his net further than that otherwise we need to look at our scouting structure. Chapman is riddled with injuries and he openly doesnt trust him to start games, and towards the end of his first season, he put Gallagher wide in a front 3 because he didnt trust him in his natural position. Why he would settle for 2 players he clearly has doubts about is beyond me.
    2 points
  24. Done well? Not sure about that. Rothwell has barely featured and has yet to score or assist. Obviously has something about him but I dont see how he has done well. Bell has been a liability, bar very rare exceptions.
    2 points
  25. Rovers looking to sign Sam Gallagher on loan with a view to a permanent deal in summer and also want Reed in summer on permanent deal. Also looking at an defender at a Prem club.
    2 points
  26. I think the VAR ones always are. Always on a technicality, and most times the referee is called over to check he is already under pressure to change his mind because reviews the ref got “right” are never referred. This effectively means VAR matches have two referees, not one, and the one off the pitch has more influence in crucial decision making by simply making the referral. If VAR was used more extensively and to the letter of the law, football would become an exercise in set-pieces. It’s also why having the technology used in only *some* games and not all is morally corrupt. If that had been played at 3pm and not chosen for TV we would have won 1-0.
    2 points
  27. After being literally knocked out from a very wet, old and heavy "casey" as a 12 year old i was never busting my ass to win headers afterwards ?
    2 points
  28. I know just what you mean, I wasn't the greatest header of the ball because I just didn't like heading.
    2 points
  29. I remember going to watch Rochdale v Man Utd in a pre season friendly years ago. Utd sent their reserves but that team included a young Beckham, Butt, Scholes, Neville etc. Gillespie was playing on the right wing and he was unbelievably good. He was rapid, tricky and he had plenty of end product. He was head and shoulders above the rest of their young players that afternoon. I thought " Bloody hell, they've got another George Best here ".
    2 points
  30. He made a big mistake that cost us points in the Brum game, I can’t remember any others this season? So he’s cost us just 2 points this season, and he’s saved us many more than that, that’s not bad going at all.
    2 points
  31. How can we not back out of it? He is our player and this is a loan move. Much like in any loan move a parent club can recall a loanee when they feel like it - we would just recall him before sending him.
    2 points
  32. Agree and I think some are a bit harsh on Smallwood but the midfield has needed shaking up for years all this two defensive mids started with Bowyer having to accommodate Lowe and Evans and it's just carried on and on. Smallwood was a breath of fresh air after Lowe but has struggled this season at times and the emergence of Travis and the impact of Reed have offered Mowbray the perfect opportunity to remould the team now and change the midfield into something a bit more dynamic or a permanent basis, is he bold enough to take it though ?
    2 points
  33. It was 100% a penalty. One of those ones where the ball trickled through without Evans touching it and he got the players leg. If it was the other way around and it happens Dack in their box, I don't think anyone here would be saying it shouldn't be a penalty. It was just unlucky really. Evans had to go for it. Another day he knicks the ball. We played well. We don't always need to find a scapegoat to blame.
    2 points
  34. For 80 minutes Mowbray got it spot on and the likes of Mulgrew, Lenihan, Travis & Dack were on top form. Evans started the game well off the pace and by dallying on the ball we were almost undone early on but Raya showed off his impressive reflexes. Newcastle play at a ridiculously slow tempo which played into our hands and we deservedly led with a superb Bennett cross and a Dack bullet header. Let's make this clear, he is not a playmaking number 10, he is a second striker and a brilliant one at that! Shelvey made a difference when he came on and some naivity by Evans plus some questionable subs meant we had to settle for a replay. The stars of the show were Dack and Travis but plenty of others impressed in what could have been a difficult game. Travis has the energy that Evans and Smallwood don't have but also more nous, forward thinking and leadership qualities. He was constantly instructing players 5/10 years his senior where to position themselves to help stop Newcastle attacks mounting to anything. Dack was a menace as he often is when he has the stage to impress and he took his header like a prime Tim Cahill. The game proved again, for me, that Evans is just an average Championship midfielder. Sure he will do a job and is effective against lesser teams but if we have any ambition the likes of him and Derrick Williams should be nowhere near the starting 11. It's time for Mowbray to get a bit more ruthless to help us progress further in the next 18 month's. Travis and Reed can become a formidable midfield pairing and I just hope Mowbray can see that. Replay Prediction: 1-0 Mulgrew
    2 points
  35. That’s the issue. Compete, be a nuisance, barge into them. Dickov was half his size but still went for everything!
    2 points
  36. I'd put Alan Wright and Stig Bjyornbye in there as well ...2 more left back who were with us in the 2nd tier that were far better than we have now
    2 points
  37. You do feel sometimes that some of that is what stops him being a regular gaffer at a higher level but if he did pull off promotion here it would be some achievement, surely his best one.
    2 points
  38. You can't not like the bloke, he's what football should be about not 20 year olds in Ferrari's.
    2 points
  39. No no no. No it was nit he was clear of Evans by at least a step before he decided to drop to the ground. He felt the contact, kept going then realized he could not do anything with the ball and went down like a sack of spuds. Stayed down like he was in agony, started clutching his ear. Ludicrous decisions.
    2 points
  40. How come Mowbrays starting eleven never seem to be 2-3 down at half time ?
    2 points
  41. Travis is exactly what our CM has been missing. You just know that when he gets the ball he is looking to get it forward as quickly as possible. Moving him out wide to accommodate Smallwood is not the answer, neither is loaning him out. I fear though that Mowbray will see it as a way to avoid the debate and keep Travis playing. Please, please stay positive Tony. You’ve picked him in the middle and it has been one of your best decisions. Stick with it!
    2 points
  42. Had a good game today. Absolutely cannot be loaned out now. Should be starting.
    2 points
  43. Some of our boys from the 2014/2015/2016 era... Matt Kilgallon - left on a free transfer to join Bradford in League 1. Was their player of the season in the 17/18 season. Contract then cancelled by mutual consent and now he plays for Hamilton Academical in the Scottish Prem. Lee Williamson - left on a free transfer to join Burton, who were in the Championship at the time. Made 14 appearances with 8 starts. Released at the end of the season with Burton having stayed up whilst we got relegated. Most recently assistant manager of Belper Town, but was sacked in April 2018. Chris Taylor - left on a free transfer to join Bolton. Made 16 appearances in two years, but only 3 starts. Was loaned to Oldham between Jan-May 17. Released by Bolton at the end of the 17/18 season, currently playing for Blackpool. Reg - loaned to Ipswich, then joined them on a permanent in December 2015 after rupturing his achilles tendon in the playoff semi-final in May 2015. Overall scored 5 goals in 56 appearances for Ipswich. Contract was cancelled in January 2017 and he joined Burton. Scored one goal in 33 appearances before being relegated with Burton in the 17/18 season. Released and now plays for Cheltenham Town in League Two. Josh Morris - left on a free transfer to join Bradford. Only stayed for one season, making 13 appearances and scoring once. Released at the end of the 15-16 season and then joined Scunthorpe, where he's become one of their better players. He's scored 34 league goals in 103 appearances (with 101 starts). Leon Best - career gone right into the toilet, to the surprise of no one. After we released him he spent most of the 15-16 season at Rotherham, scoring 4 goals in 16 appearances. Rotherham decided against extending his contract. He joined Ipswich with a lot of fanfare but as usual screwed it up, and after a particularly shit display in Jan 17 against non-league Lincoln City Mick McCarthy said Best would never play for the club again. And he didn't. Released at the end of the season. Signed a two month deal with Charlton but after 5 appearances and no goals he picked up a serious knee injury and is currently available on a free transfer. Sacha Petshi - remember him? No, me either. Now playing with Creteil in the lower leagues of France. Bengali-Fode Koita - ah, that one time he hit the post... memories. Has been playing in Turkey for Kasimpasa since 2016. Wiki claims 6 goals in 42 appearances but no idea how up to date those stats are. Jake Kean - surprisingly joined Norwich in the PL after being released by Rovers. Made no first team appearances and cancelled his contract a year early in May 2016. Joined Sheffield Wednesday, made no first team appearances. During his time at Norwich & Sheff Weds was loaned out to Colchester, Swindon, Mansfield and Grimsby. Only made regular appearances for Mansfield, who he signed for on a short term deal in December 2018, having been available on a free since August 2018. Since August 2015 Jake has made 28 first team appearances at all clubs. Somehow he was in nets 37 times for Rovers. Amazing. Danny Guthrie - played briefly for Oakengates Athletic in the Shropshire Premier League (seriously, wtf) before joining Indonesian Liga team Mitra Kukar in Jan 18. I think he's still there. Nathan Delfouneso - played a season for Swindon in League 1. Scored one goal in 18 appearances. Currently plays for Blackpool, scored 19 goals in 80 appearances. (No) Hope Akpan - helped Burton get relegated in the 17/18 season. Joined Bradford where he remains today. Simon Eastwood - signed for Oxford United and won their players' player of the season and supporters' player of the season for the 16/17 season. Has made 106 apperances for Oxford in two and a half years. Seems to have done better for himself than Jake Kean, although I'm guessing Kean earned more during his time at Norwich & Sheff Weds? Tommy Spurr - signed on a free for Preston after we released him. Has made 23 appearances since July 16 and had injury problems. Currently on loan to Fleetwood. Chris "Browny" Brown - joined bury on a free in August 16 but didn't make a first team appearance. Had injury and fitness issues. Scored the same amount of goals for Bury with 0 appearances as he did for Rovers with 37.
    2 points
  44. Forest Green Rovers chairman comments below. Copied and pasted from Facebook... From Monday morning, Christian Doidge is back with FGR. We've taken the decision to recall him after his loan agreement expired last week amid continual contractual breaches by Bolton Wanderers. It became clear to us that Bolton entered into a contract to loan and then buy Christian last August without the means to honour it, and perhaps the intention to do so as well. They haven't even paid his wages for the last four months (we have). It's not just FGR that have been let down badly by Bolton, but Christian too. Bolton's Chairman, Ken Anderson, made a lot of promises on the last day of the transfer window, both to Christian and FGR, and has kept none of them. This is all his work and from talking to Ken he feels immune from the consequences - but some of these promises are written in legally binding contracts, and we'll be pursuing them. When the dust settles, we'll talk to the EFL about how they regulate clubs like Bolton. They already regulate the club to a degree, controlling all TV monies to make sure that football debts get paid. Hard not to wonder whether the league could also have a role in approving the terms of any contracts entered into - to make sure that they are actually within the means of the club. We had no way to know, but the EFL should have the inside view on that. And finally (for now...) - Disappointing as it is to see this go pear shaped, both for FGR and Christian, I'm also excited by the prospect of the second half of the season with Christian back with us. I'm sure all FGR fans everywhere will join me in welcoming him back ?
    1 point
  45. Wouldn't worry about what Nicko says. He also says that Travis is going on loan to Fleetwood..
    1 point
  46. Tom Eaves looks like a quality striker. A young Peter Crouch with strength. Has a a terrific touch, is strong on the ball and is about 8ft 6. Him and Dacky could make beautiful music upfront for us.
    1 point
  47. Mowbary must have asked Benitez to bring Shelvey on so it's his fault.
    1 point
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