No way is Rhodes quick enough to play on the right wing.

That is pure gold. Nixon strikes yet again.

September - Tony Mowbray outlined 70 points as the minimum target for Rovers as he aims to raise expectation levels at Ewood Park. What happens if you miss your ‘minimum target’? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/17930673.where-aiming-year--mowbray-outlines-rovers-target/

"We now need to focus our attentions to Hillsborough next week and see if we can keep the points tally ticking along and surpass last year’s tally of 60 points with the 19 games we have left.” So now we're just trying to beat last year's points tally? That'll get the juices flowing amongst the fans Tony you boring old twat. Can't stand the guy now, not healthy.

It isn’t, In fact it’s very relevant. You can’t have it both ways.

Do the people working at Rovers have any idea what is happening at Rovers?

Bought for £700k and we can't even get our money back. Poor but not untypical of this Rovers management. Goodnight

How can it possibly be irrelevant? That's a bit like saying, "Well it doesn't matter that Owen Coyle/Paul Ince has landed us in a relegation battle, it's done now so we might as well stick with them." Plus, how can Mowbray be trusted going forward when his transfer dealings have been so dire? If anything given he's stuffed us up for FFP purposes it's now even more crucial that the next man is an astute operator in the transfer market and makes every penny count.

It would make more sense for us to go for Gestede if it’s an ex player.

Now dack is gone what about mulgrew as a pirlo like midfielder playing behind two centre mids and keeping 1 upfront?

Anyone know a current employee, who might be able use his previous experience around the sale of a training ground?

Further evidence that I know absolutely nothing about football.

Say you signed for a season long loan with Wigan and we don't need you back here, sorry.

Historically when we go for old players they tend to flop: Bentley and Roque spring to mind

Bit of a myth that - Rhodes first season here he mainly played up front on his own.

After 50 odd years of watching Rovers the day Coyle was appointed was the day I gave up. Only temporarily of course. I don't get the Rhodes thing. It's not like we're making loads of chances in games and not taking them.

Been hinting at this stuff for ages but no one takes it on. Presumably the nice guy angle shields it. Still the same old avenues providing players etc. Then some wonder why we don't go after x,y,z It's all about who brings them to the table. You only have to look at the BB, Gallagher, Walton signings. Very poor judgement but why ? How much is spaffed there and how much commission ? It stinks, people need to wake up again I'm afraid. We are still a vehicle for the same old connections. Now back to that flag....

I suspect it's more of a case of him knowing we have paid players off previously. It's not working out for him at Wigan so he may as well go back and see if he can get a lump sum from Rovers to pay him to terminate his contract. Opens his options for next year.

Can just imagine TM saying tomorrow that CM needs to wait as the current defenders have been great and he needs to understand how his might team play !! He handed out Big contracts to these players and now he’s stuck ! The quicker this manager leaves our club the better ! Do the right thing and go btw hope he doesn’t get a single penny from Venkys ... what he’s done with the signings of BB and SG for a club like us Is sackable !

Surprised to see Mulgrew back, but given our current crop of defenders always seem to be a game away from injury, it might be useful to have him around. On a related note I had this shirt curse growing up where I'd get a Rovers player printed on my shirt and they'd leave the following window. This year I bought a Seattle Seahawks shirt with Lynch on the back and he re-signed for them out of retirement. Last night I wore my Mulgrew shirt from a few seasons ago and today he's reappeared from the abyss. Does anyone want to send me an old shirt to wear so we can get someone good back? Tugay!? Shearer?

Penalty kick, free-kick and direct from a corner kick. To be known thereafter as a 'Right Charlie'

You can when they keep hiring cheap managers from the scrapheap rather than going for the best possible option (eg. selecting Coyle over Warnock). Lambert the exception in some ways but was without a job at the time. I think the only manager we've taken from another club was Appleton and he was very cheap to steal as well.

Sorry Charlie but you’re on 20 grand a week and have signed a contract to say Wigan are going to pay 50% of that. We don’t have 10 grand a week spare for you to play in our reserves.

Looks like we're back to the old tag line "Pay offs not Play offs"

Chill mate. He has cut this short, not Rovers. It’s not an elaborate plan to replace Lenihan or Tosin. CM was deemed not good enough in September. That hasn’t changed.

Aye

Must be good employing your own boss, telling your bosses what your target for the season is, adjusting that target when it becomes unlikely to be reached, meanwhile they underwrite another £18 million of losses before it starts again with a trip to Pune in May when they can be bothered to discuss things.

Blame the Dack injury & FFP, and move onto next season like nothing happened.

Agreed - and as I say, he'd play as a striker on his own. Tony isn't suddenly going 4-4-2 IMO. Rhodes is the least suited striker to being the 'man' up top on his own in the history of football.

Rhodes scores goals, but we don’t create enough chances, so it would be a waste of a wage really.

Dear me, and this year's Trump Award for Outstanding Humility goes to Dr Mercer FRCS . .

The "answers" are usually evasive, repetitive, deflecting and largely irrelevant, hence people ask him the same questions because they never got an answer in the first place! However, no-one is compelling you to read anything, so just calmly scroll down and you'll be free of annoyance. Easy eh?

Not a Bell rater but I really think now the time has come to give him a run of games. Can't help the guy being in and out all the time. Getting hooked after a half decent game for accomodation dressed as being tactical. Leave him in there let him settle and find some form. They'll know then in a few months if he can really cut it. If not fire him off but for god's sake stop the stupid pointless rotating that goes against any semblance of consistency.

About Schmidt

Think people are being a bit harsh on a guy who has been a great servant to this club That said, my view is that if Mulgrew was to play for us again it would be defensive midfield alongside Travis rather than Central defence. With Evans out for the forseeable it only leaves Johnson as partner to Travis as Davenport is unlikely to be risked. Whatever it seems now that defensive replacements will have to wait till Summer and this window concentrate on attackers

It feels like that for virtually every tournament England's 'star' player is injured beforehand and we are all supposed to pray that he's fit for the finals. He's then not properly match fit but gets played anyway and is useless resulting in England effectively playing with 10 men. Rinse and repeat. Essentially, if Kane is physically fit (not injured) I think he will be a long way off match fit and shouldn't play in the tournament. Unless he is back and playing effectively for a reasonable time before the finals start.

He can pass and shoot, just not head the ball or run any more; pretty important for a defender.

Why on earth would we pay him off when we had someone paying a % of his wages? If we’re paying him off that should have happened the minute after Wigan stopped paying him. If he’s going he should be going for a fee or staying at Wigan.

Thanks . I will check that. It certainly does worry me. I guess I could do with working out a diagram of links between managers, players and agent "families". Is HSH really an SEM phoenix or just another agency, employing agents, some of whom happen to have been with SEM lol? Anyway, Coyle said he had never heard of SEM.........then he went to Mass!!

We might aswell close down this thread now our transfer business is complete the return of Mulgrew will be like having a new player

Steve Waggot : "FFS Tony you forgot to mention the play off push, Lyndsey order another flag"

I wonder would Danny Butterworth have gotten a look in if he wasn't injured? He looks raw, but certainly has something about him.

Samuel was signed for little money to help get us out of League 1 with potential to make the step up to the championship. He played his part in our promotion before injuries but hasn’t made the grade in the Champ. No big deal. Bell was voted in the League 1 team of the year and at 22 seen as having potential. He was bought for peanuts and hasn’t kicked on. Again, nothing to see here. See ya!

The thing with Rhodes is that he can score goals even in teams that dont give him particularly good supply. In his first season, he played as a lone striker (with a number 10 usually) and also the team behind him were fairly dismal. He nearly scored 30 goals. Gallagher for example is the polar opposite in terms of anticipating chances and his movement.

Please, not Rhodes, the only thing that Lambert got right!!! We do not have the capacity to carry Rhodes with the players we have in our squad.

Makes perfect sense, most creative player out, big striker struggling for goals and team in general = answer get them some service. Mowbrays answer - keep shuffling the pack until you drop on something that works, then alter it again after a couple of weeks because you want your 6'3" striker to stop their left back !

I like Rhodes, scored for fun when he was here before. Mowbray won't be able to get him firing at that rate again though. If Rhodes comes in, it means Gallagher will be permanently on the right. I'd prefer us to sign a right winger.

Doing something appears too hard, so we do nothing. I'm glad Jack Walker didn't share that view.

Shockingly I've decided to make a post in this thread ? Now, let's wait until Waggott's comments are clarified in the minutes... but having said that, I shall speculate haha Whether we're in breach of FFP this year really depends on how our 17/18 losses in L1 (£16.8m) is accounted for, which fell under the EFL's 'SCMP'. As far as I can tell, the rules do not define that those losses are considered in the FFP 3-year window. So, potentially, we started from a blank slate in 18/19, but I'm definitely not sure of that myself! A lot more attention is paid to the allowance for clubs bouncing between the Championship and PL... Another consideration is FFP makes some exceptions for academy and community-related expenditure. This could be some £2-4m/year for us (based on estimates I've seen for other clubs), so that widens our FFP 3-year losses cap to something more like £45-51m, or £15-17m/year, under which we might be squeaking by... Next year is where I'm more convinced that we'll be up against it and a sale or two would be necessary (and a Dack sale, sans injury, should surprise no one). I'd guess we're looking at another £20m loss this year and the amortisation of the Brereton/Gallagher transfers will start to bite, although it's ultimately more to do with our large (relative to our turnover, not the Championship!) wage bill than our transfers. Gallagher's wages are part of that issue of course, but, from my POV, wage expenditure is what's separating us from the Wigans/Barnsleys/Rotherhams... is it sustainable? Maybe not, but let's not pretend cutting the wage bill won't affect the playing squad. Another note: according to the VLL accounts, our net player trading effectively netted out this past summer, so Raya + Nuttall appears to have paid for the Gallagher purchase, if you prefer to think of it that way... From my rough arithmetic of the £8,862m 'intangible asset acquisitions' in the recent VLL accounts, I think that includes Brereton, Armstrong, Rothwell, Davenport, and Chapman, plus other misc. So, depends on your assumptions for the latter purchases, but probably puts Brereton around £6m, as the LT seems to have settled on reporting of late. Not the £7m commonly bandied around on here, although certainly higher than the ~£4m+ that some have rather hopefully suggested! Also, as a quick point on what was discussed above on the £4m in maximum liabilities on transfers, I think that covers any performance/promotion-related add-ons, not 'transfers payable'. Possibly linked to Gallagher and Brereton (hopefully more the latter...), but also keep in mind that Armstrong's reported fee was £1.75m up to £3m, and maybe some more add-ons linked to the Dack purchase or anyone else we've purchased in the past few years... If anything, let's hope those liabilities are realised!

It really highlights the almighty f**k up made spending £7 million on Brereton when you could get Maddison, Curtis and Lyle Taylor all for a little more than BB cost.