I take it you missed Wharton at the weekend. He completely bossed midfield on his own.

Buckley looked like he didn't know what a football was on Saturday. At least Dolan gave an enthusiastic performance.

So it's how we ended up against Stoke apart from Hyam replacing Ayala, Dolan upfront will be a handful but can't see him being a goal threat 😕 So happy to see Adam Wharton in there and JRC out though. Gutted that Ayala's out, we're going to struggle.

He was a kid playing at a relegation fodder team where he'll have had to make his own chances so you're being a bit unfair. He'll have been 20 when he signed for Rotherham. I'm not defending it, we really need to sign a permanent CF as well and offload Butterworth. As a loan I'm not against it.

30 appearances, 4 starts.

I get that it's a bit of an unknown whether he'll step up but failed? He had four starts for Rotherham, the rest of his appearances were as a sub. And he was a kid playing in a poor team.

We must have a plan in place if he goes. We will won't we? 😳

Championship refs should be registered blind, thick or crooked. For our match with Stoke at the weekend we had a ref who decided to blow up to give us a free kick TWICE when we were in the box in a goalscoring position, missed a penalty, kept booking Rovers players when one of our players was the victim of GBH. Then Stoke decided to timewaste right from kicking off the second half. Every few minutes a Stoke player would be rolling around on the pitch for a few minutes. In the last ten minutes two Stoke players threw themselves to the ground at exactly the same time feigning cramp. Injury time comes... 5 minutes added on.

Diaz needs to leave Brereton at home tonight. Buckley dropped for Wharton. Travis at fullback. Hyam debut. Dack behind the front man, not as CF.

That's our guy.

I tried.

... We aren't gambling 5 million ...

Having fun? It’s called trolling.

Burnleys business is paying off for them. They looked a bit shite until they signed a couple.

No idea who can step up to play in front of Dack. Kaminski Travis Ayala Hyam Carter Morton A Wharton Hedges Dack Brereton ????? - who knows? Markanday? Is there anyone?

So if he scores 20 goals in this league you wouldn't be happy about Venkys spending £5m on him?

It's optional isn't it? If he's no good send him back. If he's firing in goal after goal, get the £5m paid.

If TM had signed Brittain and Hyam I'd think... FINALLY we've spent some £££ on defenders. Imagination wouldn't even cross my mind.

Completely bonkers but he'll keep you stable. Likes to have half a season off. Once played a centre forward at right back, for no reason. Played same CF as a winger whenever he could, for some reason. Once played an aging defensive midfielder as a false 9, for no reason. Played one of the league's top assisters on wrong side, for no reason. And he likes to nullify the opposition over playing to his teams strengths which can be frustrating. Decided that when sitting in second place and knowing that his top scorer would be on international duty or could get injured, he decided not to bring in any cover then openly spoke about his decision in the local press - stating that, in basic terms, we don't play with a centre forward here. On the other hand you'll have some games where you'll play like Barca. Well maybe not Barca but he'll have them playing well. Next match he'll make 5 changes for the sake of it, and they'll play like a pub team. Known in these parts as Tombola Tony.

He's another Gallagher in terms of goalscoring.

Second half Saturday we created plenty there was just no goalscorer.

I hope they play him and he's as crap for them.

We'll see if he's naive if he plays JRC at fullback and Dack as centre forward again. He should drop Buckley too.

I remember seeing Richard Brown at Jans Petrol Station after a match. He also played in the 7-1 drubbing of Norwich. I remember seeing him on the team sheet and thinking bloody hell this is going to be a tough game. Norwich were top of the league I think. Tony Dobson wasn't crap by the way.

I'd have four at the back and have Dack behind the front man.