Please, please, please, please get Chapman in!

"There's a star man playing on the right..."

1 hour ago, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:

Smallwood got married this summer. He was always gonna be doomed... 

Heh. Well as long as he can Rodwell with his Reed, the domestic side of things should be hunky dory.

5 hours ago, Ognir said:

still think a keeper and a target man possible

Would love a 'big unit', alright.

Well, I mean, he's hardly gonna come out and lambast individual players. But yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm distinctly 'sunny-side-up' at the moment.

Perhaps the added competition for the central spots will be the kick up the hoop he might need at this point.

2 hours ago, Tugay's Right Foot said:

I am always gonna be viewing our kids with blue Rovers tainted glasses, lad ??

he has a good scoring record for our youth team and came from Man U. His performance on his debut is pretty much what's he been about. The kind who puts in the effort ala Travis, not a truly lurking fox in the box. Now that he has his debut, who's to say he won't play more. Perhaps a loan might do him good. Was unlucky not to score on his debut, if he puts one into the onion bag, might go on a mini scoring run.

 

again, blue Rovers tainted glasses?

Thank you for the info!

35 minutes ago, Ognir said:

Is the likes of nuttall and Smallwood(this season) being judged by their former rejections is my question? I.e. 'if nuttall is any good, why did Aberdeen reject him?'.. 'Smallwood ain't championship quality because Rotherham released him'..

 

That may not be the case in all the opinions, but I suspect it is in quite a few.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I think it's rather plain to see that Smallwood hasn't really been at the races this season.

He's never been the greatest passer.  In the couple of games I've watched he's been very rushed in possession and played wild, aimless, 'hook-it-on' type passes when taking a touch and getting it settled would have made all the difference.

I'm a fan of his so I'm hoping he bounces back, but his confidence looks shot right now.

1 hour ago, Tugay's Right Foot said:

For Grayson, he seemed composed and did the simple stuff but also not pointless booting.

For Butterworth, he was a live wire, sort of like Travis if you know what I mean. Energy, buzzing.

And I meant I have been tracking them in the U23s, Butterworth more than handles his roles in those games.

Got to say I'm really excited by Butterworth after last night. Can you tell us a bit more about him (provided you've the time and inclination!). What kind of a player is he? Is he likely to break through any time soon?

2 minutes ago, OnePhilT said:

Closing the permanent window earlier than the loan window is probably pointless if loopholes like this exist.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I honestly don't see the point of it.

1 minute ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

To be fair, if Boro get a winger, sounds like he'll be allowed to go.  They thought they were getting Bolasie, now possibly Saville.  

That's the hope, alright! I'd love if it happened. A risk, given his injury record, but a very exciting one at that.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16604103.rovers-return-unlikely-for-harry-chapman-as-things-stand/

Shame.

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Yes. He's an outstanding player and we lack width. It's an absolute no brainer.

Doubt he'll be coming in though. If TM wanted him he'd have been here long before now.

I think it's also down to Pulis not wanting to let him go without having replacement, to be fair.

1 hour ago, Nonnel40 said:

Maybe. Just get frustrated when nyambe is clearly a star on the rise, getting better all the time..

I agree with you on Nyambe. He has looked very strong this season and looks to be kicking on. I think we also missed him at the back end of last season, especially with the collateral damage of losing Benett's drive and energy from midfield.

He's still green though, so I hope people don't get on his back unduly when the inevitable errors come.

3 minutes ago, Nonnel40 said:

Cue JAL to suggest he's nyambes replacement .. ?

Totally unnecessary pot-stirring there, man.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16601513.rovers-set-to-make-changes-after-superhuman-effort/?ref=mac

Bennett and Evans are gonna be rested for this one according to the article. Can't say that's a bad idea, really.

TRUST MOWBRAY'S BLADDER, FFS.

1 minute ago, gumboots said:

That must have been a painful experience 

It's all water under the bridge now. Or not, as the case may be. Poor chap.

4 hours ago, tonyoz said:

I enjoy doing it for some strange reason but I'm on holiday for 2 weeks and I don't think my wife would be impressed if I did the next couple of matches. But thanks for the nice comments.

Enjoy your holiday! Listen, I'm not gonna reply to many of these threads but will be reading eagerly. The charts a quite fascinating, frankly. Let this message of gratitude suffice for the season, hahaha. Thanks for the effort, man, it's really appreciated.

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Blackburn make £6million move for Nottingham Forest starlet Ben Brereton as Venkys look to invest https://t.co/VnvHLdTRBe

Here's the story in full below in case you don't want to give clicks the f*kin' S*n:

Cluck's in

Blackburn make £6million move for Nottingham Forest starlet Ben Brereton as Venkys look to invest

19 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

The highlight was outside the ground before kick off when an elderly couple in their early seventies wandered over to a statue of a Carlisle player. The lady bent down to read the plaque and smashed her head on the players iron boot. Slumped and in pain her husband , with his hand behind his back never flinched, paused, and looked at me to say that's a free kick. I couldn't help but laugh. She was ok and started what turned out to be a wonderful night of football. 

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Just now, philipl said:

 

It could be that Davenport (from what I have read about him) will add in this respect.

Think we've been reading the same things, haha! I hope we haven't been mislead, but I'm expecting a tidy ball-player.

I'm really excited to see what he can contribute.

24 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

As I mentioned in a previous post, I think last night proved that we can play Armstrong up front on his own and don't necessarily need a 'Graham' type target man to get the best out of the team. Playing a smaller front man allows for a more fluid attacking style and relys on Armstrongs movement. I know it was only Carlisle but it did prove we have other options. Having said that, would still like to see a target man arrive! 

Good point about playing with the little crafty lad up top on his own. But just like you, I'm really hoping for a battering ram to be added.

Goal and woodwork rattling highlights here for anyone that missed it.

Interesting to note that's two starts in a row for Bell. Will that set the tone for the rest of the season, I wonder?

Debate on my twitter feed about Eddie Guerrero and AJ Styles, as in who is better. Guerrero by a mile for me. My god he was amazing.

Maybe it's dead in the water, but how as ever. Over the weekend I was chatting to friend from home who is a Forest fanatic, so I asked him for the lowdown on Brereton. Because I'm a sad case and on a break I'll type out his message in full:

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Forest would be barkin' mad to let him go. He's VERY highly rated amongst fans. He's got bags of pace. Great touch. Loves to run with the ball, and has the muscle to upset defenders. He still needs to add more goals to his game. He's played 35-odd games and scored 6 goals. But then again he's only turned 19 and the Forest team he's been playing in has been pretty unbalanced and tactically weak until recently. In the right set up (which hopefully Forest now are), he'll progress. I'd love to see him linking up with with Grabban and the likes of Goudioura and Dias.

A loan deal would be a great deal. But I don't think Forest would sell. But you never know. They sold Oliver Burke. and he was a similarly lauded young lad, and Forest through and through.

So now. Take it with a pinch of salt if you must. Lord knows, if someone heard me going on about Bennett they might assume he was the second coming of Graeme Souness with the social conscience of Nelson Mandela.

This part, 'Loves to run with the ball, and has the muscle to upset defenders' had me drooling all over my phone though.

12 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Mowbray said yesterday after the game that Rothwell has been having to understand what it requires off the ball, so im not sure thats true at the moment with him. I'm also not convinced that Chapman is a lot more defensively unwilling compared to Armstrong, so I did feel that at times it was unnecessary caution. I dont recall any goals conceded that Chapman cost us due to defensive negligence, so I felt it was an unfair tag that he got. He was a victim of his own success as a sub perhaps. You can iron out defensive problems as you go.

A wide man has to offer at least something of an attacking threat, or you may as well stick a full back there.

Same as. I honestly can't remember seeing any or reading the fury about it on here. However I do recall a couple of occasions where he was rather green and over-eager in possession in defensive areas of the pitch. Giving it away cheaply or attempting to dribble when a pass or clearance would have been more sensible.  Not disagreeing with you as such, more augmenting your point.

I haven't seen near enough of Palmer or Rothwell to gauge whether or not they'd be more defensively solid than Harry.

Admittedly, the signs are there that they aren't.

I wouldn't be unhappy to see Gallagher back here. Sure, he had some howlers, some of them crucial, but I don't think the lad disgraced himself by any means.

I know nothing about Brereton, but going off what the fellas above have been saying he sounds like he'd be alright.

However, I might get slaughtered for this, but I really liked what I saw of John Marquis last season. Seems like a total warrior and would be able to lead the front line. Whether he'd be good enough for this level who can tell, but yeah. I'd like someone in like that.

Can someone tell me when did the classic, bruising, battling British centre-forward become such a rare commodity?