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Just for info. Transfers championship teams Expenditure on incoming players this season. Figures in millions of pounds. 5 teams less than us. Leicester city 44.1 Leeds 35.9 Coventry 30.03m Southampton 21.55 Stoke 16.09 Middlesborough 9.05 Sunderland Expenditure 7.9m Hull 7.15 Millwall Expenditure 6.24 B/Ham 5.69 Bristol city 5.41 PNE 3.84 Ipswich town 3.5 Norwich city 3.12 Plymouth Argyll 2.48 Watford 2.06 Sheffield Wednesday 1.3 Rotherham 1.1 BRFC 1 WBA 0 Cardiff 0 QPR 0 Huddersfield 0 Bristol Rovers 350k

Diversionary thread. Bit like religion, the lottery, bread and circuses. 😉

May as well have some fun and entertainment. We’re going nowhere under the V’s and SWAG whoever the manager is.

After today’s game, for a fleeting second I thought perhaps Mowbray wasn’t so bad (never liked him) in comparison to JDT. But let’s be clear, he had far longer and far much more cash to do better. You can talk about formations, players, managers but ultimately, as we all know it comes down to Vs, SWAG, Pasha. You pare down to the bone and you get this today. Any of you more knowledgeable on here know if it may happen that the Venkys might turn on the taps again (similar to Mowbray getting his splurge of cash)? Never? If we go down?

Absolutley. Along with timekeeping taken out of refs hands so no aggro there, clock only ticks when ball in play. Sin bins. Refs miked up so we all see and hear the decisions. Fans intermingled, no aggro. Adult game, adult fans (in attitude.) Before anyone says it, I like football and am a season ticket holder. 🙂

Waterlogged pitch? Called off? Hmm. Vinnie Jones aquaplaning towards the Jack Walker? ;-)

2/10 overall 7/10 given lack of cash, SWAG, Venky’s etc etc Necessity is the mother of invention. Thus, good to see the net being cast beyond the usual suspects from certain agents. Lots of ifs in the squad now. Here’s hoping.

Not my intention matty. The Pears stuff has clearly been implied and stated.

Has Jim started the relegation thread yet? 😉

Attaching blame/scapegoats for the loss to: .Pears is nonsense (that’s not saying his performance was without fault; what about the dopey centre halves for the third? I have no remit for Pears either way, but it will be fascinating to see if W. steps in to make wonderful saves that prevent similar losses as today. Seems as though many on here think that we will walk in broad sunlit uplands once he is dropped.) .The ref (that’s for the weak) .Plymouth players for being a bit rough? (what else would you expect them to do?) .Hedges? (hero last week for a worldie? That’s what you get –inconsistency- for a player of his calibre. For the record, I like him-he’s gives a 100% and that’s all you can ask for) .The Venky’s (getting much warmer) The whole team looked leggy (over training?) We battered them? LOL. we lost 3-0. We didn’t take chances, looked tired and jaded as the game progressed and allowed an inferior team to bully us and finally, through abject defending, beat us. A smart team who might not be at their best goes away with a draw. On another note, I am big fan of A.Wharton but the recent talk on these boards of a Prem player going for upward of £25 mill seem somewhat premature. Obviously, I hope it happens but will the funds be reinvested anyway?

Steady on, that's a vision I don't need...😄 From a different Lazy Sunday pertaining to SWAG... ".....he's doing me crust in/It's no good at all"

Plenty on here too Mike 😉 Unsurprisingly, I guess, with blue and white vision 😉

Lines persons give offside, no? So hardly a reffing issue. Thought the ref was decent today.

Utterly criminal from Gallagher there. Losing the ball cheaply in midfield. Luckily, their player had a rush of blood and blasted over.

Sell Pears 😉

The one before our goal? Not sure, need to see again. Hope the ref hasn't got a bad one in him that costs us.

Ref generous to us again -Wharton stood on attacker's toe -could easily have been a pen.

Hedges playing keepy uppy with his left and scoring with his right 😄

Enjoy us on the turnover-keep it well, move it quickly forward but then lack that quality final ball/finishing. Need to watch the opposition stealing when we play it forwards when our player has back to their goal. eg Sammie lost it and they were in, and from one of our 'predicatble' corners, a poor ball forward (from JRC?) to Wharton was stolen and they were in. Best piece of quality was the strike that hit the crossbar.

Hedges ran out of puff, felt a hand on his shoulder and fell over theatrically -bought it nicely.

3rd one from Trav 😉

2nd bit of good work from Pears What no screaming about the ref? I mean, Trav should have been booked all day long for that challenge on the edge of the box 😉

That's the excuse lined up then 😉

Incidentally, I mentioned to my neighbour in the ground that the ball over the top was likely to undo us. Carter was easily rolled at least twice and they were making useful deep lying runs. Seems something we are prone to.

Such a shame about the result. Rovers played really well today after going down to 10. Kept the ball well, nullified them and maintained a good shape/tactics given the situation. Just tiresome listening to fans a) moaning that we should press them (yeah right with 10 men) or b) stop passing it around and get it long more quickly (yeah right to who exactly with 10 men?) For all the nonsense diversionary stuff on Pears, Dolan, the fact we were down to 10, refs (what a surprise and wrong as usual), it comes down to simple stuff. Brain dead defending from Pickering and 2 simple over the top balls which we didn’t deal with. Heroic otherwise and I’m often very critical.