Yeah, well done mate, focusing on one transfer plus the usual media spiel that you have to put out. Doesn't support an argument in any form. It could have come off, it was a free - you could bring up Hirst as well, Ipswich fans seem to love him? Ennis might not have fit here, JDT seemed to dislike him from the offer. Might do well for Stoke, who knows? That's football.

If we're going to be negative, you're right Fleck is not the best of our signings this window, he's now injury prone BUT maybe, just maybe, he's been brought in to have a word in Garrett's ear when we're 1-0 with 5 mins to go on Saturday... I don't know...people need to see the bigger picture. It's not a computer game, we need to shape a squad and provide some balance for our youth. If Fleck's experience gains us 3 points more this season, it could be vital.

What a shit post. Go back to bed. Take your negativity somewhere else. God help us if the players read shit like this. Board is full of it. I despise Venkys and our CEO as much as the next person, but this stuff is uncalled for. People hating on Gregg, he's bound by some severe restrictions and is as frustrated as us I can imagine, people want a scapegoat - he should not be the subject of your ire.

Read this on the Oatcake Forum last night, as was fascinated to see their reaction: "I work at Blackburn Rovers so have seen him all this season.... Well I've actually barely seen him because he never gets a game. Overweight in pre-season, couldn't stay fit, injured every game, poor footballer in general and I don't think he's even bothered one bit. Not happy with this at all." The second to last line, if true is pretty damning. If anyone knows about a striker it's JDT, and the fact Jon mentioned his lack of fitness publicly pre-season is so telling. I really wanted him to succeed, he showed glimmers, put it down to rustiness, but there's no excuse for a bad attitude. Watch him score a hatful for Stoke now under his old boss, maybe he needs that...

Don't usually watch anything from this channel, find it hard to stomach and sensationalist, but he's on the money here, I think we all feel his rage: https://youtu.be/A8fSVFut220?si=_CfDCKIlNZ1W17Ui

Is it heck, 20 lads shouting Venky's out, apathy has set in. Our fanbase don't know how to protest en masse, just don't have the amount of mobilised hard-core to make any impact. Go on the Burnley forums and you'll see a mirror held up to how pathetic it all looks.

Feel for him, why? He'd have come over anyway regardless of who signs him. I'd love a trip abroad now and be put up in a nice hotel. He's potentially going to sign for 3+ English clubs all desperate for his signature, developing his career to the next level, levels of financial income we can only dream of. I know it's relative but still... I bet this stuff happens all the time, in fact it does, and always has done, we just live an age where we can have instant updates and access 24/7. Imagine the ins and outs in deals 20-30 years ago. Nothing new, except the way we consume this info.

Already happening

That would be hilarious if it wasn't about to come true 😂

Probably last minute confusion from Palace as to what "10x balm cakes per week, some new alloys for my fiesta and GTA V with two controllers" means

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I feel the same about Gally, but for me last night and against Huddersfield in part, is why we need him, or someone like him, I think the tackle on the defender to setup Tronstadt for the 4th was everything we've been missing in recent weeks. His presence alone keeps at least one defender on their toes. It's EXACTLY like in WWII when the Germans kept the Tirpitz in Norway, the Allies had to allocate forces there just in case, using up valuable resources and threatening our shipping lanes. He's a fleet in being. Exactly like it. I need another coffee.

With new owners who could actually implement creative ticketing solutions as well as restoring some pride/identity then I think we'd see more fans return, even if that meant dropping down after administration.

Carter was pulling his shirt was madness but Armstrong made such a meal of it. They're a mardy lot this lot.

How their lad didn't get booked for that foul on Wharton, on the edge of the D, about to shoot, he was late and it was cynical. it's insane. Refs are a joke. Moran gets booked for a shirt pull. Yes we're struggling, and under the cosh. Saints are bound to score, but we're fighting and I'm proud of our showing so far, considering the side we've got out.

Why did Hill not put his foot through it though? Played it back into the middle for Tronstadt, who was on the edge of the D, with 3 Saints players around him. Madness.

Thanks for capturing that and going to the trouble of sharing it - that was the highlight of the game for me, it was just beautiful to watch, had people off their feet in the Riverside.

It's amazing the influence Pep's pass-it-out tika taka tactics have had on the game from top to bottom. He basically pioneers a way of playing, all the little English clubs lap it up and make their own bargain basement copy, then proceed to give the ball back to City at every opportunity high up the pitch, making it easier for them to win games. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome. I totally agree with the OP on standards - keepers used to catch it and launch it. You got the odd sweeper keeper, or an eccentric Grobbelaar character occasionally. Across the board, right down to the lower leagues, every keeper nowadays is punching with a wet fish slap straight to a forward, and they all have to be players of the ball who can start attacks from their own 6 yard box. It's mad.

Was thinking on the way home last night, trying to keep my brain warm: If/when Gallagher is back - does he walk straight into the team? Where would you play him if so?

The great thing about Leonard is that he moves around a lot, seems to have a natural instinct to make clever runs, run the channels, get the other side of his man etc - he does remind me of Rhodes as another poster pointed out. If he can build on that with strength and more nous in front of a goal then all the better. Rovers are desperate for someone to aim at, an "out ball", and once he gets up to speed with the daily grind of the Championship he'll be a real asset.

I keep thinking about this. Everyone wants a striker. We have no money to spend, our hands are tied. Most clubs sell their good players and reinvest, we let millions of pounds worth of talent leave on contracts written before GB arrived. He inherited a total mess. There's every chance GB is frustrated and could end up leaving himself. Hirst, if he scored that penalty against Cardiff, and got one in off his arse in any other game, might have been a different story. He's not scored many for Ipswich but the fans seem to like him, they're playing well and he gets assists. I think Ennis was a relatively free hit, and I'm positive he thought we'd buy someone else further into the window. His appearance record and his injuries are worrying, but there is a player in there if our treatment room can do something, anything with him. Telalovic is/was a gamble, a desperate move with no money available. He has the physique, has scored in the reserves, you never know...

Exactly. It's sad to think really, he'll probably go and we'll never know what could have been... We're playing like this with a threadbare team, and scoring goals finally, all without a recognised striker.

We must be the only team who look more likely to lose the more goals we score. At 3-0 I thought "this has 3-3 written all over it". When we take the foot off the gas, we really do. I don't really know what's happening, just seem to look leggy, we stop keeping hold of the ball, our midfield disappears and it starts to snowball, the opposition smell blood and keep pushing for more. After our 2nd, we started playing simple easy football, keeping the ball, simple passes - after our third we start going all gung ho again, one too many lay offs, balls into danger - we don't seem to sense danger at times, even if the entirety of Ewood does. One moment where Moran laid it off first time straight to them in the middle of the park, when he could of put his foot on it and bear down toward goal, sticks in my mind. BUT I admire us for going for it, the same style, who cares as long as we win, I enjoy watching us play, it's brilliant at times and it gets the crowd going - one particular move of one touching passing in the 2nd half deserved a goal. I thought Tronstadt was my MOTM, yes I agree he gave the ball away a few times and was sloppy in the first half, and along with Wharton seemed to be completely cut out of the game during Brum's resurgence, but he was always making himself available, always moving and getting the right side of the ball, never stopped doing the basics all night. I enjoyed that little midfielder's union celebration with Adam toward the end of the game too, "job done". Other than SS's goals and James Hill's enthusiasm at the end, Wharton's outside of the boot pass to Brittain in the second half, like a snooker ball screwing off a cushion, was worth the price of admission alone. COYB

A "dud DOF"? Without him we wouldn't have JDT. Crazy comment.

Gave up watching that, mainly down to the horrible little cappuccino stain on his upper lip 😂