Waitrose is for the Man City's of the world. Lidl is at least a step up from Netto, but it'd be nice to pull off at least one purchase from Sainsbury's.

I have a memory of my dad telling me to fuck off during the Worthy Cup Final win (we were in the Millenium). I was 10, had lost my tooth by biting into a creme egg, and kept asking him where to put it for safe-keeping. I ended up throwing it onto the pitch (we were on Row 2) in a tantrum and we scored the winner a minute later. I believe that is why we won the cup.

More likely to be the player imo.

But if it made us half as good as Man City...

Not when he's our fulcrum, no.

So he got into L1 team of the year by being good for about 3 months? Not buying that.

I think Callumrovers MAY be the same guy who regurgitates rumour onto every Rovers fan page on Facebook. He's actually been right a few times, so at least a better source than Nixon.

He also said the club wasn't in the Championship last season.

It could be that we have budgeted accordingly and the goalposts have moved tbf.

Yes, why demand something so unrealistic? Even taking your 7 signings at face value, such a high number is likely to disrupt and hinder us imo. I think Mowbrays aim of building on and supplementing what we already have is more sensible. If we sign and loan up 4 more attacking options, I'll be happy enough. If any of those include Armstrong, Maddison and Chapman I'll be virtually ecstatic.

That's how I read it. Could be that TM sees this purchase as important while Armstrong and Chapman can be loans. Missing out on Maddison may allow us then to buy those 2 outright.

Don't tell Terry Crews that, he might cuddle you to death!

If the sponsor was the same blue as the numbers (instead of black), I'd LOVE that kit. Black sponsor makes it look a bit... meh.

Be a superb signing for the canteen, me!

Hope it's revealed by Maddison #WorthTheWait

So if Armstrong has 2 years to go, might we be looking to do a loan deal for 12months, to keep his wages down on our side, with an agreed buyer fee next year? Taking the £2.5m figure as an example: £1.25m loan fee with reduced wage contribution this season, followed by £1.25m next summer?

3 weeks to go and I'm personally getting jittery. However, taking rumours at face value, I'd be thrilled with: Perm: Maddison, Bauer Loan: Chapman, Armstrong. Gallagher I'd also like but think it may be lazy journalism.

Looks like we might have Ward to thank for 2 defenders!

A city supporting pal lumps Davenport in with that crowd.

And yet it got us to the semis. It's actually 3 wins 2 draws 1 defeat atmo.

Signed for the u23s? Davenport sure as hell isn't, he's a first teamer. Rothwell looks to be a like-for-like for Payne. Our squad last season was an improvement on the relegated squad, one which Mowbray got more out of anyway and would likely have kept up with one more game. I don't think we're going down with the current squad, but we need signings to push us into or past midtable.

Did you miss 2 signings?

They won League 1 and we didn't. That's something to boast about.

I would stick with it in future if we have a more varied middle 3. A holding passer, a tackler, and a 'driver'. The driver would be the player capable of bombing forward, turning 352 into 3412 or 343. To keep us on the front foot. One could argue he thought Lingard or Alli could do this, but both were lightweight. I feel Loftus-Cheek's strength may have helped us do this more. Without that variation (as we saw) we end up falling back into a defensive 532.

Having met them both, they certainly are.