I think that'd be Rothwell tbh

I still feel like we're going to surprise everyone and sign Maddison this window.

Depends what you're into

Scaled down for sure, but I think the 'type' for each is the right analogy. I refer to Downing as Zurab because he's an all-rounder that is an adequate replacement for the other 3, but should never start ahead of them. He's a bit of everything and being a bit pedestrian comes with that kind of territory unfortunately. If I had my way, we'd have a 'Todd' in situ and one of our young cbs would be the Zurab. Probably Wharton or Platt.

I think we have our Nelsen (Mulgrew) and our Samba (Lenihan) and our Zurab (Downing) imo. We need our Todd to complete the set and then I'll feel our defence is reliable for this level.

Bunjaki: (Verb) - To squeeze Jackie's bottom.

Hope the words 'signingS' and 'busy week' imply more (possibly some permanent) business to be done.

Aren't we all sadists for supporting Rovers?

Freidel Neill, Todd, Nelsen, Gray Emerton, Reid, Savage, Pedersen Dickov, Bellamy I think that was our line-up for an away game at Sunderland once. Look at it! Only Pedersen who was a soft-arse.

Just goes to show we don't know until the 11th hour what deals Tony is after. After the meltdown for the last week, he's seemingly justifying keeping quiet on deals. I think the failure to sign wingers thus far points to 3 at the back, 2 wing backs, 3 in midfield, with Dack in the hole behind a lone striker. If Samuel adjusts his style to play like he did vs Everton, he could turn out superbly.

Why???

I think it shows the value of playing lower down and earning your way up when you look at the recent England squad. Entitlement is a cancer that will tear teams apart.

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.