That question fails to acknowledge the power footballers / agents have.

Absolutely.

Sorry JHR but to let JR off the hook for wanting to go to a rival at this point is, in my opinion utter tripe.

Sorry, but I can’t understand any of this, sounds ridiculous to me. Mowbray, signing him, building him up in training and helping his development to the point he is in (an actual JR quote from less than a month ago) “the form of his life”… is flushing his head down the toilet? Manipulating opinion? People have eyes pal, they make their own mind up on his performances. 27 year old, has the first consistent spell of his career at this level and he wants to leave? He is the problem.

You’ve said all I wanted to say. Bridges burned with me. What an absolute wanker

I’m not sure if this is allowed; Joe Rothwell can basically “fuck off” as far as I’m concerned. If we where mid table, bottom of league etc - at least the argument is based on level. The worst part is he can do whatever he wants for free in 5 months. It’s not even as if we’re in a position to demand anything. Ridiculous turn of events.

This is the “why can’t we force people to sign contracts” thread😃

I still shudder when I remember Jal called him a “dud” after about 30 minutes of a cameo. He has really kicked on. Shows what love and support can do for confidence, and in turn productivity on the pitch!

Amen Certainly an issue bigger than just one man’s decisions, the clubs budget or ambition. I can’t remember seeing so many key players out of contract across England, uk and European football.

A quick look at our opposition tonight… You mean the team that are owned by someone trying to sue Derby for losing 50m+ for missing out on promotion? Why do you think Steve Gibson was so unhappy? Because Derby effectively cheated the rules. Look at them now. Also Boro have been overspending (past turnover) for over a decade. FFP is not a shield, an excuse or a way of defending any owner in the league. Its a set of rules all teams have to abide by. There are ways round the system - what about selling your training ground to your own owners? Sheffield Wednesday’s owner Chansiri, got caught out with dodgy mortgage values and fell foul of those rules. Will we get away with it? I hope so, because an embargo means no money at all spent; not just no million pounds signings, nobody on a free, nobody on loan. If there’s a problem with “fairness” it’s FFP and the way they’re enforced to make smaller teams to suffer and pay less wages. This is not excusing the damage the owners have done, and it’s certainly not forgiving them for sending our turnover south, but could a few of us bare in mind that not every single problem starts, an ends, with our owners.

Comparing it to smack? Is that anything other than ridiculous? If we’re using our own experience- the advert we used when winning the league was for a product that’s far more difficult for me to kick.

The difference between inhaling something burning, and something in vapour / evaporated is night and day. Whilst Id agree with anyone that the legality of nicotine is worth discussion - vaping is inherently safer. That’s a fact, not opinion.

Ridiculous comparison

Don’t get me wrong, I’d be made up if TC returned in his prime but I just can’t see how it’s possible

How on earth could anyone expect us to sell someone with 4 months contract and get a key player of a rival, who’s contracted for another 2 years, and probably on more than our most expensive player… With a transfer fee too? Come on sparks, this isn’t realistic

Only problem I have is that part in bold, as it’ll ultimately end up meaning people are addicted to nicotine without even ever smoking. Similar to the alcopops, but I guess this probably is hypocritical, as I enjoy the odd bitter lemon IPA

Have you considered; Maybe it’s better for his remuneration?

Maybe it’s just my interpretation but part of the reason why we’ve been far better this season is creating chances with less possession? Ie countering from chances forced through pressing? I agree with everything else you say, I just think it may be more suitable now to use him in one of the forward roles as sub, as opposed to that number 10/ F9 role

United “allowed his contract to expire” you say? 😂

0 in last 2, but 10 in last 12… maybe a bit premature to get on his back 😂

Mellor - where did you get this interview from if you don’t mind me asking?

Bit of an issue really A few people have remarked how he is probably most suitable to the false 9 or one of the deeper central roles Im concerned about the amount of pressing he would be expected to do in Buckley’s position I think he will most likely be used as an impact player in his return, one of the front 3, for the final 20/30 minutes.

Where to start with this! Firstly - the actual issue is another knock on from pandemic, according to Recoverite (it would seem). The choice of sponsor isn’t a problem for me, vaping is far healthier than smoking and is partly an aid to quit whilst cigarettes are still legal. Much prefer a local company too, over a big betting / alcohol / some government dodgy donor like Randox. The timing obviously isn’t great, but surely to god, someone at the club must’ve flagged those horrendous shirts before signing off? You can literally see the other logo below! In a time when were about to have a run of being on TV for a month, surely something else could’ve been organised and in a more professional manner?

You are correct - for Fulham last year. I’d completely missed he spent some time on loan for them.

You literally said it was a signing about attracting other fans; “I've never seen him once🤷‍♂️ although looking at the Rovers PR machine on LinkedIn its going to town on the fact he's South Asian and Indian heritage and our brilliant owners etc... Looks like a signing to attract more of the Indian heritage fans to me...” What is wrong with pointing out that I think this is irrational and a stupid thing to criticise? I never said anything about being racist either, I said I don’t understand why anyone would choose one specific issue aka his lack of statistics (league/first team football) in the face of everything else?