They are the most effective midfielders playing today ....... For Brum. Gallagher makes me laugh. He is genuinely fucking useless. JRC having a good game and aggressive, a rarity at Rovers these days. Dack is a God. Our defense is poor on crosses into our box. We will win this.

Keith Stroud is Ref, saw it in the digital programme.

Rovers 3 v Small Heath 0 COYB

If they can be accessed by an IT geek via a laptop they have a chance of discovery.

We have a very winnable game and I expect us to put out a team to win it. I'll be watching it. I love Cups, well that is until it probably features ManUre v Blood Money in a final ... Yes, I know that's the other one. COYB

Losing 2-0 at HT. All MU, we have barely got forward at all.

Pre Wagner and when they were in turmoil. Oh ... That's already been covered yet conveniently ignored. The 7 in 8 though is absolute.

I wonder how the NFTs are doing

Including the Burnley debacle it's 7 points from 8 Championship games including 3 complete humiliations. Looks a wee bit like a collapse. The wins against Norwich in the league and Cup distort what has happened.

Union and Brighton are both owned by Tony Bloom. Bloom moved an asset into a higher value PL after one good season in Belgium as one of those 'projects' just in case he made it at PL level. He hasn't. Also a nice way to fund Union.

I am sticking with: "I'll wait for the photo"

They let him take penalties too.

Check the average height of men in the UK. A gathering of not tall men. Locally average height is increasing quite a bit and many youngsters are taller than me, the average UK male.

Apparently so. One of lifes unanswered mysteries.

Yes

I read that somewhere. Colby Bishop, tall striker, 1 in 2 this season and looks like a CF

He hasn't been giving it much for a while now. Rovers have had his best .... 6 months. I wish him well, a good guy, but he's an ex now and I've no fondness for those ....

Spot on. A guy who could cross and a guy who could do a header. Job done. But that sort of approach would just making coaching easier ... Can't have that ...

Daily Mail! OMG, I'll leave it there. Case won.

Bloody hell, that has to be a fucked up cursor world record.

He played at tier 3 and 4 in Germany, scored at a good rate and got picked up by Union in Belgium and had a great season then on to Brighton for 6 million Euros. Bloom owns Brighton and Union. Nice easy way to fund Union? Hasn't done much at Brighton, sub appearances, just a few minutes, no goals. On loan it would be a decent signing, he can score but it does remain to be seen if he can cut it at Championship level. I hope it happens, even if it's just on the basis that he can't be worse than Hirst

OMG well done Sir. Top post.

We can always rely on Big Sam to liven up any thread in danger of dying of boredom and where the current topic is "can we pull off the loan out of Pears" That is where we are at.

The credit from me is for keeping us safe in the PL and I like percentage football when played by competent players, which he had. He also managed us in reduced financial times under the Walker family who failed to see what the PL was on course to become.