Yeah sorry. Misread that Stat. It was 9 in 20 Premier League starts which is a very good return. His form at Chesterfield is actually not great statistically with 22 goals in 113 starts, although that is a lot of football league games for a 20 year old too have played. Therefore he had more experience than Brereton, and was scoring at an almost 1 in 2 rate in the Premier League, including a goal of the season contender at Everton. Whilst many people questioned the Brereton signing, I think there was genuine excitement at Davies' arrival.

Kevin Davies at Southampton. 24 starts / 12 goals (11 premier league) Brereton - 41 starts / 9 goals.

It does happen.

Eh? There is one post which says Walton cocked up for their goal. There are 3 posts praising him for a wonderful save. Im sure sometimes people just imagine a torrent of negativity on here

Was better than Lowe, Smallwood, Guthrie, Akpan, Williamson etc. Had he came in during the championship he would have been viewed on as an average player. As it was, he became a symbol for the clubs decline from Tugay, Flitcroft, Bentley Reid to Andrews and the midfielders we have had subsequently.

Who get's angry? It would be like getting angry at people talking to kids about Father Christmas. ? Seriously though, I don't want anyone to stop posting any rumours (which is exactly what they are). Like the Nicko days, it's the people who believe it and then beg for more information that I shake my head at. If the poster was going to post names and info they would do in the first place !

Overall I agree, but if there was one fixture on paper that would be poorly attended it would be a mid-week game in January against a bottom-half London side with us languishing in mid table. £10 a ticket wouldn't have boosted that gate much as previous promotions have shown. @Mattyblue points out that Wigan was a unique situation pre-Christmas and that, tied in with a promo, worked even with the game being on regular Sky. Promo's have to be for attractive games to get new / floating fans in. The club needs an ongoing policy to attract more fans and bring fans back in. I think my point is that once this game was rearranged it was a lost cause for the club to look at any pricing or initiatives for this fixture, the horse had already bolted on getting a decent crowd in for this game. The only thing that would have helped is good form / hope. Stopping the red button broadcast was just pointless.

Can't remember. It's just stuck in my head once thinking "he was right".

Fair play, maybe they did, but I don't recall it.

I was just about to post the same thing. Only unleaded has ever revealed names that have not been linked elsewhere before, and then interest has come to fruition. Others seem to come out with names that are rumoured to be close from elsewhere as though they are breaking some big news. Of course it may well be that they have confirmation that the rumours are true from within the club, but until someone pulls a name out that hasn't been mentioned anywhere before I take everyone with a pinch of salt and the view that they are acting like they are ITK.

Attendance against Wigan was up because we were recently in form and fans suddenly had a belief we could achieve something. It was down against qpr because we have been recently out of form and fans no longer believe we are challenging for promotion. Very little you can do from off the pitch about the above on cold, January night matches. Hence why reducing these uninspiring games to £10 a ticket has never worked and proved nothing.

How much didn't the parachute payments cover that spending? Where they even aware of the forecast budgets after relegation for years +1, +2, +3 etc... Did they know how much they were paying those players? I don't know the answers, but they may well have been unaware and 'badly advised' on that as well and therefore had no idea what they were ultimately spending / risking.

Quick thoughts. Tosin and Lenihen did well defensively although Tosin gave it away a bit too much. Nyambe I thought was very good in the first half, especially on the overlap, but like against Wednesday seemed to play within himself in the second half. Bell was poor first half, getting skinned a few times and distribution poor. He defended better second half. Travis needs to improve his distribution but he was MOTM for me. He's becoming a right niggly little git in a positive way. Downing and Holtby were OK without being spectacular. Armstrong was lively and took his goal well, although the defenders want shooting for giving him that amount of time. Gallagher tried to make a nuisance of himself in his random right wing position. Rothwell was outstanding for 45 minutes before injury. Not sure why after 70 minutes they all moved 10 yards deeper and couldn't put their foot on the ball. QPR didn't suddenly start playing well, we just couldn't do anything other than lump it long and give it them back. Result wise it was a very good evening and keeps us on the periphery of the top 6. As for the 1,500 who flocked to buy tickets after the red-button option was removed, they obviously didn't cover the gaps from the 1 in 3 season ticket holders sat around me who decided not to bother.

Does that not imply it's £10 for UK residents to watch it in iFollow, and £5 for oversees. If so, it's plainly obvious why it's not on the red button (not that I disagree with the decision)

I'm the same. I get home most nights around 7pm. It will be in and straight out tonight to get to Ewood. Whilst the season is still 'alive' I will go down, but in 3 weeks time if we are 10 points adrift of 6th then I'll put my feet up, open a beer and just press the red button.

??? You skipped the last 3 pages then?

This one snuck through didn't it. Why are we still SO upset? Personally buying a club and then allowing an agent to catastrophically run it for what appeared to be his own financial gain against the wisdom of the established board is probably the main reason. The reason fans are still SO upset 10 years down the line is because in that 10 years we haven't been close to being back where we were when they took over, and they continue to run us with no structure or plan. Instead of being financially stable club punching above our weight, we are a financial wreck trying to compete at the level we have been for most of our existence. If this isn't the time or the place then you shouldn't have brought it up at all. But as you have brought it up then spit it out.

Apart from dismantling a 10 man Sheffield Wednesday last time out, its a style of play which has looked inept and toothless for a lot of the season.

If we are so good, how come we just played Wigan, Huddersfield, Forest, Preston and Birmingham (twice) and couldn't stuff any of them. We're a decent Championship side who is too inconsistent to challenge.

Exactly what people said about DG at the start of the league one campaign when he was left out. Remember that great run that actually almost got us into contention in November / December. Guess who started 5 out of 6 games? Against Preston he did more in two touches to bring others into the game than Gallagher had done in 75 minutes. He just doesn't fit in thanks to the spending narrative of the manager.

I get the logic behind the transfers of Gally and BB, but not the fees we paid. Gally had looked ok first time round and scored goals. However he had since spent a season at St Andrews where he was awful. I speak to a Blues season ticket holder on a weekly basis through work and he was forever telling me how bad he was performing. He then spent a year doing nothing at Southampton. As a backup striker I understand why a club would bring him in, but I don't see the logic in spending £5million and making him your main man when he had shown nothing for two years. To use the Gestede comparison is a bit silly as, although both had shown little in the previous seasons, one cost £250k and the other £5mill. If you remove the Arsenal game, it would appear that Breretons career at Forest was one of promise rather than performances. However I'm sure the major flaws in his game were present then, and whoever conducted our scouting reports were simply wrong. Gambling on him developing for a fee of £1 mill or something is logical. £6 or 7million is a disaster.

Got this for Christmas and just read it in 3 sittings. Starts off as a decent footy biography with a Rovers interest and becomes a more riveting read (sadly) post accident, especially with the story being punctuated with the views of the other contributors (souness, flitty, Sven, Peters etc..) What surprised me was the amount of time from accident to him leaving Rovers. I recall his goals at Villa Park early in his return, but would never have said he was here for 3 and a half years after his accident before he was released. I always remember him as having left by the time of Stead, Yorke and Emerton.

I don't think Smallwood has the reputation Marshall has that probably makes managers wary.

Can anyone point to which orbit Tom Lawrence's shot is currently in.

Waggot once again confirms the match day charge is introduced to put fans off attending, as they don't want last minute attendees as it screws up their catering and staff requirememts.