No one’s boycotting. The fixture just doesn’t appeal after the shambles of the transfer window, the recent let downs and the stupid kick off time. A quarter final, one game off Wembley, would be a different situation and different appeal.

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Looking at the seat plan this will be an awful home attendance. It's the first home cup game I'll have missed in a long time, mainly because its on a Sunday lunchtime. If it was today (even at 12pm) I'd have been there.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine It may have been broken for a while but I start typing www.brf the browser autofills it I must have it as a bookmark.

Well done everyone. I've just come across the new 404 page. Made me chuckle. Its the small things 😃

The fact we signed a player who is only 28 on a free transfer (not loan) for only 6 months tells us where we are financially with our future planning. They can't, or won't, commit to increasing the salary of our bigger earners for the next 3 or 4 years.

At Oxford where he played most of the game, he showed he had a turning circle like a truck. It was so easy to play the ball up to a midfielder who would turn him and run at out goal. This led to him eventually having to drop off his man in order to offer more protection. The problem with this is that against Coventry in the second half, him trying to stay dropped off his man meant that he allowed them too much space to advance in the midfield area onto our back line. He's basically too slow / not mobile or agile enough to handle a midfield two as we do when we play as we do with Tronstadt / Travis. Add into that I believe technical distribution is not his game I'm not sure what he brings. It's no surprise the Preston pressure all started almost as soon as this guy come on last Friday. I was sceptical based on what I was reading before he signed, and I've seen nothing so far to make me think he is a better option than Buckley or JRC, who themselves are inferior to Baker.

Dennis is obviously the headline signing and fair play on that score. Let’s hope he’s available to some degree by mid-Feb. Beck won’t be here next year so it’s surprising Ribiero isn’t on a longer deal as we will still need a left back / cover next year. By pedigree he could be better than Pickering. Kargbo is unknown from a low level abroad. He could be shrewd but I’d be surprised if he turns out anything special. Also surprised how many people think he will be a starter. Woodrow I know little of his style despite his experience. He’s clearly unwanted by a poor Luton but he’s done well at this level before so could prove some cheap added depth…….…. ……..unlike Forshaw, who is an absolute panic move and has looked awful in every appearance. If he had anything left he wouldn’t have been released by Plymouth. Sanderson made sense as CB cover. I didn’t see the Pompey game but he’s looked a bit iffy in other appearances so far. If either of Hyam or Ba’ath was injured it would still worry me greatly. The fact practically all of them are here only until summer I think tells us the club are incapable of committing to anything longer term due to the uncertainty of Venkys funding. Majorly disappointing there is no investment when once again we have a sniff of top 6 come February. From this point it’s another shit show. From the restrictions which are clearly put on the recruitment team it’s probably a very average window by them, with the inability to replace Baker the big failing.

Great result tonight for both ends of the play off picture.

Woodrow seemed underwhelming because, like Forshaw, he can't get in a struggling bottom 3 side.

Away from the Transfer rollercoaster, come on Sunderland.

I can’t see that he’s played a game anywhere since May last year.

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We're not spending £3.5 million on the Egyptian then? 😀

Considering these are all from 1 season, you can't fault the variation of his goals.

Skip straight to the 12 minute mark and then enjoy 😂😂

We uploaded all the info but forgot to press send as we got a curry and some beers in. Oh wait….

For me, someone who signs permanently and would appear to improve the starting 11.

Not sure you quite read the thread through before you quoted that one.

Preston fans really are losing their shit over the penalty decisions in this game aren't they. They seem to all want the ref and lino banned and a public apology. They think their club should 'pursue it' 🤣

Brownhill mysteriously absent forthem today with ruours of him leaving in the next couple of days. That would be a blow.

Both Dolan and Cantwell need sitting in a room and showing them how pointless dribbles, backheels and step-overs at the wrong time just cost us, when doing the basics benefit us. Great to get a derby win under our belts, and even funnier that they have a controversial last 8 minutes to go away and cry over. Brittain, Hyam, Batth outstanding, and Big Mac is definitely on an upward curve.

If we sign Kargbo, it will be telling how long before he is getting serious minutes. We are desperate for quality. Eustace has said that all along. If he's on the bench and featuring for 20 minutes here and there, it's clear all we will have done is bought another limited squad player. He's obviously not the quality we have been crying out for. If he is in the starting XI in one of the first couple of games available, and stay there, then Eustace clearly thinks he will be an improvement. From what I've seen, read and his stats I'm heavily leaning towards being the former. Had we got the Egyptian lad who was unrealistically linked yesterday it would have been the latter.