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But he wasn’t brought in as a squad player. He was brought in to replace Baker who was 1st reserve for Travis / Tronstadt. Travis was injured so he needed to start immediately. And any other injuries (which happened) meant he would start more. The club was rightly criticised for putting the managers in that position, and the player was rightly criticised as he wasn’t good enough to be starting in those games. So when you say the criticism of his was ‘wildly over-exaggerated ’, I think your way off.

As opposed to being derided for being shite and the stats backing it up. Im the first to hold my hand up if I got a player or manager wrong. With Forshaw, he was the absolute wrong signing at the wrong time.

As you didn’t answer the question I will, there was 0 weeks left. There was probably 24 hours left. There is nothing to convince me that JDT was happy with Telalovic, other than he was given a take it or leave it option on 2 unknowns on deadline day. If he “left it” it meant having no striking option coming in.

Littler has a relatively easy quarter compared to some of the others, but should be tasty from the semis onwards.

As Aspinall won this in 2023, it comes off his ranking points so he will be at best 23rd in the world after this tournament ends. Shows how quickly you can start falling in the rankings

Not this again. Remind us again how many days and weeks were left in the transfer window when JDT, having asked for strikers all summer, was given this amazing choice? If he had said no then there was no striker incoming, so he was given a choice between two players who weren’t up to it.

I think the criticism was due to his performances in the games he started. He started 12 games last season across 2 clubs and won just one. In most of his Rovers starts he was poor with people going drifting past him too easily leading to him having to stand off his man to avoid getting turned. Forshaw Season 24/25 starts P12 W1 D2 L9 For Rovers when he featured 45mins+ P7 W1 W1 L5 He did play a combined total of 78 minutes in the five games at the end where he did look better as we tended to be in front and defending heavily by that point. “Very good” is the over-exaggeration. Plus Batth didn’t look to be on the decline and people are concerned about his age. Forshaw looked old when he featured, clearly is on the decline and turns 34 next month.

Garrett is going to be like Willem Tomlinson. Looked ok when I saw him for Rovers, but his career has divebombed through the footballing pyramid.

He was the first manager open enough to name-checked Suhail as the man to ask regarding the problems at the club. That was good enough for me.

It will be very marmite I suspect. Ive seen it and I think it’s absolutely hideous, but the lad who had it on loved it. Marketing-wise, that’s probably better than being a 6/10 with everyone

I’d be fairly equal, albeit in putting a lot of weight on Sammy being much better that what we’ve got. If we added a striker and a CB we’d be in a very good position IF we don’t lose anyone.

Depends how much value you are giving Sammy, Gallagher and Dolan compared to whichever 3 you are starting up front. Toth is an upgrade. Pickering / Ribeiro I think are interchangeable at the moment.

Matchplay starts this weekend at Blackpool. Littler obviously red hot favourite but should be competitive all the way through, with it being the top 16 in the world and then the next top 16 from the pro tour over the last 12 months. Everyone here on achieved merit over a long period.

I find Dubois is a hard guy to like. He is just character-less. Not too fussed who wins tbh.

Considering he’s not even featured for the under 21s I thought he did ok. I wasnt watching him thinking “he’s shit”

Ismael clearly wants workrate and pressing from the front of the pitch which suits Yuki better. If you look at the good run at the end of the season, Gueye never got more than 20 minutes in any of those games.

You’d be playing top trumps and have the best card possible and you’d lose it to some giant beanpole on one of those. 😂

Height 😀

You’re the touchy one. “Oooh someone criticised a player new player by spouting facts.”. Context on what? I checked how many games he started on his Wiki page and that was it. I didn’t realise from there that he actually wasn’t first choice centre back last season either.

WTF you on about? The poster said he was a starting CB for a team that finished 7th. I thought interesting, so I checked. And he wasn’t. What am I meant to do? Agree and lie just to make us all feel rosey about a new signing. Ive said he is a decent squad signing and an upgrade on Sanderson from last years squad. He will also be more durable than Carter and Wharton. Stop looking for shit that’s not there.

Everton starts a pretty strong team as well.

No. Only started 13 games that season. He started 37 last season when they finished 21st.

Decent squad signing. I suspect he will be a level above Dion Sanderson, but not sure he’s first choice if top 6 is your aim.

Yeah but half of Blackburn doesn't support Everton.

Lol. Groundbreaking.