He spent £800k on fucking Leo. He will have part authorised Travis leaving. Use your fucking brain. But to @ABBEY’s point, yep the fact budgets are all over the place, money can’t get in and we employ charlatans to run the club is ultimately down to the idiots in India.

Sold Wharton, loaned out Travis, brought in the crocked Fleck and already lumbered us with Moran. The man responsible for the football side of things, Gregg Broughton ladies and gentleman.

We were in a horrendous slump in form and hurtling down the table. We then decided to sell our best midfielder which left the manager pitifully short in midfield. Fleck was the only person subsequently brought in as replacement / cover but hasn't been able to play any worthwhile minutes at all. I'd say the business of selling Wharton and replacing him was Fleck was pretty high risk given the situation. However, I would balance that out by adding McFadzean has proven to be many times better / more useful than I thought he would be.

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Great sentiment, and I have been strenuously saying he's far better than Wahlstedt. His mistakes are now very infrequent and he is improving with age and confidence. However your first paragraph is bollocks. Kaminski was "not in the same league" as Pears. Lol.

Don't be daft. We don't do ground renovation.

Let's hope someone channels the inner Roy Wegerle within themselves tonight

Everton given 4 points back on appeal.

Which takes you back to the original decision. If he's stood offside, and making the defender who would normally play the ball have to run around him and possibly not get to the ball, then he is interfering with the defender so it should be given offside.

There's always the casual fan interested in a game like this. There's 4 going from my work who, despite all being Rovers fans and having a history of attending previously, haven't paid to go to a game all season.

No it was "What I do know is that money can’t buy a thriving and positive culture in a football club or any organization." when talking about how close the Liverpool squad and Klopp all seem, and that's true. Sometimes you can bring in all the big money signings you want but it won't equate to a great team spirit. Look at the end of Roy Hodgson's Ewood career.

EDDIE HOWE has told his Newcastle United players to put last night’s thrashing at Arsenal behind them as they turn their attention to their “biggest game of the season” at Blackburn on Tuesday night.

Yep. Fair play to the Liverpool kids, but as a Chelsea fan you’d be furious at that extra time performance. Having said that, the Liverpool keeper was outstanding in normal time.

You really don’t fancy us in extra time or penalties then.

Being nowhere near the top 4, and having not won anything for generations, Howe would be stupid not to be giving the FA cup his full attention.

Never rated him that highly untill he ran rings around us a couple of weeks ago.

With QPR at home to Rotherham and Sheff Wednesday at home to Bristol City this weekend, the table could look a bit more grim for a lot of the teams around the bottom if they lose tomorrow.

A win and Wharton to go right through Ashley Barnes would make my weekend.

So good you put your name on it.

That's nonsense. People wanted Walhstedt out the team because some of the goals (Huddersfield opener, Watford at home) were stuff you'd really expect your first choice keeper to be dealing with. We know Pears has clangers in him, but they seem to be further apart than Leo's one every other game. I don't know how saying Pears "Not being great himself" is massively overstating his abilities either. I prefer @RevidgeBlue take on this. I wanted Wahlstedt in early season as I thought he would be better. However I'm not stubborn enough to admit I was wrong. People seem to either not want to admit that, or not want to admit Gregg signed an absolute dud for a significant fee.

The problem being that Leo was conceding from shots which shouldn’t really have been any kind of test. Despite not being great himself, Pears is simply a level above Wahlstedt.

If we win it’s probably worth £250,000k to the club even without the share of any gate receipts in the next round. Add in gate receipts with the right tie and it could be worth £500k+ That could blow Swag’s targets out of the water.

I'd like to win either here or on Saturday so we can have a go at Newcastle. If the gap to the bottom 3 is down to just 1 win, I think we would ring the changes next Tuesday.

It's not just when he is on on the ball. On Saturday he seemed to come out of tussles very few times with the ball and at times in that second half they drifted past him fairly easily. I'm not digging him out. He's clearly the first name on the team sheet in midfield and has been the one transfer success of the season. But he's had to play every minute of every game since mid-October apart from when we sacrificed him at Huddersfield and Southampton due to being well behind.