1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

You're thinking of the rest of us. Mowbray was pretty happy with him, evidently he thought 'Robben' or something.

The only successful 'wide target man' (player role name nicked from FM) I've ever seen was Mario Mandzukic. Apart from that time Hughes successfully stuck Santa Cruz on Evra. 

So no surprise that Sam Gallagher wasn't up to it.

Get in!!

No Morton!

Having to constantly swap between Vale and Gallagher shows how desperate we are for a striker though.

4 minutes ago, goozburger said:

Not sure how reputable this Alan Richardson from Twitter is, but he says O'Brien to Rovers is off, and he's on the way to Middlesbrough.

He jointed Twitter today and has 0 followers, so not very. I would be surprised if he joins us though.

10 hours ago, sympatheticclaret said:

Crikey, we've won one game in the Cup this year and you've got us in the quarter-finals ? I hope you're right, but frankly I don't think the Club will see it as a priority .....

You've won every home game since god knows when and all that stands between you and the QFs are two League One teams 'ont Turf'. You'll be automatically promoted at a canter, so I'm sure a winner like Kompany will see this draw as a massive opportunity.

52 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Burnley have Ipswich and then Sheff Weds / Fleetwood in the cup. The chance of the home derby being moved has probably increased again.

As somebody who can't make the derby now it's on the Sunday, I was actually happy (felt wrong though) they have a winnable fifth round tie should they get through. That was until I saw Sharpe acknowledge the possibility that they could keep the derby on the Sunday and play the FA Cup QF midweek instead, surely not.....

23 minutes ago, phili said:

 

The recruitment team and GB must also knock a £100k a week of next season's players budget, so no new deals for Ayala and Dack I would expect.

 

Our wage bill must be a lot smaller now than it was say two or three years ago - we had players like Holtby, Downing, Evans, Johnson, Armstrong, Lenihan, Mulgrew then that would have all been on a decent wage. But they've in the main been replaced by players like Buckley, Carter, the two Whartons, Brereton etc stepping up plus a couple of penny pinching loans each season. 

How small can the wage bill actually get??? 

26 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I stick with Leeds or Brighton. 

If we played Brighton at home they'd beat us around 5-1 like they did Middlesbrough and it'd be a reminder of a) what we were, they're similar to us 2005-2008 and b) how far we've fallen. Bit like when West Ham hammered us at home a few years ago.

Not for me thanks.

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Fergie would take the No 9 shirt and wear it himself before he’d play either of those.

Have thought before actually that, even at his age, JDT would be better playing himself upfront over Hirst, Vale and lately Gallagher.

1 hour ago, Paul Mani said:

im as sure as I can be that most on here would’ve gladly waived Ben off on loan at the start of the 21/22 season.

What after a much improved 20/21, playing a few games for Chile and scoring at the Copa America in summer 21, and right after losing Armstrong and Harvey Elliott? Absolutely no chance!! 

Gallagher’s contract was discussed for a day or two on here then forgotten about. And he’s not exactly a fans favourite. The way some people are going on you’d think there’d have been riots outside Ewood if Brereton had been given a new deal two years ago (when, as is often forgotten for some reason, he was in the middle of a much improved season and the reason he was called up for Chile in the first place - a new deal for him two years ago would have been positively received, not that it should matter of course as has been pointed out). 

1 hour ago, SuperBrfc said:

A few clinical finishes from Andy Cole in this one, but the main man of the video is the Turkish maestro. Your favourite Tugay assist? I love how he made Gerrard look silly, but my favourite is the lofted pass through to Cole at Loftus Road. Superbly finished by Cole too. Back when football was alive! 

 

What a bloody lovely footballer. The one for Cole v Fulham is unreal yep (love all outside of the boot through balls so also like the first v Wolves) but the one for Jansen at Ipswich.....absolutely perfectly weighted. Hero.

49 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Isn't Serie A on BT Sport?

It is yep, I'm a weekly watcher. James Richardson presenting the Sunday night games 👍

3 hours ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

I'm fairly sure we do have a pretty decent sell on, actually. I forget how much exactly, but not a trivial %. 

 

20% of the profit made on his next transfer will be owed to us, according to FM. 

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Unlike the charge up the table last November/December, we’ve not put any kind of run together since August, so never really feeling like we are getting some momentum behind us. 

 

We did win four in a row in October, but that run followed the shocker at Wigan which, albeit to a lesser extent, is a result people haven't really recovered from along with the Burnley/Preston games (especially when you see how bad Wigan are....). And then after the four wins it was a terrible performance at Coventry, so you're right about stinking defeats following wins.

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Purely aesthetically, I would say that the last manager to display such boring football disregarding effectiveness for a moment is Appleton. 

 

Lambert after his initial honeymoon I'd say, sort of December 2015/January 2016. Terrible. Albeit that was only a couple of months and after that I did think we'd started to play some decent stuff until he decided he couldn't be assed anymore.

6 minutes ago, RV Blue said:

Improve or get out, I’d be running out of patience quickly.

If he identified the likes of Hirst, Mola and Szmodics in summer he also needs to take a look at himself.

54 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

and Zaroury to the Cup Of Nations which could weaken us. 

Don’t think there is one during this season - January 2024 looks like the next one?

26 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

blimey still going on about him. Sacking him was right but the biggest problem was who replaced him with. 

 

Oh Chaddy 🤦‍♂️ if they were daft enough to sack a manager who had us in mid-table PL and reaching cup semi finals, in what world were they going to appoint somebody better?

5 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Buckley is from Failsworth, I think. Sure I read he was a United fan…

He is yep. He’s posted quite a few Instagram stories from Old Trafford before when he’s gone to watch.

2 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

Remind me who got a yellow card for a blatant dive in the box? Get a grip, everyone does it and Harry Kane is a past master. 

Presumably these people would have been gutted had England and Raheem Sterling won the Euro’s. 

Everyone does indeed do it, it’s 2022 and there are fewer differences than ever between footballing cultures.

Adam Wharton over Morton any day.

12 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Happy hour is over up there…

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/thats-on-mowbray.1595567/

That forum is such a good read after they lose, and that's after winning three of their last four before last night. If they ever go on a run of 2 wins in 17 it'd be amazing. 

20 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

thats jdt`s big problem,he still thinks he`s in sweden where walking football is played,someone should tell him he`s in england where it`s competetive everywhere,even down to schoolboy level

He surely can't think that, he spent most of his playing career at the very highest level (including in England albeit briefly). He must know, especially by now, what the Championship is about.

But, if he didn't learn from Wigan, Cardiff etc earlier in the season, and he clearly didn't learn from the Dingles disgrace.....will it be any different after today? If we carry on playing in this way, we'll plummet down the table.

Neymar not taking a penalty for Brazil in a WC knockout game is madness. Yes, presumably he was fifth, but always a good chance it doesn’t get that far - mad.

Well done Croatia!

What a superb goal.