Just when you think Mowbray can't sound any more ridiculous....he outdoes himself.

Yes, at least they have grass there 😂

I'd agree with most of that - but I reckon Newcastle will be looking at better players than Armstrong now they're loaded.

Or just pop forward a few years, find out the numbers for any big Euro Millions jackpots and then come back and buy the club.

Absolutely correct. Over the last three and a bit seasons, he's played 133 games and missed 30. When he's played we've won 37.6% of games and that drops to 20% when he's not played. We've lost 60% of the games he's missed - a figure that drops to 34.6% when he plays. I don't particularly rate him either, but we're better with him in the side, although I suspect that's more to do with what we replace him with, rather than how good he is.

What's Judan Ali up to nowadays? He was always linked with the job when it was available.

He's having another good season in League 1 - right in the promotion mix at present.

There's a central midfield that's getting over-run if I ever did see one.

Is that a fact that the wage structure is one of the highest in the league though? The only numbers I could find were from 2018/19 season (so a few years ago now), but that had Rovers with the 16th highest wage bill in the division. I can't imagine we've increase our spend on wages massively since then. In fact, Rovers wage bill was two thirds that of the average wage for the division. Source:

If he gets us promoted, he won't be sacked. If he doesn't get us promoted, he won't be sacked.

That's probably a fair point. Who else have we ever paid more than £7m for? Cole, Grabbi, Davies, Rhodes, Ferguson? Rhodes a success, Cole a success to a degree (kept us up, won a trophy), the other three were disasters.

I get what you're saying, but considering some of the players we just randomly extend contracts of, it's disappointing that we've not got it sorted by now.

New to the market in Chile....

I guess it depends entirely on his personal situation, but I'm taking that. He'd be gutted if he ended up moving in January, getting injured or reverting to his previous scoring form. How often do Rovers have a 20 league goal a season striker? Armstrong, Rhodes, Gestede, Jansen....then are we at Shearer?

They're offering over half of the money now though? I know he's got 34 games (with him missing at least Coventry) to score 10 more, but all it takes is an injury or to him to revert to form of previous years. I'd be cashing out. £1,258.50 is not a bad return off a fiver!

Am I reading that wrong - or are they offering you over £1,250 to cash out? I'd be taking that!!!

Phil Jones was only 17 when we threw him in against Didier Drogba - and he was fantastic.

Or 'football' as some people call it.

Someone on here once compared watching Brereton come on the pitch as like watching Paddy McGuiness (or similar) enter the field on Soccer Aid. He really didn't look like a footballer at one point. Still got a lot to work on, but the improvement is incredible. Keep it up BBD!

You beat me to it!

When was he ever the next big thing?

There are two things that are definitely not going to happen 😂

He had 4 x £500 doubles on - the one with Beardsley first goal and Newcastle to win 3-0 was going to pocket him £52,000.....then Darren Peacock scored 😂

He'd "only" actually bet £2000 - so not quite as stressful.

I used to get stick when I was about 17/18 for saying there was no footballer I'd rather watch than Keith Gillespie on his day. He was unplayable when he was in the mood. Used to give full backs an absolutely torrid afternoon. He could just ghost past people. Unfortunately those days were too far and between, I suspect due to off field issues.