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And limp back out of it 5 minutes later. I'm sure I've seen a few people refer to Ledley King as the best defender out of any of them, he was just constantly injured.

Absolutely agree. I always thought that G.Neville, Campbell, Ferdinand, A.Cole was as good a back four as any in the world at their peak. Not a chance you'd pick any of the current crop over the centre backs and full backs. I think Gary Neville would also have a strong case for a place.

Out of the 34 games we've won over the last 2 seasons - only 7 of them would we have needed to score 3+ to win (and four of those victories were end of season games with not a lot to play for. We've actually kept 17 clean sheets in those 34 wins.

Well considering Harry Chapman is every so slightly older, he's managed 20 league starts in his entire career compared to over 150 from Kirk. Chapman had only started 4 league games in his career by the time he turned 23, before he joined Shrewsbury.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57145394 Not sure if anyone saw this article on the BBC - I wasn't sure where to post it. Shearer and Richards selecting their top 10 Premier League winning sides. Fully expected Rovers to be left out altogether - but Shearer had Rovers at number 2.

You'd wonder why he would agree to a new contract though. Not getting games and Mowbray doesn't seemingly think a lot of him. By all accounts, it sounds like his attitude hasn't been great since he joined permanently either. After the form he showed at Shrewsbury, you'd think there would be some other clubs willing to take a chance on him. If there is genuinely a chance he stays, I think it's because the managers future is unclear. He might be waiting to see if Tony goes before deciding anything?

It's all happening!!!!

It's the amount of goals that team would score that frighten me. I struggle to see us scoring more than 30 goal all season (even that might be ambitions with that personel), although admittedly with a new manager it might be different.

If we line up with that team next season with Mowbray in charge, we'll get relegated.

Presumably because of this bit (Not my spelling error): "the talent attacker having also spent two years in Barcelona’s La Masia Academy set-up"

No doubt we're waiting until all the decent options are snapped up before getting rid of Mowbray. If WBA get Wilder I'd expect that to be one of the promotion positions sorted next season.

Wasn't his point about the club never being normal since Venky's arrived?

Hodgson's first 28 games (all competitions): W15 D9 L4 Hodson's next 35 games (all competitions): W7 D9 L19 Went from a win percentage of 53.6% to 20%.

I'm sure the fee for Dahlin was nearer £2.5m (Obviously wages on top of that).

It's the amount of money Hodgson/Kidd spent in the relegation season that was frightening. Jimmy Corbett - 525k (Waste of money) Kevin Davies - 7.5m (Huge waste of money) Sebastien Perez - 3m (Talented, but homesick) Darren Peacock - Free (Not as bad as people make out, but no Hendry/Berg) Christian Daily - 5.3m (Huge waste of money) Oumar Konde - 500k (Did he ever play?) Nathan Blake - 4.25m (Did OK in division 1, but definitely a panic buy when Dion Dublin turned us down) Keith Gillespie - 2.35m (I liked him, but hit and miss) Ashley Ward - 4.5m (Hated him at the time, but we've had far worse since, but a waste of money) Matt Jansen - 4.1m (One of the few success stories and about the only good thing Kidd did) Jason McAteer - 4m (Another panic buy, did OK in patches and scored at Turf Moor - good memories) David McNamee - 300k (Did he ever play?) Burton O'Brien - 300k (Did he ever play?) Lee Carsley - 3.4m (Did OK in division 1 before deciding he was too good for us, didn't like the guy, bit of a plodder) To put those figures into some kind of perspective value wise: Freddie Ljungberg to Arsenal - 3m (Sep 98) Sami Hyypia to Liverpool - 3m (May 99) We absolutely outspent everyone in the division and got relegated.

That's a ridiculous scenario. Everyone thinks we have an option for an additional year in his contract (including the player and his agent), yet we don't? For the record, if Mowbray is still here, it wouldn't even have been worth taking up a year extension on his contract anyway. He appeared to be sulking enough about lack of game time, without being forced to say and work with Mowbray.

Knowing Venky's - let's not rule out it being Joe Nuttall.

Although he's only been in the right place at the right time about four times in over 2 years looking at his recent goal record.

Does FL stand for Frank Lampard or Football League? I think either could be applicable.

Wasn't sure where to post this, but their share price has gone up rapidly this week. Shares of Venky’s (India) hit a 52-week high of Rs 1,968.60 after rallying 10 per cent on the BSE in intra-day trade on Wednesday after the company reported a standalone net profit of Rs 77.90 crore for the quarter ended March 2021 (Q4FY21) I'm not 100% sure what that translates to as a GBP profit - but Google converts it to a £7.55m profit for the quarter. Hardly enough to sustain the losses Rovers are making.

It's not just our season that's been dull. Premier League title race is already decided and has been for some time. Relegation places all settled.

If we are expecting Brereton to score enough goals to replace Armstrong then we are in serious trouble.

Fingers crossed it doesn't land with Mowbray.

Gayle's 32 in October. Armstrong only recently turned 24.

The manager should be the highest paid at the club for me (possibly barring the odd exceptional player that generates huge amounts of commercial income - a Messi, Ronaldo, Beckham etc). There can't be many other jobs out there where the staff earn more than the manager they report in to.