These were supposedly the average salaries by club in the Championship in 2018/19. No surprises that Villa and Norwich got promoted looking at that - but Sheffield United massively over-achieved. No surprises who got relegated as well with Rotherham, Bolton and Ipswich amongst the lowest. Brentford and Sheffield United prove you can compete with a lower wage budget, but as a general rule of thumb, the more you pay out in wages, the higher up the league you will finish. 15 clubs paid higher average wages than Rovers.

Anyone remember these books as a kid?

Quite possibly. It's a good way to squeeze an extra few grand out of Rovers bigging up the WBA offer.

Kipre was on the bench a lot earlier in the season when Mulgrew was on loan there and starting. He must be rubbish. That's what I'm telling myself now it looks like he's not coming anyway. Softens the blow somewhat.

That's probably a bit harsh on Rovers. They probably could afford his personal terms when he was just coming from Wigan. They probably can't afford his personal terms now a Premier League club is sniffing with money to burn.

Can I have 12 bottles of bleach please?

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It's the equivalent of signing Christian Walton.

https://talksport.com/football/509433/aleix-garcia-manchester-city-fernandinho-replacement/ Good article on Garcia here.

Seem to remember Sherwood scoring an own goal as well. Batty over Sherwood, case closed ?

He'd still get in the team at 51, although I don't think he's particularly keen on football.

I might be wrong, but I don't remember Tim Sherwood winning our player of the year award, but Batty won it in 93/94.

Duff before Tugay for me. Duff was genuine world class around the time of the 2002 World Cup.

I'm surprised you'd class Dunn as being up there. Shearer, Duff and Friedel would be my top three.

Elliott Bennett?

Der's more to Ireland, den dis.

I've had an idea. Why don't we sell season tickets to a weekly "Venkys Out" protest rather than football? Kind of like the Black Lives Matter protests, but with football and beer.

Can the FA rules supersede the governement ones?

Tough game for Rovers first match. Football.

That is very in depth. Good work guys. I'd not heard of about 85% of the names suggested.

Unless he meant Damien Deff.

We can only hope that one day someone invents some way of communicating with people half way across the world without having to get on a plane.

Kind of prophetic to the state of social distancing football stadiums.

Alan Partridge's vision of 20ft high chickens coming to life at Ewood Park.

Good luck for the future Mr Walton.