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I had this horrible nightmare that Danny Murphy played for us.

Was just having a look at Wigan's record with and without Mulgrew this season. With: W3 D3 L7 - 0.92pts/game Without: W1 D1 L6 - 0.5pts/game So if anything, they do slightly better with him in the side. Compare that with his record at Rovers since we have been back at this level: With: W7 D9 L14 - 1pt/game Without: W21 D8 L13 - 1.69pts/game (Games include cup games, but I've put it as pts/game just as an easy comparison)

I'd sign Mitrovic, Assombalonga and Bamford. Just to further strengthen our wings

He played a couple of cup games for Bournemouth - and friendlies. I bet you Mahoney goes on to have a more successful career than Armstrong. We'll have to dig this post out in a few years

I heard Birmingham fans rated him when he was there, and some Bournemouth fans were disappointed he didn't get more of a chance. I'd personally play him over Armstrong, but I'm a round pegs in round holes kind of guy.

Jack O'Connell was almost 21 when we let him leave after years of going out on loan. He's a Premier League regular now.

He certainly wouldn't. We've got far too many strikers we can play out wide before picking an actual winger

If you compare Rhodes and Rochina in 12/13 - we won 32% of games with Rhodes starting, compared to 46% of games when Rochina started. Then looking at 13/14 - we won 48% of games that King started in, 45% of games that Gestede started and 40% of games Rhodes started in. Rhodes lack of pace, strength and ability to hold up the ball caused us issues when we didn't have the ball or when he couldn't hold it up in my opinion.

Between Gestede, King and Rochina they would have scored plenty of goals I'd have thought. I think it would have improved us defensively as well as Rhodes couldn't hold the ball up to save his life. Gestede could and King could stretch teams with his pace.

Friedel, Emerton, Amoruso, Short, Gray, Gresko, De Pedro, Ferguson, Matteo, Yorke, Stead That was his team in his final home game before he went to Newcastle. Garth Crooks would have been proud of that line up! Still not quite sure who was playing where.

I think he was unlucky not to get a better run of games. I'd have loved to have seen Rhodes left out, and Rochina playing in behind Gestede and King around that time. Think we would have scored a lot of goals playing like that - with a three in midfield behind and the full backs providing width.

Plus, he's not actually keeping players happy with his rotation system anyway.

Tried a search, but I couldn't find a suitable thread for this. Allardyce Motivational Techniques Before the 7-1 defeat at Old Trafford, Allardyce played a montage of film clips on a projector in the changing room to attempt to motivate his players. Obviously it didn't go too well, but of more concern to me was Givet's comment: 'After the match, we were all laughing. The warriors had completely passed us by.' I certainly wasn't laughing after that game. "Good" to see the players could see the funny side.

Invest in another striker, and balance the side by playing him on the wing.

Found this interview with Daniel Williams about a proposed takeover in June 2007. The bit in bold and italics is quite the prediction So any takeover would involve substantial funds being made available to the manager to spend in the transfer market? Yes. The institutions we have who are interested in doing this deal - and they have to remain confidential until the very end if we do end up doing a deal - are very, very large investment institutions and you don't make an investment in a Premiership football club without being willing to dig into your pockets, and make money available to ensure the club does well in the Premiership. Say we bought the club for £40m - not that that's the figure - and then said right go out and get us into Europe, we'd probably find ourselves in the Championship, and then League One after that (if we didn't then invest further). https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/1480619.buy-out-bidder-exclusive-interview/

I very much doubt they see Steele as better than Walton. If you've got high hopes for a keeper, why have him sitting in the stands as third choice keeper, when he would be better getting first choice football somewhere. More often than not it doesn't matter how good your third choice keeper is - he's never going to play. For the record, Walton hasn't impressed me so far, but I was speaking to a Wigan fan last night who felt he got off to a shaky start there but ended up a very good keeper for them. He's still young - maybe it's a confidence thing.

No they won't!!

Yes, if you put £5 on Huddersfield it returns £21. If you put £5 on Rovers it returns nothing.

I'd suggest the song you're refering to could be classed as fairly racist.

No it was in Blues Bar I think the one I went to. Sounds like it's been mentioned a few times though.

I didn't think he was that bad, but I did go to an evening with Flitcroft and Jansen at Ewood once and these questions always come up about the best player they've ever played with. The usual names always get a mention - Jansen, Duff and Tugay. They were also asked who the worst player was, and while they wouldn't 'directly' answer, they said if you'd had a bad game/training session, it was referred to as 'having a Grabbi'.

You get a mention on their forum Tomphil ? https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index.php?threads/and-they-say-we-are-obsessed-with-them.3429092/

Eh? It's not like he's new to the English game.

https://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/sigurdsson-or-holtby.10952/ Poll by Spurs fans in 2014 - where 89.6% of people in the poll rated Holtby as better than Sigurdsson. One has since been involved in a £40m transfer, the other is on a free, but he must have something about him.

When you read the comments, they are praising his short distribution. He seems to fit in well with their passing style.