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JHRover

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  1. Fulham signed him on deadline day. On loan. We had oodles of time to sort a deal out before that.
  2. Neither have done anything above League One level or at a club remotely near the size of Rovers. Impressive work at small clubs in the lower leagues with no pressure. I'd rather we got someone proven and capable of getting a club into the Premier League. Plenty of obvious candidates all of which will be employed somewhere in the coming weeks and months.
  3. I think it is quite obvious that the club won't even have started talking to him about a new deal. New contracts seem to be off the agenda at the moment and Mowbray can't even get a budget. Expect some fictitious reports of Nyambe rejecting a new improved deal to emerge during August. All to prepare fans for his sale.
  4. If I was getting paid tens of thousands of pounds a week to play football with a career of 15 years max then yeah. I'd move to Timbuktu if it was the right thing for me and my career. The life of a footballer is a nomadic one. You know that each year you might have to uproot and move across the country. If a 2-3 hour drive or train ride upsets his girlfriend so much then he'll be glad he isn't good enough for Real Madrid or Man City. He isn't going to have much of a career if he is only able to go to clubs within a certain distance of the South Coast under his girlfriend's orders. The Everton point remains. We all know if they or City offered him a chance to earn more and develop a career and progress in football he would snap their arm off and his girlfriend's domestic preferences wouldn't enter the conversation. Its only appeared as an excuse here because we either weren't able to entice him to stay for financial or football reasons or because we dropped another clanger but they won't admit it.
  5. So Everton offer him a deal this summer after being impressed with his performances. He's going to reject going there because his girlfriend doesn't fancy living up here? Not a chance. A convenient excuse.
  6. Good news though for Caley and Co. who will be able to work for a fraction of the hassle and aggro, and be home in time for tea. Anyone else explain why we need to pay circa 50 stewards to stand around inside the ground watching the game when there are no fans there? Surely one stationed on each gate outside would suffice and save thousands in unnecessary expenses.
  7. Anyone who watched Reed play for us last season would have seen a real talent and an asset to try and keep. He's the sort to build a team around, guaranteed to increase in value over the next couple of years. For me he should have been priority number one last summer and the £5 million Gallagher fund should have been earmarked for him instead. However, Mowbray mucked the lad around. Expecting him to play out of position whilst Richie Smallwood played there was ridiculous and seemingly based on Mowbray wanting to reward Smallwood for his League One efforts more than anything else. Then towards the back end of the season Mowbray had Reed sat on his backside on the bench whilst he experimented some more. Clearly if Mowbray wanted him back that much he would have had him playing. It seems another cheap loan was the ambition but it backfired when Fulham snatched him at the last minute. Another case of us going round in circles on targets for weeks or months whilst others are decisive and act quickly. We saw similar with Bauer.
  8. I thought Middlesbrough were making cutbacks and were in FFP trouble?
  9. Good cover at CB or up front? Who?
  10. Those of limited means have to make their limited resources go far to get out of this league. It is no coincidence that those with multiple promotions from this division all have reputations for football that is simple, but effective football, that won't win awards for attractiveness but works consistently. Bruce, Allardyce, Hughton, McCarthy, Warnock, Dyche. Those managers work with what they have and build from the back. Not sexy, but they get the job done more often than not. Mowbray is a dreamer. Always has been. Remember his WBA on their way to finishing bottom winning plaudits for 'nice' football and him being unwilling or unable to change it to give them a chance of survival. Plenty of nice ideas and intentions. But this isn't Barcelona and unless the owners make vast sums of money available we aren't going to be able to get the players together to play our way up. By the time we do our prized assets will be picked off and it starts again. Sort the defence out, get fitter, learn how to go direct and be a threat from set pieces and forget airy fairy possession statistics which are utterly meaningless.
  11. IF we have cash to the tune of multi millions to spend on someone like Whiteman then fine. Highly rated, could be a good addition. But here we have the paradox of Rovers these days. What cash we do have should be directed towards the gaping holes in our squad. CB and GK. If the season started tomorrow we could cope without Whiteman. We couldn't cope without at least one new decent CB and at least one GK. Who would be surprised if we went early and spent a bob or two on this lad for a non priority position only to spend zero on the critical positions and end up scrambling around for frees and loans late on? It also wouldn't surprise me to see Stoke come in for Evans at some point. I expect he is high on O'Neill's list. I wouldn't be keen on that one because him and Travis seem to be the perfect partnership.
  12. It comes down to planning and direction. If you want testing friendlies against quality opposition then you need to be lining them up early doors and perhaps even paying them for it. These pre season tournaments require arranging well in advance. I get the impression that we don't do anything proactive on that front and are last to sort anything out. Also cutting costs wherever possible. Hence very few decent standard friendlies and very few foreign games, instead lining up vs Barrow and Bury trialists. Can guarantee a friendly game v Dunny's Barrow.
  13. Given footballers are seemingly limited to Ibiza, Dubai, Mykonos or LA for their summer holidays then a lot are going to struggle with the quarantine rules. You'd hope Rovers had spoken to them about this or the players themselves had the sense to watch the news about this sort of thing but I wouldn't bet on it.
  14. They'll probably make exceptions for footballers anyway.
  15. I think they are in Ibiza. Rothwell has gone out this morning too. Is Ibiza not now exempt from the quarantine rules?
  16. Expect it to be Liverpool. Klopp was impressed that we went to Anfield to play them in June so expect he will be happy to return the favour.
  17. Its probably sat in boxes in a storeroom at the club shop waiting for staff to be unfurloughed so they can unpack it.
  18. The referee didn't give the red. He could hardly see from where he was. Either the linesman or fourth official have told him to give a red. During the Brentford players complaints he removed his headset and covered the speaker, I think to tell the Brentford player that it wasn't his call but not wanting to involve his assistants in that admission.
  19. Derby, Forest, Fulham or Brentford will become the Sky golden boys now. I would have preferred Villa down but the three that have been relegated don't provide the usual Mowbray 'huge giant clubs' mantra to hide behind. Bad news for Waggott and wanting to surrender half our stadium to away fans (whenever they will be allowed). Wycombe, Bournemouth and Watford will struggle to pass 500 each.
  20. It wouldn't surprise me if Tony pins his hopes on City loaning Tosin out again and us being in line for another season. Tony's address book isn't a long one and I see him as having a preference for turning to players he knows rather than those he doesn't. Happy days you might think until we get a Harrison Reed scenario where we wait all summer hoping for a cheap deal before he gets snatched away elsewhere at the 11th hour. I'd also be looking at the Liverpool u23s - our willingness to go to Anfield for the warm up game a few weeks ago went down well with Klopp and will probably see us win favour on generous loans and future friendlies.
  21. We've given him a 'run out' in the last 3-4 pre seasons. Then when the real games start he doesn't feature. There can't be much more Mowbray has to learn from watching him. Either he thinks he is ready now, or he doesn't. If it is the latter he probably needs a permanent move somewhere at his age.
  22. That's exactly how this lot operate in a nutshell. They've done this since the day they arrived.
  23. Absolutely, but you could argue those deals were done pre-pandemic under very different circumstances. Deciding to splash another months wages out on those players happened in the middle of the pandemic, after Mowbray had told us all how tough it was for Venkys and how Waggott had told us all to forget about any sort of refund on tickets. So it doesn't stack up. No money one minute but enough to look after a few nice lads for a few weeks more the next.
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