Dreams of 1995

Tavares looks like a tidy player on the ball but he's clearly used to a different pace. He's far too nonchalant and looks to be a victim of the youth academies mentality of "not worrying if you lose it when trying to play the right way" That luxury ends in senior football. Perhaps he needs reminding of it. There's a time and a place to be cute; there's a time and a place to play tight and safe. If Tavares can master that, then there's a decent player in there

Feeling the same. His football is so negative. I have a few friends who are Baggies and all of them say the same thing - negative and gets found out. I have found it hard viewing this season. He has the potential to take us down

It really doesn’t matter what you spend to be honest. It is the quality that you get for the money If you think our squad is stronger than last seasons then you’re living in dreamland. Could have been £20m or 20p as far as I am concerned - our quality has decreased massively I still think there’s a player in Gudjohnson though. He needs better and more consistent service

This season has relegation all over it. Our tactics are too transparent and very easy to defend against. We are far too wide, which means when we lose possession the other team have plenty of room to break out. We keep seeing it time and time again where their central midfielders are given acres. We made Stamenic look like prime Busquets yesterday. He hasn't had an easier day in his life. The passing angles we create are all wrong. And we are not playing to our strengths. Ok, Ohashi won a great header and almost got the equaliser, but why play a game that relies almost solely on getting wide and throwing the ball in the box and then keep your 6 foot 6 striker out of the squad? It seems madness. Even if his heading isn't the best, he gives them something to think about. I don't like the way Val plays football. Big gaps between the back and the strikers when on the ball; combined with being too wide and pushing too high up when in the final third. We are exposed and quite often we get crowded out when we have the ball because we are too far apart from each other. It is a far cry from what we have been used to For the game, I think Gudjohnson showed glimpses of quality but when he gets the service he's been getting what can we expect? Cantwell looked lively enough but showed he isn't a captain. Ableoisi is a real athlete and has moments of class. Just feel he needs to improve in the final third. I don't really have anything good to say about the rest of them. To a man, poor. Kargbo really pissed me off with his sloppiness and then lack of endeavour; then 5 minutes later he sprints full blast at a lost cause to chase the keeper down. Give over you fool. Not looking forward to this season. Gaffer is on a long contract, the Venky's have form for sacking too late, and I feel we are in a position whereby survival is now classed as a good season. If this is a reset then we've really tanked all the progress made in the last 5 years and gone back to the days of Coyle.

Their goalkeeper has a look of John Buckley about him. Saudi or Norwich?

Boro going 4 for 4. Rob Edwards is a crap manager though. Or at least that’s what we were told when he was linked here

Eh? This is how the academy should work, right? We develop players in the hope of finding a Wharton. When we don't, we sell them to lesser teams for pure profit. In the meantime the players that are good enough come into the first team and challenge or provide depth. It seems a mad stance to take to being annoyed at selling academy players for profit. What that profit is used for is an entirely different argument.

Back on the wind up Earlier in the window you were waxing lyrical about Swansea's moves. They have signed some lad from Sweden who has a handful of goals; some 20 year old from Kilmarnock and a defender who spent his time mincing it in the lower leagues. Everybody else has interesting and ambitious signings - us, they are cheap, underwhelming and punts. I suppose if you always start with such low expectations nobody can call you out for being wrong like you often do with others eh.

Sad to see Buckley leave. Feels like the final remnants of the Mowbray era drifting away. Say what you want but I do miss the feel that squad had. It had a more homely sense about it; we are heading in a direction where 90% of the squad have no connection to this country, let alone the club. Not that nationality matters but nevertheless it feels as distant as it ever has for me. Losing an academy player is never good. Buckley had the potential but never quite reached up to it. Wish him all the best. He obviously knew there was a section of supporters who had nothing nice to say about him hence the comment. For me, a young man who gave 20 years to the Rovers and say what you want about how he comes across, that will be a miss in the dressing room

I don’t think many expected a move to a club like Espanyol if I am being honest. He is one of the most frustrating players during his time at Rovers, for me anyway. His first touch and his end product lacked far too often. Maybe some high end coaching in Spain will improve on that; here, whilst modest improvements from his start, it was incremental gains. This whole situation about right vs wrong is why this sport is as followed as it is. We all have different opinions and the game is played in a different way all over the world. Theres an appetite to be seen as right. In the spirit of pub chat, which this is, over the course of your days following football you will probably be right as many times as you are wrong. And so gloating when you do hit something correctly is probably ill advised. I will nail my colours to the mast - I don’t think Dolan will cut the mustard. The Espanyol move shocked me. It will render me utterly incapable of describing my surprise if he turns out to cut the mustard at the top level. Feel free to call me a perpetual naysayer. I wouldn’t say I am. But on this occasion, I just don’t find Dolan to be a very good player

He doesn’t get that much disrespect on here to be fair. It’s only really roversfan99. Most others see Gueye for what he is - a troublesome presence who is at his level in the football pyramid. He nailed his colours to the mast last year. Think he’s fishing again with a recent flurry of “Gueye is crap” comments. It’s a bit weird considering he’s spent the last 3 years having a pop at Rev for not liking Gallagher……….

Would be a shame if Gueye goes. He won us some important points last season by using his presence to worry defenders. His replacement would need to add a different dimension also

He left the Club in a much better state than he found it in. If that makes him an absolute twat then you are a hard man to please. Then again, this is a recurring theme with you - shouting expletives and general crap posting. Eustace was a cunt before he became the Messiah; I'm sure Val's time will come soon.

That sort of question sits outside of the guidance to be honest. My suggestion would be that it would be in all Parties interest for it to be short term, given the opportunity to make it permanent (via the non-ESC route) if so many minutes are played in 12 months. Either way, it’s cyclical. There will be an opportunity to make Toth into a non-ESC player. It all depends on when his last visa was issued