Where will Rovers finish this season? : 12th Player of the Year : Bradley Dack Young Player of the Year: Armstrong Top Goalscorer: Bradley Dack Championship Promoted : Leeds, Boro, Villa Championship Relegated : QPR, Birmingham City and Rotherham Dark Horse : Sheffield United Miscellaneous: Mowbray places Dack under house after 7pm every night to protect team morale and not rub anyones noses in it.

Exactly this. In the first half we made Bristol look ordinary. Keep in mind that this is a team that has kept home clean sheets consistently over the space of a year. We could have had 3 had the Palmer and Armstrong chances got put away. We also had some half chances where we broke and just didn't have the quality in the final 3rd to put it in the back of the net. The Elliot Bennett long range effort springs to mind. The huge difference came when Bristol had us on the break and put it away. They had more quality than us and it showed. This league is tough. We shouldn't be under any illusion that Bristol City away is an easy game. 4-1 in the end flattered them considering the first half performance. Yesterday was a lesson in putting away our chances. At 3-0 the game would have been ours to lose but going in at 1-1 must have been deflating and it showed.

Dack may have had instruction not to travel. He's been there every home game whilst injured. Besides, it's irrelevant. It's an argument beyond stupidity. It had no impact on the result at all. Whatever Dack wants to do on a friday night is up to him so long as it doesn't impact on the result or his own performance. You are being outraged for no reason.

You have to be simply making this shit up in your head in order to justify a terrible argument you made earlier in the heat of the moment. You honestly can't be attributing the lack of morale of a team just beaten convincingly 4-1 to one of their injured team mates having a photo taken the night before at a BBQ? Seriously? We were beaten by a better team. Bristol City aren't a small club any more - they were flying high last season and will do so again this year no doubt. I'm more than positive Mulgrew, Lenihan, Bennett et al all have more about them than letting a dressing room previously described as "the best they've been in" fall apart because Bradley fucking Dack saw a few of his mates last night. Point number 1 is spoken like somebody who has never played a sport before. He's not going to be wheeled around 24/7 and being fit to play a combative sport like Championship football is a lot different to being fit to return to an office job. He probably even managed to put his own jeans on! Imagine the shock horror!!! Of course he is doing everything he is doing to get fit. In fact, by simply resting all the time he would be doing his injury far worse. It needs to be a mixture of strengthening work outs, rest and general living. If he simply worked out and then sat with it up high all night he'd be hampering his recovery by 25-50%. Ask any physio worth his salt that. I didn't feel like I "had my nose rubbed in" by another lad having fun. If your Saturday night was so boring that you felt that picture rubbed your nose in it then that's your problem. I'm sure we'd struggle to find a 2nd person who feels aggrieved at others having a laugh. You are a hypocrite of the highest order. You are harking on about making it personal and then go on to blanketly chastise all "twentysomething posters" as you do. Just because you don't specifically name those twentysomething posters you are still making it personal. As an example: I could say that all elderly posters are stuck in their ways morons that need to get with the times. That's a personal attack to all elderly posters regardless of whether I named them or not. I don't genuinely believe that though because I'm not stupid enough to generalise an entire generation on an unfounded argument based on whether a young lad should be allowed to have fun or not. I am sure he is focusing on getting fit by the way. I'm sure he isn't at them BBQs all day every day. It's clear to see by this charade that it's you who doesn't know their arse from their elbow and use this board as a way in which to spout your shite. You have no idea what you are talking about when your argument is based around the fact he's bending his damn knee. As an end note to this utter farce if Dack wasn't performing on the pitch and wasn't clearly as committed to our cause as he is then I'm sure posters of all generations would be annoyed at him if he started to post stories of him drunk. It won't just be the clearly more intelligent, highly in tune with the world, elderly posters that could see through it all.

You've made some weird comments on this site before but this certainly tops the lot. As a complete side note to your ridiculous statement about Dack - what does his age have to do with anything? Back to Dack though. What is unprofessional about what he has done? He's not playing - he's clearly been told that the day before the game. He's given us no reason whatsoever to believe he is faking his injury. There are a team of physios and sports scientists looking after the boy and if they have declared him unfit to play then I'm more inclined to believe them than the twat who chastises him for living. Do you want the lad to be stuck inside simply because he's unavailable to play the next day? He still has to lead some sort of personal life and him taking a funny photo at a BBQ isn't reason enough to suggest the things you have been doing. I have been off work with a serious knee injury before. In that time I attended a Christening, BBQs and even got myself down to the local for a sit down and catch up with my pals. I wasn't faking my injury and I certainly gave a shit about others. If I was caught steaming in a nightclub dancing at 3am, or in Dack's case if he was face down in the garden pissed up yesterday, you will have a point to make. As it stands you don't have anything to make and are simply overreacting to a boy continuing to live his life despite a set back in his professional career. Dack's commitment to this club has never come under question before. He hasn't done anything wrong and hasn't jeopardised his place in the team with this. It's a complete non-story. You are a hawk looking for the next prey to target. Grow up.

I bet he did because I bet the Sky money for the red button is greater than the approx. 1k extra fans he'd have on without it being on tele.

Give us £40m or feck off. That would be my message.

It was more the back to the day job part you lied about But now you mention it your day out in Aberdeen is hardly a European jaunt. Bet you lot were happy about the trip to Turkey though. The Suicide Squad will be kitted out in fake Lacoste and CP Company polos for generations to come.

Stop lying.

Yeah I agree with this. He always ran his socks off up and down the right wing but simply isn't good enough for this league. No doubt he will find a league 1 club willing to take him on. Wish him luck in the future.

This pacey winger better get a move on...

I think we need a slow winger

Don't the PL now follow the "20 is plenty" rule for away games? I don't think Dack will be fit and in honesty I wouldn't risk it. We have a few weeks off after this game and it will give us chance to consolidate our injuries and move forward. Armstrong, Dack and Palmer all carry injuries as far as I am aware. With that in mind I'd look to play to our strengths. Overload the midfield and break up play as often as possible. Snatching an away win is not a shameful tactic to use on occasion. Raya Nyambe Lenihan Mulgrew Bell Evans Smallwood Bennett Rothwell Graham Brereton/Nuttall

I'd change that "zero player sales" to "zero key player sales" as a positive. Retaining Lenihan, Dack and Mulgrew is of course a huge positive. However, I'd like to see us offload Whittingham, Gladwin and maybe Caddis in the last few days. If we can command even the slightest fee it would be a positive. Wouldn't mind Travis going on loan to get a full season under his belt either.

I thought Stephen Hendrie was a shrewd loan signing the season before last. He came with a good reputation from Scotland and my West Ham mate recommended him. He isn't my mate now.

Bolton fans said that about Armstrong too when he was there. Came to Rovers, played primarily out wide and banged 10 goals in. I suppose it's about how you are played as opposed to where you play.

He meant James Husband when he said "big bro". I don't know when English lads started talking like yank jocks but it's the thing to call a mate your bro now.

Ha ha ha. From Brereton to Sylla. My God. If Idrissa Sylla signs as part of this "fab 4" Tony promised us then it's beyond a joke. Where has he ended up? He's still at Peterboro. Still available for £2.5m.

Some of the best away days of my time supporting Rovers were done last season. Walsall away will always stick in the memory. There was character to them clubs - some of the more sterile away days in the Championship can't compare. I felt this during the Hull game even with our good support! Back to Rodwell though @MackemInPeace provided a pretty good post but it's wise to remember that Rodwell won't be the first player not to perform at a club when given a similar huge contract. There could also be a case that Sunderland in recent years has had a culture of losing - and I mean no disrespect in that. A lot of players would have struggled to justify 70k a week there in the past 4 years. The toxicity of the club, in particularly last season, was all too close to home for us. We bought big players on long contracts and then suffered the consequences. Couple the fact that Sunderland had a few rotten apples in the years Rodwell was there. We can't forget Darren Gibson's pissed up rant. The whole place stunk of unprofessionalism and that is ultimately going to impact on the willingness of players to fight tooth and nail for the shirt. I am in no way trying to excuse some of the behaviour of Jack Rodwell but rather don't believe that that type of behaviour will be allowed in a modern day Rovers dressing room. We have characters in that room like Conway who openly dish out fines for lateness; we have Graham & Mulgrew keeping lads in line and Elliott Bennett making sure each players understands and appreciates the fan base. We honestly have a togetherness now that I haven't seen in years. If anything this dressing room is set up for Rodwell to succeed and, if he doesn't, then he's shown his true colours. He doesn't have anything to hide behind here. Our managers, players and, remarkably, even fans are now all on the same wavelength. I wish him luck

Rodwell is here now and he'll my support. Not the most inspiring of signings given the talk of his attitude in the past but we can only judge him on what he does for us. I trust Mowbray not to bring a rotten apple into the dressing room and I trust Graham, Mulgrew, Conway and Bennett not to let it ruin the atmosphere.

Stop smoking whatever it is you smoke

How is he even still a free agent? With some of the utter tosh players that have found clubs this window it's surprising to see a proper centre half still without a club. He must be holding out for a blockbuster deal because I'm sure he isn't short of offers!

I'm not in disagreement just trying to provide at least some justification for what seems like a completely wasted signing

But he's not strong or quick. I assume we will be signing a centre half too. I think Rodwell is a "punt" by all accounts. Doubt he'll play many games

Tyrone the man is simply not fit enough to play in central midfield anymore. Natural progression for older central players is to drop into the back 4. The beauty of it is they have learnt to read the game at a much faster pace so the vision that you get with being a centre half usually creates a very good ball playing defender. Injuries have just accelerated Rodwell's change of position