Dreams of 1995

What like AAK? Dack needs to understand footballers do live in reality. If you do the crime, do the time. Silly not to attend your community service. Big fine coming his way by the club I hope and some discipline handed down by Conway Mulgrew etc.

Where have I said or insinuated that he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt? Besides, there's a huge difference between (allegedly) refusing to take your place on the bench and simply being injured and still living a normal human life! Not like you to take context away from a situation in which you want to point score though.. As K-Hod said, the truth will be somewhere inbetween. I'm actually quite happy the youngster is banging on the door for more football. I'm not happy if the rumour he refused to be on the bench is true though. EDIT: Isn't it also interesting that that you want to give this youth the "benefit of the doubt" for his entitled beliefs but spent yesterday slamming the generation he's from for exactly that. "Interesting"......or weird?

Hope it's not a case of Evans playing for a contract over a team. He isn't the same player that we have seen the last few years that's for sure.

You would suspect not. I like Smallwood but I don't think he's good enough for this level. Thank him for his fantastic services and let him get onto a club where he can be a central figure again next summer. He did his job and did it well.

I'd suspect Smallwood's reign as King is coming to an end. Long live the King

Without a doubt man. Seems odd that Travis has this idea he's going to be playing a lot of games. We invested heavily in midfield this season so is he expecting to unseat Nyambe? Or does he consider himself better than our current midfielders? A handy player and great potential. I hope he controls his temper though.

Ah. My bad. I had a phone call last night and this came up. He's usually reliable but didn't know it had made the paper! I'm very much inclined to believe he spent the weekend out with his girlfriend as opposed to "being given time off" too.

Heard rumours of a small bust up between Travis and Mowbray on Saturday night. Apparently Travis is disappointed not to be getting the game time promised when he could have gone out to Port Vale on loan and play every game! Supposed to have gone to Mowbray when he found out he wasn't in the starting 11 voicing his discontent and spent the night out with his girlfriend rather than go on the subs' bench! (She is a bit of alreyt mind you) Anyone with any more knowledge of this?

Is Williams all that much better defensively? He's never really filled me with confidence and tends to get skinned quite a lot. In terms of being a wing back you'd prefer to have Bell. He can beat a man, cross a ball and has the pace to get back in. You are right though - with a very attack minded Palmer he looked exposed. Didn't he get player of the year in league 1 after spending most of it in the wing-back position as part of a back 5? You can tell he's more comfortable further forward. There's always little moments in a game like that for every player. I'm talking generally. He doesn't show near enough for a modern full back in my opinion. Besides, anyway, I hope you agree with the fact that in order for Tony's plan of rebuilding a team challenging for promotion left back/centre back is a position to strengthen!

You'd imagine a centre half is next on the shopping list. We desperately need a forward this summer as Graham's days are numbered hence the spend on a young lad with potential. He's here now and the next player needing replacing is Mulgrew. He is a class act but we have to be realistic and acknowledge he's in the twilight of his career. You can get a very good centre back for £7-10m.

Ah but this seems to be picking up far more than the odd cross and tackle. In terms of positional awareness Williams is one of the worst out there. Keep an eye out next time he plays. Good players make themselves available for the pass - create an angle for it. Williams doesn't. He leaves people under pressure. Then when he does get the ball he usually brings it back inside and kills momentum. The easy ball they call it. Then, because of his desire to come inside, he's often found wanting if a break happens and the right wing open for the opposition. The weak link in our back 4 is definitely our left back.

This is quite useful. Fair play to you. Be interesting to see the stats of Williams in a game. He has this reputation as a steady Eddy somehow but he's nothing of the sort. That said Bell isn't of much use either. A weak area for sure.

It goes back to the need of a top defender. Boro and Leeds should come 1st and 2nd in this league because their defence is by far better than others. Their goals against column indicates that. It's worth noting though that we haven't conceded more than others around us. We are showing the hallmarks of a good side but still need a few more key players in areas of the pitch to push on. As Parsons has said - this squad is a midtable championship side. Villa, Derby & Stoke is an incredibly tough run but any game in this league is winnable as has been shown. We will be okay this season that's for sure.

One of Dack's friends put a Snapchat story up of him beating Samuel at FIFA. Absolutely outrageous really. I thought he was injured? If you saw the way he was moving his thumbs you'd have to say his heart is obviously more into his ultimate team than it is Blackburn Rovers. The way he was sat too. My God. The boy was bending his bleeding knees. Where's the bag of frozen peas? His crutch? He's injured for Christ sake why isn't he sat in silence with a thermometer in his mouth? The bloody youth of today. He even had the nerve to crack a smile when he scored. How he can manage to move his facial muscles when he can't play a game of football is beyond me. I can only imagine this is shattering news to the likes of Mulgrew and Graham. Quite how we can expect them to piece together the remnants of our team morale I don't know. If we are to succeed in this league we need to ban FIFA, fun and the entitled youth. Back in the 70s and 80s if a player was injured he'd sleep in the damn dressing room until he was fit to play again! Ignore the fact that footballers used to drink, gamble and go out clubbing win lose or daw back then.

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...