Austin according to someone covering the South of Talksport this morning is on 70K a week, Southampton prefer to do a perm transfer to get him off wage bill, then keep him as an option before loaning out. Take from that what you will. Cardiff, Us, Forrest and someone else I can’t remember in Championship interested. I can’t see it personally.

Did Gallagher get off the bench last night? 

Should be starting every week until he gives someone a reason not to be. Seen enough of him now he’s class.

I’m not confident or a win or draw. They’re a good team and our confidence is at rock bottom.

I don’t feel we should set up overally attacking against West Brom at home. This isn’t a game for a Palmer, Rothwell or Armstrong to start. We need grafters who aren’t going to be giving the ball away every other pass.

Thrown Downing in there because WBA are a big team and we’re short all over the park.

                            Raya

Nyambe  Downing  Mulgrew  Williams

                       Reid   Evans

Bennett              Dack                 Conway

                           Graham

This team said I wasn’t at Sheff United away apparently Travis was very good. Maybe a place for him out wide but I can’t see a better midfield two available to us than Evans and Reid.

Boring draw we’ve played them recently and probably won’t go through. 

10 hours ago, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:

Who wants an easy draw or an away day at one of the big boys? Trip to the Etihad for me. 

My old man is a City fan so I’d love for us to get them. Tempted to say Dingles on current form. When is the draw?

Let’s just move on. Sentimentality will get us nowhere. 

3 hours ago, philipl said:

QPR and Brum W4 D1 L0 are the two form teams of the division...

All good runs come to an end mate. Do you not think we’re capable of beating them both at home?

After a tough run of fixtures we’ve got QPR at home, Rotherham at home, Preston away and Wigan away. I’d be targeting 9/12 there personally. 

There is no way anyone has seen enough of him to make a proper judgment yet. Sorry the lads hardly played. 

2 hours ago, john.leigh said:

Oh we’ve got blue halves

oh we’ve got white halves

oh we’ve got blue halves

and there’s never been anyone quite like us before 

Brilliant.

I’m only 27 so sadly never had anything to do with the Blackburn Warehouse scene. Kind of blows my mind Sasha has played around there. Seen him and John Digweed at Glastonbury last time was class.

Maybe next time we promote a promotion challenge you could have “Heaven knows it’s got to be this time”.

I think it’s fair to say we don’t have the money to sign strikers and wingers who are better than what we have so we’re in the loan market for those. If we can stay up this season using loanees that’s fine by me, we’ll look to bring in the right person next summer.

We’ve signed two midfielders which was an area we were clearly short in, both are young enough to get better and Mowbray has improved several players since his arrival.

If he feels he can spend what bit of a budget he does have on quality defenders as they’re cheaper than attacking players then we’re making progress.

We’ve been an absolute mess for years, finally someone comes in with a long term plan that isn’t throwing money around we don’t have and people are getting all negative again. He’s said time and time again it’s a slow build and he wants the right kind of players at the right age to build a better squad.

Give the bloke a chance he’s only had one full season here and get got us promoted. For me this season is about staying up. If he keeps us up maybe he’ll get a better budget next summer, unfortunately for us there’s fuck all we can do except wait and see. 

22 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Worrying that a CB seems to be a permanent signing.  Would have thought winger and striker more of a priority.

I think that’s more due to you aren’t going to find a striker with top quality in our budget but could well find a top quality Championship centre half. If we aren’t going to be banging them in for fun like we did in League One, we’re gonna have to be hard to score against. 

What position did Samuel play up top or out wide and how did he do? He scored a decent finish.

Started every week for Huddersfield when they went up. Great signing.

Just now, RovingRover said:

Okay. Maybe not November alone, but his performances over his time at Rovers did gain us promotion.
If you break them down. He got the sole winning goal against Scunthorpe United (3 points), he got a goal and an assist against Oxford United (3 points), the winning third goal against Peterborough United (3 points) and an additional assist (1 point) for us against Scunthorpe United.

Without those 10 points, we would have finished behind Shrewsbury United and had to rely on the play offs. People are happy to slag off Marcus for his time at Rovers, but we should remember that he contributed to the cause.

 

I couldn’t agree more. He never set the world alight but he did a job and without his contribution we might not have gone up. 

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Anybody know how about him?

He was on Jamie Vardys non league academy on the tele. I remember watching it out of curiosity thinking it was a bollocks PR stunt but the lad did sign for Stevenage and I’d see him crop up every once in a while on Sky Sports News with a goal. I was quite happy for him he came across a decent lad.

All I remember about his game was he closed down and ran around an awful lot. I must admit I never thought I’d see him in a Rovers shirt but happy to see how he gets on. Look at Vardy or Lambert. Lads out there who can score at higher levels than they’ve been given a chance. 

I think my major concern with Samuel and Nutthall is they ain’t grafters. You’d think with being out the team last season when they got on they’d run themselves into the ground but no.

If/when Graham picks up and injury you’re gonna have one of the two moaping around up front thinking there’s only one other player fit to take my place anyway, I’ll be starting next week. We need someone in at least as good at Samuel and Nutthall to keep them interested.

36 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Parson, how far off the first team squad is Simmonds do you think? Would he challenge for a wing position?

Challenge who? Conway haha?

We need a striker and wide men. We’ll stay up.

3 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Agree that Walker is not convincing, we don't seem to be getting the benfits of his recovery pace or overlap in attack . Plus his passing range seems limited.

Arguably we could move Dier in there. More composed, and will pass his way out like Stones and Maguire. Not quick though if we get caught on the break.

Jones and Cahill both just don't have the quality on the ball to slot in.

Walkers in there for his pace. He won’t drop him and I don’t think he should. 

4 years is quite the deal as well gotta be said. Hopefully he turns out to be a good one. He’s only 19 so some sections of our fan base would do well to bare that in mind.

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

His distribution is the weakest part of his game, he was really underwhelming when he was playing in midfield to the extent that he couldnt get a guaranteed place amidst the shite group of central midfielders we had at the time.

He moved up a level when he went back one to centre back, his athleticism as @Ladyboys of Bank Top allows us to push up a bit due to his recovery. He is also very brave and hes the reason I find our constant yearning for an old school centre back slightly puzzling, when we have Lenihan who will put his head where it hurts but also has that athleticism.

Theres also the added dynamic of why would we want him in the "Smallwood role" when we have Smallwood?! 

Lenihan stepped up his game a lot when he moved back to centre back. He is a good centre back at Championship level whereas he leaves a lot of be desired in midfield.

Exactly. Lenihan is already a good Championship centre half and he’s still a young lad. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him playing Prem level in his later 20’s.

23 hours ago, Mike E said:

SHOULD be making. 'Should' does not mean 'yes'.

Sorry, had to get a ThickOfIt quote out my system today.

Joe Rothwell is the right man for the moment. 

I wanna reserve my judgment until I've seen him play a good few games but on paper seems exactly the kind of signing we should be making. 

Ledders would have been England captain if he had functioning knees. Credit to him for playing so well at the level he did with the injuries he sustained.