I was never keen on Robinson, he had a tremedous kick and was fairly agile but his positioning was very poor- got beaten quite often from long shots. Non-the-less, a steady(ish) enough keeper. We've had much-much worse, Steele has got to be the worst keeper I've ever seen in a Rovers shirt. I'd go as far to say that if we'd have dropped him sooner the season we went down we'd have stayed up. No idea how we managed to flog him to Sunderland, but I think it's little coincidence they went down too the next season.

Great result in the end. If Stoke lose tommorrow there's a bit of a gap developing between us and, dare I say it, 'the chasing pack'. At this point I would be offering contracts with a few conditions, if we get promoted there's a hefty increase in salary- a bit of a carrot to stay and get us up.. And if we don't go up, their wage has been bumped up a fair bit, but there's a release fee in their contracts so any would be suitor can offer market value and take them off our hands...

To me at least it's quite simple. I'll give an analogy. I have a couple of houses, I've run into some unexpected fiancial difficulties that means I am struggling to pay their mortgages.. I can either borrow some money to continue to pay the mortgage whilst I arrange sale of my assests then pay off the remainder of my outstanding debt and have a bit left over. Or I can choose not borrow speculatively to protect my expensive assets and lose them for a pittance. If you translate that to football. We have multimillion pound assets on the cusp of leaving for a pittance. You just need to speculatively borrow the money, offer them what they want, then if you can't afford that within your budget sell them for a premium. Surely that makes better business sense than losing them for nothing.... The fact we have so many assests running down is a major cause of concern...

What's Mani said?

Lost for words.