Usual Villaneuva caveats apply

Forget we lost Reed? He's ginger too.

They've never worked together before have they?

It's only a few pages back TM was being criticised for not blowing smoke up the backside of an imaginary Patrick Bauer. Maybe he can smooth talk after all.

No way he'll be on 20-40k a week. Surely?

Over 400 PL appearances. Wow. Let's hope he's more Hughes/Tugay at this age rather than Murphy/Whittingham. GO ON STEWY LAD

Right, sack this - I'm going to start making stuff up to make me feel better. From Rovers website, TM - “I saw Charlton’s games in the play-offs and they’re a good football team. “I saw them live at Doncaster and they played really well that day, with a back three, good possession, good technical players and a threat up front." Mowbray was watching Doncaster vs Charlton. We're signing John Marquis.

Can't say i'd be too excited with Stewart Downing signing. I thought he was crap when he was good. Still, early days in the window yet and of course he'd get a blank slate in a Rovers shirt.

Yeah but if we don’t sign him now people will kick off at us being “beaten to the chase” so we have to!

I know I come across a bit of a happy clapper on here, but I think we can beat Charlton at home lads. Christ.

He started alongside Smallwood with Evans on the bench. Maybe they aren’t good enough? I think Travis last season was certainly above the level of Mansfield and Bury.

No he didn't. He was knocking on the door and got a start, virtually ever present since. I think we do pretty well with our youth players tbh. Jones was special, and remember we were a top 10 PL side at the time... If Hanley/Nyambe/Raya/Lenihan/Travis were operating at that level there's a very good chance they'd have been moving to big sides for big money too. Not that i'd want them to!

They already do!

That penalty rule being enforced gives a ridiculous advantage to the taker. How the hell are you meant to save with zero forward momentum? Start behind the line? Really needs looking at. Expect to see a lot of retakes/cards next year.

Ellen White could be Harry Kane in a wig. Class finisher.

On current evidence, it's as likely as us missing out. Whatever, wind yourself up over baseless assumption - I do wonder what you get out of it tbh

You and I must read that differently - it says that he didn't want to sign a contract at Charlton and that we bid for him last summer. It says nothing about an offer from us this time. Is it not possible we weren't in for him?

Did we still want him? So we definitely got "beat" to the signing? I've been off the radar and haven't seen a solid link or verifiable quote recently.

It's hard to form an argument when the people I disagree with are just making stuff up to flesh out an already formed opinion. I'm saying - if we knew the situation, we could judge it, what happens in the rest of the window will give us the answers. Until then it's just people crying over hypothetical spilt milk.

If you can tell us unequivocally the situation regarding Bauer I'd love to hear it. Failing that, it would probably save you from injury during your mental gymnastics if you just copy/pasted "I don't like Tony Mowbray" instead of winding yourself up.

Shhhh, Tony bad.

Agree, we can only judge the Bauer situation (if there even was one) in context. But giving it "he chose PNE" / "we messed up again" etc at this stage is just people winding themselves up over baseless speculation. If TM comes out fuming about the situation then obviously something is amiss. Until then ?‍♂️

Maybe, just maybe - we didn't want him anymore. Honestly can't say I'm too fussed.

We could easily have just moved onto other players. Secretly I’m glad - I’ve watched him a few times trying to look positively for reasons why we’ve been so keen, and I was reaching tbh. Bookmark this - he’ll go on to be immense and in the team of the season and the message board goes full reactor 4.