I wonder if we'll have to stump up some cash to Forrest if Brereton gets some international caps for Chile 

3 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

We're letting Rothwell go? Thought we'd triggered his contract extension?

Rumour has it, and it is just a rumour, that we've triggered the extension to get a transfer fee.

11 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Really disappointed we are letting Rothwell go. He's not been managed well by Mowbray at all imo. Mowbray seemed to take the approach to bully him a bit which seemed unfair. He had his faults but it wasn't his attitude. Needed more if an arm round him.

Feels a lot like Cairney. Genuinely talented but strangely not valued. Likely to go on to a higher level like Cairney. Seems totally self inflicted.

Other players far less promising treated better.

Rothwell's drawback is his end product so it was more than a little bit jarring to here Mowbray slating him interview after interview for his work effort and his tracking back which I think is superb.

11 minutes ago, rigger said:

In my time supporting the Rovers. Ever since the selling of Tony Field, people have been asking how are we going to survive without such and such a striker. We have always found someone else. Just as a side point, some of those strikers we have lost, were a darned sight better than Armstrong.

Very true, we'll get somebody but with Tony still here we won't go anywhere sadly, even if our new striker is Mbappe

1 minute ago, rigger said:

I don't think anyone would disagree about the players. But with a motivated manager those same players could be the difference between midtable and promotion.

Absolutely but I still reckon without Armstrong we'd have been battling to stay up on the final day this season. I guess it was Mowbray who brought Dack and Armstrong in but he is also responsible for all wasting money on Gallaher and Brereton as well as completely mishandling all the other players and sending teams out with no identity. I really hope he's going soon but I fear the next manager will have a uphill battle to et us in to play-off contention without Armstrong. 

Before Dack got injured I remember talking to some fans who thought he wasn't up to the championship level. That was rubbish and since he was injured I do think we've missed him as a creative outlet in the centre. His loss was only softened by the fact Armstrong stepped up to the crease and yet some fans seem convinced he's a liability because he's a bit greedy but who is he meant to pass it to? Gallagher, Brereton? I think some fans can be a tad bit ungrateful to our players when they are clearly the difference between midtable and relegation which is where we'd be without Armstrong imo 

The way I see it we'll need a new winger to replace Elliot, another centre-half again to compensate for the flaky legs of our current ones, new central midfielders, a new right-back depending on Nyambe and JRC's contracts and probably a new striker although I'd like to see someone step up in that position.

#Rovers are delighted to confirm the arrival of rising star Taylor Harwood-Bellis on loan from Manchester City until the end of the season.

Apparently more loans for youth players are on the way. Thomson and Magloire going and Tom White coming back. 

Edit: Jack Vale may be loaned too!

Joe Grayson on loan to Oxford United.

Happy to have this one confirmed, thought we'd lost him earlier in the window.

Match Postponed due to waterlogged pitch 😞

5 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Know what I saw and was impressed. 

I still don't rate Trybull or Douglas who people have been impressed by.

I have never seen a single person on here praise Douglas and Trybull, quite the opposite in fact.

If Fisher was going to leave and Stergakis wasn't ready for the first-team then we should have signed an old-experienced keeper on a free for maybe a season. What we shouldn't have done was spend £300,000 on a piss poor keeper and hand them a four year deal.

1 minute ago, Rogerb said:

You have more confidence than me in Mowbray I have to say. Best part of a week into the window three moved out on loan none yet arrived!

It sounds like Jarrad Branthwaite is on his way here and let's face it the three that have left aren't exactly huge losses.

Chapman to Shrewsbury on loan for the season. Probably seen the last of him at Ewood (unless we're relegated;).

Well Nyambe's injured now with a hamstring problem

Always rated Gallagher

Gallagher dropped to the bench!

Well, Bilic or the Cowley Bothers, who would we prefer?

Haha, just came home and looked at the team, he actually started Gallagher! What a clown Mowbray is.

Maybe JRC or Downing over Douglas and an honourable mention for Dolan and Holtby but I'd say this is about right.

3 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Probably been posted elsewhere but Del is out for ‘months not weeks’.

That lad is forever injured. We’ll surely need a CB in January regardless of how tight things are with he and Wharton being long term absentees.

There’s not a chance in hell either that Lenihan and Ayala stay fit between now and the end of the season. 

Well according to Mowbray it's one in one out, maybe he'll play Carter or Magloire.