Angry_Pirate

SSN making out Derby being 0-0 at Liverpool to be the greatest performance of all time. Bore off. Kelleher, Ramsay, Clark, Bajcetic, Frauendorf and Stewart is hardly Allison, Van Dijk, TAA, Salah and Nunez FFS.

Anyone got a link to either the Reading, Wigan, Luton or Cardiff post match threads, shambles yet again. Can't be many teams supposedly pushing top 6 annually that are good for 15-20+ absolutely wank performances a season. Rovers trademark.

Jesus Christ I wish we could take advantage of these overloaded counter attacks. Make so many games so much harder when we can't score gimme counters.

Oh dear, you've got it all to come. It takes the Dinosaur a while to settle into his false 9, wide striker's, and general tombola team selections. I'd get prepared for 5'6" Pritchard as your (false) number 9 going forward. Least you have two amazing wingers to blitz balls into the box for him. If only you still had Danny Graham. 🤣 What you said about Roberts though is spot on, the guy was largely invisible in the first 45 mins, but for 30 mins in the 2nd half it was like watching prime Carlos Villanueva (in joke). But he was superb, just typical Tony having wingers and no striker's.

Was nice to enjoy a Mowbray team from the other perspective, watching two wingers blitz the ball into the box all night to only 5'6" Alex Pritchard 🤣 Only 1 moan for me, why I have to hear Vincent Kompany's name chanted from the BBE about 18 times, plus infinite other anti Burnley chants, I do not know. Can we stop with the Burnley fascination, its stinks of inferiority, we're top of the pissing league!

That had to be Ayala's worst performance in his professional career. But tactically he is set up to fail. You have to laugh by how shit that was. I genuinely think some of our players and staff would try to put out a forest fire by blowing at it.

0/10 first half. AGAIN.

This is infuriatingly woeful. The recent first half "tactics" continue to be (dare I say) worse than Mowbray. Buckley, Szmodics, my god. Hope they enjoy it back on the bench for the rest of October.

Love how JDT always has the look on his face like he's had a few cheeky bevvies. 🍻

I remember when we played Luton on the last day of "lockdown" season and they had to win to stay up. I was okay with that as I didn't know enough about "little old Luton". Well since that game I've just started to more and more despise them, their Gollum manager especially. If there was ever an away game I'd love us to stuff a team by 4 or 5, his team would be it. Can't see it, a win would be fantastic given the venue and an opposition tactics/mentality we always struggle against, a draw would be the minimum here. A crap loss wouldn't shock me. £10 on Luton.

JRC is likely staying due to a unfortunate injury further down the U21 RB depth chart.

Likely scenario: Treading water in January and Brereton gets his £6m - £10m move. Best case scenario: We're knee deep in promotion hunt, and he stays, maybe signs. PL push? Worst case scenario: we don't go up and he leaves for free. Nightmare scenario: He leaves for free and we get relegated. None of those scenarios are worth Fulhams £6m in August 2022.

No shit Sherlock Sky.

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£15m, plus (a sensible/semi realistic) £5m is the bare minimum now. Not to mention a sell on %. Probably would need to add a (free) loan offer the offer too this late in the game.

Don't think people will be banging the "we should have took Fulham's £6m in August" drum quite the same way the "we should have taken the £3m for Rothwell in January" lot did. Other clubs have made our decision rather straight forward.

Any news on the Hoilett Phillips contract extension that is "99% done"?

Clubs are making this really easy to not sell Brereton. I doubt any bid had even reached 50% of the asking price. £15m upfront as a start to negotiations, or don't bother wasting the 12p sendng the text message. Though if we don't sell him, is FFP going to be a risk after the outlay for Brittan, Hyam, Szmodics, Dembele(?), Morton and mystery defender?

'How did he miss? Dykes fails to score from a few yards! http://www.skysports.com/share/12685681 Oh dear. Let's hope that specific rumour was wide of the mark. Hirst would never....

A club like Rovers should try to have every loan come with an option to buy. £5m or £500m. You'd hit gold once in a while with no added risk. (There will be outliers like Harvey Elliott of course). If we had an option on Tosin, Van Hecke or Harrison Reed, we would have been able to secure a reasonable price for key/excellent players. It's fair to imagine a fee of £5m would have been far over the maximum that City, Brighton or Southampton would have wanted for the option pre-loan. And many of us would have been happy for Rovers to spend that fee a year later. You don't have to take up the option. So it's commen sense to haggle out a price like they've done here. £5m for Hirst will either be way too much, a bargain, or just right come the end of his loan, so Rovers either buy him for £5m, or they don't. What's the drama? It's the obligation to buy ones like Luke Varney and DJ Campbell (and Brereton) that irked me.

Nottingham Forest know you're only allowed to register 25 players (over 21) right? They've signed 18 players already, with Aurier and Boly yet to come. They should be ripe for having to loan out or sell players on the cheap. Anyone interesting there?

If his interview doesn't start "Hy-am Dom." Then I'll be disappointed.

I do feel sorry for JRC. Yes, he is slower than climate change, but he's clearly trying to do his best for the team by playing where asked, but it is to his detriment. He's also had a few injury shockers which can't have helped physically or psychologically. He needs to (re) decide what his favoured position is, and ask to go to L1 to play there for the remainder of the season.

I'm not one to give player ratings often, but JRC and Buckley honestly deserve a 0/10. Wayward passing, lazy, stupid, casual and out of their depth. Some guy shouted at around the 40 minute mark that he had as many completed passes as the both of them combined... and he wasn't much exaggerating. Hopefully JDT learns a valuable lesson about his BS tactics the past 3 games, or else he best not make plans to be in England come winter. Side note: walked past Greg Broughton pre match. Never seen a guy walk with a more "my shit don't stink" look on his face... he also totally blanked us trying to say hello. Arrogance at it's finest.

It's crucial that we figure out a signing or two BEFORE BBD goes, not after. The bidding scenario's were in now will inflate 20% once clubs know we're £20m richer (minus %), just like ours should do with Everton post Gordon and £60m. Van Hecke for £6m today will be £8m-£10m tomorrow if Diaz leaves. Brereton today is £15m, but we'll be asking Everton for £20m once they sell Gordon.