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.

No shit Sherlock Sky.

1 minute ago, superniko said:

Callum Styles off to Millwall

🤮 (For all involved!)

£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.

2 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Hmmm not disagreeing with you... But you know 💯 that if he ends up leaving for free the owners, swaggot, etc.. Will be getting slaughter again 😅😅

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.

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.

If you went back over the previous 2.5 games and counted how many completed passes we've made in the oppositions half, well let's just say it wouldn't take very long.

11 behind the ball, 100% of the time is the shit that gets you fired by Halloween. Find your balls JDT.

Funny how we all agree that Vale, Dolan and Szmodics all needed hauled off, yet the fact is the back 7 have moved the ball over half way about 10 times all half.

New tactic needed with these subs.

I was one of the biggest "Mowbray Out" posters on here, but I 100% agree with those saying that 45 mins was as bad as anything we saw under the Dinosaur.

Terrible, what's plan B? Need some height up top, oh and maybe on a GK we should FUCKING KICK THE BALL LONG. We laugh at teams that play this tactic vs us.

1 minute ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Dolan, Pickering, Vale and Szmodics been crap.

 

How did Buckley survive that sentence?

Sorry but we should have worn the 3rd kit. 

Not so much for the "clash", but aesthetically it is awful.

Not to get too excited given everything that's yet to be resolved, but Ash Phillips looked superb vs WBA. For a lad who turned 17 years old 7 weeks ago, he was as good as Ayala and far better than (the usually impressive)  Ajayi.

If he's genuinely already at that level, you can see why Spurs etc want him. Nailed on England International if he progresses.

He could and should be 3rd choice in this squad and would like to see him get plenty of game time to rest Ayala where possible.