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Evertonian's would beg to differ on this. And Walsh's awful spell at Everton combined with Leicester's continued success in the market without him suggests that there was much more to Leicester's recruitment success than Steve Walsh.

He can't have watched his team much if he thinks Barnsley play a passing game they are a very direct side. Not that there is anything wrong with that I'd rather see a side play a bit more direct but when I think about Barnsley 'passing game' certainly isn't the first thing that springs to mind.

Grealish is such a lovely footballer a real shame he has to go throwing himself around like he does.

The biggest threat to England going very deep into the tournament is undoubtedly the manager, we have a team with undoubted attacking flair and talent but a cautious manager who is afraid to let them go out and play their natural game.

Could you be anymore condescending?

I'll try once more to see if I can get through. To quote the person who posted the table it is a table of players' "net positive to the side". As you can see with exhibit A underneath. To my mind it is nonsensical that 16 players can be classed as being as having a bigger 'net positive to the side' than Armstrong. It just highlights the nonsense using mathematics and spreadsheets rather than eyes.

I swear the only reason Mings is in the team is because he is left footed, it seems to be one of football's latest fads to have a left footed centre half.

I answered it with my first sentence of the reply. If you can't seemingly comprehend it then that's not my problem.

To quote the person who posted the table it is a table of players' "net positive to the side". And to me a table of who has had a 'net positive to the side' which has Adam Armstrong towards the bottom end is quite frankly laughable, without him we would have been relegated yet if you were to believe that table you would think that the likes of Bell, Williams, Chapman, Davenport, Downing, Brereton, Wharton, Buckley etc outperformed him.

Lies, damned lies and statistics. This is the problem when you pay more attention to a spreadsheet than what actually happens on the pitch. The biggest 'net positive' to our side has been Adam Armstrong without him we would be preparing for a new season in League 1 yet if you were to believe this spreadsheet he's been one of the least 'positive' players for the side. As for Buckley he is too lightweight, he's nearly 22 but to watch him on the pitch you'd think he was still a schoolboy. There's a lot of players like Buckley down in the non League pyramid who have come from good academies are very comfortable on the ball given time and space but when the physical side of the game is needed tend to struggle to make an impact. I wouldn't be at all surprised if non-league is where Buckley ends up, I really struggle to see him having a successful career anywhere above League 2.

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Swapping League1 for League 2 would be a move that matches how Adams set his team up today, unambitious. And having seen his interview after the game he is almost certainly off.

I shouldn't think the poor bugger would want to stay at Morecambe. Every time he got the ball the rest of the team was at least 20 yards behind him, he'll probably need a pair of binoculars with him when they go away to the likes of Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich.

Bobby Madley was a poor ref before he got the boot from the Premiership for mocking the disabled and it looks like with some time away from the game he has only gotten worse, always likes to make the game about himself. Gutted for Michael Flynn who I think is a very impressive young manager with a good career ahead of him. It was a footballing travesty that Morecambe have won that game it's one of the worst exhibitions of 'football' if you can call it that, that I have ever seen. They showed no ambition whatsoever to win and have been gifted the win by a dive and a very poor ref. I suspect this time next year they will be heading straight back the other way.

So with the line up confirmed for next season just 7 clubs haven't confirmed season ticket details they are Fulham and West Brom who haven just been relegated, Hull and Blackpool who have just been promoted and of the 18 clubs who were in the league last season just us, Derby and Preston have not released any details. Waggott has previously said that for “A Championship club like us it (season ticket sales) generates between 20 and 25 per cent of our total income, it’s a huge amount that we have to try and keep driving through the revenue." If this is the case then why the hell is it the same thing every season, always lagging behind other clubs. I still can't help but think he missed an open goal after promotion by firstly not having them on sale by the Oxford game and then secondly when finally announcing them putting the price up. I also wouldn't be at all surprised to see a price rise for next season when they are announced.

Eddie Howe strikes me as a manager with little ambition. He left Burnley to drop down a league and re-join Bournemouth, he stayed at Bournemouth for years when he must have had opportunities to move on to bigger clubs, as soon as Bournemouth were relegated he chucked in the towel and now after months of talks he doesn't take the Celtic job despite the fact that it would be by far the biggest job he would have ever had or for that matter ever likely to have.

For the third summer in a row we are letting average at best players mess the club about over signing a new deal. 2 years ago it was Rodwell, last year Downing and this year Bennett and Chapman. This doesn't happen every year at other clubs. If the players won't sign a new deal tell them fair enough and we will part ways instead we seem to let them keep Rovers as a fall back option, it's just typical of the very weak manager that Mowbray is. Harry Chapman and Elliott Bennett contract update as time ticks on their Blackburn Rovers futures - LancsLive

The 7 I'd cut would be Ramsdale, James, Coady, White, Ward-Prowse, Lingard and Watkins. The best starting 11 for me would be. Pickford Trippier Maguire Stones Shaw Rice Mount Grealish Greenwood Kane Foden

Yes and Yes.

League 1 looking very strong next season, with the likes of Sunderland, Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth, Wigan, Rotherham, Bolton & Charlton.

There is a big difference between thinking that it is poor being below Luton (club record fee £1.3 Million) and thinking that the club should be competing for the Premier League title which Mowbray seems to think is what some fans expect. Brereton alone cost more than the Luton squad combined.

He seems to think that the fans think we should be challenging for the tittle, he has said on numerous previous occasions that it isn't 1995 anymore. I don't know any Rovers fan who thinks we should be where we were in 1995 and they haven't had that thought for that at least 20 years now. I also can't remember another manager in the last 20 years using our success in 1995 to try to tamper expectations. Using it is either Mowbray being disingenuous or he really is completely out of touch with the fans.

The big difference between Mowbray and Hodgson as managers is that Hodgson has the ability to learn and adapt, whereas Mowbray has been playing the same way and making the same mistakes for the last 15 years. That's why one is a very solid reliable Premiership manager and the other has had one season in the division finishing rock bottom.

I said Neil Critchley a while back and since then he his Blackpool team have gone from strength to strength. They looked such a well drilled organised side tonight and won at a canter. He looks to be an impressive up and coming manager with a bright future ahead of him. He's exactly the sort of manager a progressive club would be going for rather than someone whose best years are behind him.

Do you really think for 1 second that an ambitious young footballer who is scoring goals for fun and approaching his peak years is going to be content to stay at a club whose maximum ambition is mid table in the Championship?