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I can’t see any of these players starting at Burnley. It’d be a big mistake if we did. Coming on off the bench - maybe.

He’s somebody who can run with the ball from centre midfield. None of Tronstad, Travis, Buckley or JRC can do that on a regular basis.

Mm, I’m losing patience with him also.

For me this will be won and lost in team selection. Whoever gets that right we be smiling at 2-30 pm. The first goal is always important but on Saturday it will be massive. If we can score first it could get really interesting.

That’s why we can’t afford another gamble, one’s enough.

it’s a bit late for them to be throwing half a team into a game though. If we’ve got anything about us we should fancy getting something from this game. Rovers teams in the past have gone there as under dogs and come away with a result. Unfortunately they weren’t suffering from “ Venkyitis “ though.

They’ll be panicking now, they probably didn’t think Cantwell would want to come.

He was one of the players slagged off on the list of players that ended up in the wrong hands. “ Lazy, not good attitude “. Just what we need.

That’s that then.

I’m not pessimistic regarding Beck. There’s a player there.

Get his name on your shirt,

Of course there’s the issue of how it goes down with the rest of the squad. If he gets his head down and does the business it’ll be ok. If he doesn’t, we could have problems.

We’ve never learnt anything from the Roy Keane debacle.

So if they don’t go up Plymouth can have him back ? Neat.

No comparison. Sammi’s probably got less ability but he’s got twice the work rate and the willingness to get into the box. Cantwell will never get 25 plus goals in this league if he lives to be a thousand. He’s more of a Dack style player.

Could be the new Bradley Dack, could be the new 2nd time around of David Bentley. It’s up to him now.

Mowbray said that ? Why didn’t he do it then ?

Every signing is a gamble, irrespective of the fee. I used to watch a lot of Italian football back in the day and Juan Veron was an absolute star. When Utd signed him I was really pissed off, I thought he’s exactly what they need. It didn’t turn out that way though, he was a flop.

You couldn’t make it up could you ? At least he knows how to press “ Send “.

The difference is if you’re any sort of a right back, or left back, and you know how to play the position - you’re normally playing facing the play. In midfield it’s totally different, it can be going on around you, it’s an eyes in the back of your head role. See Adam Wharton.

That’s more than we got for Wharton !

If this site would have been in existence back in the day it would have been in melt down when we signed Jim Arnold from non league Stafford Rangers as our keeper. He didn’t turn out too bad. Whoever comes in gets a clean sheet from me.

He could be the new Duncan McKenzie mate.

I like Dolan but he’s not developing as I expected he would. He’s still making the same mistakes as he did when he first came into the team as a regular. He’s a bit like Lenihan in that respect.

Getting a good reliable keeper in was No1 priority for me. I won’t repeat the Brian Clough quote but he was dead right. When we had Brad between the sticks it was like having a goal start.