Yeah, what did he ever do ?

One time Rovers target Josh Maja has turned Big Club down to stay in France with Bordeaux , was Chaddy a fan ?

Gally’s supposed to be out for 6 weeks, as is Brittain. Will Ayala be back by then is the burning question.

Anybody mention Jimmy Corbett ?

I think you’re right. He can step into Johnson’s shoes when he leaves if they go down. If they don’t go down they can sell him on and get their money back. Easy when you have plenty of financial backing.

Do they let you sleep on the night shift ? Must be a great place to work.

Look who’s manager.

They only signed him to stop anybody else signing him.

I know you need two for every position in this league but there comes a point when it’s really difficult to keep everyone happy.

If we can keep BBD I won’t be that bothered if Dembele doesn’t come. From what little I’ve seen of him he’s like BBD in that the old inside left channel is where he likes to be most of the time.

The new Patrick Vierra.

Who’s gonna sign him ? They’d need a space in the treatment room.

What worries me is that if I was looking realistically for a player capable of playing the BBD role - Dembele would be high on that list.

But as we saw last season - when the centre halves wearing the shirt are playing well you can’t just drop them without a reason. That’s cancer to team spirit.

You can’t really count Ayala. If he’s fit it’s a bonus. He seems happy enough sat on the bench when he finally gets back playing again.

He’ll get a chance this season the way we’ve been going with injuries. I must praise the club regarding the way they’ve gone about their business this window. Everything close to our chests and no real leaking of information. That’s how it should be done.

He can stay at Norwich for me.

8 more than Wharton has and he didn’t look out of place.

For some reason I’m quite optimistic regarding Hirst. I’ve only seen the highlights reel but I like the way he attacks the ball, especially in the air.

So you’re assuming that two teenage lads can maintain that level of performance in what is basically a two game a week season until next May ? It’s not going to happen for several reasons. I’m pleased to see we’ve just brought in another midfield player who’s more defensively minded.

Let’s not get carried away. They won’t be playing against Blackpool every week. They have the big advantage of being unknowns in the league. The coaching staffs at our up coming opponents will be poring over last nights game trying to figure out how they can be got at.

Nah, not for me. Another who likes the football life style but finds the “ having to play football “ bit of it a chore. I thought he’d “ fallen out of love with football “ ?

I wish.

Agnew was going to be a top player but he got injured almost as soon as he arrived. Same with Jimmy Kerr back in the early 1970’s. We were going to build a team around both of them and they got career ending injuries almost as soon as they pulled on the shirt. Youri Djorkaeff- I remember him scoring a brilliant volley for us in one game that was ruled out because another player was off side. Retired from the game at about 21. What about Martin Britt ? Brilliant as a youth player at West Ham. He marmalised Liverpool’s “ hard man “ Tommy Smith in the youth cup final scoring a hat trick. Came to Rovers with a knee problem, he could only jump off one leg ! We were desperate for strikers so we signed him. Played a dozen games without a goal. Just one in the very long line of Fred Pickering replacements that weren’t. We could have bought Fred twice over with what we spent on replacements. At the same time we let his natural replacement, John Byrom, go to Bolton for a song. Bobby Moore reckoned Byrom was the second most difficult opponent he ever played against. I think Pele must have been No 1.

They missed out the 1 before the 6. That’s got to be the starting point.