Tyrone Shoelaces

Maybe he's that rarity in modern football. A player who can use both feet equally well !

That's probably why Mowbray put Rodwell on.

Don't remind me. It was embarrassing and a low point in Big Sam's time here. Samba was a great centre half but a fish out of water up front.

I've seen some strange signings at Rovers over the years. Bobby Bell anybody ? At least we made a profit on him. This is a really strange one though.

Yeah we've done ok for keepers over the years. Paul Bradshaw wasn't bad either.

Yes, even better than Darren Collier.

I've driven down to Swansea for work Jim and it's a tough journey. I was pretty tired when we got there. It's ridiculous that we travelled down on the journey.

Has he got more goals than Dack ?

Did I read somewhere that we travelled down by coach today ? if we can afford £7million for strikers surely we can afford a nights stay in a hotel for the team.

Or even a left winger.

Interesting. We need to get the definitive answer on this one way or another. I thought it was a done deal.

Best time to start beating your chest regarding Rovers is just as the referee is blowing his whistle for full time.

He's our player so we can't walk away. Lets just hope the Chicken Chokers don't watch our games these days'

I was a bit surprised that Williams didn't sub for Lenihan.

I felt he was worth a goal start for us. Without any doubt the best I've seen at Roversand I go back to Fred Else.

This season or last season ? Must be something really serious.

Any news of Ben Gladwin ? Has he been abducted by aliens or kidnapped by Somali pirates ?

I could be wrong but I can't recall us spending £7 million on a 19 year old striker before. It's no good dodging the issue, for that sort of money he needs to be performing on the pitch.

That's more or less my view also. If he was a kid coming out of our youth system nobody would be expecting him to take games by the scruff of the neck. We wouldn't be too bothered if he was coming on for the last 20 minutes in games. The problem is he isn't just one of our kids, he's the player we've spent the most money on since the Rhodes era by a long, long way. With that fee comes expectations wether people like it or not. Big fees bring big pressures. Even the great Jimmy Greaves insisted on having his transfer fee set at £99,990 because he didn't want to be known as the first £100,000 player.

Mm, if that's true it's not looking good for the lad.

" Player recruitment " ? We'd have to double the size of the players car park first.

If we're so " well stocked for centre back options now " why do we need another one in January ?

Grabban at Forest is also doing ok. I see the midfielder that we missed out on that went to Villa is doing really well for them. Having said that the way we're fixed for midfielders he wasn't a massive miss. I also see Henderson, who's a poor mans Danny Graham at Rochdale, got two late pens yesterday. He'd do ok coming on for the last half an hour. 9 goals already this season for a very average team.

A bit of dosh to spend in January could be the difference between the end of the season being really interesting for all the right reasons or just petering out into a scramble to stay in mid table. These next two away games will tell us a lot about our chances. 2 points would be good, 4 would be great, 6 would be fantastic.

Mm, Sunday morning fun isn't what it used to be.