Exiled_Rover

I'd like to hear them lament about it for a good 20 minutes while the game peters out tbh.

Brittain was meant to bring some of that down the right, sadly he's been injured. Neither Pickering or JRC can get up and down the flanks (both bad athletes) so you're left lacking. A quick #9 would make a world of difference for sure - we're very easy to press because there's just no threat of us playing the ball in behind you.

I hope we win with a goal deflected off someone's arse. It's the only way to make this kind of commentary bearable.

I think JDT is 'punishing' Gallagher for his performance last week... however that means he has to play Vale. I assume Dolan still isn't fully match fit because even though he's tiny he brings much more to the table.

There's no pace and no goals (with this version of Brereton-Diaz and Dack dropping so deep) in this front 4.

This ref is very quick to book our players I've noticed...

He doesn't even look like he's trying, which is my biggest complaint.

He's good technically - both on the ball and off it. He's just not athletic enough - you can run him very easily.

I think he's improved massively this season under JDT, but there's no getting away from the fact that he's a poor athlete at this level and he's there to be got at.

Well we missed 4 golden chances against Rotherham and a couple against Boro, so I'd suggest it's a big part of the equation.

Which is why I wanted Cantwell. Very similar player, would have provided great balance.

Another shocker from Brereton-Diaz.

Can you sort your posts out, please. You always have a massive blank space beneath them that makes reading the board more annoying. Thanks.

Who they bought from Europe, yes.

The Gallagher contract extension was criminal then and remains so now. You can't possibly he holding him up as the standard - Mowbray did that to spite us. He'll be one of our top earners and he's simply not good enough to warrant that.

Why would you keep track of European players as a fan when we don't have a European Scout?

We need a goal scorer more than anything else. Brereton-Diaz didn't return from the World Cup break and everyone else is missing golden chances. We beat both Boro and Rotherham if ANYONE could take the golden chances we created.

I see. No concrete plan. Got it.

Just out of interest, what's your promotion plan? I assume spend money we don't have and hope to go up automatically - competing against 3 teams with fresh massive parachute payments and half a dozen more multiple years into their parachute payments. What's your plan if that worked and we went up? You'd have to buy a totally new squad, right, like Forest? What's your plan if you failed to catch Burnley / Sheff Utd / Watford / Norwich et al and had spent £10m in the process?

Sadly that's a bigger role.

You think we're in a position to drop one of our few goal threats? Do you like relegation battles?

You'll have Trading Standards on the phone if you're marketing Gallagher as a forward.

He'd been in the building like 3 weeks - he simply doesn't have the credit in the bank right now with the owners to get them to budge from their ridiculous £15m asking price. I'm sure if he had free reign he'd have negotiated some of those £8m offers up a little and cashed in. You're asking him to perform miracles - he's already achieved a lot in 6 months and the signing of a promising CB and a proper backup GK this window (already) shows that there is succession planning. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Broughton said lower third of the Championship when it comes to wage budget on that ASD Podcast. Basically they're approaching it the right way - our Academy costs us £3.5m a year and is one of the best in the country. That, coupled with some shrewd signings, is the only way we're going to progress as a team - we should lean heavily on it.

Offering Gallagher a new deal was criminal at the time and remains so now.