Exiled_Rover

See Ched Evans.

As has been covered ad nauseam, what's the alternative? He's indicated he doesn't want to play for us - you have to shift him out. We're not in a position to sit on an asset for 5 months out of spite.

What's your plan when Rothwell, Dack, Dolan, Brereton, Markanday, Poveda and Pickering are injured? You can't just go signing players because you have a wage budget to adhere to and those players will come back at some point. Giles is a massive upgrade for us - if we can start nicking some goals from his set pieces with Wharton / Ayala / Van Hecke and continue to keep clean sheets we'll be there or there abouts with how well this defence is playing.

If a rival council comes in and offers said road sweeper double his wages, do you think he's going to turn it down? See out his shift with the lads? Absolutely not - he'd be off like a shot. It's a job to these players, nothing more.

He's a WB I think. Edun looks out of place at WB, so maybe it's a replacement for him - shifting Edun inside to CM.

Agree to disagree. He's not deliberately getting sent off and scoring own goals. It's unsavory, but it's football - they're all commodities at the end of the day. He has no loyalty to the club and we have no loyalty to him - he's securing himself a pay rise. Obviously I hope he has a miserable time in Bournemouth, but it is what it is.

I'm amazed by that - he looked like he was limping when he walked around the pitch before the Boro game.

Johnson has been pretty anonymous in his two starts - Davenport is a better player at this stage of their careers. As for the players - the further we've slipped down the football pyramid the more forgettable they've become for me. I became very attached to a lot of our Prem teams - this lot I'd sell at the right price (and replace 90% of them if we got promoted).

Another game where we should have been playing against 10. What do you have to do to get sent off against Rovers?!

We're missing our three strike players in Brereton, Khedra and Rothwell. We don't have anything like the same player behind them - in Rothwell's case we don't have a midfielder that can carry the ball like he does. That ability to run with the ball through the middle terrifies teams. It wouldn't be too bad if we weren't missing Dack, Poveda, Dolan and that Spurs lad too.

Looked v assured at LWB.

If Chapman isn't better than him then he has no professional future.

Agree to disagree. They were comfortably handling our lack of pace, height and guile upfront. Mowbray rolled the dice and put some height / physicality on. I'd have taken Butterworth off before Buckley, but I don't mind the sub.

That won't do him any good. He needs to play against men. Loan him out - but either way he won't make it here imo.

I wish someone would go through the back of Lockyer, he's a disgusting player.

Ayala has done more to upset their back line in two minutes with his physicality than Gallagher did in 60.

Bringing some height on upfront.

Your first clue was Talksport reporter.

Lansbury is a shithouse - done Edun and Buckley, dives whenever anyone gets near him. Also he's let his child doodle on his thighs with permanent marker, so there's that too.

Yes

Similar stamina tbf.

We've made two subs due to tackles by their players today. Just a dirty side.

Their #15 would he off if we had VAR. Just assaulted Gallagher off the ball.

Lansbury took out Edun and now he's just left one on Buckley. Getting that Scholes rub of the green from the ref - "just clumsy".

Luton are a cynical, rough team but they're bad footballers. Their back line shits itself if you close any of them down.