Exiled_Rover

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Should probably be based on turnover rather than a flat rate though. The only league (with excess money) I know it works in is the NFL. In RL it stifles the bigger teams and leads to a talent drain.

You don't begrudge Duffy after the way he conducted himself?

Not for ol' Tone. Can't lose that pillar of the dressing room.

It's for Bennett. 2020 strikes again.

Yeah he was one who you could tell was clearly a fantastic player, but didn't have a lot of luck, not suited our style of play at the time.

Ferguson holds a place in my heart for a) not being good enough and b) insulting the fans by saying he couldn't get up for a Lancashire derby like he could for the Old Firm game (in their third rate league). Up there with Murphy as just being an utter cunt.

For mine he's 22 and still all potential. Good on the ball, but his defending leaves a lot to be desired. Funnily enough City is probably the best place for him - gets to play with the ball much more than without it, which is his strong suit.

I'm already there.

I was going to say, I just had him down as an Ozzie. Emerton was v meek for an Ozzie.

Now cricket and RL have ingrained in me a hatred of Australians (especially their sportsmen), but I can't think of an arrogant Ozzy that's played for us?

Such as?

They've been had.

Obviously you're not just going to be any Tom, Dick or Harry if you're trying to buy a football club. Someone with a plan would be salivating at acquiring a club with the infrastructure Rovers have. The apathy of the fan base and the incompetence at Ewood has resulted in millions of £ in lost revenue every season.

There's nobody in this squad I'd be sad to lose.

Not gonna lie, I'd take a 12 point penalty and Rovers being bought by a local consortium right now.

If he was able to spin West Brom as a massive club, he'll spin Boro as a massive club.

Too obvious, won't happen.

I've just watched two bang average teams battle it out bore me to tears for 120 minutes for a £160m prize and all I could think of (after I'd stopped laughing at Calamity Raya) is "bloody hell, how bad must we be?!" Shite is the answer, unfortunately. Thanks Venkys.

Massively. Good keeper at this level, but you'd think we let Given walk out the door with some of the hand wringing that goes on here. Was it a mistake? Possibly - although by some accounts he wanted a massive pay rise / to leave anyway. It's not the only mistake ol' Tone has made and it won't be his last.

Maybe he really IS the reason they were playing in the Playoff Final then. He was certainly the reason they lost it. ? Chin up, David.

Fingers crossed.

Hahaha, Raya is so bad Parker had Bryan practice that freekick in training "he comes ridiculously far off his line". Bloody hell - wasn't even a spur of the moment thing.

Mate, he didn't want to be here. He's the best of a bad bunch of keepers we've had - but then we're also lauding a player like Travis who wouldn't have got a sniff in our Premier League midfields. It's a different age - thanks Venkys.

The fact that they've ditched their Academy (despite building a new stadium) and have brought in a foreign legion. It's bad for the game.

He's just literally cost them the game. Big time players make big time plays in big time games (the great Santana Moss). He's dropped an absolute clanger.