I don't know what he is, and I'm not sure JRC knows either. He has had spells being good in a few positions, and spells being dogshit in the same positions. The main issue is his fitness, which will never hold up for more than half a season at best, and even when it is 'holding up' for that long he seems to be playing through a niggle and never looks fully fit. It's time to part ways tbh.

I don't agree at all. You can want to play and prove yourself but simultaneously have your confidence eroded. Leading to you giving your all but self doubt being an invisible choke around your neck. You work hard but you second guess yourself, your touch is slightly off, any skewed pass feels like a vindication of the criticism against you, etc. As I said they're things the best can sometimes overcome if they have enough self belief and positivity, but it's by no means easy. And this is all assuming his continued absence is actually even down to poor performance. All I know is his early showings were highly regarded by fans at both clubs, suddenly he was dropped and pretty much stayed in the wilderness. A manager that will drop you when you're playing well probably doesn't care that you're still playing well in cameos later.

My suspicion is that being dropped in League One for seemingly no reason did a number on his confidence. It sounded a bit like he got dropped in League Two for seemingly little reason too, which won't have helped. When you've seen yourself be a Championship squad player recently and are still young, it won't be easy to keep your head up. Of course, being able to is part of what seperates the successes from the nearlies. However you slice it, a couple of disastrously selected loans for him.

It's a point worth considering, it's been a very long season for Yuki (albeit with an injury-induced 'rest'). You have to wonder if he might have a better season when he hasn't had to play nearly continuously. The flipside of that being it's very possible his excellent start with us was down to already being essentially midseason in his match fitness whilst others were barely past playing friendlies. Will be interesting to see how he gets on next year. Been a useful signing for the money, but we do need a top scorer on more goals. Lewis Baker has scored only one less goal this season and he's a midfielder.

That will mean very little if a promotion chaser offers him more money.

Neither of them were legends for us. Just good players.

An appalling (I was going to say shocking, but these things don't shock anymore) lack of ambition, understanding and vision. I'm also, like most of us, sick of hearing about building things up gradually. We've been allegedly doing that for about 10 fucking years, and we all know full well it ends up requiring practically an entire reset every summer because everything is horrendously mismanaged. How is it that promotion isn't our objective, when we've had three seasons out of the last four where it was very much on the cards if we hadn't dicked it up in January every time? How are we still talking about slowly building step by step? The only next step is to reach the fucking playoffs, we just missed out by one position. This is a frank admission that the objective is NOT to improve on last season. Plus, it's galling to hear about trying to push academy minutes, and have an academy player as third choice in every position, with zero mentions of whether those academy players are actually ready to contribute. But buy more season tickets guys, support the battle for midtable, what's wrong with you ungrateful fans? Get fucked.

That depends on what we mean by the club. And for that matter, which fans we are talking about too...

I'd do the same if I were him, frankly because of fans like the one who posted just above you. Gets far, far more stick than he deserves.

No need to apologise. I didn't give my opinion. But personally I'd have Brittain down for 4th. Travis 2nd. Him and Tronstad have been the fulcrum of the team, and when either was out we massively struggled. Same can be said for Batth, without whom the defence became porous. Brittain has been excellent, with great contributions (5 assists and 2 goals from his position in 30 odd games is very good going), but I don't think the team has been quite as reliant on him as the other three. And remember the score is based on match by match scores given by board members rather than just an end of season vote. I certainly see the argument for Brittain being in the top 3 though. I can't imagine he was far behind.

Nothing wrong, just people having different opinions to yours. He had a great season, so did Tronstad, Travis and Batth.

Weird that the only football photo of Connor shows him playing outfield. Maybe he has switched positions in recent years.

Why do you mention them at all? Particularly Hibs (Not having a go, just wondering)

I noticed this when I clicked a match report you linked to, too. I googled Connor Eastham and only found a lad playing for someone else so I also assumed it was a mistake. Fair coincidence to have two keepers with that surname at the same club...maybe less of a coincidence but still weird if they're related.

Quite a few who went for it though, seemingly the most popular option (Without having bothered to count)? Not sure why...because they finished higher in the Prem than the others by a mighty 2 points? I didn't expect them to go down by any stretch but I certainly didn't expect them to win the league.

I do think Brum and Wrexham should be tougher than the usual because of their backing (and momentum in Wrexham's case), that's why I didn't mention them. Not sure either is getting top 6 though unless there's another big spending spree. Which tbf there may be, especially for Brum. I don't think Reynolds has disposable income to the tune of Championship promotion push though (unless he's so emotionally invested he's happy to spunk tens more millions), I always thought they'd get to this level fairly quickly then settle for a while. Any well managed team can get out of this league though.

I thought I read that Dolan won it.

He already has, by virtue of not stealing a massive wage.

They were 1 nil up at half time...and then got battered 5-1.

Your post said we hadn't spent money on a striker for 6 years. We have, last summer. Maybe you meant to say 'proper money'?

This sort of thing gets said every single summer. There are always 3 relegated teams expected to be strong in this league. Frequently at least one of them is shit. Looking at the Prem table, they've all struggled more than is usually the case. We're ignoring that 2 or 3 strong teams will be going up, too. I'm amazed we have had a sniff of the top 6 in so many of the recent seasons with the owners and board we've had. I do tend to think it can't last forever without proper investment though.

They absolutely don't invest properly, but we paid money for two strikers this summer. Just mentioning in the interest of keeping things accurate.

Yep. My mum just said the lads have done us proud. I replied that they did, but the owners have done us dirty. Again. Venkys out.

God I hate how predictable being a Rovers fan is.

That was our last chance to attack and Dennis spent it trying to dribble past 3 players in the middle of the park. Moron.