Only two chances we've created too. Clinical.

What striker problems?

He won't get bigger, but you can always get stronger.

The second one definitely isn't true. Brereton scored a princely 1 goal per season in his first two seasons. People are way too harsh on Dolan.

Still sounds fucking stupid, pointless and unnecessary to me.

People complain about Totally Wicked, but it's Macron who need replacing. They make nice kits, but the supply issues are an absolute farce. A competent club would have had this contract voided after last season, or placed financial penalties in the contract for failure to supply below a certain threshold.

Maybe we wait until the rumour is actually confirmed?

Probably the wrong thread to come visit then eh?

We can't give away 8,400 shirts - we routinely run out of the ones we have on sale! Tbh I'm surprised Stanley can afford to do this every year. Didn't we once have to give them a load of money to stop them being liquidated?

God that was an amusing read, thank you! From Wikipedia: 'The city of Plymouth is the largest in England fielding a League club to have never hosted top-flight football.' 🤣🤣🤣 Meanwhile, our record without that benefactor is still 2 top flight titles and 6 FA Cups. Most successful town team in England. Throwing in the benefactor, another top flight title, League Cup (after he died), 12th in all-time top-flight table and I believe 10th on all-time trophy table. Whilst I think they've spent about half, maybe more, of their history in or below a tier where we've only spent 6 seasons ever. We don't think we're a Barca, but we certainly know we're not a Plymouth!

I can't see JDT starting the season with a 2-man midfield of Travis and Tronstad. Seems too defensive and unambitious for me, unless Tronstad is a more progressive player than he sounds and looks maybe. Seems to sit a little deep for that pairing to work under JDT's style.

I think the most important factor has definitely been finding full and consistent fitness. With that, we've been able to see the player he really always was. Fingers crossed he stays fit consistently, if so then this contract could be crucial for us.

Thanks for the updates philipl, but how many ways do you want to spell Nsangou's name? 😂

What's sometimes forgotten is that he also scored an own goal in the previous game against Wigan, Google tells me the 63rd minute. His 2 own goals were scored in the first 20 minutes of the Cardiff game. That means he scored 3 own goals in approximately 50 minutes of football. And then got sent off about 70 minutes later (not too long after we had got back into the game with a goal). Got to be some kind of record. And not long after telling us he wanted to leave the club even though our asking price wasn't being met. If it wasn't involvement in some sort of betting ring, it was an attempt to force the club to sell him. My guess is both - wanted to force us to sell, and thought he'd make some money at the same time. But this could just be because I hate the bastard for what he did. I'd quite liked him up until then too.

100% I'd have him back for the right money. Would need to learn to play a different way to how he was used last time though, but fast and dangerous. He won't be available on the right money now though. Signed a 4 year contract in 2021 when they bought him, won't be out of contract til 2025. Even then, once they're on Prem wages it's hard to get them back on Championship wages, and nearly always some club sniffing who will pay more than us.

You'd think we'll have had people watching this one. Any lads for either side who looked like they may be worth taking on, and play for clubs we should be able to prise them from? Even if only as youth team prospects.

Anyway, the people who insisted it was bizarre to be obsessed with Mowbray have now taken the Adam Armstrong thread thoroughly off topic in defending him, springing from one offhand comment about Mowbray. So shall we get back on topic, if anyone does have anything to say about Adam Armstrong? Otherwise maybe it makes more sense to dig out the Mowbray thread and hash it out in there?

I do disagree with the notion there's not much between him and Kean. I think it's because he's more recent and people have forgotten just how poisonous Kean was. But I can understand the strong dislike due to the contempt he often showed. Different level though to Kean, and he at least brought us some modest success at first. Not worse than Coyle either, but in terms of attitude I'd put him third. I don't think Kidd comes into it, think people are talking in the Venkys era, and Kidd was just inept he wasn't shit in his attitude far as I can recall, so depends what we're comparing.

Nothing bizarre about it, thorough explanations have been given.

He didn't look it in interviews? He did by my standards. Certainly didn't look like it hurt him very often. Nor did he display much passion on the touchline whether winning or losing. Hell he was practically asleep at times. He moaned about being away from his family, downplayed our ambitions and prestige constantly, was obviously homesick for the northwest and never even moved his family here to do the job properly. There's enough evidence to suggest his heart wasn't really in it here without you needing to call that opinion daft. If you have a different opinion fine, but he gave plenty of us a different impression. For me, he 'did his best' in the same way I did my best at my last job. I hated it, gave what I could to satisfy my personal requirements of professionalism and to avoid being fired, but my heart wasn't in it and I never gave what I was truly capable of on a consistent basis as a result. I see it being said that he can't have been giving less than his best if he got us the same points as JDT, well as soon as he was back in his native northeast he got them into the playoffs, a team only just promoted from League One. He never did that here in 5 years.

Personally I think the insistence it's impossible he wasn't doing his best is the true bizarre stuff. I guess everybody in football always gives it their all then.

That's not something I believe.

If you say so.

I'd be very curious to find out precisely what he did. From the LT article it sounds like it could be as minor as telling someone our lineup 10 minutes before it was released. I don't know if something as serious as what Shane Duffy did (always amazed he never got investigated for that) comes under it.

Not strictly just about Rovers youngsters, but I notice Biniek and Nsangou are going to the u19s euros with Poland, who will share a group with Malta, but that Wharton and Phillips won't be there as England missed out on qualifying. Can anybody explain to me how shitty little Malta u19s have qualified whilst England u19s didn't? Are they hosts or something? I tried to find online how they qualified but I can't, they're seemingly too insignificant to list matches for. Even transfermarkt only had friendlies.