bluebruce

All those quality penalties and then Dabo absolutely skies his. I was saying all you need to do at this point (sudden death) is gently chip one down the middle. No way those keepers weren't going to dive before the kick with pens landing right in the corner. I like a minnow success story, even if it makes me jealous whilst we flounder like this. Both were surprise packages for promotion, and I know a Cov fan who's a good bloke and respects Rovers, so I didn't have the hate of them some seem to. I remember them being good with us when we mathematically lost the title at Highfield back in the day too. But Luton are the smaller minnows and I wanna see Manure fans walking through that terraced turnstile. So had no real preference overall. Cov will surely lose Gyokeres now, either to a weak Prem side or a relegated one.

If England could take penalties like this lot, we'd be laughing.

I'm not sure why you used Tugay as an example. Much more exciting signing than Niall Ennis. I think the main reason this video is a bit cringe is the player in question is a freebie from League One, and we already knew about it hours before the announcement. If it was a genuine surprise and a marquee signing, I'd understand building some 'suspense'.

You yourself frequently seem to think they should put more money in. Ungrateful eh... Top 10% of owners, don't make me puke. I hope your post was tongue in cheek.

In fact, to answer my own question, yes, it would be just over 1,000 less capacity than Bournemouth's was when they went up. https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/luton-town-smallest-premier-league-stadium-ever-kenilworth-road

Wiki says they were in the Conference Premier (their first time ever at that level) from 2009/10, and got in the playoffs 3 out of 4 seasons whilst down there, finishing 7th in the other season, so they weren't dabbling with the Conference South. Still an embarassing difference between the two clubs' fates from that starting point under billionaire Venkys to where we both find ourselves today. Out of curiosity, if Luton go up will their stadium (10,356 capacity) be the smallest in the history of the Premier League? Not counting capacities limited due to building work and strictly talking Premiership not top flight.

Since we're offering Whitehall a new deal, with all the injury issues he's had, you'd think we'd be offering Harlock one too. Seems to have played well.

'To who? There's only one 5 ft 6 lad in the box!'

He lost me at 'selected on merit...in games'. Anyone who couldn't see there were light years between Wharton and Morton on match day, in favour of the former, can't spot a CM. What happens in training is scant consolation if you can't deliver it consistently on a match day. One of my biggest fears for this window is that we try to get Morton back and Wharton gets benched again.

If we sell him for less than double that, we aren't doing this right. (Entirely possible of course)

His wife has come out and said what?! What do you mean he needs a minder?

Ah, I see we were of a mind! Freddy Adu wasted his talent. Wayne Rooney just perhaps didn't quite reach the extreme heights he could have.

Wasted his talent is a bit harsh. I do think he could have been an even greater player than he was, potentially could have been the greatest English striker of all time, but he was generally regarded as world class for quite a while. England's second most-capped, and second-highest goalscorer. Over 200 Premier League goals, over 100 assists. Manure's all time top scorer. Most Champions League goals of any English player. 5 prem titles, 1 FA cup, 3 League Cups, 1 Champions League, 1 Europa League. He had an excellent career. Just because he could arguably have been even better doesn't take away from that. Good role model as a person, no, but that's a vast level of top end football experience. Not saying I want him, but wasted his talent seems a push.

Everyone used to hang around in the concourse after the game to hear Souey speak, especially if the ref had done us over! No other Rovers manager has or will talk to the press that bluntly with that much passion. It started to go off the boil near the end, and it hurt a little that he jumped to Newcastle (even if we knew it wasn't working for him at Ewood anymore), but he is well up there with the modern great managers at the club. Promotion, cup win, top six finishing, passion...and he brought in Tugay (1.3 mill) and Friedel (free), and got the best out of Duff. Three of the greatest players in our history, and definitely the three greatest since the title-winning team. He also brought in Hughes, without which we probably wouldn't have ended up with Hughes as our manager. Souey was a vital part of our history.

If he does, we either get promoted or lose him.

Tugay didn't need to be in the last third to play the killer/final ball to open up defences.

My impression of Ostenstad was anything other than professional. I still remember a cup game against a Rochdale or Rotherham or someone like that, and him getting a chance to force his way back in, and him barely looking arsed. One ball in particular he could have easily got to that he didn't bother chasing. Either he was very unprofessional that day or tbf, maybe very unfit and shouldn't have played.

Never seen that tough bastard look like he was going to cry before. He must really feel for her.

Why would Broughton not have come cheap? He was in charge of an academy in Norway for an obscure club, with no experience in this role and clearly making a hugely progressive career move. He will have come as cheap as Directors of Football come.

I'll say it again, there don't seem to be any quotes of him saying 'nice food'. It's just a message board snowballing food into some sort of luxury dining.

Harsh. He seems like a nice bloke, and my hot lodger I used to have thought he was the only one on my Rovers calendar she was interested in. It's also just as shallow to attach that much importance to her good looks as it is to his money. She could be a terrible person with a boring personality.

I don't think it's that we rate him at 1.5 to 2 mill, it's that we have just dropped him for half a season in favour of someone who isn't that good. If he also wants out, chances are we won't get more than that in the market, we've essentially driven his value down. Maybe we could squeeze a little more than our estimates but I can't envision someone paying 5 million for our backup keeper. He's also not an international btw, no caps yet. Worth considering also that Raya was very young for a keeper, he had many many years ahead of him and tons of time to grow into his obvious potential. Kaminski is 30, generally speaking with keepers you'd expect he may still improve a little til he's about 32, and then typically last til about 35. Absolutely it can be a year or so longer, and some outliers make it to 40 or so in great shape, but the point is there are theoretically about 7 less years of service and also far less potential growth, compared to Raya who was 23 and already an established Championship keeper of quality when sold. Apart from his occasional brain farts I'd say he was lower Prem quality. Yes we got shafted on the Raya deal, and we'll probably get shafted on a TK deal. All the more reason to keep him instead. As far as I'm concerned his reduced performance levels are probably mostly due to the injury we hear he was playing through.

It won't matter who we have up t'other end if our goalkeeper is Pears for a full season. Keeper is the most underrated position on the pitch. You keep your best one, not your least valuable one, unless the decision is taken out of your hands or you get an offer too good to refuse.

Probably both clubs sent too many good youngsters out on loan.

You're right, you really fucked up there - you should have tried to become a professional goalkeeper.