I mean, having your rib separated doesn't sound like a short term injury either? I think anything above 2 months would be a serious problem. Even a month could be long enough for a season to collapse.

Our season definitely can't afford a long term injury to Kaminski

What a goal! Had this weird feeling Khadra was gonna score after looking like his lack of nous in the final third was going to be a problem.

Correct. However in this case it really wasn't a foul. Can't expect to run straight into a player and get a free kick.

Nyambe playing poor again. Don't think this formation suits him.

No, I shouldn't think Tinker Tony will be at all bothered by that.

We have him until summer 2025 if we activate our option, so we are a way off that problem yet. But definitely could happen... Personally I'd have made it another year longer when we signed him up, while his wages are nice and cheap.

License to print money. Fill yer boots.

He's gonna be spewing a whole lot more in the years to come.

Samba was reputed to be earning about 100k a week I think it was, at QPR, and about 80k a week at that Russian club before. Unless he has managed his money extremely poorly, I doubt promises of future income (probably not even 1k a week now, I would guess something like 600 or so to be a standard youth coach for a club like us) would motivate him to work for free for 7 months. If he really has worked for free since then, it's because he is very interested in taking this career step and was willing to do the ground work for it. Probably combined with, as a lesser factor, some affinity for the club where he made his name and has his best years. And yes I think he will bugger off if he gets a better career opportunity.

Loads of Irish talent around. I'd never dispute that. Been some really top class players in the past, like Duff and Keane, and still some Premiership level players now. Who knows what the future holds. Just the standard of the domestic league there is very poor relative to ours. It's not a good testing ground for a senior age player looking to step to our level. You can perhaps correct me, but I get the impression even Irish people are generally more interested in the Prem than their domestic league. If so, that's probably part of what keeps the clubs poor and the standard low. All the best prospects seem to get hoovered up by English clubs early doors, like Bazunu.

Congratulations on not reading my post properly. I said it is somewhere to shop for prospects, but not for immediate first teamers. Neither of those came straight into our first team (Duff got his debut in the last game of his first season, clearly bought as an exciting prospect). Neither of them were already 23 like this lad. At that age you want someone who can challenge for the first team pretty rapidly. It's very hard to know if someone can do that when you've only seen them in the Irish league. I'm sure this will now prompt you or someone else to find an example of someone who went straight from the Irish league at a similar age to starting at Championship level or above, as if I implied it was impossible...

I feel like someone just heard this lad is being looked at by Rovers and didn't know which one so they guessed at a couple of them! The Irish league is very poor and seems a better place to shop for prospects than for immediate first teamers, which at 23 and Nyambe's contract situation, he would probably have to be. But hey, maybe he's brill. Not sure I buy this link but we will see what happens.

Who is slagging off Buckley?

At this level, goal, singular. 1 goal in 17 Championship appearances. His goal glut came the season after, in League One. Then he went to Ligue 1, but he did get loaned to the Prem with Fulham last season and notched 3 goals in 809 minutes (so about 9 full games worth, not a bad rate at a higher level). Still young, doesn't seem a bad move on paper...my main concerns would be that back injury and, especially because of it, the probable price tag.

It doesn't show any such thing. The season is still young. We are on a good run and have had a good start. We have done that before under him and still floundered midtable at close of play. The proof, if it comes, will be at the season's end. It's a marathon not a sprint, and Mowbray has shown poor stamina before.

He sounds kinda like a crapper version of Rhodes to me. But not seen him.

Think he could have become a player who was at least very handy to have at the club. But he is just constantly injured and has been for years, stopping him developing and stopping him being available. There isn't any point keeping him around once his contract is up. We need players who can stay fit most of the season.

Spoiler alert- they haven't.

The team results stats for when he isn't playing suggest otherwise.

In fairness, Rigger asked his question first.

I would have thought so, given how bad the injury now appears to be. But on that front I'm slightly concerned by TM's comments of (direct quote): 'We'll await what Leeds want to do with him'. In the same sentence as saying 'it will be a considerable amount of time to recover'. Unless we don't have a termination option (which is stupid), or our loan contribution is only about 1k a week (unlikely), or the injury only means he is out til say February (unlikely based on what they've said), I can't see any reason we should be leaving it up to Leeds. The loan should be ended in January, or earlier if that's a possibility. It's not like he has had an Elliott style contribution that might be worth hanging on to see. Until the Sheffield United game he had been a liability if anything.

He was one of the ones mentioned in the LT article the other day, along with Hedges, Ogbene and Scully: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19731448.wingers-linked-blackburn-rovers-wait-ian-poveda-injury-news/

Shame. I prefer my defenders to defend first and foremost. That's why I'll take a Nyambe over a JRC every day of the week. But ideally you want someone who can do both, like a Le Saux.

Looks like he's called Joseph Ferguson.