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I'm not watching, but I'd imagine the sensible move here would be to bring on Garrett or Travis for Buckley or Morton. 10 men, momentum against us, tired legs...need to be able to break up their play and kill time.

He didn't, took him off for Carter after the red.

Ayala basically confirming that the collapse will happen. Also the ban means we'll be fielding Wharton and Carter presumably next match?

I didn't say it was anything to do with the manager.

Did you mean you wonder if?

Bit of a problem this, we used to control games easily once we were ahead. Since the first time we collapsed from a leading position (Sunderland I think?) we just haven't been the same when leading. I could live with never coming back from behind when we always won when ahead, but now we've lost that aura of invincibility when leading, and still haven't put the never recovering thing to bed, we could have an issue. Only kept the lead here for 14 minutes.

You're faster than livescore.com Chaddy.

Not gonna lie...I'd take it.

Whereas I'm sure I don't understand the focus on Vale.

I mean, mine was just an analogy, I've never touched those drugs...do you need an intervention?

Maybe, but I'm still getting cravings. I feel like somebody who used to do coke, but now the dealer only has crack, and I hate it but I still keep going back as I'm hooked now. So the (deleted) post still stands.

That's more of a statement on how bad the refs are in this league though.

Yep. Felt we should have signed him when we sold Rhodes.

If anybody knows anything about watching this game without being in Bristol, I'd be amenable to a DM...

Combining your two posts, I'd say it's more like it's becoming a big part of the equation. As he said, we were converting at an unsustainable rate, and we have stopped sustaining it.

Pretty sure the player actually was Bulgarian. I think the time they put in was close to 10 seconds, so about half a second slower than Usain, but quicker than anyone you're likely to find in football! But yep the papers ran with it, I think even Sky quoted the running time. I thought it was Ivelin Popov, but I could be misremembering.

Well, not wherever he's been. 0 goals for Brighton. Had a season (2018/19) in the third German tier where he scored 6 in 35. Until 2020/21 season he played his whole career in the third German tier or below. Mostly below. In leagues of any note, he basically has two and a half seasons, where yes he has been about 1 in 2. The Belgian league is a mixed bag of teams though, some are trash, some play regular CL and would likely woop us. The 0 for Brighton comes from just 8 games and the Prem can be a tough nut to crack. Hopefully the Championship is the right level for him to get back on the goal trail. Can't see what Brighton would gain by sending him to Belgium again, he can't achieve anything there they haven't seen. Surely better to try and get him scoring in England. Sounds like this one will happen.

Tbf, whilst I agree with this post, you've always insisted that the best player should always be picked first, and that this (and loanees) doesn't block pathways for young players.

It's been claimed before that Pears is on something like 5k pw. Might be false (hopefully!), might be true, but if it's true then surely we will be paying at least 1.5x backup keeper wages anyway? I can't see Pompey covering the whole of a wage like that.

Funnily enough I was thinking about him earlier, and nearly mentioned him in the post, as I saw an old post of his in the BBD thread. Where he called it a waste of money because 'watch him leave for free' or something like that. Quite an accurate prediction it's looking like... Someone (I think Exiled) also predicted the club would do bugger all to take advantage of the BBD buzz in Chile.

I can't imagine Pears going on loan to League One frees up a whole ton of money, enough to permanently sign a new GK, so why does it slow the deal's conclusion? I sure hope we aren't signing this guy just so Pears can go on loan as some kind of favour to him. We already did him a huge favour - signing him in the first place.

Ok I'm getting sick of this false narrative that everyone wanted rid of him before the 21/22 season. I already tried to dispel it, at length, but I suspect the length of the post put many off reading it. Here's the simpler version: June 2021. Here are some comments from that page, during or just after a Chile match. 'Play the lad up front. Fuck Armstrong. Barcelona bound 😆 ' 'BB Diaz should have been playing for England tonight, better than anything on show at Wembley. ' 'At this rate, he’s going to be lifting the Jules Rimet Trophy in 2026. ' 'Majestic - first time we’ve all smiled this much at anything rovers related for a long while. He looks like a quality player and absolutely made up. Arturo Vidal slapping him on the back instead of Corrie Evans. ' 'Brereton does seem to be thriving in the Copa America. Let's hope he gets used properly by Blackburn next season, now we've seen what he can do in the right environment. ' Some of those are a bit tongue in cheek, but not all, and still not how people who want rid of him would talk. Also includes JB successfully raising £375 towards a giant Diaz flag. That's all on just one page. Going back a bit further to page 190, 30th May 2021, I see Tyrone asking if people would give him a new contract, and I see three people responding (Chaddy, Exiled Rover and TheRoversReturn) - all saying yes. So, can we all stop pretending everyone wanted rid of him that summer? Please? Some serious Mandela Effect shit going on here, and whilst I like balance, I'm even more a fan of accuracy.

On the plus side, it really doesn't matter a jot if the keeper was signed today or Monday. He won't be playing, and I don't think we even train the day before or the day after matches do we? Or if we do it's light training. Players are often able to meet their teammates and start settling in before signings are completed anyway.

" [U21] Games had previously been scheduled alongside first-team matches, but the majority have now been switched to Sundays, allowing players around the senior side, but lacking in minutes, to get opportunities to feature. " (LT article) Good, I said in this thread as soon as it was announced that this way made more sense.

You can do better than that, try again.