Sharpe says plenty of scouts in attendance to look at Rovers' youngsters. Hopefully Magloire plays well and somebody takes him off our hands.

U18s striker last season. Should be moving into U21s this year. Surprised to see he starts ahead of Burns and Butterworth

There's already a pre-season thread lads, with more discussion about the game than is happening in here.

Hedges captain for the night.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/july/13/team-news--dundee-v-rovers/

Feel Hedges will score tonight.

Interesting. Must either be injured, or they want to see what he can do against a team like Celtic.

Except that neither of you actually leave people to 'go ahead'.

I know we have lost 2 CBs, but I agree we only need to sign 1...if we intend to play 2 at a time. If we plan to use a back 3 for even as much as a third of the season, I'd say we need 2. Carter seems a good bet for being ready, but we won't know until he's put to the test for a run of games. I don't think we can rely on Phillips yet (before anyone comes in arguing this, I'm saying rely on him, as in assume he would be fine to play 20 consecutive games if injuries and suspensions required it, I'm not saying we can't play him and see how he does...if it turns out he isn't ready and we end up short on CBs, it will be a problem, for us and him). I feel if you play with 2 CBs you need 4 reliable ones for a season. If you play with 3 you need 5. In both cases you need players like Phillips as further cover and possibly breaking through.

Christ, I hope not! We are a bit buggered if we don't recruit in midfield and attack. Besides, GB or JDT (unless it was just an LT assumption) have talked about wanting about 6 players.

I should think it comes down to being outbid on targets by other clubs. That's certainly what happened with Ahmedhodzic. As much as Waggott is an odious toad, not sure that's his fault, more a budget issue.

Whereas if we found out there were aliens on Neptune, I'd invite the guy in to piss on my carpet whilst we marvelled together at the most monumental discovery in human history. (Then I'd twat him and make him lick the carpet clean)

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-boss-message-over-future-of-prized-assets-linked-with-swansea-city-blackburn-rovers-co-3764264 Former targets Ronan Curtis and Marcus Harness for sale as they enter the last year of their deals. Article says Curtis believed to be valued at about 500k, which is a lot less than when we were looking previously (though I've heard on here he hasn't done too well for them recently) and Harness it just says they'd want to recoup the 800k they paid Burton for him. Which might mean the minimum is 800k, or that it would do the job. Course, we might not be interested anymore under the new regime. Both are 26 years old. Harness scored 11 in 40 games in the league last season, with 6 assists, Curtis scored 8 in 43, and 8 assists, which was his weakest goals return in the last 4 seasons. He's been good for 10 or 11 goals usually, though of course in League One. From what posters have said about his attitude previously, I'd swerve Curtis personally. Harness scored the vast majority of his goals in the first half of last season, when I think we were discussing him and Twine a lot, as they had similar goal numbers at that point. Seems like Harness' season dwindled after that, although Curtis and Harness are ostensibly wingers but seem to get moved around the pitch a fair bit so he may just have been moved further back. I'm not really inspired by the idea of either, although they seem to be going cheap, our budget is low, and we need players.

Also, if anyone is wondering what the stretched points of light are, that's something called gravitational lensing. I believe all of those bits are galaxies, as it's something that happens when light from an incredibly distant object is warped by gravity of nearer objects. This can actually enable us to see things we couldn't normally, which would be obscured by something else, because the bend of space-time causes light to follow a different path and stretch around it. On the Webb image, the red light will be all or mostly from particularly ancient galaxies. The light is so old that its wavelength has stretched out and it shows up better in the infrared. This is why Webb was made, to be able to see things that Hubble never could by operating in the infrared. This does also mean it isn't as good at seeing visible light as Hubble, but overall it will really take us to the next level of understanding the cosmos. Some of the galaxies we can see now are older than any we have seen before, including from Spitzer, a cheaper, less advanced infrared space telescope that ran out of fuel in 2020.

On this point, here is an image of Webb (on the left) vs Hubble (right) covering the same area of space. If you want to compare specific points of the photos, just mentally rotate the Hubble one slightly anti-clockwise until they line up. The star to Hubble's right, with the lengthy red smudge line to the right of it, is a good point of reference for this rotation, being easily identifiable on the Webb pic. But you don't really need to do that to see how much better the new photos are.

Yes, we've just chosen to ignore it and talk about unrelated bollocks instead, like what feet centre backs should use.

But, he is a foreign striker, he's Chilean! 😂

If we end up playing 3 CBs, 2 of them are going to be left-footed or 2 of them are going to be right-footed, so it won't matter. (Obviously unless we find someone genuinely ambidextrous)

I suspect at least 5% of the huge number of posts is people complaining about the huge number of posts or our lack of activity.

I have to assume that by 'outscoring anyone' he really meant 'anyone' rather than 'everyone'. And yeh there's a small chance he would outscore Kaminski.

I'm talking relatively too. 1 million plus wages to borrow a player who sold for 500k two seasons ago, didn't play at all in that first season, then was loaned back to this level where he made 23 appearances for Sheff U is relatively bloody high. It's like paying 100k up front for that 50k BMW. His market value absolutely certainly isn't anything like 20 million, I dunno where you get that notion. He wouldn't be getting loaned down to the Championship for the second year running at age 26 if that were the case.

Our lease payments in this case aren't fuck all. A million is more than Liverpool actually paid for the player so not sure about it funding depreciation in this case. As for someone permanent at 2 million being less beneficial in terms of risk, that entirely depends on the player. That's 2/3 of the cost of the highly-rated lad we lost out on to Sheff U. Be mad to go from owning a 23 year old to having someone in for just a year instead and not costing much less.

True but at under 5s there isn't anything even vaguely resembling a guarantee that the player is as good as they seem, and they haven't put in that much work into developing them yet. Phillips on the other hand is on the verge of our first team at 17 and we have developed him for years.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/sources-late-interest-emerges-as-middlesbrough-look-to-strike-deal-for-ex-blackburn-rovers-man/ Two French clubs looking to hijack Nyambe's move to Boro. I'd certainly prefer he moved leagues, strengthening a rival for free with one (or two in Boro's case) of our academy products is particularly galling.

Well you're more optimistic than I am. I'm sure those clubs intend to sign players.