bluebruce

Fair enough, that shines a different light. I only glanced, I didn't deep dive. I assumed if he had played that many games he would have had a bunch of starts. That comes to about 6.5 games, and in and out of the team it's hard to find rhythm. A goal every 2 games is solid too, but of course a league under us and a smallish sample. Pompey may be desperate to get him back...but they're also desperate to get Carter back, who is currently our 3rd choice CB after 2 who were above him in the pecking order have left. He'll likely be 4th or 5th choice for us this season.

Before the deadline? Yes, I'd be very surprised. Would I be surprised if we only brought in say 3, rather than the 6 we need? Not particularly.

Not just your opinion on that one. In fact I'd be stunned if anyone thinks differently

But, that doesn't sound like him.... ...when did he start moving his feet?

Sounds like it's all one-way traffic in our favour so far. Magloire header cleared off the line now, with Wharton's followup deflected just wide. Pretty much nothing from Dundee on Sharpe's updates.

At 23 still a fairly young striker...but the season before last, he played in the Championship for Rotherham. 31 games...with no goals! Hope he was being played out of position or something if we're interested, because that's a terrible return for a striker. In fact it's no return. Did better last season with Portsmouth, 13 in 40, but in League One. Has had good goal returns for England youth teams up to U20s. On paper it's a no thanks from me. No idea if the source has any credibility.

Then again... 7:49pm Good play from Markanday to get to the byline, but Hedges can't get the right connection to his pull-back (0-0) 7:48pm Great cross-field pass from Garrett to free Edun who shows good pace to get onto the ball. He pulls it back but Hedges can't quite take it in his stride He also put Leonard through for a good chance though.

Nah I think we know enough about Magloire now to know he won't benefit our squad.

It's just a friendly, and he will probably feel comfortable against a team relegated from his old league. Just a feeling. Not saying he will score many this season. 33 goals according to wiki, not 22. Plus the one for Wales u19 makes 34. Which isn't a great return but he is a winger primarily.

Presumably just based on how they've trained so far.

You have, he is Dundee's manager.

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.