Don't we already have tons of keepers still at the club to rotate though?

What do you mean by that? He's a goalie, 11 games so far shouldn't have been too much. And we could always ask them to rest him if it was. Seems an odd one to me, this.

If he hasn't convinced you after scoring a hat trick, I doubt he'll ever convince you.

I don't think ACD is a stretch. He'll be a regular starter for us very soon I reckon. Whereas Toth is unproven here, McFadz is ageing and on the way out, JRC is highly unfit at the moment, and Buckley is more inconsistent than English weather.

There isn't really any separating discussion of the two players. If Pears doesn't get dropped, it won't matter what Toth is like. You'll just have to accept that discussion involving Pears is an inevitable outcome of discussing Toth, especially whilst he is in Toth's pathway. It's a bit like how discussion of club finances inevitably comes up in the transfer window thread.

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Yeh I had to miss most of it due to a bit of an emergency I had going on. Caught ACD's second and Duru's though. I've rewound to the start to watch it properly, just before I read your post. Handy feature that. You'd think the club would be advertising this could be watched for free, but as ever, nope. I got a random youtube notification, otherwise several of us would've had no idea.

Game is available to watch on youtube: (Not sure what time it starts?)

Aye...Pears wasn't actually in form anymore shortly after Kaminski was ready again. That drop should have happened. Right now, Pears is in form, and whilst I'm no fan in general, you can't drop him whilst he's in form. I hope Eustace will have the balls to drop him as soon as he isn't though.

Tbf to Mike, whilst for a while after his career he definitely made a mess of things, eventually he got his act together and seems happier and more stable now than at most points of his career, to me.

But they are doing. You just said yourself, he's injured and needs pain meds.

No. It was a foul but it was never a yellow.

That last part is categorically untrue.

That was last season. Hopefully our current sponsors don't result in a ram's bottom being thrown onto the pitch...

Has Gueye been provided with a single heading opportunity at goal in the league yet?

Overtime? Given how poor the youth team updates are on social media, I'm not sure they're even putting in a full normal shift each week.

Absolutely beyond belief that the officials have seen the bite mark and not carded the cunt. What did they think, he bit his own back?!?

Baffled that you thought that.

Cantwell yes, but ACD looks class to me. He'll be a regular fixture soon enough.

Should have been sent off even if the bite wasn't spotted. Thug that lad. Hopefully a lengthy suspension coming when the bite is assessed. I assume Beck was trying to show them the actual bite mark. If one was visible, then the officials are absolute fucking morons for not sending the guy straight off, as it's concrete proof.

Eustace putting a consoling arm around Ty as he brought him off. Think he knows the lad's head hasn't been right today. I do think Eustace seems like a good man manager.

Agree with Gueye on, but not sure there is going to be a lot of space for ACD to run at them.

Does he? https://www.deepdaledigest.com/fan-views/preston-fans-react-to-blackburn-teenager-tyrhys-dolans-superb-performance/ https://www.deepdaledigest.com/analysis/preston-0-3-blackburn-north-end-dismantled-as-dolan-rounds-off-miserable-night/

Really good save at the death there from Pears, best he's made this season. Can't believe the commentator was waffling on about that card being in any way controversial. Clearest one I've seen all season. Scythed him down from behind, end of. I don't even want to play against 10 really but that was as clear cut as it gets. I assume that's one of our fans thought it was a good idea to throw something onto the pitch? Days after the club has been fined 35k for exactly that. Fucking troglodyte.

Villareal wanted a bargain, I don't think they ever truly felt he was a player they needed. Not sure they ever even made an official bid? At least, the highest bids were from elsewhere by all accounts. Villareal knew he could flop there and they'd still make a profit. It's not always a good idea, longer term for your career, to play the out of contract game so that a club who can easily afford to pay the going rate can get you on a freebie and give you a bumper signing on bonus. Admittedly to a degree that was probably taken out of his hands by the club rejecting bids from other clubs the summer before, but if he wasn't going to put a proper stint in all season I'd rather he pushed for a move at the time, which he never did. Which was clearly because he wanted his Spanish move. But I'd have to agree he wouldn't have been better off staying here, sadly. Except in the scenario where he put a proper shift in all season and got us promoted, which was very do-able. Then he could have had a bumper new Prem-money contract and had the chance to attract bigger fish on a bigger stage whilst playing in an environment where he knew he fitted in and was playing his best football. But plodding along in the Championship on let's say 20k ish a week on a new deal probably wouldn't have been a better long term scenario.