bluebruce

Is this just coming from him not playing today?

Sounds highly plausible. Except for perhaps the us scoring part, and the part where we hold out on conceding another for about 80 minutes. Christ, we're gonna get bummed by Brum aren't we? At home. A freshly promoted club who think they're much bigger than they are, but admittedly have owners with a drive, vision and investment and as such are one of the favourites for promotion.

Tbf there is a difference between 'limiting' questions about individual players, and banning them. The club also said the reason they wanted to do this was to focus on the match, which player availability for definitely related to. And it's not clear from this quote whether he was answering a question or voluntarily providing information. None of this is to say I don't think the decision to refuse to answer questions about Travis and contracts is acceptable, I certainly don't. Just saying they haven't technically gone against their own statement.

Not necessarily. If the thing about him not being eligible because he came off the bench for Bochum is true (I'm sceptical) Miyoshi would still be one we can launch an appeal for. As I've mentioned before, I suspect we would have strong grounds on the following bases: would have qualified comfortably with 19 points a week or so ago and is the same player now, Japanese international in his prime, has experience as a regular in the Bundesliga and Championship, and if he hadn't left Birmingham upon their relegation just over a year ago they would have been able to easily get him a full exemption from needing an ESC slot. Given that even with the reduced points he still has, if I remember rightly, 13 of the required 15 to automatically qualify, I'd be surprised if an appeal wasn't successful.

Why not just name the player?

I can't imagine we are trying to. His name hasn't been linked for quite a while now. His star has faded.

In terms of strikers, yeh probably as we have no plans to bring one in apparently. But if we do bring one in and they're not better than a League Two striker, it was barely worth bothering.

If that's where he ended up, it sounds like we never 'missed out' on him in the first place.

If he's being offered double his wage, I'd say there's zero blame on him regardless. The only question is how much we can also blame the club. At 8k, yes we could very much blame them.

Liverpool have it sussed don't they, get big bucks for average youth products after loaning them to Championship sides. Took him from Celtic for 600k training compo 3 years ago, sent him to Boro on loan for a year, bam, 25 million. We raise Wharton all his life and get 18 million.

You know that Lemony Snickett here will just see it all as An Unfortunate Series of Events.

He was very, very highly rated here. He was our youngest ever debutant and attracted Prem clubs, he wasn't playing just to put out some academy minutes but because we saw him as having a bright future with us.

He was in our senior squad at 16. He's moved backwards. The only 'right thing' about it is for his short term pay packet.

Excellent

That was when we were in the Prem, completely different kettle of fish. And it was 7 in 33 actually. When Kuqi had been in the Championship the season before with Ipswich, he bagged 19 in 43.

Agreed, that cross was impressive. Maybe partly luck but he seemed to be in a blind alley and somehow lobbed it into a dangerous spot. His overall game did seem a bit less impressive than on his debut though, but he's not one I'm worried about as it stands.

Personally I think it can be a mistake to play a lot of your previous starting XI in the first round of the cup, due to fitness levels not being maxed out yet and having played a game 3 days earlier. It's a fine balance though if the rest of your squad is weak. We saw how much the keeper swap hit us, perhaps the same happened to them. However you slice it, terrific outcome for Donny.

And they got smashed. I also felt like my pumpkins had been smashed in the first 5 minutes.

I suspect that's not what that's a picture of. Why would he be going down there by train, it's not that far. Why would he be wearing his Rovers training kit, from last season if I'm not mistaken? The latest is that we rejected a fairly derisory bid. And yes that he wants out, but unless a much bigger bid has been made I can't imagine he's on his way down there just yet. They played these games with Brittain too and somebody came in with a better bid and they lost out. Hope it happens again, it would really rankle to see him go there right now.

Wow, that's a hell of a win for their reserve side. I assume it was against Boro's fringe and youth players too though, but still impressive.

I literally don't even know who Brackley Town are, and I've heard of tons of non-league shite, so that's a bit embarrassing.

Are you really surprised at this stage? Tbf this was a seasonal occurence under Mowbray.

Pardon, maybe I should have been clearer, in my analogy the rats were the players. Obviously the RAT rats are steering the fucking ship, through a sequence of icebergs, whilst telling us they have a plan, just not telling us that the plan is to remove all the rivets and silverware and sell them off to buy themselves a luxury yacht.

Tbf he has already had two loans in non-league, Bamber Bridge and City of Liverpool FC. Admittedly he could do with more after that showing. As much as I don't rate Pears, if we sell him we definitely need to buy or loan another more experienced keeper.

I would bring in another midfielder and sell the shit out of Buckley. I'm absolutely done with him. He has had far too many chances and doesn't even have the right attitude.