MarkBRFC

Judging by the fingers crossed, I imagine more "hope" !

Probably should be the benchmark for a Saturday game that!

Christ, Paul is having a mare on this thread "Supporting City no doubt", give over. I know loads of lads who just don't bother going now for a variety of reasons, they go to the odd away for a day on the ale, catch up with mates etc, still passionate Rovers fans who were going for years before even Jack turned up. It's not a priority for loads of people, I have a season ticket and it's not really a priority for me anymore, I always miss a few due to other events but keep my ST out of habit really.

I think the "potential" part of the post was about Brereton to be honest.

Its frustrating that the likes of Smallwood and Samuel are picking up a decent wage whilst doing nothing, but I don't blame them for wanting to see out there contracts for the sake of 6 months, these are probably the best deals either of them will have in there career. I have to say though, as things stand in the summer we'll need to do a hell of lot of work just to stand still in this league.

Yes to be fair this is what I should have gone with. Still, it killed some time whilst nothing else is happening in this thread!

At that time in 1996, there was no evidence that he would have gotten more money at Man Utd, or that he would have won more trophies. Newcastle had just finished 2nd in the top flight, smashed the world record transfer fee to get him (i'm sure his wage was pretty good too) and looked like they could go on for a spell as a top side in the country winning trophies, obviously the latter didn't happen. As Skip said, you can't compare all the names mentioned to Mahoney as they were all multi millionaires playing for one of the top sides in the country, find me an example of somebody in league one who turned down top flight offers because he was at the club he supported?

Bit of a difference there to compare Mahoney and Shearer I think, yes it was his boyhood club but Shearer was in his prime and moved for a world record fee to the side that had finished second in the premier league, and looked like it could go on and win things for the foreseeable future. Mahoney was a kid who had just been relegated to league one, on pittance, and moved to a top flight club on 14k a week as mentioned above. I don't blame any player, whether they are a fan or not for taking the route that Mahoney did.

Supporting a club goes out of the window when you become a pro unfortunately, I don't see how some can't grasp that.

Are we getting some confusion between JRC and Buckley here?

Surely by now you have learned that Mowbray says a lot of things ? I think most players would choose money to be honest over the club they support, it's a short career to make your millions after all. He might end up back here one day who knows.

Was just about to post these two, I always like the early cup games from that period having two Rovers fans up front seemed pretty special to me. Remember away at Everton in the FA Cup in 2007 they played up top together, ran them ragged, both scored and we were 3-0 up at half time.

Not really, Mowbray probably wouldn't have started him until Christmas, and I'm guessing he got a pretty good offer to go and further his development at a well respected top flight club, for a lot more money too. No brainer for the lad.

I agree with this, such a poor appointment, which in my opinion was a really lazy appointment, "Hughes was a great ex player and it worked so it probably will with Ince". At least Williams and the club acted fairly quickly though, if that appointment had happened under Venkys it would have been March before we would have looked to get rid of him, if at all.

I can't imagine JRC will be starting games anytime soon, no matter what Mowbray says. I think we'll start to see plenty of substitute cameo's from him though, with maybe a few starts towards the end of the season.

I'd like to think we will be full of confidence after last week, and nice and refreshed after the trip abroad this week. Seen far too many false dawns with this lot though, I think we'll scrape home in an unconvincing 2-1 win, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if we lost 2-0.

I'll be honest, I don't think I would be too concerned about losing Buckley for £10m.

Talk of that Polish lad is pie in the sky, never going to happen. @Paul Mani When are these 8 figure bids coming in for Buckley? Could do with them ASAP to get a couple of players in and to help with FFP.

I don't think they are to be honest.

Has anyone said it's a right mid? Thought it was just pure speculation from Sharpe that he said that a right sided attacker was favourite.

18 months on his deal yet, signed a new one in April last year.

Dack getting injured maybe?!

This will be the classic "Mowbray pulls out a result from nowhere game" to get everyone talking about the play offs again. Sheff Wed 1 Rovers 2

Well the last three have all been unemployed, cheap, and with a championship promotion on there CV. Before that there was the ex player obsession, the promotion from within, and Michael Appleton for some reason. They are not suddenly going to go out and find a young dynamic manager doing well at another club.

I'll be honest I hadn't really heard of him. I do remember someone who played well against Arsenal and thought at the time he looked good, but by the time he rocked up here I had completely forgotten about him, then reading about him jogged my memory so I was somewhat hopeful. Whilst he hasn't really shown anything in his cameos to suggest there is a player there, the finger has to be pointed at Mowbray as well as I think he has completely destroyed any confidence the lad had.