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Dack was quoted at £20 million in January, bet we don’t get £10 million... we can all play this game!

Small beer? Which other clubs are spending £7 million on forwards that aren’t getting a sniff of a start?

I’m talking about game plans and generally teams plan to be more on the front foot at home. Ergo he’ll pick Graham, obviously doesn’t mean the match will unfold that way.

Graham will play most home games when we are largely on the front foot with more possession in advanced areas and we can play off him. Will be on the bench for a lot of away games.

Always had a soft spot for Paul Gallagher being a Blackburn lad and sharing an alma mater. Still full of class.

Obviously an attitude issue. A fair few big time Charlie’s there. We know all too well how that can work out in this league...

They must hate having a BB2 postcode and 01254 number then...

I imagine a lot of kids do...

Indeed, they served Wainwright’s in the late 2000s, sold really well from what I remember. Then they got rid of Thwaites as beer supplier and that was that.

I’m taking about Smallwood, not both of them. He’d gone back to Rotherham, say, and you’d be on here slagging off TM over it?

Though if he’d have left you'd have praised TM for his ‘evolution of the team’, I’d wager!

Evans fine (he will be one of our top earners, by the way, he was signed in the parachute days and has earned 50 international caps since). Smallwood can’t make the bench and that’s with Davenport injured. He should have left for his own career if nothing else.

I don’t drink in the ground phil , I go to watch the Rovers and they are doing ‘basically ok’, but for a lot of fans they do like to put their money into the club by purchasing food and drink on a matchday. I dislike the piss poor product and service they are receiving and a better product would actually bring more money into the club. Surely the issue is three fold. 1 - prices have gone up massively in one summer - £3.80 to £4.50 a pint is a piss take from where I’m standing. 2 - The service is terrible and facilities that should speed things up are not used properly - i.e contactless and multi pint pourers or just a simple idea like ‘how about pre pouring some pints in the run up to half time?’ 3 - The club still thinks just providing one basic lager is sufficient in 2019. The club hasn’t altered its offering since the new stands were built in the mid 90s. That was a pre Wetherspoons/pre CAMRA/pre micro brewery time when pubs largely served Carling/Fosters/Xxxx/Carlsberg on draft with a John Smiths/Boddingtons esque ‘ale’ keg also on draft. Tastes have moved on massively over the last decade, the club hasn’t. Doesn’t seem a big issue to sort to me, but it won’t be as we have a management team without the initiative to do it.

It will be £15 million for all 3. Armstrong will be worth it at £1.75m rising to 3. A steady Championship player. £5 million for Gallagher is fairly risky free as he will make an impact in games and I believe will improve. The millstone around the club’s neck is the £7 million for BB, doesn’t look remotely close to making an impression, and unfortunately I foresee it going down as a disastrous signing for the club.

That song just fit his name, even in League 1 it was known he was limited but did a job at that level. Not good enough for the second tier, there’s no ill will towards him, just the realities of football and he should have been released in the summer.

Our friendly last month could be the last ever game at Gigg Lane.

So? Was the ‘Class of ‘92’’s manager Eric Harrison a top player himself? Indeed was Johnson’s own crop with Dunn, Duff and Taylor managed by ex international stars? These are development squads, as long as they are coached by quality people and a conveyor belt continues to the first team who gives a feck about how many caps the coaches mustered when they were players themselves.

Bell just doesn’t have it. Nowhere near enough quality when it comes to distribution and a poor defender - just not a Championship standard full back. He’s had an extended run at it but now a better player has come in, that’s football.

Don’t disagree. I can ‘see what he’s trying to do’, but a weak spot when it comes to defenders means I foresee any top 6 challenge falling away.

In what way?

Should stick to his films.

Of course. But I can see better footballers in key positions, to me that is the most important development over performances and the obvious need to cut out mistakes at this stage.

A bad player, or having a bad game? Second one is subjective, 1st one? They can feel free to bring back Smallwood or Evans or Lowe or Williamson or Akpan.

Who thinks Johnson is bad? Not seen a single post saying that. Been a monster in there since the opening day.

We are looking a better side. Why? Better players. It’s that simple. Mowbray will have wanted that level of performance since he took over but players like Bell, Evans, Smallwood, Mulgrew, Conway are not capable of providing it (or at least can’t provide it anymore in some cases). All I ask for my club is that it strives to improve each season. And last night was a sign of a club that is FINALLY behaving like an outfit with ambition. Here’s to the rest of the season.