18 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Rumours are we were looking to sell the canteen chairs as well but JDT blocked it cos we might need to use one to play centre mid at the weekend. 

Yes, we need a CM to sit in front of the defence. Better yet if it's some fresh legs.

Last year, we were looking at the likes of O'Brien.

This year, we're looking at an injured 35 years old.... 

2 hours ago, Lancaster Rover said:

No doubt or argument that some ex players have gone on to play and have some success (fleeting in most cases) at higher levels but there are some heavily rose tinted specs being worn too. 
 

Josh King for instance was a waste of a shirt 3 games out of 4.

I remembered how frightening his pace was for defenders though his finishing was from the Jason Roberts kind. There was a cup game (think against Chelsea or Liverpool) where i remembered he was the most dangerous player on the pitch.

2 hours ago, alex l said:

JPvH and Reed were loans, they pretty much had to leave. Nyambe, Lenihan, Rothwell, BBD and King went as their contracts expired - another issue which has been discussed endlessly. Rhodes was desperate to leave and I believe we got 8m, so hardly peanuts. 

Acknowledge the point about the loans but i think if we had better support from the owners we could have signed them after their loans. Same for making bigger offers for Nyambe, Lenihan, Rothwell, BBD and King. We could have made more efforts to keep them. I found 8m still low for Rhodes considering he was probably the deadliest striker outside the Premier League then. Did know he was desperate to leave.  

My 11 of those we should never have sold/ or sold for peanuts

Formation: 3-5-2 (Since I can't think of any leftback)

Raya

Nyambe, Lenihan, Van Hecke, 

Marshall, Reed, Rothwell, Cairney, BBD

Rhodes, Joshua King

10 hours ago, den said:

We’ve been trying to do that for 13 years. We sold an entire PL squad in order to go down that route.

It was the only way for a club like ours, struggling in its attempt to get into 7th place in the PL to push on.

It doesn’t work. That’s a plan that never holds anyone to account, never sets targets and it’s a plan for failure.

Why do some fans fall for this bollocks? 

Because it works on football manager? 🤣

For me, Ayala is our best player so far this season. Any ball that goes near him gets cleared and his reading and positioning have been top-notch. Let's hope he continues like this for the rest of the season!

6 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

He has the worst first touch I've seen in professional football.

Nope, Jason Roberts has the worst first touch. Gallagher is a close second though.

4 hours ago, Miker said:

We have one of the highest wage to turnover ratios in the league. I think it’s been made clear a million times before already that we don’t have the money for wages.

I know we have a very high wage to turnover ratio but can anyone enlighten me why this is so?

I mean, we have a very small squad now and other than Dack, i cannot think of anyone else who could earning significantly more than the average championship player.

If we talk about turnover, the crowd ban affected every other club equally last season and looking at the 2019/ 20 numbers, we still have bigger crowds than 1/3 of the league https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2019-2020/1/ so why are we so badly affected?

Breaking news!

Someone is taking a punt on Steve Kean!

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/melbourne-victory-appoint-ex-blackburn-manager-kean-as-interim-head-coach-14652276

My theory is that they are just a bunch of delusional people who still think they can sell for a profit one day. Just like people in the stock market refusing to cut loss as they think there is a possibility of the share price going up someday. They probably have some dodgy advisors who are telling them to try getting promotion on the cheap then sell out on a high.

11 hours ago, Butty said:

Jason Lowe was great at running, he just couldn’t pass or shoot and never put a tackle in 😂😂

So was Jason Roberts, runs a lot....... like a headless chicken 😁

8 hours ago, awhom111 said:

A bored Football Manager players played a whole season with Jones at striker for PSG for fun to see if they were still dominant in Ligue 1 and he bagged 40+ goals.

LOL! Any links? Would love to read how that season pan out.

Hey Mods, couldn't we set the lo-fi version as the default so that we won't get hordes of viewers jamming up the bandwith?