I know they don't grow on trees but didn't Mowbray want a ball-playing centre half to complement Lenihan? From the sounds of it, Lindsay is more of a blood-and-thunder type like Lenihan. Not afraid to get stuck in but prone to lapses in concentration.

Yeah but that wouldn't have been fair on the poor lad. Have a heart, Mercer.

Smart signing from WBA. They'll be favourites for relegation next year. Already preparing for Championship football.

If you were a realist, you wouldn't be constantly trying to put a spin on everything. If you were a realist, you'd forgive the fans' cynicism after the last decade. Venky's took away our top-flight status, turned the club into a national joke, alienated a large section of support, relegated us to the third-tier for the first time in 37 years, still haven't put a proper boardroom structure in place, and you expect us to be grateful because a couple of clubs have it worse?

It's obvious we were done up like a kipper when we signed Ben, and once again someone's made a tasty commission out of it at Rovers' expense.

He won't make it here. Will eventually get loaned out and we'll cut our losses. Loved to be proven wrong.

Fulham benefited from him learning the game from Smallwood and Evans. ?

You know chaddy's coping mechanism. There's no use trying to reason with him.

Obviously he's talking about backup for WBA.

That's what she said.

I've got a couple of the Kappa ones. They've seen better days but good for PJs ? Last shirt I bought was the sponsorless 2011–12 one. A season to forget but our best umbro shirt.

I thought this was Salgado at first.

I'm not convinced Brereton will ever come good here but if he does, it has to be in a front-two.

Forgot Bell got a new deal. What a joke.

No shirt!

Exactly. It's suddenly about "loyalty" when you find yourself on the receiving end.

Are we sure that wasn't his twin?

Has he said that? I don't want to speak for him but I thought the point was Venky's have never invested much in defenders. We've thrown millions away on strikers in the last decade but spent very little on defenders. Dann was probably the last one to command a decent fee, and even that was lower than reported. No offence but your posts read like a spokesman from the club's PR team.

Not his favoured position. Then again, that's par for the course here. Unless Nyambe's days are numbered, I'm not sure why we'd bring in Sessegnon.

I'd be willing to investigate that for you.

Sessegnon's a right-back, isn't he? I know he's filled in at left before but that's not his natural position.

Where there's money, there's corruption. I don't know how people could think football is any different.

In my defence, I've tried to blot Coyle's season out of my mind.

I thought he got the new deal on the back of the L1 promotion? Oh well.

Whose bright idea was it to give Mulgrew a 2½ year deal in the first place, seeing as he was untested at Championship level?