I hope yous have plenty of filler prepped.

All starting to feel very familiar this transfer deadline day....

22:50 Rovers make a late move for Peterborough's Dembele 22:51 Dembele has joined Bournemouth on a 4 year deal

Any plans for another transfer window closing stream next week? I believe it was @JoeH involved? It was a nice alternative to the guff spouted on Sky.

Our transfer strategy seems to be fielding calls from other clubs/agents touting unwanted players around the division. John Park - stealing a wage

2 phone charges today to end up with Oliver Burke at 10pm.... Reminds me of the Aynsley Pears signing. Late on. Not required. And shit

Had to search back for this when I remembered. Probably a good time to re-post.

A family lineage to Teesside?

Recent overview from his time in Holland - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sussexlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inside-track-no-nonsense-brighton-4798687.amp Another young, raw defender. Just what we need.... "Van Hecke is a strong, capable central defender, he's vocal for his age and is tall, and has a good physique'. "His passing is decent, and he's not shy to go into duels both on his feet and in the air. He's not the most technically sound player but he is definitely not incapable of dribbling, has a reasonable first touch, and he isn't slow. He has no major shortcomings". "He still needs to read the game better though and play more cleverly. He does make some fouls here that are not smart fouls, although they are physical fouls more than errors due to for example positioning".

Seconds?

333 pages without a signing. Graham Gooch would be proud

Top of the league - look at it while you have a chance

A play-off spot should never be an ambition. The target is automatic promotion and a play off spot is the runner-up safety net. It sums up Mowbray's acceptance of mediocrity, and it permeates through the team.

The kind of result that makes the world of difference come May. Winning ugly. Giving ourselves a chance. Despite another substandard performance, can we keep Arma in January??

Full strength team, all fully fit, what front 3 do we go for in a play-off final at Wembley when all the chips are in? Elliott-Dack-Arma interchanging? Dolan on for the last 30?

With recent memories of Petshi, Chris Brown, Samuelsen, Koita, Varney, the list is endless, I'm going to enjoy this one. For the first time in a long time (barring L1), we can properly feel that we belong in the hunt for promotion. On paper, some really shrewd business this window Well done Tony

Harvey Elliott's volleyball friend

Still only 3, come on lads. 3 mins without a goal....

Under normal ownership, I'd say that was true. I'd be shocked to hear they even knew we were playing today.

Reduced to refreshing the transfer page with 16.5 hours to go until the season starts. And still not a defender in sight. So much for think big. Tony's new mantra is think small.

Alphonse Areola? And I thought Walton could make a tit of himself.

So that's where the term happy clapper came from

Fully expecting Ben Whiteman

On the quote below in bold. I read it differently to an imminent signing in the next day or two. I perceived him as saying 'Just when you think we've got a level of agreement..... and we couldn't match the WBA offer for Kipre. It's hard to tell - Tony is the master of equivocation. Asked if it could be the next day or two, Mowbray said: “I hope so, but it’s never quite as easy as that. I think we’ve got a level of agreement potentially with another signing but experience tells me ‘they want this, they want that’ or ‘we can’t quite do this’ or ‘we can’t do that’. The fine details of contracts at this level are difficult."

Just wait till Kaminski sees him in his 6 yard box ?