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Venkys decided not to strengthen Bournemouth if you recall. No-one else was in for him.

I accept that it is possible that Nyambe could leave whatever was offered. I don't know how much he earns or how much he wants. But its strange that 3 players whose contracts run out at the end of the season all seem likely to leave. That suggests to me that they feel undervalued but that's merely my opinion. Whatever the truth of it, there clubs don't seem to have this problem at this scale do they? Or have I got that wrong too?

We have to take your word for all this. But we've got 3 players in exactly the same position. That makes it less easy to accept your thesis that none of this is Rover's fault. Agents are fair game I suppose but if Nyambe truly wants to accept our offer, he would.

Noticed Bournemouth's attendance at last week's home game was 9600.

C'mn, I said "if" we keep losing players. I was obviously talking about potential losses at the end of the season---Lenihan, Rothwell and Nyambe and further losses down the track as contracts end. You knew that and you are being annoying.

He'll get paid what he believes he's worth though and that seems to be the case for others. How do we progress if we keep losing good players for nothing and having to start again at the end of every season? The admin/ ownership at Rovers seem blind to reality.

You think he should sack his agent and hire a bad one?

83 points seem a long way away right now......

But it will cost more money to sign and pay Z than it would to keep Nyambe! Where's the logic? If we keep playing hard-ball like this, we will be producing great young players for everybody else for free!

Well we'll be losing all of them!

Interviewed after the game, you would have sworn they were ours! I'd love them to stay.

If we are in the play-offs, let's hope it doesn't go to penalties! 😂

Yes, I was going to write yesterday that the various criticisms of Dolan on this forum were way over the top. He's a young kid making his way. He has natural talent and his energy and persistence are inspirational. Same goes for Gallagher in a different way. He is limited in some respects but he is nowhere near as bad as some claim. Never worth £5M at the time we signed him but that's another story and not his fault.

We have to try something. We really are desperate for something to happen up front. We haven't got much to play with so its either Vale up-front in the middle or Gallagher or both if we change formation at the back/mid-field. I can't see us doing that because keeping the score down to nil or one is just about the only thing left going for us.

Sparky would have got us up with this squad plus 2 or 3 key signings---which wouldn't have been as expensive as Mowbray's.

Failure to adapt tactics on the pitch when it clearly isn't working is another. Just throws on subs at random in the hope that something will turn up.

There is and its a whopping 50%!

And they did have 10 men! Seems to be an advantage against us!

WellI gave it as my opinion before we signed him that he isn't really very good. You could argue he hasn't had a chance to show what he can do but then why sign him in the middle of a promotion push if he doesn't play him? Mowbray's reputation in the transfer market has not been enhanced by he signing of Hedges.

We were second, now you think we'll drop out of the top 6 but we should keep the manager anyway! Madness!

You've lost me here I'm afraid.

During that superb run of success there were plenty saying. "if Tony gets the blame when things go wrong, he must receive the praise now its going right". I think that adage still applies. I've often said "we will never get promoted with Mowbray" so if he gets an extension to his contract imo we'll know that promotion is not a priority at Rovers.

Played a blinder there K-Hod!

We need to go on another successful run to restore confidence and momentum. Anyone still believe we didn't need to sign a striker in January?

Me and Chaddy go back longer than that!