We would ALL love to do well this season but not because it gives gloating rights. What if we do badly and everyone queues up to remind you of this post? This is NOT what the MB is for.

Mentally, TM is still in Div 1. I do not believe we will ever be promoted further while he is manager. Hasn't got it.

As you say----different divisions! Many of those managers are worse than TM anyway!

I like managers with a high success rate but I haven't got one!

In all honesty, that's the truth. If he were going to be a player who could justify the fee one day, he would be at least showing SOMETHING. In three years some on here will be saying 'don't write him off he's only 23'.

Its not that aspect so much, he could turn out to be a real player for all I know. And no blame attaches to him. But it was a ridiculous buy when it took up so much of the transfer budget and there were other areas where we needed strengthening. We did need a striker its true but not this one now. We needed someone who could feature regularly in the first team as a striker. And he'd have been cheaper. Even if this move comes off in the end, I still feel it was a terrible decision and a huge gamble we shouldn't have made. its a bit like that bloke a few years ago borrowing enough to buy a house and putting it on RED at the casino to pay it off. Lunacy. (He won by the way!)

Since he only appears every 6 months banning him would be pointless! Agree though with your comment.

Not on 6 I couldn't!

I did that last summer! (And got picked on for it! )

Good player so why a sub? Does not compute! TM all over. (That's if you're right of course, I can't be arsed checking.) Edit----others have checked and you are wrong!!

If we are nowhere near the top 6 at Christmas you will never criticise the manager, you will simply find new excuses for him.

Can anyone tell me why we signed Chapman? I was pleased at the time but he never plays and we've just signed another left winger.

It would be a toss-up whether I'd prefer Johnson or Kean, that's what I think of our new PM.

Armstrong is NOT a winger.

Yes I know! I'm not the one slagging off the fans!

I lamented last summer's transfer window last summer because TM did not address the key areas. I do wonder if its going to be the same again. If he won't play Chapman what's the point of another left-winger? Meanwhile centre-back? Striker?

Why did TM buy him then? I don't get it.

Probably why we never win the first game of the season!

Boring the pants off me with this continual hand-wringing....Its not negative to give different opinions about the club. We want things to be better---some do anyway. Others will justify anything.

I'm not expecting us to win at Fulham so its imperative we beat Charton at Ewood. Be nice to see Chapman play again (on the wing that is).

Or losses when he played.

Definitely means Appearances 224+33 ie 33 as a sub. IMO!!

Not fond of your own fans are you?

Jones will be a multi-millionaire so whatever the next few years bring he will live the good life in retirement and still in his thirties! When I first saw him I thought he would be England captain with over 100 caps, just about the best young prospect I'd ever seen.