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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.

Sympahies mate. We are besotted dog lovers and it breaks our hearts whenever we farewell them. Takes us fully 18 months to get over it, continually expecting them to run up to you etc. Then we get another!

Ignores the erratic nature of our masters.

and their manager is no slouch in the transfer market.

No its not a straw man, its just bloody obvious! Signings needed in defence as you acknowledge so what are you on about?I'm ignoring most of your post because its the usual stuff you deliver me everytime---everything's OK, no need to panic etc etc. I'm not panicking! I used the word "if". If Mike E's scenario is correct there nothing to worry about and we'll sign someone better and I will rejoice. But we turned this guy down for a million (your statement) and we haven't signed him now he's free! So one of two possibilities----we've changed our mind about him (despite talking him up for months) and we have someone better lined up OR we haven't got a pot to piss in. Which it is we'll find out soon.

The problem is defence! Even if we hadn't lost Conway and Reed, it wouldn't have prevented the disastrous goals against column. That's why we are a bit anxious. if we don't make good defence signings our season is likely over before its begun.

You missed out Sheffield Utd there. How did they go?

We publicly chased a centre-back for months because we wanted him on the bench? To be fair, its TM who wanted him not us fans. If that's your view about Bauer you should be asking "Why"?

Plenty of Mowbray's don't.

If he doesn't turn out to be a good player then surely its embarrassing that TM chased him so publicly for so long?

I would have seen him----from those little seats round the edge of the wall (Darwen End of the enclosure) but I honestly have no memory of him. So hats off to you! My favourite player of that era was William Fenton, a left-winger who only played 17 games for us! I was mortified when we sold him to -------York City!! I've never met anyone else who's even heard of him!

From the little I've seen of him Bauer is definitely "uncompromising"! Solid unit. However I would prefer Hanley as a player. Let's not forget though that Bauer would be our player and Hanley would be on loan. Something worth thinking about......

If we turned away from Bauer after all this time pursuing him because his agent wanted too much in wages, then Preston signed him-----surely we would have to think something was amiss?

Will one signing in defence turn things around?

But we wouldn't I suspect. We'll get Bauer probably and nothing more. Not even linked with any full-backs are we?

Whether he is or not wasn't my point. I want us to go forward, we can't improve without a good centre-back partnership. So, I'd welcome him as an addition.

Sure but its all about not conceding. There's only one Mike England!

I think that would be a good partnership provided Hanley retains the form he had when he left us but NOT,definitely NOT as a replacement for Linahan.

I should have known!

I think people see us as fishing in a very small pool. We need to cast our net wider. And that concludes the Fishing Report!

An aria?