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I'd love to see us with 2 big men up front, one playing off the other. Sigh! We simply do not have enough presence up there and accordingly are a low scoring club. Even if we are way better than the opposition we end up winning 1-0 or, worse, drawing. The system we play now isn't working, we are an Allardyce team without the results.

It is really strange because we all know that the only way to get the big pay-off is to be promoted to the Premier League, so every transfer should be done with that in mind---logically.

You wanted the owners to trust him with 5M!! Is that not backing him? No-one else trusted him with a brass button.

Ages ago I asked your opinion about Demi Mitchell, playing with Hearts on loan from Manu. Any thoughts? Presumably on one season loan anyway but what about him for a future bid?

A couple of weeks ago posters would have ben queueing up to hit their laughter buttons at this. Its finally sinking in.

Please note, all Mercer's comment (whether you agree with him or not) are non-personal and present his football views. Your's are all entirely personal and, frankly, childish.

Been saying this for months.

Bit disingenuous here Parson. You're certainly correct that a mid-table finish was what most did hope for before the season kicked off. However, expectations have been raised by outstanding results so that we were within touching distance of Top 6. The LT ran a headline recently proclaiming such! As you say, anyone can beat anyone in this League this season which gave us even more hope that the chance was there for us. Further, the squad does have to be strengthened in January but if TM continues to baffle with selections and square pegs continue to be hammered into round holes, it won't make enough difference.

Back to basics. 11 best players start in their correct positions. Deficiencies in the squad need to be rectified in January. In particular we need a striker who regularly scores goals and can start every game. And we need width. Defence is way better than that so don't know why it went so wrong today, bur the facts speak for themselves. We concede too many and we don't score enough . No more wide forwards crap, no more expensive experiments for the future. Let's learn from this and kick on. PS Where's Chaddy?

This!

Great call Mike. There must be many Rovers fans who have never heard of him and that should not be.

Snob!

If we prepare before-hand by signing the right back-up then there'll be no need to panic will there?

Thought that myself.

Ha!

I thought it was 6th round?

I was at that game, in the old A stand, Nuttall St sitting next to Roy Vernon, who chain-smoked for the entire game!

I think Chapman is too big a risk now. Feel very sorry for him.

I'm not suggesting we could do all that in one go but TM was looking for a keeper in the summer as cover for Raya, he was trying very hard to sign Bauer ( so why not get someone else?), we could probably get by without another full-back, and TM was trying to sign Chapman--again why not go for someone else? Signing a striker for the future in our situation doesn't make football sense to me. sow could have resolved these issues over 2 windows imo. We're doing better than OK but I agree with those who see the Championship this season as unprecedentedly tight. Two thirds of the teams could make the 6 and anything can happen from there. Looking at all those draws it could easily have been us in one of those top positions. Still could happen of course but its significant that despite our good position we have a minus GD.

Exactly the same dopey reaction I got last time I posted that! Don't worry, TM's not reading it, it won't hurt his feelings! If,the striker issue alone had been resolved, I wonder if some of those draws would have turned into wins, netting us enough to get us top or near? None of that means TM isn't doing a great job so don't be so precious.

Its because we have about enough midfielders to make up a complete team!

Everyone of the issues Identified on here in the last window is yet to be addressed, except midfield-------keeper, full-back, centre-back, real winger and, daftest of all-----striker!. Midfield we have recruited extraordinarily well.

The red button is a disaster. Mid-week games in the middle of winter! Time for that tumbleweed pic to turn up again!

Why always "aint" when you're discussing yourself? Its not as if you're American is it?

Ok Den, I confess---I'm 3 months out! At my age that's an achievement!