Tall, which is a attribute we need, but sadly not good in the air. So I hope we would sign better.

Not convinced about Evans/Smallwood as the 2. As you say plenty of competition in those positions.

That's a very sensible buy in their circumstances. Good manager that. Hart has everything to prove.

and some are never happy unless they are trolling.....

Let's hope so. He hasn't been a prolific scorer in a weaker league and we all said 3 million was too big an ask when we first heard it. We still need a big physical presence in the middle up there and at the back and we still need a winger. So plenty to do but Armstrong is a known quantity, popular with the players and good luck to him.

Chaddy insisting on a question being answered? How ironic is that?

What and reduce my winnings?

Palms read----30 quid for half an hour!

I edited him out!

Can't see TM not picking Williams but surely Bell will be on the bench? After TM's comments maybe Palmer won't. Travis could start ahead of Smallwood/Evans but more likely to come on from the bench. Getting excited as the opening of the season nears but so used to us starting badly.

There would have been a few thousand doom-mongers too, proving the term is redundant. The point of my original post, which I'd hoped was obvious is that these sorts of terms are provocative, decisive,inappropriate and so on. I'll be delighted if this transfer window were, in the end, successful and if it isn't I'd hope everyone else would be critical to an appropriate degree.

but Doom Monger is OK?

JAL appointed head of scouting. Number of suicides in Liverpool.

And how will the Happy Clappers twist things if we don't?

6 foot 4in for a start!

Very scaled down versions! Isn't Downing a bit "pedestrian"?

EH? This post reads like every one's getting stuck into a highly unpopular Tony Mowbray who'll get slagged off whatever he does! How on earth did you come up with that? Who'd be a football manager? He would, he loves it. "We all know that we need a nasty centre half" so why wouldn't TM get appropriate criticism if he doesn't sign one?

You need 4 centre-backs, all able to play in this league. I think we have two. Disaster beckons if it isn't fixed.

One with a lethal forehead would be nice!

I don't find him negative in the slightest. Just because he doesn't think everything in the garden is rosy doesn't detract in the slightest from his loyalty to Rovers and his football knowledge and nous. One of the very best contributors on here, I always find his contributions thought-provoking and honest. Prefer him vastly to those dicks who simply want a reaction.

Well said.

Let's suppose we finish 14th/15th this coming season. Not unlikely. Will that attract bigger crowds than last year? I think not. Will the like of Dack and Lenihan be satisfied with that? Doubt it. Therein lies the danger.

There's another issue you haven't mentioned------lack of height up front.

Chelsea's list must be ENORMOUS! They come heralded like Di Santo then gradually disappear.

I suppose Huddersfield is a model here. Had loanees galore it seemed but it doesn't matter how you get up if you get up. Once up, they managed to stay and can now spend the sort of money they could only dream of before. The problem occurs when you loan players just to stay up.