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I certainly thought 100 was a bit of an exaggeration but who knows? She said at the time that you can tell from some of the buildings they used to be Pubs

So do you think when Ferguson was at ManUre the Board would have sold a key player behind his back?

Wow, 3-0 before we hit the 46th minute.

2-0 Arsenal HT We had the Polar opposite of the Liverpool v City game, when a goal that probably SHOULD have been ruled out for offside for a player blocking the keeper's view, wasnt. I absolutely despair with VAR. Most of the time you just get the wrong decision being made twice.

The problem with that stat is that as usual it paints a fairly misleading picture. From the equivalent stage last season we won our next five games up to and including Luton at home. Six on the bounce in total prior to the annual collapse. So we would need fifteen points from the next fifteen to still be three points behind where we were last season by the same point. If we manage that, I will be sitting up and taking notice!

I was once speaking to a lady born in 1920 who said she remembered as a young girl Rovers bringing the FA Cup back on the bus in 1928. As a side note also claimed that when she was young there were around 100 pubs between Witton lights and the town centre. Not everything changes for the better!

You'd think so wouldn't you, but this is Rovers you're talking about!

Id be happy with one plus O Riordan. The general point I was making was that I dont suppose our January budget will be very big so I wouldnt want it all blown on CB's. As regards Pratt, he came in and seized his chance with both hands. Surely you have to give him the opportunity to kick on and be considered a first teamer? Until he proves otherwise it would be harsh in the extreme to dump him and forget about him as soon as someone else comes in.

Great post.

And the sideways header at Bramall Lane.

Im not Cantwell's biggest fan but I do think if fit he should be in the line up. Extrapolating a fairly limited snapshot of results and claiming results are better without him in the side is imo a bit like blaming Jordan Rhodes for the fact we didnt go up when you've got players like Jason Lowe playing behind him.

Lol. So to clarify your original response to RF 99 then you think Cantwell SHOULD be let go?

As usual we probably wont get anything we REALLY need in January but I hope we don't go too overboard at CB. Pratt showed he was a viable option the other night and is there any other reason why one of the other young CB's couldnt come in and do similar? At the very most Id bring in one CB and recall O Riordan. Midfield is going to need major surgery sooner rather than later. Tronstad and Cantwell look as though they'll be heading for the exit door, we don't know yet if Baradji will be a viable option, Henriksson's poor and Tavares looks a complete dud. I think we also need major strengthening up front. I've never rated Kargbo and in an ideal world he'd be replaced. Im also probably one of the few left who thinks Gueye would be a useful asset under a different Head Coach,but, if VI isnt going to use him we might as well sell him and either way we need an additional striker as well. There's a LOT to do this January, not just at CB. I ain't holding my breath.

Yet in your contrarian mode you were probably lobbying on behalf of VI and claiming that "results didn't match performances" earlier in the season.

I mean whist we were still in the playoff picture last season Gestede actually admitted the priority was not getting in to the play offs but "building" for this season in the Championship! You wouldn't get that at ANY other Club anywhere at any level.

Yes, he's been really open and honest about Brittain, Travis, the reasoning behind selling Hyam in the last few hours of the window without a replacement, Baradji, Cantwell, why Tavares has disappeared off the face of the earth etc etc......

Massive over-reaction on here, we're 18th! The season could go one of two ways now, either we'll sort the home form out and have a fairly comfortable season or we won't and be in trouble. I can't see us continuing to win away games at the rate we have done recently. VI is fully "aligned" with the "transition" so if we more or less match last season's finish then it can be considered a relative success. If we finish well short of what we managed last time out then it has to be considered a failure. Every other Club in the Country would have been looking to build on last season's seventh place finish, not rip it up completely and start again. Apart from chaddy who seems to think what happened is completely normal, the Club can't expect to be cut any slack for being "in transition" because it's completely self inflicted and a conscious choice.

3-2 Coventry now. WBA had a man sent off which completely turned the game on its head.

Boom Boom! Very good.

I was told a story that Souness said "Get me the top scorer in Seria B". and thought he was getting a centre forward. At the first team meeting Grabbi explained he was a wide player and Souness turned white.

We have a set piece specialist now apparently. Corners and everything seemed much improved last night. Prior to us scoring the commentators recited a stat that we hadn't scored a single goal from a cross all season.

I usually agree with you on everything Tyrone but c'mon, what is there to learn that he couldn't impart in a matter of minutes? You make it sound like "experienced" players never have a bad game! Ismael bottled it against Derby and we paid the price. He got it right last night and we benefitted so credit to him for that.

I thought Grabbi was absolutely atrocious from the first minute I saw him in a pre season friendly. We were 100% scammed on that one. His Club/representatives saw us coming.

I disagree and I think that's really poor from Miller if he's said that. To the extent the ground is empty it's because of the owners and management and the Club clearly having no aspirations whatsoever of success or trying to achieve promotion. For those that are in the ground it's primarily the team's job to give the supporters something to shout about. We've (I think) lost four out of our six home League games and a League Cup tie against Bradford. Where's the enjoyment in that?

When did he say that? What a load of old tosh. He previously said that he picked Hedges ahead of Pickering and/or Ribeiro because he was slightly taller. Pratt is significantly taller than all 3 of them.