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Most of the above although slight of frame were all physically still very strong on the ball though. Tugay was slightly different as he had the knack like you say of creating a yard or two of space for himself.

Yep, the converse to the 5'8" player you mentioned is Gallagher who although he is 6' 5" might as well be 5' 8" as he jumps like he has lead diving boots on.

Cheers. We would probably still disagree at the end of the day as to how useful the data actually is but that puts most of your posts in this area into the proper perspective.

No, I meant why would Joe spend hours doing such a thing? He isn't employed by the Club (or anyone else) to do so unless I've misunderstood.

More a case of why!

Well said chaddy.

Not really And then after hours of studying the "data" you make some enquiries with his agent and discover his wage demands are out of our League which makes the whole exercise entirely pointless. Although in Rovers' case we seem to plug doggedly on anyway, putting an "offer" on the table which is never likely to be accepted then act all hard done to when nothing happens all summer then the player eventually moves elsewhere.

Put an Academy lad in then. Doesn't seem to be a problem replacing Nyambe (who is miles better than Pickering) with an Academy graduate.

Poor use of subs today, after a quiet first half Clarkson had just started to do a few good things including setting up the equaliser but then got hooked for Davenport. Also at 1-2 down we needed more attacking intent and ingenuity but to the extent he brought on attacking players he neutralised that by bringing off Rothwell and Buckley when Gallagher was clearly one who should have been replaced. His subs always tend to be like for like and he rarely changes things round completely in an attempt to go for it and salvage a result

For someone I'm guessing wasn't even at the game! 🙂

Why the hell do we need a left back? Typical Mowbray, signing back up players when we need to improve the starting X1.

So would I if I was his age, but it wouldn't make any difference as I could never play and neither can Gallagher. He looks a shadow of even the player he was first time he was here when he looked lean and wiry and seemed to have an ability to run the channels.

No. Very disappointed with today, not so much the result but the performance. Mowbray abandoned everything that was good about our play in the games we won in favour of hoofing long diagonals in the direction of the useless Gallagher who then promptly proceeded to lose it, the last occasion in the first half leading to their second. We were also screaming out for width on the left hand side of the pitch in the first half when Pickering had the ball, all 22 players were condensed in the right hand third of the pitch. It was quite ludicrous. Better second half, surprise surprise all our best moments came from wide areas and keeping the ball on the ground. Time for Mowbray to admit defeat on Gallagher, he is truly abysmal and doesn't have a single redeeming quality. Carter looked way more threatening than him whenever he got into forward areas which shows how bad Gallagher is.

Absolute rubbish about not being able to compete with WBA Gav, yes you would expect them to finish above us over the course of the season but they're not by any means Citeh or Barcelona at their best, over 90 mins with us being at home it should be a fairly even game and anything could happen. You're right about us theoretically being in the running for two or three playoff places but unfortunately there's no danger of that with Mowbray at the helm is there? Along with a few others, looking forward to this more than for quite a long time. 1-1.

Lot of people getting very cocky about the start, proves Mowbray's a better manager than the likes of Hughton etc etc........ Whilst we're all grateful for the seven points It's a marathon not a sprint and logic would suggest that we're still in for a long old season given the squad we currently have thanks to Mowbray's misuse of Club resources over the last 3 years.

Arma didn't sign for him when we really needed him to. Dack was out with a long term injury at the time so it was very much in his best interests to re-sign, Chapman hasn't done much yet so it was probably in his best interests to re-sign as well and Gallagher is absolutely useless and Southampton saw us coming with that one. Why won't Nyambe, Rothwell, Lenihan, Brereton etc re-sign for him?

Not picking up the phone to speak to players we've allegedly agreed a fee for.

Problem is as always we've left everything to the very last minute. As a lot of staff have been on furlough it surely wasn't that difficult to predict that we would have needed to do everything a lot earlier this year or it would cause major problems.

Mine didn't arrive through the post but I went down to the Club Shop this afternoon and the guy there very helpfully printed a new card off. For the avoidance of doubt I didn't have a ST last season when we couldn't attend after Waggott put prices in the Riverside up 25% but I couldn't find my card from 2 seasons ago. It may be my old card would have worked but the issue is the Club couldn't even do the simplest of things and come out with a definitive statement, either Everyone will be getting new cards or If you already have a card, they will work, please use those.

Starting to look that way, the Armstrong deal sounded a great deal more palatable with a ready made replacement coming the other way. In the same way as a game being called off last season looked less of an issue once a brand new pitch was promised a few days later. Of course neither materialised. I'm sure many will be rushing to blame the owners for this as usual but reading between the lines from what Mowbray said the other week funds have been made available for an Armstrong replacement but our crack recruitment team can't get any sort of deal over the line. Heading for no permanent replacement for our prime asset or at best a loan of some nobody the parent Club is desperate to offload at the last minute. I'd imagine the reason people are irritated about the Obafemi thing is that it was clearly never happening, if the player had been interested it would have gone through simultaneously with Armstrong. However the Club craftily pretended it was still a runner and even pretended he was our main target. Also how on earth can we waste time and effort negotiating a fee with Southampton then our manager never even speaks to the player? Surely it would be normal for us to do some initial sounding out via the player's agent to see if he might be interested and avoid wasting time? Or is it just further window dressing to make it look like we're doing something worthwhile?

How can the player make an informed decision about coming here if the manager can't even be arsed speaking to him?

There's a difference between working hard and being effective. Unless being unable to bring the ball under control is now considered an attribute I can't think of one positive thing he did other than the bit of closing down bds mentioned earlier.

Gallagher had an absolute stinker last night and it always amazes me whenever anyone says running about a bit is a more important attribute than the ability to score goals! 🙂

It really wasn't !!!!