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Nevertheless on this season's form, which is all that really matters, he'd be a huge loss to us if he left in Jan, even if he didn't go to a direct competitor.

Apologies it's three years at the moment seemingly (£90m) but discussions have been held with a view to modifying them or scrapping them on the basis it encourages other Clubs to spend money they haven't got in an attempt to keep up. Either way Bournemouth would have a job paying Rothwell an exorbitant wage if they hadn't been promoted by the end of next season. All completely academic as we won't be selling him to them.

Mr and Mrs R. can go where they want in summer. Just not now. Hopefully we'll be a relatively attractive proposition by then having been promoted. We might not even want Rothwell if that happens, might go for better, although I'd certainly like to see how he could do for us in the Prem. Imo get outside the top four or five Clubs and there's some god awful players at the rest stealing a living.

Parachute payments only last two years don't they and this is their second season in the Championship?

Absolute rubbish John. All of our first choice midfielders have different qualities and on the evidence of this season they compliment each other really well. Who else in the Rovers midfield can travel with the ball and score from distance like Rothwell did at Cardiff?

Why?

Yes I was looking at how much was needed for 6th place the other day. The last 2 seasons 71 points would have secured 6th place, 3 seasons ago it would have been 74. So I'm fairly sure 75 points will secure the play offs which is "only" 23 points from 18 games. Surely doable. That should be the bare minimum target though and really we should be targeting something like 88 points which ought to secure 2nd especially if Bournemouth continue to falter. Two points a game.

Not a conundrum at all. Not even worthy of consideration. Bournemouth playing silly buggers and I think we're on top of what they're up to. We're they to multiply the alleged offer by 5 or 6 it might be worth having the conversation but that's not going to happen due to his contract situation. There's not even a hint of a suggestion that the performances of the out of contract three have dipped one iota either. You'd think if that was going to happen it would have been this month in order to try and force a move but it simply hasn't occurred.

Laughable isn't it.

In fact the same could be said of all three of "the contract rebels".

Is the source of the rumour Alex Crook the guy who works on Talksport? They're in the business of stirring up gossip and transfer tittle tattle. Don't think either he or Sharpe have the faintest idea what's actually going on at the Club or the financial position this window.

We won't. We should put a bid in for one of their players just to piss them off.

There's absolutely zero chance we'll sell Rothwell to Bournemouth. They're just playing silly buggers trying to unsettle the player and us.

There's one playing next to them. Wharton.

That's rubbish. If Mowbray rated him highly enough he'd tell the owners that he thought Nyambe was worth what he was asking for and he'd have signed a new deal by now. Would have cost a lot less if he'd done it 24-30 months ago though.

I wouldn't move Nyambe. We saw how good he is again tonight as there was zero threat down his side of the pitch. (For God's sake Mowbray/Waggott, give him what he wants). Whether Zeefiuck could play there I've no idea but I'm never too comfortable with a right footer on the left or vice versa.

Right, we have the platform thanks to last night's incredibly gutsy performance. We just need bodies in now to give ourselves the chance. Come on Mr. Park pull your finger out of your backside and give us 3 signings that will blow our socks off.

Gallagher was ok tonight but he's still a dreadful signing for £5m. The fact he has shown he can put a passable shift in just goes to highlight how unacceptable the majority of his performances have been since his return. Jim is quite right, he played much more centrally tonight and looked better for it. Edun was up against a good player in Jones but still had a shocker.

The "problem" is the ridiculous walk on prices imposed by Waggott!

Really gritty determined performance tonight, the exact opposite of the horror show at Hull. Fantastic three points with a patched up side. No real downside in the circumstances but Edun had an absolute nightmare at LB and proved if any proof were actually needed that Nyambe type replacements aren't just readily available from the lower divisions.

Dreadfully negative line up. Playing for a point. If he was going like that, I'd have gone Davenport alongside Travis and Butterworth behind Khedra. Edit: Chapman should also be in the squad. Mowbray cutting off his nose to spite his face.

Couldn't read that article in full without subscribing but if it solely relates to replacing Markanday , I can't see too much wrong with replacing a permanent signing who's got injured with a loanee. The major investment is needed in a striker and we imo also need a central midfielder at the very least so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to throw major money at DM's position with him and Poveda to possibly return at some point.

That would be pretty disappointing imo if we hadn't come up with some different and better targets since summer thanks to our elevated League position. Hedges would be an uninspiring signing and Maja has had his injury worries therefore might be safer to look elsewhere.

Pickering's nowhere near that sort of level. Wharton could go on to big things imo. Hopefully with us.

I hope the players aren't feeling as paranoid - I disagree entirely that events are conspiring against us. If one of our main rivals for automatic promotion (Bournemouth) playing like a bag of spanners is "events conspiring against us" then I'll have some of that! We've had a remarkable run with injuries really in the first half of the season, the success has been based on fielding the same eleven players game after game and that couldn't go on indefinitely. It's a shame that BB is missing for 2 games but really the Chile thing has been central to his transformation. It's even more of a shame that DM is injured but whilst the circumstances do seem extremely odd, injuries happen. What we do need is our recruitment department to stop picking fluff out of their naval for once and bring in the players we need in the positions we actually need them as opposed to simply waiting until the last minute and ringing round enquiring who is available on loan. Really our targets should all have been lined up and deals done in the first week of the window for me but hey ho. There's a lot still to be done, and we need results and deals got over the line not the usual hard luck stories after the event