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RevidgeBlue

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  1. But not without negotiating his pay off first, everyone slapping themselves on the back and announcing the deal as being by "mutual consent". You really do insult everyone's intelligence and raise their Hope's unnecessarily by suggesting there's the slightest of chances he would walk unilaterally of his own volition without a pay off.
  2. The same place as the evidence he's not allowed to spend money on the defence, it' doesn't exist and the poster is making an assumption. There would have been a loan fee of some sort for Tosin though, regardless of the amount. Edit: Islander beat me to it
  3. In an ideal world Mowbray needs to be brave and ruthless this window and offload Graham, Samuel, Smallwood, Evans or Johnson, Bennett and maybe even consider loaning out one of Gallagher or Brereton. I also wouldn't hesitate to send Walton back if it was technically possible under the terms of his loan agreement. That should give us more than enough wiggle room in wages to bring in the players we need i.e. a couple of half decent strikers, a keeper and a defender or two on loan. Or at least it would if our recruitment department had the faintest idea of who they need to be looking at. In reality I predict we'll do absolutely nothing and then complain afterwards about how we've no money and how difficult it is to get business done in January etc etc
  4. Yes, how dare he come here and play out of position, thereby knocking Armstrong out of his out of position position.
  5. Calm down dear, it was a joke.
  6. Morning. You're up early to stalk me today. Since Venky's rocked up, not many. Kean's one game against Liverpool, a brief period under Bowyer maybe. Imo the stuff served up by Mowbray's sides is down there with Lambert's as amongst the worst if not the worst though.
  7. Wouldn't have said the price per se was an issue under normal circumstances. Trouble is the football served up by Mowbray's teams isn't worth £8 let alone £28.
  8. Is it just me or is the last thing we need yet more "cheap" signings we can hypothetically develop for some distant point in the future? We already have a number of players at the Club like Hart Brereton Gallagher Chapman and Davenport who haven't progressed as hoped and need developing or discarding before we bring anyone else in. Then there are the Academy youngsters to consider as well. Far more importantly, if there's no money for permanent signings we need to offload some deadwood first before anyone else comes in then make two or three judicious loan signings to fill the areas of urgent need in the side like striker, keeper, LB RB CB etc etc
  9. I think we're starting to go down that rocky road, particularly where said players happen to be black. Sign of the politically correct times unfortunately. (Not being able to give opposition players the bird to.put them off I mean, not racist abuse) Back to Brereton it's a completely separate issue. I can't think of another Club that has ever frozen their major signing out like we have done with Brereton. It must have been horrendous for him and if it has all got too much and in the heat of the moment he broke down, I couldn't care less. (In terms of it being a potential criticism of him) All that said I think the way things are going in general at Ewood it's understandable that the fans are going to turn on the team and whilst it's not ideal, individual players on occasion, so BB has to treat that side of it as nothing particularly personal and dust himself down and go again.
  10. Sorry, not having that. If a manager really doesn't want a player then he has to put his foot down or evaluate his position if a player really is foisted on him against his wishes at the expense of someone else. Plus whilst I am merely surmising, I wouldn't be surprised if Mowbray has a lot more autonomy than at most other Clubs. Up until this summer at least he seems to have had the complete faith of the owners whereas at many bigger Clubs transfer business is carried out by Committee consisting of the Director of Football, Chief Executive, Manager, Chief Scout, etc and the manager has his say and input but not necessarily the final decision.
  11. As regards point 3, you might think that would be the case, but in response to that particular suggestion Mowbray has claimed ownership of the Brereton signing on umpteen occasions. Unless you're going to accuse him of lying I think you have to take that at face value in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary. It just seems to me that for the section of the fanbase for whom Tony can do no wrong, when we make a signing that comes off, it's a masterstroke by Tony, if we make a signing that's a disaster the owners must have got involved and it's nothing to do with Tony. Whereas there's no actual evidence whatsoever that TM isn't in full control of transfer dealings and wouldn't have signed them all, good or bad.
  12. Hi Stuart. If you're going to blame Gallagher's poor form on him being shunted out wide (which to an extent is fair) then I think you could make the same argument even more strongly for Brereton. I do think on balance we've seen enough of Gallagher up front to know that he wouldn't know where the back of the net was if you handed him a sat nav and a set of directions. He just doesn't have a striker's instinct for me and seems to have succumbed to this modern way of thinking that "there's so much more to a striker's game than scoring goals." Irrelevant if you're not scoring for me. Another poster (may have been Blue Blood but I couldn't find the post to reply) said yesterday he thought Brereton was irretrievable and Gallagher was salvageable. I actually see it as the other way round Brereton is only 21 in April whereas Gallagher will be 25 in September and really should be at or near his peak. I also get a slight sense when watching Brereton that there might be a player in there somewhere trying to get out whereas I don't get any positive vibe off Gallagher whatsoever. Might be completely wrong of course, everyone rates players differently. I thought Rochina was bordering on genius, certainly more than good enough for us in the Championship, others couldn't stand him. Another thing that struck me in all the Brereton chat over the last 24 hours was that Mowbray has more than once blamed Gallagher's lack of progression over the last couple of years on lack of game time since he was here on loan. Yet conversely apparently he seems to think the way to bring Brereton on is to leave him out of the squad altogether, or put him on the bench but not use him, or give him 20 - 25 minutes out of position every so often! Very odd.
  13. Given that we ended up with Gallagher as well and (whilst I might be in a minority) he imo has even less potential than Brereton I'm not sure how that excuses Mowbray.
  14. We don't know if there's any truth in the Dack to WBA rumour but to be fair to Mowbray (unusual for me recently) he has to play him until another Club show us the colour of their money. He can't start leaving him out because another Club is reportedly interested in him. He'd hardly have played.
  15. I suspect that's right, the way that transfer window panned out it seemed as though we went back to the owners for more money then panicked on the last couple of days of the window having drawn a blank with all our other targets that summer. There was also the reported £4m bid for Freeman from QPR. That said we signed the likes of Gallagher, DJ Campbell and Luke Varney permanently after they'd been imo average, poor and garbage respectively on loan so we cant seem to get it right even when we've seen plenty of the player!
  16. Mowbray knew the score regarding our finances and FFP all along so there's no mileage in squandering £12m on 2 players and then complaining the rules are unfair after the event. Dack's injury is unfortunate but injuries are a part and parcel of football and if we are a one man team ( which I've long argued we are ever since League 1) that's a sad indictment of Mowbray's manager. We have a number of priority positions on the pitch other than replacing Dack. Mowbray signed Rothwell and Holtby. Whilst they'll never replace fully Dack's contribution in terms of goals, a good manager would get the best out of those 2 and partially fill the creative void that way. Otherwise what's the point in signing them?
  17. Spot on. For me Mowbray's handling of him has been an absolute disgrace. OK maybe we overpaid for him and maybe he isn't the next Alan Shearer, but when Mowbray indulged in another arse covering exercise in that article in the LT the other day putting Brereton's lack of impact down to lack of desire on the player's part, I think it was mentioned he'd only had 8 starts during his time (sixteen months) here. Of those 8 starts I'd be surprised if more than 2 or 3 of them were from his natural position up front. How is anyone meant to thrive in those circumstances.? I was quite heartened to read that Mowbray mentioned In the article that BB had been in his office complaining about lack of game time as it shows he's not just happy to sit there and collect his wage. When the uncorroborated rumour about him crying emerged on Twitter yesterday, my first thought was that I would need a bit more proof than that before I believed it but even if it did happen it wasn't necessarily a bad thing that he was upset things weren't working out for him, particularly after (rightly or wrongly) being dug out in the Press by his manager for lack of hunger. in many ways I'd be a lot more worried if BB seemed completely unconcerned by his plight and how things have gone. No harm in him being devastated by how he's been treated this far but although another manager might put an arm round his shoulder, attempt to build his confidence up and actually give him a proper chance instead of just telling him he needs to bulk up and/or await his chance and/or show more hunger, at the end of the day he'll have to bounce back and produce himself.
  18. Well done guys. Make sure they send you those royalty cheques! ?
  19. Nothing stopping you, just won't be us!
  20. I suspect the poster was being facetious, Holtbt is an experienced player of international standard yet Mowbray is treating him like a novice who needs to learn how to play the game and messing him about by leaving him out and playing him out of position etc.
  21. Comments like these are probably best left in the dressing room or in private between player and manager. However you could maybe understand Mowbray making those comments if Gallagher had a history of being a prolific scorer and had suddenly stopped doing the things he was doing that made him so successful. But he hasn't and it was fairly obvious the last time he was here that he would never be more than a run of the mill 5-10 goal a season journeyman at best. Mowbray's comments therefore come across as trying to kid the owners that he did in fact sign a top class striker but it's Gallagher's fault because he's stopped doing the things he used to. Sadly however it's Mowbray's fault as Gallagher has never been much good and never will be.
  22. Managers tend to have the skin of a rhinoceros and an unshakeable belief in their own ability. There wouldn't be many out there who didn't think they could sort out most situations, no matter how bad. As for specific names I couldn't say specifically who would and wouldn't come but there will be up and coming managers in the lower leagues and Europe for whom the Rovers job would be a step up. As far as more established names are concerned, now that their stock has fallen slightly would the likes of Hughes Pullis and Warnock get much better than the Rovers job? I certainly don't think they'd land Premier League gigs at the moment. As for your last paragraph, yes, you're entitled to your opinion but if you want to convince me you're not on the wind up you'll have to do considerably better than "We can't replace something that definitely isn't working with something else because it might not work" and your view that the fact that Mowbray has messed up horrifically on transfe dealings is "irrelevant".
  23. You're floundering worse that Tony now in your attempts to wind people up and I don't know why I'm wasting my time replying. However I want him fired because amongst other things, his transfer dealings are appalling, his results aren't good enough, the football we play is dire and in my opinion he'll take us back down if not this season then the next or the one after that. How is that wanting "a revenge" sacking? Revenge for what?
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