Absolute no brainer. For me Williams is an absolute liability defensively. Bell offers far more going forward, does not get caught out of position defensively as often as Williams and is a lot quicker to recover his position if he does.

Yes, he set the wall up wrong. Brereton obviously isn't a right winger but did really well to nearly carve out a chance out of nothing when he was in the centre of the box at one point.

Thought we were very unlucky today. Can't see how the goal we had chalked out could have been offside and I thought the free kick for their goal should have been a free kick the other way. Overall a very good performance. Thought both full backs were terrific, especially Bell who was my MOM. Only slight downsides once again were Smallwood and Evans who once again Didn't offer enough for me and Reed looked far more urgent and a cut above those two when he came on. Graham had an absolute shocker and looked about 53 not 33 today. Brereton looked quite promising I thought but looks like he needs to be playing down the middle. That would be the obvious switch. Overall very encouraging looking forward if TM makes a couple of obvious looking tweaks to the line up.

Absolutely, it's not a new thing at all. The exact same £10 replacement applied in the days of Saint John as well. However as someone else has said if you haven't actually lost your ST card but have simply left it at home I think you can nip into the Club Shop or ticket office and get a paper ST "exception" free of charge. I'v e had to do both in the past. Why should you get a free replacement if you are careless enough to lose your ST? The Club have to issue you the card and someone in the office has to take time out to cancel the old card, run the card off and bring it down to the Club Shop/Ticket Office etc. I Don't think prices are a valid stick to beat the Club with. The replacement card charge certainly isn't. If you Don't want to pay it, look after your card properly!

Couldn't tell you as I don't think pricing per se is an issue. There were also bundles of cheap tickets though if I recall correctly. As for the missing 15k from the Oxford game, how many would have been down for a run of the mill game on a freezing day in February at £10? Not many.

In my view the problem is not the relatively modest increase in prices but the fact that the expectation amongst the fans now is that tickets should be dirt cheap and the knowledge amongst the floating fans that there is no real need to get a season ticket to obtain value because there will no doubt be several £10 offers on at various points throughout the season and they can pop down for a cursory look on those occasions if they felt like it. Thenodrog predicted years ago that reducing prices would devalue the product in the eyes of the fans and I think he was right

Absolutely, those that can score do, those that can't run about a bit and bring others into play. Also a bit of an unnecessary swipe at Rhodes I'd have thought. I really Don't understand this revisionist slagging him off , the history books will record him as one of our best players.

Oh do give over. Double golden boot winner in the Premier League and Golden Boot winner at the World Cup wasn't he?

If That's the case their games will now last three hours but there will only be about twenty minutes actual action, the remainder will consist of ad breaks and the players standing around calling the opposition names.?

Two thoughts on this: firstly can't believe any Rovers fan thinks it is a shame one of our Local rivals might be going bust (although knowing our luck they probably will end up with the billionaire owners referred to) and secondly this Anderson character must not be telling the truth in his statement. He must only be offering to drip feed any sums contractually due to Blumarble in instalments which are not deemed adequate or he must not be offering to pay all sums due under the agreement after allowing for interest and penalties for late payment etc. No-one would place Bolton into administration if they were in receipt of a genuine and immediate offer to pay all sums due under the terms of the agreement.

Bit of a wake up call today, the key thing is how we react and whether we can go on another run. Disagree with those criticising the £7m signing up front we needed strikers AND at least one centre half for me and overloaded on midfielders instead. Always thought that as a pairing Mulgrew and Lenihan are nowhere near as good as Individually they're cracked up to be, we've always conceded plenty of goals. Need a lot better from them in the coming months.

Just seen this. Here we go........ "may" have to consider a 10m offer soon. "could" test his and the Club's resolve. I.e. "might not" and "may not" either What a load of old cobblers if Leicester were actually interested in Dack why wouldn't they steam in before Dack penned a new deal? does this Dixon dude even know Dack recently signed a new contract? More to the point is he a genuine person or Nixon using a nom De plume? Not even we would be stupid enough to allow a 10m release clause in his contract surely. No doubt Dack would find the lure of the Premiership and the attendant wages tempting at some point but negotiations would have to be starting around the £20m mark.

Ouch.

Cheers Bob. Did he speak to you much on the way up? ☺️

Absolutely vital signing which with Armstrong also at the Club will hopefully take a lot of the strain off Graham and allow us to use him sparingly if required. Credit must go to the owners for sanctioning a £7m fee. I still think we must have had a rethink towards the end of the permanent window as at one point when no-one had arrived TM was complaining about players we were in for suddenly going for £7m then shortly after we start making offers around that sort of level. Good luck Ben.

Fantastic news. Looks like we've got the result wrapped up and Brereton confirmed.

I'd say "C'est la vie". They could get injures in training or getting out of bed as well. Let's be honest, if we go out He's got the selection wrong. It's a fine line between fielding the weakest team possible and still going through and going a bit too far and being knocked out.

Do we ever play well playing 3-5-2? Will be really disappointing if we go out at home to lower league opposition. If you pick a weakened side you've got to make sure it's still good enough to get through.

Great to see Nuttall on the scoresheet at long last it might give him some much needed confidence.

"Too". Take a second or two longer and type stuff out properly with correct spelling and proper punctuation. It's hard work trying to wade through txt speak and mis-spelling with no punctuation trying to figure out what you're saying.

All this "people wouldn't be happy if Tony won the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup, and Community Shield" stuff is getting a bit irritating. It would however be rather nice to have at least one decent out and out winger on the books and a fit striker at the Club other than Nuttall! And if it doesn't happen I don't think most people would be pointing the finger at TM anyway.

I agree the Mail story is probably a load of old horlicks but hypothetically would it matter so much He's picked up a shoulder injury? (assuming it's not serious) Rodwell is apparently some way away from fitness and He's here.

Yes fair comment, Lambert started the process imo at a time when the squad needed a complete overhaul and long term strategic planning and things carried on in much the same vein when Coyle arrived.

If we did land Brereton and Chapman on binding deals that meant we could make them permanent then even I would concede it looks like a potentially good window assuming the majority perform. The counter argument is that they're not here yet, the priority positions were two strikers two wingers and a centre back, and we've only added Armstrong out of those to date, we've overloaded massively on midfielders and have potentially added a bad apple into our midst in Rodwell. Bit of work to do yet for me.

I read the story as meaning the exact opposite, didn't it say we were hoping to land him on an "initial" Loan. Given the gaps in the squad I would have thought that would be the best signing of the window if it comes off. Pretty slapdash way to operate though for me sitting there on the last day of the window hoping you can pick someone up, but only if the parent Club complete their business first. Still no sign of Brereton I see. Has he broken down on the side of the motorway or something? Someone give him a lift on the way past!