roversfan99

After this month, we have 18 league games. I will use a fairly low ballpark figure of £8m as what I reckon we could get for Brereton, less than the summer but still there surely will be teams willing to take a small risk at that price. If we choose to keep him and expect an unrealistic amount, we will be paying over £400k per game, not factoring in potential injuries which would increase that further. It is horrendous business, surely we have to sell and sign a striker and a winger.

Seemingly just loans, but we can surely loan a striker rather than a winger. Tomasson specifically said that it won't necessarily be a striker: “An attacking player for me could be a No.9, on the sides, and it’s about what’s possible and what’s not." When Mowbray didn't want to loan a young striker, he got lynched so surely Tomasson will likewise if he doesn't sign a proper striker. Our current options are not up to scratch. Obviously the bigger issue is having to only sign kids on loan amidst a supposed promotion push.

The three chances line is straight from Tomasson's press conference. But of course he would have said that anyway and is not just echoing what he says.

I need reminding of these games that we have convincingly won by passing it our from the back and dominating possession.

Are you genuinely trying to defend the tactical approach that led to an absolute pasting by Rotherham?! We never play with a quick tempo, it is always slow and it seldom leads to positive results, many of our wins have been when the other team has dominated the ball. Stop trying to deflect blame away from the manager, the team were clearly instructed to play out from the back hence why we had nearly 80% possession. As ever, when we win its down to the manager, when we lose the players are at fault. Gallagher is poor, you have repeatedly made out over the last couple of years that he just needs to play as a number 9 and he would score loads of goals. Mind you, you still were unsure the other day whether we should get some back up for him, rather than an improvement! Vale and Garrett don't get close to any other starting 11 in the top half. Get a striker and a central midfielder and let them go and play 20 games in League 1.

It's already been rubbished as a target for us thankfully, but still:

The thing is that he looks physically as fit as ever did. Surrounded by poor players though.

It is all underpinned by the same problem, Venkys are the common denominator behind a club not geared or seemingly aiming to get promoted. We seem to be just fishing in the loan market, a second successive winter window where we lie in a high position and the owners don't seem arsed.

He is terrible. Any time he appears at left back/left wing back, his positioning is shocking. Not a Championship player.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23251482.tomasson-transfer-search-amid-blackburn-rovers-joe-gelhardt-link/ What is this obsession with flexibility in attack? We need an out and out striker, whoever has played in that position this season for us has struggled to score goals due to a lack of quality. Gallagher is average, Vale nowhere near ready, we need a proper striker. Gelhardt in terms of talent is probably as good as we will get now we seemingly are working in the loan market whilst we allow our best player to run his deal down, but he isn't really a proper number 9. If it has to be a loan we are almost certainly going to struggle to get a proven goalscorer, but even the likes of Archer, Delap and potentially Muniz would be more suited to being the focal point? On Porteous, I just hope it isn't due to Hyam having a bad injury. It makes sense to pick up bargains whenever they appear although made redundant if we just allow him to run his deal down anyway.

He fits the bill of Hedges style signings ie players with 6 months left on their deals. But a centre back is right down the list of priorities.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/21045510/leeds-gelhardt-blackburn-loan-transfer-fa-cup-cardiff/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=sunsporttwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1673721485 Probably nonsense based on the source who again has linked the player to numerous clubs. Talented player but nothing would say owner ambition like a loanee with 3 career goals.

*Venkys

Surely Lampard will be clearing his desk by Monday.

We need to not allow our assets to run their contracts down and be efficient. Sadly we are run by knobheads.

The club is not set up to compete across a full season. The emphasis is not on what we need, it is about "not blocking pathways."

Thank god we have such a strong squad such is the lack of funding available.

Absolutely fuming, a pathetic display and a humbling by a woeful side who haven't won in months. They had an aging centre back playing at centre back, surely you keep trying to turn him? No, back to slow, boring football that seemingly only @chaddyrovers seems to approve of. It never works, we can't do it. Do we do any work on attacking in training, totally lacking in cohesion and ideas. The Venkys way having young lads like Vale and Garrett regularly featuring because of an underfunded squad. Morton continues to knock money off his supposed big money move to Dortmund, Gallagher absolutely hopeless again and steadier players like Pickering, Kaminski, Hedges and Hyam all terrible, although the injury to the latter is salt in the wounds. Dack and Markanday the only sparks.

What a horrible watch. Vale and Gallagher beyond poor. Dack the one bit of quality we have.

There is nothing sustainable about letting over £10m of assets go for free within 12 months. And that is not a reflection on any individual below the owners.

Not a clue, at no point have they been described as anything other than "personal reasons." The point was that as long as Venkys are here, even hiring very capable staff beneath (if that is how it transpires) doesn't stop the fact that Venkys are still here, and their whole reign has been littered with underachievement.

The point was not about Potter being sacked as far I was concerned, it was about giving any manager 18 months regardless of results.

Erm probably not no, he would be creeping into dangerous territory and needs to improve soon but not yet. My main point is that it is stupid to give a manager such a lengthy and specific period of time REGARDLESS of results/progress. You can risk acting irrationally by trying to justify an initial decision. Why did Coyle not warrant further time then, he had not much more than 19 games, why didn't he get at least a season?

Is Carter comfortable on the ball? Quite cumbersome and clumsy.