WHAT AM I WATCHING !

Shame that Breretons didn’t go in but great confidence for both him and Dolan there. 

C’mannnnn

Derby having a bit of joy down their left in the first 10mins. 

1 hour ago, Paul Mani said:

My issue is that the gap in quality between the two divisions is so big that i find it hard to believe he’d make much of an impact.

Added to that, I believe, having watched our own midfielders play many times that those mentioned would walk into Doncaster’s team

Like a certain Bradley Dack and Gillingham ?

I do personally think it would be a luxury signing, plenty of areas in the back 5 need strengthening before I’d look at CM. Like yourself and others have said we have a good mix of players available there now. 

22 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

Blimey, from what i saw on the Kaminski vid, all you gotta do is shout 'Save' and throw a few balls around.

The hours aren't bad either I bet! Not a bad gig if you can get it.

The GK coach salary is £84k / year

2 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

Mate, £300k is the reported average for Championship CEO’s. Ergo Swag is not ‘grossly overpaid’ 

His ability to do the job is a separate matter.

You've completely contradicted yourself in two sentences, congratulations. 

If somebody is paid £300k a year but doesn't have the ability to do the job I think we can all conclude that constitutes being grossly overpaid.

Your original comment was regarding a CEO of a company Rovers' size, nothing to do with The Championship, you've just used another users post to try and justify your original, incorrect statement, when all that has done is confirm that all aspects of Championship football is overpaid.

This is the actual headline of that article..."Crazy wages don't add up in the EFL with clubs on the brink... with the Championship the epicentre of the madness"

Again, if you want to rely on that Mail article for your argument, look at the L1 average for a CEO...£89k a year. The guy had been at Coventry 2011-15 and Gillingham 2015-17 (6 straight years in League 1) before joining us, also in League 1! 

1 hour ago, Paul Mani said:

£320k pa isnt a ‘big salary’ for the CEO of an organisation turning over £15-20m a year. The expectation of that role and scale more than justifies the number.

This is incorrect.
Rovers really are not a big ‘company’ in terms of turnover (perhaps in terms of the public eye they are) and £320k is a large CEO base salary.

Mercer hit the nail on the head regards dividends, shares, bonuses etc. This is how most CEOs contracts are structured. Some incentive to improving performance  

Lets be frank, he is grossly overpaid and it is not justified at all. 

I remember discussing the fact their share price had risen 400% since our purchase with someone on this board.
They said it was based on mortgages on the land that Venkys own increasing 15fold in value, meaning they can remortgage for higher amounts etc. They went on to say the Indian banking system is having liquidity issues due to COVID and land value is decreasing so they may be less keen to invest actual cash.

Lovely ball from Buckley. 
When Travis and Dack are fit we’re going to struggle to know our best midfield!!

4-2-3-1 can blend into 4-3-3 relatively easily during the game. Fully fit I’d like to see

————— Kaminski —————

Nyambe - Lenihan - Ayala - NewLB

————Travis — NewCM————

JRC ———— Dack ————Dolan

————— Armstrong —————

Rothwell and Holtby could rotate in for the CM. Would like to see Whiteman sign though from what I’ve heard from my Doncaster friend. (Especially with Travis now injured).

Perhaps a risk with Armstrong central on his own. With 4-3-3 you’d perhaps lean on Brereton and Gallagher more

Left back certainly the priority. 

26 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

‘How the mighty have fallen’

You support feckin Middlesbrough!

I thought exactly the same...

“He's a better player than Blackburns level. I'm still surprised he hasn't ended up in Brummie's unless there was a clash with Karanka.”

What is that about? Birmingham who survived by 2 points and flirting with points deductions. 
 

Some hugely deluded comments in there. The good news is they highly rate him anyway. 

We were linked to Kamil Jozwiak in January, he had premier league interest though, would surely cost £3m+? I would hate to think we're focusing on attacking players ahead of defence (again!), and spending all our budget there

If it is him, it would also leave the question as to what our formation is going to be and how we fit in Dack, Armstrong, Gallagher, Brereton etc (considering we spent £12m on the latter two).

Ben Whiteman not even in the squad for Doncaster. I’d suspect he’s off somewhere. 

2 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

Firstly you have no idea what I did for a living

Secondly talking of people who do it for a living it is strange that Tony Mowbray has such a superstar on his books yet nearly at the age of 21 he has only started 5 league games.

I wouldn’t say that’s strange at all, in fact it’s exactly what I’d expect from Mowbray...

”Harrison Reed needs to learn his trade from Richie Smallwood” anybody?

A comparison for Buckley to me would be Mason Mount.

1 year difference in age, similar build and position on the pitch.

Mount was a regular in a Derby team that finished in the playoffs and last season was a regular back at Chelsea. 
Buckley doesn’t need to bulk up loads to make it. He needs some proper game time, on the pitch with Dack i.e a midfielder who can hold possession with him, and a bit of freedom. 
Unlikely he’ll get much of that under Mowbray IMO 

The fella on Twitter is a Rovers season ticket holder, and I’m pretty sure a member of this board. Wouldn’t think he would make something completely up, but no idea where he’d hear it from. 
 

Regarding Samuel and Graham going it’s the correct thing, too much wages up front, might force Tony to not play a striker on the wing. Especially with Dack back fit. 
Do you remember watching Samuel? Made Jason Roberts look composed.

Great to hear the Keeper is pretty much sorted. 

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet...

Dack probably back from London on a train. Knee related or transfer related?

7 hours ago, alex l said:

The last time we tried anything like this we some Portuguese lads who got nowhere near capable, Petrovic who was described as box to box, but we wasn't capable with the ball. More recently didn't we have a forward from ligue 2 who lasted half a season?

Not as easy as Brentford have made it look otherwise every club would be doing it. 

A few cheap gems in the likes of Samba and N’Zonzi spring to mind though (German and a French 2nd divisions I think).

Scratch the Portuguese stuff off as that was all agency rubbish rather than actually scouting. 
 

Brentford have a great footballing model, and certainly go about their business the right way. Shame for them that they seem to keep bottling it. 

A bit off topic regarding transfers, but in my era regarding legends (90s onwards and players only obviously)

Legendary

Shearer 
Tugay

2nd Tier

Friedel
Dunn 
Jansen 
Flowers, Hendry, Wilcox and pretty much the whole 95 team

3rd Tier

Nelson 
Duff 
Pedersen

......

Graham, Samba etc are all outside of this for me.

Dack fires us up to the PL then he‘s there

Just now, tomphil said:

Who's his agent ?

Considerable savings on quite a few wages already will pay for him and no way will the fee be 1.5 mill probably about half that, hopefully

Then again who's his agent ?

They turned down over £1m from Hull for him in January.

Club captain. Would be surprised if he goes for anything below the alleged release clause of £1.8m

54 minutes ago, superniko said:

He’s pretty highly regarded at Donny and I think has a few years left on his contract so would take a few million to get him. 
Hopefully that’s not our budget for defenders if it goes through!! Would be a good partner for Travis (again hopefully not a replacement)

 

Edit: My Donny supporting friend tells me he has a £1.5m release clause. Apparently the Peterborough chairman announced that on twitter over Xmas 

I guess this is it. I'd be surprised if we're going straight out and spending £1.8m instantly.

Do we know for certain what the sell on % is for Josh King. That could be a bit of a rescue for us in dire straits. I’d assume he wouldn’t want to play in the Championship. 

He’s pretty highly regarded at Donny and I think has a few years left on his contract so would take a few million to get him. 
Hopefully that’s not our budget for defenders if it goes through!! Would be a good partner for Travis (again hopefully not a replacement)

Edit: My Donny supporting friend tells me he has a £1.5m release clause. Apparently the Peterborough chairman announced that on twitter over Xmas