Championship 2018-19

[K-Hod]

Whatever anyone’s feelings towards Leeds, nobody can deny they deserved the win last night and they’re where they are on merit. 

The city centre is great, I may be biased as I went to uni there, but I’ve always been a fan!

[AllRoverAsia]

15 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Whatever anyone’s feelings towards Leeds, nobody can deny they deserved the win last night and they’re where they are on merit. 

The city centre is great, I may be biased as I went to uni there, but I’ve always been a fan!

They beat a poor weak Derby side but did have a good goal wrongly disallowed and at least 1, maybe 2, decent penalty shouts turned down.

Leeds by far the better team throughout the game.

Scott Carson played well for Leeds and had an assist in both goals ...... oh hang on a minute ........

Derby's best effort was the penalty they should have been awarded when the Leeds keeper deliberately put his foot/studs into a Derby face and was not even spoken to.

Edited January 12, 2019 by AllRoverAsia

[Josh]

Palmer scores on his Bristol City debut 

[Tom]

81 minutes, Norwich trail 1-0 and bring Rhodes on

83 minutes, Rhodes scores

May not do much else but he’s brilliant at what he does!

[RevidgeBlue]

21 minutes ago, Josh said:

Palmer scores on his Bristol City debut 

Was always likely to happen. Good player.

[G Somerset Rover]

Not that I’m twitchy (yet) but Ipswich and Reading won today. 

Edited January 12, 2019 by Gavlar Somerset Rover!

[CP Company Lad]

Not looking good for the NW teams at the moment. Wigan PNE Bolton and Rovers all in the bottom half. Hope they all stay up and Burnley go down. Some good derbies next season. 

Blackpool not a million miles off the POs despite the ongoing fiasco.

Bolton will probably go mind. Not a pot to piss in.

[Exiled in Toronto]

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Was always likely to happen. Good player.

If he’d put away the point blank sitters at Bristol City and Forest, we’d be on the heels of the top 6 and he might have stayed in the team.

[SBlue]

6 points off the play offs after the run of games we’ve just had - as if the Xmas period isn’t tough enough says to me that we still might be knocking on the door at the tail end of the season.

[philipl]

Rovers now have played both games against three of the top four which means on the teams around us have somewhat tougher games to come on paper.

Three clubs have zoomed up the table with runs of five or more wins- QPR, Brum and now Hull who are the third of our three home games coming up on the trot.

Hopefully, we can get a run of successive wins going ourselves now. Very often runs get going after grinding out the sort of win we have got at Millwall this evening. 

[blueboy3333]

https://www.lep.co.uk/sport/football/this-is-the-market-value-of-every-squad-in-the-championship-and-the-total-is-more-than-1billion-1-9528021?page=6

[robbojohnno]

7 hours ago, blueboy3333 said:

https://www.lep.co.uk/sport/football/this-is-the-market-value-of-every-squad-in-the-championship-and-the-total-is-more-than-1billion-1-9528021?page=6

I'd say our squad is worth a lot more than £23million surely. Dack around £18milllion, Mulgrew at £3million, Nyambe £3/4million, Raya similar, Lenihan similar again. Then you have young players like Armstrong and Travis who are worth a few bob and then the rest of the squad. I'd say a figure of £35million would be more accurate.

[CP Company Lad]

2 hours ago, robbojohnno said:

I'd say our squad is worth a lot more than £23million surely. Dack around £18milllion, Mulgrew at £3million, Nyambe £3/4million, Raya similar, Lenihan similar again. Then you have young players like Armstrong and Travis who are worth a few bob and then the rest of the squad. I'd say a figure of £35million would be more accurate.

Dack £18m 

[philipl]

2 minutes ago, CP Company Lad said:

Dack £18m 

It was Mulgrew £3m that ?for me.

Get Dack properly fit and he is easily worth that.

[CP Company Lad]

13 minutes ago, philipl said:

It was Mulgrew £3m that ?for me.

Get Dack properly fit and he is easily worth that.

I would have Dack around £10m. Similar to what we payed for Pat Bamford. Dack showed quality in League 1 but what I have seen this season has dropped off a bit.

[Mattyblue]

We rejected £15million from West Brom in August and his profile and goal tally has only increased since then. He’s scored as many goals as this time last season - but at a higher level, so hasn’t ‘dropped off’ at all.

So of course £18million+ is reasonable in this daft market.

Edited January 13, 2019 by Mattyblue

[Stuart]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

We rejected £15million from West Brom in August and his profile and goal tally has only increased since then. He’s scored as many goals as this time last season - but at a higher level, so hasn’t ‘dropped off’ at all.

So of course £18million+ is reasonable in this daft market.

Looks like a bit of good negotiating going on on both sides there. Potential buyer and potential seller.  

Personally I wouldn’t part with a future England play-maker for anything lesss than £20m in today’s market.  

Edited January 13, 2019 by Stuart

[Mattyblue]

They should’ve put me in charge of a certain 19 year old’s negotiations...

Edited January 13, 2019 by Mattyblue

[blueboy3333]

29 minutes ago, CP Company Lad said:

I would have Dack around £10m. Similar to what we payed for Pat Bamford. Dack showed quality in League 1 but what I have seen this season has dropped off a bit.

He played in a better team last season relative to the opposition. This season the responsibility on his shoulders is huge. Yet Dack is still the top scoring AM in the league. He's got more than highly-lauded Harry Wilson and Harvey Barnes. As a goalscoring AM he is a bit special, as this seasons goal return has showed. 

It's needs putting in context too. He is the top scoring AM in the league in a team that creates very few chances from open play. 

He's kicked on this year, not dropped off. 

[K-Hod]

In his first ever season in this division, no less!

[blueboy3333]

4 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

In his first ever season in this division, no less!

Where he is man-marked nearly every game because we don't really have anyone else worth marking in the attacking MF areas!

Teams don't tend to man-mark shite. 

[DE.]

Dack had an excellent start to the season. His form only started to drop off when Mowbray started playing him as a CF, for reasons only the manager can explain. After that, even back in his preferred role, his performances waned a bit - but in fairness the whole team was struggling throughout December, so it wasn't just Dack. 

Mowbray subbing him off the past few games is interesting, as it wasn't happening before. Is it fitness, attitude or just that Dack doesn't fit into the shape Mowbray wants to play towards the end of our past few matches? 

[SBlue]

Just now, DE. said:

Dack had an excellent start to the season. His form only started to drop off when Mowbray started playing him as a CF, for reasons only the manager can explain. After that, even back in his preferred role, his performances waned a bit - but in fairness the whole team was struggling throughout December, so it wasn't just Dack. 

Mowbray subbing him off the past few games is interesting, as it wasn't happening before. Is it fitness, attitude or just that Dack doesn't fit into the shape Mowbray wants to play towards the end of our past few matches? 

I think it’s gone a long way to shoring us up in the last few minutes, we went 4-4-2 vs WBA and brought on a pacy outlet we needed yesterday.

Risk/Reward with keeping the magician on when it’s not working or the ball is just being pumped into our box and we’re being pushed back.

Fantastic game management from TM.

[CP Company Lad]

There was some talk about Leeds looking at him recently but I can't see where he fits in the starting XI. Shelvey would give us far more if that rumour is to be believed. Bielsa/Ortiz will probably look abroad sadly.

[blueboy3333]

4 minutes ago, S8 & Blue said:

Fantastic game management from TM.

Venus is absent from the club. We go on a bad run. Venus comes back. We start winning.

He's got it, yeah baby, he's got it.