Not for me on McBride. Good at under 23 level but I don't think there is enough there to step up to championship level. For example I think Nuttall was a better prospect and he's ended up nowhere near.

So obafemi in on a permanent- for me a good move but some obviously debating that. My money is that if he does sign mowbray will play him out wide because you know mowbray. Reda Khadra on loan from Brighton. Cover out wide. Any additional money from the armstrong sale that isn't going to newcastle or to cover the debts should then be put towards securing the futures of Kaminski, Lenihan, Brereton, Nyambe, Rothwell (my guess is the later two won't sign a new deal anyway). Then what else do we need? Looks like the plan is to get premier league youngsters on loan. Hate this plan for a few reasons (problem next season when they go, blocking our own lads development to develop someone else's talent) but it is what it is. One I wouldn't mind too much would be Clarkson from Liverpool simply because he's a rover. Centre Half. Weve got magloire, carter, and in a couple of months Wharton. Really we should use this to see how good they are. But a centre half in as cover makes sense because at of our current 5 options are either injured, injury prone or unproven. Cover for either fullback? Or give gametime to cirino and Pike if needs be. Hope JRC stays fit and use him to cover both. Another option in centre mid? Possibly Clarkson or Doyle from city going by the links in the media. Do we need another striker/attacking option or should we rely on the unproven and injury prone Chapman and Butterworth?

He looks like Borats manager

If we get obafemi out of this I would be very happy. Much better than getting a loan in.

I'd be to protect those players who we couldn't do without. I'd risk it personally Kaminski Pike carter magloire Cirino Garrett davenport Chapman butterworth McBride Gallagher

Getting someone half decent in return also helps us stay up this season. As we are all aware taking armstrongs goals out of this rovers team leaves us very suspecticle to relegation

For me the preference has to be a deal involving obafemi or Idah. 3 reasons, first it lowers the amount paid to newcastle as a %. Secondly i don't think we would be able to get anyone better on what looks likely to be a free transfer. And thirdly it gives us a tangible asset for to develop and sell once mowbray eventually goes. With the finances as they are it appears the club would prefer the cash.

This is bugging me too

Where did he play out of interest? Happens with a lot of younger players, have talent but it needs moulding into a proper footballer. I must say he looks a real prospect.

About the same amount as home season ticket holders. interesting to see wigan have sold 6k season tickets in 3 weeks

That last half hour team looks very weak. Very little depth. I suppose we are missing dolan gallagher brereton johnson Wharton JRC but it's lacking so much depth.

Apparently Southampton have put a 2nd bid for armstrong. Cash plus Sam mcqueen.

Wasn't the samba transfer a bit of a fluke. His agent was supposed to send Emile Mpenza for a trial they sent Samba instead so we stuck him with the reserves to train. Then they quickly realised he had serious talent.

Personally would be gutted to see Rothwell go. He gets me out my seat. Its going to be a tough season next year ad we will need all the entertainment we can.

I think your right. We won't get enough of the fanbase on board to make it worthwhile.

I agree with you. NAPM wouldn't affect them really. Really you need a way to affect their business india, that would get there attention but I've no idea how to do that.

I don't think how we do will be determined by the squad selection. There's nobody he's left out that would've made any difference with the possible exception of the backup cbs in the case that maguire doesn't recover. It will all come down to his team selection. Maguire needs to be fit as if he isn't I can see him reverting to 5 at the back which could be an attacking move but you just know it wouldn't end up being. Interesting to see how he manages his attacking options. Kane will benefit from having pace around him but the pace options of sterling and rashford are 0ut of form. Grealish with all the clamour was 0ut for a long time. I'd start with Henderson A right back stones maguire Shaw Rice Bellingham mount Sancho Foden Kane Henderson for Bellingham after an hour

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I won't be renewing I will however be buying a ticket for the first game of the season and telling mowbray I think he should resign. From then on I'll do some away games.

I think one of the reasons I've hoped for the eventually they'll turn it around approach is I'm desperate to hold onto the walker legacy, the stadium, the training ground, the academy. I'd want all that if we were to 'start again' and that may not be possible, but then again if they stay they will look to sell off the training ground anyway. I don't know how they go, I don't know what they want from the club, I don't know who would replace, but this club will continue to slowly die until something drastic changes and its more likely that drastic thing is venkys leaving than venkys suddenly running the club properly.

I look at recent successes of Blackpool, Bolton and to a much lesser extent (because their owner wasn't there long) wigan. Blackpool have managed to get rid of their unpopular owners who ran the club not in the benefit of the fanbase and our now thriving. Bolton have managed to find a way to survive and get new management despite being weighed down by mountains of debt like us. The last few months has changed my opinion on the future of rovers. I'm sick of being thankful for venkys pumping in millions to keep us afloat, when at the same time watch them completely ignore the wishes and needs of the fanbase. I used to think I could live with this benevolent disinterest from the owners but I'm not sure I can anymore. They've missed another big opportunity to prove they've actually learnt something in the last 10 years.

Scholes played a handful of games on the left for England around euro 2004. The Scholes on the left thing is a bit overexagerated. Also Scholes's form in 06 meant he wouldn't have started ahead of lampard pr gerrard at that world cup.

Would we. I feel like we are over exaggerating the impact he's having. Has been on the bench a fair bit recently.

I don't think even if you went back to a reserves league that it would be made of senior pros. I think those days are numbered.

I'd have kept Bell as backup to Pickering. There will too many other issues to solve this summer other than backup left back.