He's having another good season in League 1 - right in the promotion mix at present.

There's a central midfield that's getting over-run if I ever did see one.

Is that a fact that the wage structure is one of the highest in the league though? The only numbers I could find were from 2018/19 season (so a few years ago now), but that had Rovers with the 16th highest wage bill in the division. I can't imagine we've increase our spend on wages massively since then. In fact, Rovers wage bill was two thirds that of the average wage for the division. Source:

If he gets us promoted, he won't be sacked. If he doesn't get us promoted, he won't be sacked.

That's probably a fair point. Who else have we ever paid more than £7m for? Cole, Grabbi, Davies, Rhodes, Ferguson? Rhodes a success, Cole a success to a degree (kept us up, won a trophy), the other three were disasters.

I get what you're saying, but considering some of the players we just randomly extend contracts of, it's disappointing that we've not got it sorted by now.

New to the market in Chile....

I guess it depends entirely on his personal situation, but I'm taking that. He'd be gutted if he ended up moving in January, getting injured or reverting to his previous scoring form. How often do Rovers have a 20 league goal a season striker? Armstrong, Rhodes, Gestede, Jansen....then are we at Shearer?

They're offering over half of the money now though? I know he's got 34 games (with him missing at least Coventry) to score 10 more, but all it takes is an injury or to him to revert to form of previous years. I'd be cashing out. £1,258.50 is not a bad return off a fiver!

Am I reading that wrong - or are they offering you over £1,250 to cash out? I'd be taking that!!!

Phil Jones was only 17 when we threw him in against Didier Drogba - and he was fantastic.

Or 'football' as some people call it.

Someone on here once compared watching Brereton come on the pitch as like watching Paddy McGuiness (or similar) enter the field on Soccer Aid. He really didn't look like a footballer at one point. Still got a lot to work on, but the improvement is incredible. Keep it up BBD!

You beat me to it!

When was he ever the next big thing?

There are two things that are definitely not going to happen 😂

He had 4 x £500 doubles on - the one with Beardsley first goal and Newcastle to win 3-0 was going to pocket him £52,000.....then Darren Peacock scored 😂

He'd "only" actually bet £2000 - so not quite as stressful.

I used to get stick when I was about 17/18 for saying there was no footballer I'd rather watch than Keith Gillespie on his day. He was unplayable when he was in the mood. Used to give full backs an absolutely torrid afternoon. He could just ghost past people. Unfortunately those days were too far and between, I suspect due to off field issues.

If anyone turns up at Cardiff on Wednesday at 3pm next week - they're going to be very disappointed.

I'd gladly be saying that every week.

I'm sure Graeme Souness made him lose about a stone in weight and he was a better player for it. In fact he did: Duff has shed the stone in weight since tough taskmaster Souness took over at Ewood Park a year and he is starting to feel the benefit of his new, trim figure. "I've always been a big eater and found it difficult not to pile on the weight," said Duff on the eve of tomorrow's big televised East Lancashire clash with big derby rivals Burnley. Source: https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6037406.loser-duffs-on-a-winner/

I seem to remember Damien Duff used to look knackered 25 minutes into a game and he turned out alright.

I'm far from a fan of Lenihan - but we're better when he's in the team than when he's not. Since being back at this level (2018/19 season onwards): With Lenihan: W 48 (37.5%); D 35 (27.34%); L 45 (35.16%) Without Lenihan: W 6 (21.43%); D 6 (21.43%); L 16 (57.14%) I personally think he's a mistake waiting to happen and has awful distribution - but the stats do show we really struggle when he's unavailable.

Just had a look and 8 of his 35 goals for Rovers were direct free-kicks. I actually think he was very good on set pieces in the earlier years, but these got worse over the years. He scored 3 direct free-kicks in 06/07 - followed by 4 in total over the next 6 seasons. I reckon he was at his peak between about 2005 and 2008 for us.