January will always be like this I think the management plan for the club is pretty 'consistent' now in respect of expenditure In the spring timeish our "board" will be given a budget for year spends. We will effectively spend this in the summer months. From thereon we are an accounting exercise - did our monthly spends equate cost to value; what is forecast to spend against what we have left to spend Any money we make on transfers will mean less capital investment by Venkys LLTD in the following summer The idea that we can reinvest x amount of transfer fees is barmy. It has never been that way. This is why all talk of "we should have sold x, y and z" is pointless. There's no point selling players. We may as well hold them for as long as we can and then go again if it doesn't result in promotion Selling a player does absolutely nothing to benefit the Rovers. That's been made perfectly clear

Forshaw has come at an unfortunate time to be honest By all accounts, Rooney was a quite terrible coach. He’s been playing under him for 6 months. It was going to take time to get up to speed, especially with the way Eustace expects his central midfielders to play Having to come straight in the side isn’t ideal. I think it was a poor choice for a signing - maybe should have took a chance on a Morton loan or something. He would be better. I would have taken him on a loan to buy with promotion option. Liverpool want rid

I believe I have inadvertently created a scene I meant “expect a signing” as in - we have lost one player off the wages so expect one in Tends to be the way we operate

Expect a signing tonight

Bradley Dack was much better and so was Sammie We have had some good attackers over the past few years - stretching back to Rhodes - and so a below average one sticks out like a sore thumb imo Cantwell is the sort of player who relies on people around him as well. At the moment he is having to come really deep to get on the ball. It isn’t playing to his strengths at all. He needs pace either side of him and a forward to bounce off. We are three players short of seeing his full potential for me

Cozier Duberry isn’t much different to Dolan really. I think Dolan offers more overall Been an organised half as we expect. Feel there’s a moment of magic that will unlock this defence coming soon We need to start getting balls into the box for Gueye. The one frustrating part of Becks game is his insistence on fizzing the ball across the box low. Sometimes we need to play to our strengths. Other than that, good half of football and 1 goal will win this game so need to make sure it’s ours

When we spent on Szmodics we also had months of hearing he was a waste of money too

Mowbray was a good manager but his time here came to an end. Such is life I never got the whole "lining his pension fund" argument. If you aren't earning money or 'lining your pension fund' then why the fuck are you going to work? For the love of it? Did people expect Mowbray to work for free because he was in his 50s? He was dealt a shoddy hand when he took over. A club in terminal decline with the worst employment seen in my time as a Rovers fan (Coyle - not just a poor manager, but a Dingle too "Agent Coyle") and a team that was disjointed, unbalanced and demoralised. When Mowbray left, we had a number of academy players transition into senior squad members and a list of players who, with the right contract management from above, could have been sold and earned the club a tidy sum of money We had good times with Mowbray, we had bad times but his integrity was never in question with me. His 'dumbing down of the club' was in poor taste at a time when he was under pressure - for me, that is the negative I take from his time. His comments were at times crass. Other than that, he left the club in a better state than when he found it and really that is all you ask from your manager

There's a lot to be said for that, for sure You look at some of these players and just know they'd be a nightmare to play against. You are 100% right about Beck In the lower levels of football a lot of the 3g pitches have barriers running only a few metres from the touch line. I've seen a few nasty collisions, including broken arms and cheek bones. Some defenders revel in the opportunity to put a man on his backside. Beck is one of them There was a moment yesterday when it looked as though the winger got past Beck and somehow he managed to stay with him, track the run, and basically run the winger off the pitch. As a centre half you love those types of full backs. There's a few who would miss the first tackle and so will just let the winger past, even at this level Coincidentally, as good a footballing side as JDT had us, I'm struggling to think who I wouldn't have liked to come across in that squad. We had a very soft underbelly and have done for years. So it is refreshing to see us winning the battles this season. It used to be that when we did see players give a bit, they got sent off for doing it foolishly - I think of Garrett or of Buckley throwing the ball at that Boro players head. It was all naive and nicey-nicey. Never a recipe for success

Ah I'd take anything people say with a pinch of salt He got into double figures for goals each season with Baggies. For a man with no end product, playing from the left, 10+ goals is a good return You'll struggle to find better for the same cost in this league. If we go cost to value then BTA seems a good option

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this Tyrone. A lot of talk about how Gueye is awful with his feet...I don't see it. He isn't the most technical player in our team but awful is a stretch It's another game that Gueye has changed. We looked blunt in attack before that, When Gueye enters the pitch, the defenders have to think about something differently. Weimann wants to get in front of the defender for crosses, whereas Gueye is happy to have that ball lofted and he'll attack it wherever the centre half is Is it a stretch to say Gueye wins us the three points? Maybe. We were much better than Pompey and would have probably found a goal elsewhere but I'm going to give it to Gueye. Just like against Sheffield Wednesday and the last minute equaliser for Leeds (it was Gueye's assist) - that is 7 pts that Gueye has come on and contributed heavily to in a month. I'm sure there will be more going back that I have forgot Overall thought it was a scrappy game to be honest. They are as poor a side we have played this season. 3 pts in the bag and a 3-0 home win is exactly what this fixture deserved. Owen Beck and Callum Brittain are fantastic on either side. I think Beck is my favourite player though. What a signing he has proved to be

FWIW the chap who works in our corner shop is an avid Baggies fan. Sometimes you just want a pint of milk but it's never that easy with him..... He mentioned we were interested in BTA and the comment was "so frustrating, he will run his socks off, beat 2 players and then the end result is crap" So I told him he will fit in perfectly here Unfortunately, this is the pool of players we are in. Players with consistent end product end up in the top leagues of Europe. At this level, you can occasionally pick up a gem but they never last and you will see that across the Championship teams are filled with players exactly the same. BTA is a good player though. He gets a few goals from out wide and whilst it may not have worked out at Cov for him, it could be very different here

Pompey are a bad side lol

100% Coincidentally the all white memo didn’t include the bold adidas logo

Yep. I agree he is a bellend. Heard from a number of people who have worked with him that he’s a bit like marmite. Posh boy irritates some people But as a footballer, he’s good. He is better than what we have. Given a run of games as the main man then I reckon he will show his quality