Hell of a strike from Bucko, has looked like the Buckley who broke through not the one we’ve seen recently

Largely due to cost and the embarrassingly low numbers of places available. They basically only get offered to those in the elite game. To do a level 2 qual (eufa C license) it’s £650 quid. I did my b license in wales at a fraction of the cost of doing it in Uk and at the time I probably wouldn’t have even got a place.

Oh I definitely have a belief in which way is right, just couldn’t be arsed getting into an argument about being in love with foreign managers or something! St. George’s park was meant to provide the coach education/finishing school for British coaches but it hasn’t happened. Top players get jobs without doing the learning and anyone outside of the very elite game can’t do an A license. It’s a joke. We have under 1000 A license coaches in this country, Spain has over 18’000

I listened to a podcast a while ago comparing the lack of success of that generation of UK players in management. It highlighted how few of them go to ‘school’ to learn the tactical side of the game as they do in Spain, France, Germany and Italy. Gerrard got a 2mill job with zero experience, training, etc whereas you look at the current batch of successful Spanish managers - they’ve essentially done a degree in football as well as having been pro’s, they then spend time with lesser teams refining their craft. not saying one way or the other is right it was just quite stark the difference in approaches and relative ease in which English ex pro’s get high level jobs

Talking of the opinions of fans on players, Bolton fans thought Beck was absolute garbage and look how he's turned out.

Pace goes a long way at this level. Look around the championship and you'll see slow wingers with no end product, christ we've got a basket full of them! Pace is a golden ticket in the game these days. Not saying we should, will or even have any intention of signing, merely that Peterborough are notoriously difficult to deal with as MacAnthony is a very good chairman in terms of getting what he believes is good value for his club.

Poku and Jones both at Peterborough, Darragh MacAnthony won't be letting either go for anything less than he deems them to be worth. That rules us out as we will want to pay with a playground champion Conker, a pack of Match Attax and a piece of used chewing gum.

He gets stick from some but a great assist and even better goal from Brittain

I don't buy the attitude stuff, if that were the case I don't think JE would even have him on the bench regardless of how thin we are in that area. As someone who is all about the collective I just don't see him standing for a bad apple who isn't grafting when everyone else so clearly is.

Buckley seems to be moulding himself as a deep lying playmaker type role, his abilities were always nipping in higher up rather than lying deep and seeing the game well. It's a real shame as I think he's the potential to be a cracking player but sadly he's hit the age where he really needs to have kicked on and this crisis of identity seems to be going against him more and more.

I'd say we have one of the best output records in developing professional footballers of any of the Cat 1 academies, they may not play for Rovers but to some extent that isn't what EPPP was set up to do. League 1 and 2 are littered with lads who came through at Rovers.

On to the topic of linked names, Ryan Kent is similar to Dolan without the industry. Lots of stationary step overs before passing the ball sideways and backward.

Over the moon with that, I absolutely despise Leeds, on a par with the knuckle draggers down the road

That’s just not a pen, absolute joke

Leonard has run hard but looks short of match sharpness (expected) few occasions his touch has been heavy/loose

If he sticks a leg out the forward goes over, pen.

I think Dolan lets him ago to remove any risk of giving a pen away. He knows he’s been caught square so opts to let him go by rather than give the attacker a massive target to fall over. That’s the way I saw it anyway

AW is definitely a Guardiola type player but he’s a lock picker, not a lock so I personally don’t see how he is a Rodri replacement. Bernardo maybe . I think we can all agree his ability to see passes others don’t is incredible, his ability to spot and cover danger/space was one of his weak/development areas.

The hype came from him spraying the ball around in his own half. I’ve said all along he’s one of those players who looks good dropping deep and pinging it around, which teams are happy for him to do as it doesn’t hurt them. He’s missed several really important chances in 3 or 4 different games that have gone on to be costly. For all the talk of his ‘class’ I’ve yet to see him run a game for Rovers, and when I say run I mean in areas that hurt teams.

I personally think Cantwell has had more 5/10 games than he’s had 8/10’s, flatters to deceive all too often for me

Regarding his temperament, I thought their sending off caused a break in play that stopped him getting another booking. For a good 5 or 10 mins he seemed hell bent on picking up a second booking, with the game at 2-0 (the much discussed most dangerous scoreline) he was charing round like an idiot.

You’ll not see a clearer penalty than that all year

15k a week works out (based on previous years) 60k per good game! No chance

The chances that have fallen to his head or feet via crosses thus far would suggest otherwise. There is as much chance of him putting it in our net during that barrage than clearing it looking at the final resting point of his attempts at the other end!

Sorry, yeah I should qualified with chances they created rather than chances we gifted them