Same.

I’m with you in one respect, if we win then it really doesn’t matter how. But as I’ve got older I’ve developed less and less tolerance for crap football. I used to watch every single match I could. Now I often stop short of watching lots of matches because I can’t stomach watching teams who can’t pass 5yrds without giving the ball away....and there’s a lot of them! As I said from the beginning, I’m not debating if this team is better, just if it plays a better (easier on the eye) brand of football. Completely understand if you can’t / don’t want to see the difference.

Bang on. Never understood this rhetoric that he won’t drop his favourites. He’s a manager judged on his teams performance. If he had the chance he’d replace any one of them with a better player....because it takes him closer to his and the clubs goal. Makes no sense to suggest he’d do otherwise.

Great call on the Hodgson team. Was a brilliant footballing team that... fyi - I don’t think the 94/95 team was a brilliant footballing team. They were amazing in so many ways and constructed beautifully with some top players. But I think they were much more functional than attractive to watch. Hughes’ Rovers we’re likewise very good but primarily we’ll functioning. in my lifetime I’d go Hodgson first season and then Souness which came up as the best brand of football I’ve seen. Give me a season of what I’ve seen in terms of football in the last four games and it will run very close. Very easy on the eye!

I remember watching us win 1-0 in the last few minutes at home under Big Sam having endured 80 odd minutes of turgid crap football and walking out feeling awful.

Before my time that unfortunately

Yessss! I agree. The football in that first season with Roy was class! FYI - we’re talking about the football being played not the success.

Hahahah - so let me get this right....we DONT sign anyone from the European network, then the manager and club are useless...we DO sign someone from the European network and it obviously must’ve fallen into our lap!? ? Your theory about left backs and Bell is a stab in the dark at best! You couldn’t write it...

I spoke to a Rovers fan yesterday who had been watching us from the early 90’s (Pre-PL like me) and stated boldly that he had NEVER seen Rovers play better football than the first four games (inc cup) of this season under Mowbray! I was gobsmacked!!! “What? Better than Kenny’s Champs? Than Hughes team? Than Souness’ team the year they came back up? The Kean team...(only jokin)” but you get gist... His answer was “I’m not saying this team is better those teams but even the year we won the league we didn’t play better football than this.” What do you think? Mowbray bringing the BEST brand of football we’ve ever played? It’s too early for me to decide.

I still think a deal for Manning might happen. The guy isn’t even appearing on their bench at the moment... Agree re the European scouting network and feel the best chance of utilising it again this window is for another keeper. Although, having watched Kaminski four times now, he looks better than Raya and Walton combined and is worth the set up on his own! Sign one player per window at that age and level and you’re going in the right direction!

Haha I meant Harris! Got Warnock on the brain from this board!

That dinosaur Warnock and his bunch of cloggers will be shitting themselves coming up against the likes of Dolan, Arma, dare I say Brereton, Holtby and Rothwell....we’ve too much speed and trickery for them...but will they batter us into submission?

Kin ell - you waited 12 months to pull that one outa the bag!!? ???? I was wrong, Holtby is a fine CM.

I’m pretty sure we’ll get a keeper and a LB in before October 5th. Interesting to see how sales of Raya and King, internal sales / loan outs effect our ability to sign better players. The Rovers management team smell blood and they’re not going to want to bring squad fillers in. The next few signings could be the difference between going up and not going up. Go back and ask Tony!!!

By the way...that first time pass with the outside of the boot from Holtby to Chapman who laid on the goal for Armstrong was absolutely filthy! ?

It was a tactical and playing masterclass. We were as good without the ball as we were with it. Shout out to Brereton who I thought had his best game in a Rovers shirt yet. He was strong, assertive and controlled. Threatened for 90 mins. Wish he’d got himself a goal. Dolan has a touch of Raheem Sterling about him. Seems to drift into those back stick tap in positions effortlessly and those feet...wow! Williams, Holtby, Kaminski, Johnson and Rothwell all very good too. The VERY exciting thing however is that we still have Ayala, Nyambe, Travis, Dack and Gally to come back into that team as well as Buckley, Butterworth and Vale etc banging on the door....?

Bang on!

Dolan is class!!!

Yes that’s right, cracking player in that league, no so in the Championship. Dack is very much the exception to the rule. Anyone who has been following Rovers over the past few years knows how big a gulf in quality that was.

Unsurprising after a 5-0 win. Wonder if it’s Gallagher for Davenport on the bench? Ayala for Wharton?

If Nyambe’s not playing then I think Mowbray has decided JRC is his preferred rb and is maybe tempting Nyambe and his advisors into pushing for a move? Maybe Nyambe has indicated he isn’t gonna extend?

“Of last weekend’s starting line-up, Rankin-Costello, Derrick Williams, Amari’i Bell, Bradley Johnson, Lewis Holtby and Joe Rothwell are all out of contract next summer, while long-serving duo Elliott Bennett and Corry Evans also see their deals expire.” Even if we need to spend some of the transfer cash on contract extensions I wouldn’t be rushing to give new contracts to that many of those. JRC, Holtby, Rothwell and of course Nyambe are the priorities....the rest are...meh..

Deleted?? ???? Bore off mate, I said that having watched Whiteman, considered the huge skills gap between league 1 and the championship and that I consider our midfielders to be good enough to start in any team in League I wouldn’t spend “that money on that player in that position” - It would seem from the several posters who are currently trying to correct YOU that you should maybe reflect on that. You’ll see that I specifically said that there were good League 1 players who usually get snapped up very early and that Dack is the epitome of an exception to that rule. Best to leave it now mate, yeah ??

That’s what I said other than my opinion of Whiteman in League 1 is ‘a tidy player’ not a good one because in the games I’ve seen he’s just been that.

But they were expecting / projecting it would open up surely? Not having any season ticket sales will change the landscape, surely?