One thing I noticed from watching their game Vs Oxford is how slow and old their backline looked. I'm not saying ours is any better but hopefully it suits our quick attackers and quick balls in behind. Would take a draw just to keep the momentum going but hoping for a win. Id start with gueye on the bench again ready to rough Hanley and Scott dann up if needed.

If he gets 5-10 goals but contributes more by holding up the ball and being dominant in the air that is fine. Especially with so many goals coming from elsewhere.

If szmodics is staying then markanday and id say probably Leonard need to go and play. Vale as their choice behind Sammy and gueye. Dolan, hedges, weimann and sigurdsson with ohashi in the mix too. We've more than enough options and a good variation.

If a deal was anywhere near he wouldn't have been anywhere near that starting line up tonight. Can't blame him being a big distracted and or upset with all the uncertainty. If it's simply rovers calling Ipswich's bluff then fair play because he's proven tonight and on Friday why he is worth the money we're asking. I still think he gets his move especially if he plays like this between now and the end of the transfer window. If not though wow we are spilt for choice attacking wise. Glad gueye got his goal and he offers something totally different to what we have. Whether his finishing could be better is another argument. Same with ohashi's first touch, he can get away with it if he keeps playing well and scoring. Weimann looking brilliant too. We just need to keep this momentum now until turf moor. To give us any kind of fighting chance.

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I thought szmodics would've gone by now to be honest and I wouldn't begrudge him a chance in the premier league. I also don't see him as the type who would become unhappy or try to force through a move. He signed a new deal last November and we have shown (stupidly or not) we won't sell for less than what we value players. See Diaz. I think it has changed slightly now with the trouble the owners are going through. I still expect him to move on but that tiny percentage he stays I don't see him becoming a problem.

I meant more so the spectacular shots from long range. Then it comes in from a corner and he flaps.

I think pears is a capable shot stopper and has shown he can keep us in games. The problem is his lack of a footballing brain and knowing where to be positionally. When to come for the ball and when to stay. Knowing when to catch the ball and when to parry it. Unfortunately that's not the sort of instinct that can be taught. And with such an old looking back line next season and judging off Eustace's style we saw last season. We can be expected to be sat back for long periods of games next season. And having a dependable keeper will be key to that. I'm not going to pretend to know anything about this Dutch lad but let's hope he's upto it.

Never got this whole 'he always tries hard' that fans seem to excuse him performing poorly. He didn't try hard he made the game look hard by either losing the ball and lunging into a challenge, or by missing placing the ball and trying to chase it down. He never kicked on, he'd have two or three good games a season. That said you can guarantee he will score home and away against us next season and have the game of his life. If Ennis can do it gally certainly can.

Uncle fadz back I'm not against at all. Thought he was fairly solid last season, bar the one time he got caught out and was sent off. Him batth and hyam in a back five would be the deepest backline ever haha. Win everything in the air though.

He'll go to girona or one of their other feeder clubs across Europe. I doubt he even has a work permit to play in England yet.

It's an unknown and nobody knows how well he is going to do. But I don't think I can stand another season of Gallagher not jumping for headers and being bullied off the ball. If he can hold up the ball and win the ball further up the pitch then he's an improvement. If he turns out to be terrible then it's a relatively low fee for what we've brought in.

Would love James hill back if not permanently maybe on loan with an option to buy. He isn't going to get past being a squad player at Bournemouth, especially with them bringing in even more defenders. He looked a class above what we already have.

This stinks of the Ennis deal last season. A bang average league one player, left on a free so can command a bigger wage. It's a no from me.

The last bit I agree with totally it's done his career the world of good moving when he did. So as much as I'd of loved him to stay around I can't say it hasn't worked out perfectly for him. Could we have got more? Yeah. But when you look at just in recent seasons the ash Phillips deal and even the Raya one. We never get a good fee. At the time I know it's only the end of January. The fee was reasonable for a player in a struggling championship side with just over a year's first time experience. The fact he's gone on to do so well after moving doesn't change that unfortunately.

Yeah just so casual on the ball and the way he'd turn and get us up the field. I remember jdt not being 100% convinced at first maybe because of this but when you're that good it doesn't matter how well you train or hard you try.

I'm a friend of his and Scott's cousin. And he told me years ago when Scott first started getting in the first team. He has a younger brother who's going to be class and plays in midfield. I bored my mates who I sit with at rovers going on about this little brother haha half joking half optimistic. And then when he played, I remember Blackpool away. Wow what a player so effortless and good to watch. Then Burnley at home and he absolutely bossed that midfield and was skipping out of challenges. I was gutted when he went in January but was glad it was to a team where he would get minutes and progress. How well he has made the step up is frightening and I only wish we would've had another season or two of him here. Like all of us I'll be following his career and hoping for the best. As much as I joked about him and Bellingham in midfield at the euros last summer it looks like it could potentially happen and that is amazing.

I like Travis and think he would do much better in this Eustace side then he ever did under jdt. He wasn't exactly pulling up trees at Ipswich and now they've gone up surely they'll aim higher. If they put a decent bid in though it should be considered, as long as it's a big increase on those insults Millwall bid last summer.

Szmodics signed a new deal in November too, as well as the other players mentioned. It just gives the club better leverage although not much since they can just hang a year and sign for nothing.

Just read Wes foderingham is leaving Sheffield United this summer. He's a steady goalkeeper at championship level.

He was arguably the worst keeper I've seen at ewood last season. Alot of that however was down to him being expected to play out. Hes a solid keeper but would be a short term and expensive fix. As much as it pains me I'd rather use the money elsewhere and persevere with pears. As for Aaron Connolly at 24 there is certainly a chance of getting a return on any investment. Which as a free transfer you'd imagine the club would be all over. He will still have hopes of getting back to premier league and will hopefully see what Armstrong, Diaz and maybe szmodics have done here and given their career a huge boost. It will all depend on what options he has and what we can offer. But he would certainly be a player we should be looking at.

The problem is there's always going to be a core of supporters who go irregardeless. Even when they went down to league one. Who will pay whatever price because they want to go to the football. Maybe not totally for the football itself but the day out and seeing people they've sat with/near for however long. Slashing the prices even if by quite a bit won't increase sales by that much. Certainly not enough to justify it. They'll sell more yeah but not enough. Plus if they do have more fans that means more staff/security/first aid staff. All of which will eat into that money. This club is ran (terribly) as a business first and for most. Unless there was a real uptake in attendances, maybe if we were flying and playing good football there might be a slight increase. And that's usually when they do the little offers, like a couple of seasons ago. Say 3 home games in a row for £50 or whatever they were doing. This is the club trying to capitalise on the team doing well. It always annoys me how when we do rarely see a bumper crowd the team never perform and the form falls off meaning the extra fans who maybe took up the offer don't bother returning.

If we dont add and more importantly improve we will go down. And it will be ten times harder second time around. When you think we we're only up against run away winners Wigan and out of nowhere Shrewsbury. As bad as it sounds if dropping down the divisions is what it takes to get rid of the venkys, then i and I guess most fans would welcome it. Start from the bottom and work our way back up but being ran properly.

I've said it all season, we are far better without the ball and catching teams on the break (usually better sides) than we are having the ball and building out from the back. Obviously having szmodics running on behind the opposition defence was a big part of that. We always looked fairly solid and at least ajrd to break down, most of the time since Eustace came in. It was the other end we struggled so many of those draws we could've nicked if we had decent options to chip in with szmodics.

Sigurdsson had a good six weeks or so between injuries. Other than that was just as useless as the rest of the forwards, obviously excluding szmodics. We look to have sorted the defensive side out but need players to put the ball in the net to turn those draws into wins. I don't mind playing boring football under Eustace as long as we get results.