Exiled_Rover

Yes. His current club is ACTIVELY working against him right now.

We're clearly operating on a L1 budget. Other teams have bloated squads. We have to offload Academy graduates / young players like O'Riordan / Markanday (who will not be on big money) to find any leeway in the wage budget. Absolutely bonkers.

To be fair Mowbray spaffed money (£12m on Gallagher and Brereton Diaz), which is why I seriously dislike him. JDT and Eustace have had peanuts.

Yep. Have to cancel the Duru loan now, he's going to be playing. Garrett should be in CM over Forshaw and JRC (who is also injured).

"John? John? Strange, he's hung up on me. I'm sure he'll turn up for training tomorrow..."

Brittain strained his hamstring - time to bring back Duru. Baptism by fire.

Well considering he put Simms and Asante-Thomas to shame tonight, I think that's slightly unfair.

A few of them might turn out to be good players, but yeah it's very unfair to put them on the bench in the Championship at this stage of their career.

Looking at the squad (assembled for approx. £6.5m) I'm yet to be convinced we pay fees.

He's a little boy playing in a man's game. He might be useful if your team is on top and he consistently receives the ball in the final third - think Burnley under Kompany - but yeah being asked to run by a man from deep is beyond him.

Sorry what has he said that's wrong there? Our model is to sell players to prevent the owners having to invest any money into the club so they can hold onto it for as long as possible for reasons that absolutely nobody can fathom.

Do you really think he's a lemon drizzle man? I've no doubt that he's a hard nosed bastard behind the scenes. He builds the players up - encourages them etc and doesn't slag them off in the media, but you don't get these types of performances out of players on a regular basis if they don't fear you. He's got blood from a stone this year.

Because he was sensational today?

The doom and gloom is now - we're bleeding points against teams we could easily beat because we started the season undermanned and now everyone is injured. Think Simms cost more than our entire squad btw. To put it into perspective.

Evans is playing for Oldham at 34. Shocking player - but I was mainly commenting on their style of play.

I think he was telling him "Good job you turned down that contract offer, mate, you'd never get on ahead of their #9. What a player he is - put us both to shame".

You only have to see the state of the ground to know they definitely refuse to sign cheques. Never mind the state of the pitch.

You need an early yellow card to stamp out the niggly fouls. They break up the play and only benefit one team. I'm not saying book players for every foul, but after two or three by the same player he should be in the book for persistent fouling. The two Burnley CMs and FBs did the exact same thing and it ruined the game.

He has a really poor range of passing for a CM. Another Evans - gets a nosebleed if he ventures beyond the halfway line and can only really pull out 5 yard passes.

It'd be peak Rovers to spaff the entire budget on a slow CAM.

This ref hasn't booked them for anything. I'm amazed you're allowed to constantly foul players and not get booked. Just absolutely ruins the game - Burnley did the same thing.

That's simply unfair. They're all working their socks off, there's just 4 or 5 out there that simply aren't good enough for this level. Cantwell is being asked to play CM by the way.

He's not. He's hobbling - he can't run.

I honestly hate the entire England squad from that period. Wasters.

Their GK has made two excellent saves.