Markanday loaned out to League One playoff chasers Leyton Orient. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/january/16/markanday-makes-orient-move/

Should be able to. He should be able to do a lot of things though, but he seems incapable of most of them when he's not on a football pitch. Being good at the sport and having knowledge of it don't always translate to being wise about it. The fact he has been crap at management means I don't really respect his views on players, as being able to spot a player is part of being a good manager.

Apologies if this has already been answered, but the fee Cov paid to WBA was reported as being 2.25 million, rising to 3 million with add-ons. He had been bought for just 300k from Salford, so it represented a decent profit, but also he was in the last year of his deal which would have brought his value down. Thomas-Asante transfer fee revealed after West Brom exit

Didn't know that. Mind, it was 2 seasons ago, he would have been just turning 20 and perhaps needed that first team experience to understand the game well enough. Given how he plays now I can easily imagine him being too rash back then. They also only gave him 5 league appearances to judge by and settle in. Mostly off the bench. When he did start, he played LM it seems. Same applies to his smattering of cup games. Also Bolton fans are generally bellends!

Lampard is a crap manager.

I'm glad all those big chances fell to Colby Bishop instead of Lang. Bishop made Gueye look like Shearer last night (even with Gueye's missed chance clear on goal).

I'd imagine Beck would cost double that now. Ironically we've given him the platform to massively increase his sale price. The time to negotiate a fee was during the loan talks. We'd only be able to get him if we went up now I expect. The general principle of investing in players like that though, I totally agree.

I didn't even notice Forshaw. Thought he was pretty anonymous in his cameo.

I know he's on about the standard of football. But it stands to reason that if the financial power is equal (per club it's higher there) it's likely the teams are on a similar level. Albeit German clubs don't overspend stupidly like here and pay more sensible wages. Since we don't play European football against each other at this tier, and probably none of us are watching the 2. Bundesliga regularly, I don't think there's really any other way to compare.

Can't find the more recent figures, but in 22/23 the 2.Bundesliga clubs had 785.7 million Euros in revenue. Championship clubs had £749 million. There's not much difference in the financial heft of these leagues, and there are only 18 clubs sharing that revenue in Germany. They're stronger sides than you think.

The 2. Bundesliga is a pretty good level. Probably on par with the Championship. Not sure he was given a proper chance here tbh, by manager or fans. But ultimately he didn't deliver so I totally get why he was moved on.

I think only Mani has mentioned it, but shout out for ACD's very clever dummy for the Brittain goal.

Way it works for us we are probably getting all our luck in one game though! Tbh, I'm not sure that was offside, need to see it again. And I did see the second penalty claim again, no pen for me. Didn't see the first claim. Edit - scratch that, definitely offside, not sure how the linesman missed it.

Sanderson wasting no time causing bodily harm to the Portsmouth players 🤣

Ok really not sure why we have presumably gone 3 at the back for the last 5 minutes when 3 up against Portsmouth at home.

He made a couple of things happen first half too, just nobody took advantage of them. He's also done some wanky things both halves. Like you say, needs the players around him.

My first instinct was that was a penalty. But actually on the replay the contact is pretty minor and Bishop ends up on the floor because he he was flinging himself at the header, not because of the touch, which I don't think really affected him. Belting finish from Brittain though, thought the opportunity had passed.

That's a corking header, thought the cross had gone too deep at first. Keeper maybe should have done better but take a bow Gueye. Loved the way Brittain controlled that before his cross too, he's a technically gifted lad.

Sorry think I was misled by the commentators talking about a booking, they must have been discussing whether it was one. It 100% wasn't. But it had sounded like they were criticising the ref so not sure what that was all about. In that case he has been fine. Tronstad's booking was less of one than what he wasn't booked for first half, but the ref maybe kept the first one in mind.

Don't get the Dolan hate, but Hedges has been anonymous and needed to come off.

We think our forwards are bad but Bishop has fucked up 3 very presentable chances.

What's wrong with Gueye's hand?

Gave us a very soft booking earlier but mostly been alright. Not been much in the way of ambiguous decisions to make though. (Not that that has stopped other refs conjuring bizarre decisions from the ether)

And they hit the bar on their first attempt...yeh I'm sensing a bollock punch.

Aye, always sounds nervous and like his voice has only just broken.