Oh I wasn't saying you're wrong. Just that he's done extremely well to be an unrealistic move for us at this stage of his career.

Interesting comments from Mick Rathbone, who has worked with Brereton for England U-19s and Forest. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/17234278.brereton-has-the-potential-to-be-a-30m-player-ex-rover-rathbone/?ref=mac

Christ, it's crazy to think that it's 'dreaming' to get Defoe on loan in the Championship...he's 36! For a short player that was so reliant on his pace in his younger days, he's sustained his career exceptionally well.

I know, since I live there I've heard it straight from the fans on many an occasion. Just goes to show, there's always someone worse off. At least with us, the common consensus is that Venkys are incompetent and were duped by some snake oil salesmen. The damage done at Blackpool has frequently appeared to be malicious and show utter contempt for the fans.

No thanks, I'm more asking about successful attempts. An example of any messageboard in the UK or a country with a similar legal system will do. If it's never happened successfully, I'm pretty sure it is just willy-waving in an effort to silence criticism through bullying, and has zero legal basis.

I know you're just looking out for the board, and I'm not trying to be difficult, but can you give me one example of an internet messageboard being successfully sued for the views expressed by its posters?

Something occurred to me whilst reading this thread...I don't think I've ever seen a Rovers side where the fans disagreed so much over the midfield options. Everybody seems to name a different midfield five, sometimes drastically so. The only feature everyone agrees on is Dack in the middle of the three. Nice to have all these options. Although I'd also like to see some of the wide midfielders step up enough that people start consistently naming them in their preferred lineup. Notching some goals would help. There's also widespread disagreement on the defensive two of the midfield. Personally I'd drop Smallwood, although he has had a couple of more reasonable games lately, we still have better options to partner Evans. Reed and Evans would be my pick there.

I'm down with that. Been thinking myself it might be the way we go. January is a tricky time to find the right player in that sort of position, for the right price, who can slip straight into the action as you need to in January. A reasonably experienced frontman on loan could be the best way.

Regardless how you spin it, that's exactly what they did. Leveraged against future sales or not, the money is being spent on a potential profit from Brereton. They've spent about 130 million on this club and don't seem likely to get it back.

Established ones, maybe not (depending on position and age). But you can 100% get ones that are good enough for a lot less. Good managers pull that off.

He's just been replaced by one of them is all, bigdogg. Don't be so easily duped!

That's a lot of money for someone who doesn't seem to be a Mowbray type of player.

Aye but Michael Jackson ain't a man. He's one of the alien lizard people David Icke talked about. Same goes for Elvis. It's all a plot orchestrated by Oxfam.

That doesn't make him bigger than the club either. It just means he was a key player.

EA, there's probably no point discussing it further, as I think where the two camps diverge is that you think Bennett is poor there and we think he is adequate as temporary cover (and from reports from Norwich, so is Reed). No headway will be made on either side of the debate so we might as well agree to disagree. I would say IF we can find a good, underrated RB in about the 500k range (I say underrated cos they'd likely need to be for that money) maybe with potential or able to function at centre half (as a reasonably 'round' peg), low wages, and potentially happy to sit on the bench for 90% of the season, I'd be more than happy to go for them. We seem to have the budget now to spend about that without compromising our main targets.

As someone above me just said, we had zero left back cover. Also, most people slam Bell anyway and say we need a new, better left back. When you're picking up players in that price range, that's often what they will say, because of the quality you tend to get for that price. A full back on Nyambe's level, such that it won't make any difference when/if he is out, is expensive. I can just see us in a neverending cycle of buying 500k fullbacks and people endlessly insisting we need another cos X isn't as good as Nyambe.

The club being bigger than a player doesn't mean the player won't leave. It means the club will still be here long after the player is done playing, and we are.

My apologies, seems I missed the Bauer one. You hadn't suggested Burke yet, that was a later post I hadn't read yet. Burke is likely to cost a hell of a lot. More than the others you said we couldn't afford I think. He cost WBA 15 million, and is only 21. Bauer is someone we will be looking at...though he still has the knee injury from a couple of months ago. I heard he wasn't playing all that well before it (head turned maybe). Charlton wanted 2 mill in the summer and are in the top 6 at the mo. Reckon they will ask for a million still in Jan, but may settle at somewhere around the 750k mark. They did pay 1.5 million for him themselves and have shown they'll be stubborn over his value.

True. Same for Rodwell. On the other hand, sometimes he says he is ready to unleash a player (Rothwell) then does no such thing for several weeks. I've no problem with this. Sometimes you have to be willing to change your opinion, or adapt.

Chaddy, it isn't sounding like you want us to sign anyone? Everyone is apparently out of our price range (like 7 million pound strikers are) or not good enough because they play in Scotland (like Mulgrew and Tugay).

Important to look for a centre half, injuries showed just how vulnerable we are there. Lenihan and Mulgrew could do with real competition to avoid complacency. I actually don't follow the same logic with right back though. Nyambe looks highly motivated, and I don't see why Bennett is getting so much flak for his time filling in there. He and Reed are adequate short term cover (Travis too - even if we loan him out we could recall) and they themselves have enough competition in their natural positions that we can afford to relocate them temporarily...I just can't see us signing a right back who can truly compete with the excellent Nyambe but may well sit on the bench all season if Nyambe doesn't get any more injuries. Unless we get lucky with the scouting, that would probably be a bigger financial burden than it would be worth. Mulgrew and Lenihan however, are injury prone. We also need a striker, that should be obvious. Maybe not if Brereton gets used there, but we will see. That should become clearer by late December. We might still need a Graham-type to compete with and back Graham up anyway, as Big Ben seems a different sort of striker. However, for me one of the biggest priorities should be (secretively) scouting a replacement for Dack. I'm hopeful we can keep him until the summer, but the truth is it's possible we will lose him in Jan. If we do, it will then become our most urgent recruitment priority by far. We would get a lot of money to do so but I wouldn't want to choose the replacement at short notice. It won't be anybody as good, but it'd still be vital we get as good as we can. A nice extra would be a Chapman type (maybe not Chapman anymore unless he's super cheap in wages and fee, as his injuries have gotten ridiculous). However, with the way Mowbray plays, and our 'wide' options, I don't think it's going to be any kind of priority.

Michael Jackson lives there too. Moonwalking was a hidden message.

Allegedly, Elvis is still alive and living on the moon.

Some might consider that a conflict of interest. Especially since they choose to show more games of the team sponsored by Sky Bet than almost anyone else...

We finished above you every Premier League season, often by quite a lot, until the 97/98 season when you pipped us by one place. We got relegated the next season, and subsequently missed the last season of the 90s. Since he said late 90's, yeh he probably lost the bet.