bluebruce

So 4-4-2 with Arma and Brereton up front presumably.

Yeh it's frustrating. We would be paying even more for Mulgrew if we brought him back though. Then I'd also have to see him amble around even more casually and lost than our current crop of defenders. Also see him whip great free kicks in, mind, but defenders simply have to defend. I'd be very curious to know how much of Mulgrew's wages are being paid by Wigan. I wish football would stop this thing where almost all aspects of all deals are secret. Fans are stakeholders and deserve to know.

I should think we are tied into the Cunningham loan for the season, or even Goodwill Tony would have cancelled it (or been told to). Mulgrew, I don't want back. Defence is porous enough as it is.

Oh I quite agree - in fact I am more worried about a defeat now it has been pointed out we haven't lost there for nearly 5 years. We love changing records. I was just pointing it out, not gaining any confidence from it. Huddersfield also hadn't come from behind to win for two and a half years I believe the LT said.

Forest fans' views (looking mostly a bit pessimistic as they haven't beaten us there since 2014)

I doubt we will charge a fee, so I shouldn't imagine waiting for his contract to run down will change the signing on fee. His stock and bargaining position will also be six-months-of-not-playing weaker.

Here is one https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-blackburn-rovers-hunt-in-form-enforcer/amp/

Looking at the losses declared today, extrapolated over a 3-year period and with easily our most valuable playing asset out for a year, and our playoff hopes hitting the rocks, it's hard to see how the money men will sanction more spending without outgoings. Beyond loans, freebies and maybe very-cheapies.

We were linked, yeh. Dunno how true it was. I remember someone saying he hadn't been anything special when he was in the Championship, but think he would only have been 21 then.

I'd say it's fairer to say he is a poor striker BECAUSE he doesn't get into the right positions. He is sufficient in other attributes to be at least an ok striker in this league. If he had the nous to sniff out chances. It's hard to think that will come. He isn't going to learn it playing on the wing. This is TM's problem, he wants his players to be 'flexible' by playing in multiple positions. But as a result they can never settle into the full rhythm of playing their one, actual position properly. I think the wing and up front are sufficiently different that all this constant moving back and forth between them is almost 'unlearning' each position (to a degree). It's different to if you spend 6 months continually in one position then 6 in another. It has to stop.

Last I checked, which was before picking up 2 points at home and 0 away recently, we were lower in the away league table than the home one.

In fairness, he is never going to play a blinder from the wing. But as many suspected even during the good run, Tony doesn't learn.

Problem is, the alternative is that Buckley is wide, on one flank or the other...

Nyambe is injured. What did you expect at RB?

Well thank god Tosin is back

If they are recalling him then I can't see it being without compensation, if the rumour we paid a million to loan him is true. If it can be done without compensation, the person who drew up/checked that contract is getting fired. The question in the recall scenario would be how the compensation worked. Would it be pro rata, so say half a million ish, or is there nothing in the contract permitting a forced recall, therefore City have to pay us a fee that satisfies us?

Not wearing our away kit to such an inferior copycat even in their own ground, whilst they parade our colours...I would hope. We are also more likely to drag them here than let them drag us there.

Dunno, they'd have to wear the away kit and I'd just be reminded it's better than ours!

I think our 3 year period starts from when we came back up.

He's actually 26 in a few days. So by the time he comes back he will nearly be 27. Could be 28 when he has proved he still has it.

Don't remember seeing him create anything.

Chaddy, what is he contributing though? Samuel is, at this point in time, a better player. Keep him as a backup if we dont sign another striker, send Brereton out to develop. Graham, Gallagher, Armstrong, Samuel. That's 4 players who can fit that one position, all at a higher standard than Brereton.

I'd have gone for the 'unlock a stubborn defence' types for this one, with the battlers being at CM. Which we did, and it didn't work. I feel that owed a fair bit to Tosin being out. He's been so instrumental in starting moves with his excellent passing. Instead, our passing from the back was as bad as I can ever remember it being.

They haven't literally won fuck all. Relative to us though, they have. Your initial post sounded to me like you felt differently just because of one FA Cup a bit more recently than our last trophy, and a piddly League One title. Rather reserve the fuck all chant for clubs who haven't won anything (of note) for a good 30-40 years, agree, but I wouldn't consider it cringey to sing it to a tin pot outfit like Wigan. Was a stunning one off cup win for them though, sure. Don't mind Wigan, personally. Hate Cook though.

Same thing my Spurs fan mate said. That he looked good but had fitness issues.