David Harewood as experienced back up to Raya ?

Spot on especially when you see the delegation the BBC send to 'cover' big events at licence payers money when all that happens really is most of them sit in the studio. SKY etc as well seem to have ever expanding numbers of seats in their broadcasts, just how many opinions do you need on one bog standard game ? Old boys networks just getting as much out of the game as they can.

Like gigs within football itself punditry will go alongside the biggest names easier than those a step down and for others who might sudden appear to be punching above their weight it will come down to our old favourite - who their agent is and how well connected he is to the media.

It's boxing ffs not pantomime or WWF it was a disgrace but no surprise. Expect a barrow load more turkeys for Fury whilst he's fighting for money until someone draws him into something with an offer he can't turn down and he gets exposed. This is Haye mk2 and will have a similar ending, maybe even by the same guy.

I thought you were going to say Dryhorse is in fact Mr Watt ?

Someone get on the blower and recommend Anthony Stokes to Bolton, maybe some of us could set up a deal ?

Fair play to Mowbray it's always easy to read his comments you don't start scratching your head and going wtf at all the standard clichés and spin. Just tells it like it is you get the impression he'd tell you every last detail if he could.

Lowe finally signs for Bolton. 12 months after I first called it but who's counting ?

Your last line kind of justifies being upset at the first line, I thought he had enough respect for Rovers fans to rise above that kind of thing and as Oldjam pointed out he's form for doing it. Don't mind players celebrating a goal v a former club they were once darlings of in the right way but anything else is a clear F### you in my book but that's just me. One for all and all for one !!! You chose Duff over me - we're finished ?

I was in the away end down there when he scored against us and made a point of looking in our direction and saluting. Think he tried to say he was aiming it at some friends or something in the home box thing in the corner of the cottage but for all the world he was looking at Rovers fans in that bit. He'd had zero stick. Might be wrong but he may have over done the celebrations once at Ewood as well for Chelsea. Not that it really matters he was long gone by the Fulham thing but still it was totally out of order.

On his day Damien Duff was almost unplayable and on his average days he was still very good. A comparison by someone who didn't see the Duffster week in week out in his pomp methinks. Still a little shite for his blatant disrespect towards Rovers fans when playing for Fulham though ?

Wouldn't mind the squad containing those two then that could be tried out as an alternative to DG & Dack in some games. A squad containing a strike force of Graham, Dack, Gallagher & Armstrong would be decent surely. Would cost too much in wages though unless the parent clubs make it feasible. And we'd probably end up with one of both starting on the wings ?

A one year deal on an average champ wage with goal bonuses and an option to earn another year would be best all round for Graham you'd feel. Incentives for him and not over commitment from the club. If they are offering him peanuts or he's trying to hold them to ransome then he might well end up buggering off to a one year more lucrative deal somewhere else but he'd be stupid to go to Bolton just for an extra year on low wages imo given his status at Rovers.

How can Bolton be in a position to offer good money to Danny Graham ? Just sounds like a tool to use in haggling a bigger deal from Rovers imo. Surely he's more happy to stay here than risk going across to that shower for a couple of quid more.

That'll be mostly freebies to fill out the squad i'd wager, no way are they spending on 5 lots of fees etc. Would be nice to have a couple of good purchases in that lot though. Just have to hope TM and his recruitment boys are on top form with these types of signings and that Pune has certain people on the mute button !

Dack had a poor season the season before we signed him and his value dropped from 2 million to 750k also I think their fans were pretty split on him although more about his attitude than ability, nevertheless it can be deceiving when a player is in and out of a side. In this case though anyone with injury probs forget it we aren't a rehab centre we want guys who can contribute straight away, Chris Brown was injured when he signed as was Delfonso I think and Guthrie certainly had probs. We got the square root of bugger all out of most of that lot despite two of them having a bit of ability.

Nicko's just scooped his bit for tomorrows rag right here ?

They bloody should do it's still over 100% up on a year or two ago besides that's just Venkys India another part of VH group. More it's worth the more the bank will lend we hope although Rovers budget seems to be already set so can't see how they can go back on it......then again ?

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You can lay the naive, partly duped and partly purposely ignorant line to the first few years for sure but the Owen Coyle fiasco and continuing heavy involvement of satellite agents connected to former bad advisors blows it out the water in recent years somewhat. Lightening doesn't strike twice when it's costing tens of millions still from the first time around. I think the situation is now paper losses of c10 mill or so per annum on VLL seem to suit the purposes of the ultimate parent company. Don't think they set out to lose money, certainly not 25 million per year but they know and knew from the off it needs outside funding propping it up and they are happy sustaining to more sensible levels to suit their accounting processes.

No need for him imo when the likes of Nuttall are in the wings, is he better than that ? Quality needed now for this squad whereas often in the past it's just been about getting quantity in to fill it up.

c27m in player sales and 10.5 parachute payments propping it all up in recent years. Interesting times ahead.

I think it's been predicted for a while it would drop after having a boom time, just the nature of that type of business I think but maybe bad timing for us which would be typical. Hopefully other areas of the group are thriving and need profits hiding or the BOI is feeling very generous after a few years austerity.

He's never quite caught fire at Ewood but played his part last season in the bigger picture as did most of them. Fair play to him for putting in the graft although really it's a minimum requirement these days that they all should do through summer. Massive season for him next season, make or break at Rovers really but it looks like he realises what's needed now so best of luck to him.

Armstrong ?