After we signed our Portuguese lot...

Surely, a loan with a call option is ideal.

All our money comes from Pune. So if they say "I will give you £7m if you buy me a young British forward on low wages with low risk and high potential sales value", you cannot say I'd prefer a bag of smarties please.

Agreed on most of your points. Brereton I keep arguing is a one-off. I really hope he comes good but that potential £7m was for a young marquee signing who wasn't going to blow the wage structure, not anything else.... We will know after Saturday's game whether we are good enough to kick on into play-off contention. Record against the top 6 so far is W2 D3 L4 but the losses include the Leeds and Sheff U away farces. Only two games (derby away and Sheff U home have seen us out classed) and I'd argue we were at least competitive in the other 7 games even though we only won 2. Hull the only club showing genuine promotion form- if they have another ten games like the last ten they will be close to an automatic promotion slot.

Forget about Boro dropping back, Mikel is one heck of a player.

Yes you are right. If they keep hold of Bowen, bring back Irvine and and have Pugh (and a rumoured two other signings), Hull are going to be very strong.

Hull side which drew at Villa but now 10 unbeaten in the league. Irvine appears to be injured. 1Marshall 17Kane 5Burke 4de Wijs Substituted by McKenzie 23Kingsley 20Bowen Substituted by Lichaj 22Henriksen 6Stewart 14Grosicki 7Evandro Substituted by Batty 29Martin

Newly promoted from C1. So a bit like us in that respect- otherwise nothing like the history and stature of Rovers. As for Rudy, he'd have to double in height to connect with some of the crosses we fling over.

You have got to put a premium on pace against this current Hull side.

Noticed you have been very very quiet which I took to be a reflection that nothing of note was stirring.

They took that number to Villa. Remember they had won 7 on the bounce and are 8 unbeaten. How many would we take to Hull in similar circumstances?

Hull could bring 2,000 with them

Fab preview. OK, last season's home FA Cup tie probably the worst game of the season. This season Rovers v Hull promises to be the best game this season. Why? Hull are very exciting now with flying wingers and forwards, brilliant overlaps and diagonal passing winning the ball by pressing high up, snapping into tackles on the halfway line. Hull like to get 5 forward really quickly when attacking and Polish winger Kamil Growicki is lethal down their left. At the time of writing, Hull top scorer Jerrod Bowen may be a Leicester player before Saturday replaced by Marc Pugh from Bournemouth who had his medical today. They had won 7 on the trot until they went to Villa Park and were 2-0 up early on there also but ended up fortunate to get the 2-2 draw. What happened? Villa out Hulled them. Handed out some industrial grade tackling and went forward at pace exploiting the gaps Hull inevitably leave as they pour forward. This is not a game for either Smallwood or Evans who are too slow physically and mentally for what Hull will throw at them. Thankfully both Nyambe and Bennett are quick at right back so we have defensive cover there. I'd look for Reed playing centrally and Armstrong on from the start to hurtle into the spaces in the Hull defence. Mowbray picks a team with pace and we can win this. If he goes conservative, we could easily lose by 3,4 or more.

Will be great to get him fit. Still only 19/20 and was probably seen as the main signing in the summer until Armstrong. Seemed to have made a huge impression at Burton last season in the Championship.

Both especially the way Hull play.

I will add Garner's five v Derby and Garner away against the great Ipswich side in the early '80s which we lost 4-3. The then England central defence of Osman and Beatie couldn't cope with him. Scott Sellars put in some stunning performances but a game against Leeds comes to mind. Duncan McKenzie v West Ham in 1979 Tony Parkes put in some shifts for Rovers too. Remember him dominating Palace in a 3-1 win Christmas 1977. Trying to remember a cup game against first division opposition in which Noel Brotherston was unplayable against.

We have 40 points from 28 games and I will be disappointed and surprised if we don't keep this rate of points accumulation going which points to 66 points. Given we have played twice against three of the top four already, we have got cuter about conceding after the 70th minute and we have a couple of youngsters emerge like million pound signings since Christmas, 70 points is probably par now. Whether we can push that on to 76 points+ to get into the play-offs is probably too much to ask so I am sticking with prediction of finishing 7th.

At least we don't have an away end which looks like this stadium in Malta.

We had this when we were in the Premier League. We even had a coach travelling from Gloucester to every game.

Fig leaves all round...

This thread is missing a certain something without Chaddy

Not around yesterday and not seen any video so relying on written reports. Job done and upwards we go! Great to see the strength in depth in the squad at Championship level in our first season. Reaching the point where players obviously good enough to play in most Championship teams are not even going to come on as sub. And there are more gems coming through from the youth set up if what I am reading on here is correct. I will be controversial and say we don't NEED any signing to come in this window. It is all about snaffling players who could transition to the Prem if there are any around Rodwell-esque. If Edwards is available on loan, I'd bring him in from Ipswich. As for Ipswich, I'd be worrying about League 2 in 20/21. Clubs which drop like a stone tend not to hang around in the division below. They either find they enjoy beating poorer clubs and bounce or they carry on the habit of losing. Everything I read about Ipswich suggests they won't have the quality gap in League 1 Wigan Rotherham and ourselves enjoyed.

Hull City are on fire at the moment playing the best football in the league. Will be an enormous test for us that one. Need to get the three points on the board against Ipswich.

Will probably be magic roundabout everywhere 28th to 31st. Having said that, volume of transfer activity is down globally for the past two windows.

The feed was completely stop start. Had plenty of still views of the shirt!