We have had some fabulous down the years- what happy memories!

Just a thought. If we found ourselves with Arma, Gally and Brereton all unavailable at the same time (not a situation I am advocating!), that 18 year old kid we got from Celtic, Connor McBride, looks a unit, full of confidence, quick, knows how to work an opening and smack it into the net. His link up work, timing of runs to avoid offside and assist for Brennan's goal were all top class as well.

Jones is an academic discussion for Rovers. He could probably do a decent and desperately needed job for Fulham.

At least he will be locked down in Melbourne and not allowed to cross the Victoria State Boundary so you will be relatively safe out there in Perth..

I did know that Derby answer. They were way ahead of us in both stats on Saturday but other than three sumptuous Rooney passes they did nothing with, I really didn't notice their passing and possession. Normally when you are against those sorts of stats you get the feeling that your team will never see the ball again!

Bournemouth and King may have no option.

Wore number 8 Forward midfield mostly on the left side Leicester have a very young Portuguese defensive midfielder, a centre half beast who looked good until Chapman, MCconnell and Brennan took the piss. And a quick right back. Other than that nothing of note. Thought the same of Man City's u-23s with the exception of their number 4- Mbete- who is a defensive midfield version of Tosin with a few tricks

Looks too nice to be a footballer! I know that sounds daft but having seen him against both Man City and Leicester, he makes me feel nervous every time he receives the ball because of how he looks. But in reality he wasn't over shadowed by Ayala and if anything Leicester were coming at him to avoid Ayala. Not ready to step up yet but might already be better than Carter because he is more mobile- he didn't lose any foot races I can remember of in either game.

Yes, pretty mobile but not dangerously quick. Competent all round game but nothing outstanding. No way would he be automatically ahead of the current Rovers u-23 players let alone be in the first team squad.

1 more than Cardiff and I am very happy going into the International break.

Well that was good fun. Rovers under 23s much the better overall. After the analysis of Ayala not being able to pass for toffee I was watching him closely. Every Ayala pass short or mid length found its man. Only once in his hour on the pitch was he remotely tested defensively and he dealt with it perfectly. Fisher looked much better today apart from a late bit of adventure when he was upfield and the ball played behind him. I thought Mols looked good and Pike and Thompson the two full backs were 90% sound. Davenport tidy and effective throughout but never imposed or really stood out. As the game went on, the class of Buckley and Chapman really began to tell and Leicester had no answer for them. Their raking passes and running were far better than anything Leicester had on the pitch. Buckley again showing that lovely ability to swivel effortlessly into space in what was a pretty hectic game- no shirking from the Foxes. We know Brennan is class but the lad we have taken from Celtic- Connor McBride looks to be rather special. Combined with his first against City, he has now scored 3 in his last 30 minutes on the pitch! 4-0 against the Premier League leaders second string can't be bad.

Rovers started well. Leicester came back. Chances few and far between but if we can make our pace count we should score here.

It is one of the best days of my life Kean out day- I was that happy.

Eastwood seems to have the u-23s berth (and looks the better prospect) so I guess Fisher will be going out on loan again as soon as we have an experienced back up for Thomas.

NOOO Take your Championship Manager and place it where the sun don't shine. He won't be a Rovers player for his entire career but I really want to enjoy this lad playing in the greatest shirt on earth.

We have seven unavailable currently including Dack and Travis- the heart of the team. So let's see what Reading are made of.

He played in the game Duff made his debut for Rovers. Duff was obviously a phenomenal talent but Rovers couldn't do anything about Heskey who destroyed us. Leicester won 4-2 and Heskey scored 2 if not a hattriick. I remember the Leicester fans chanting their nickname for him - Bruno Bruno

We have signed him.

I misread Transfermarkt- apologies. Agreed about Ejaria.

Ovie Ejaria Left Winger 22 Liverpool Premier League €3.90m Josh Laurent Central Midfield 25 Shrewsbury League One Free transfer Lewis Gibson Centre-Back 20 Everton U23 Premier League 2 Loan - Adrian Popa Right Winger 31 FCSB Liga 1 - Championship group End of loan Jun 30, 2020 Jordan Holsgrove Central Midfield 20 Atl. Baleares Segunda División B - Grupo I End of loan Jun 30, 2020 Vito Mannone Goalkeeper 32 Esbjerg fB NordicBet LIGA End of loan Jul 31, 2020 So Reading's transfer business was to convert three successful loanees to permanent add a decent squad midfielder, spend money to get a winger from Liverpool and bring in a hugely promising PL central defender loanee from Everton. From what I have seen of them Reading look the business this year. Much more so than Bristol City, the other 100% club.

I think we need a sense of perspective in this Rhodes v Armstrong exchange. Rhodes signed for Rovers for a record non-Premier League UK fee with 99 goals already scored. He was only a few months younger than Arma is now when he joined Rovers. Rhodes rattled in 85 goals in 169 appearances for Rovers in just 3.5 seasons. It is quite amazing that he has since he left he has only managed another 26 goals in 121 appearances over 4.5 seasons. Jordan is still only 30 years old! Looking at Adam, I find it astonishing he made 21 appearances over 5 seasons for Newcastle and scored 0. For Rovers, Armstrong has now scored 41 goals in 122 appearances for Rovers and his career total is now 71 goals in 241 appearances. There is plenty of time for Arma to get the equal of Rhodes for Rovers although he has to go some to match Rhodes goal per game ratio. Having said that, if Arma keeps this season's 6 in 5 ratio going, he will have 98 goals for Rovers when he gets to equal Rhodes' 169 appearances and Rovers will be comfortably mid-table in the Premier League around Christmas 2021!

This is the "let's chat among ourselves this week" thread. Pretty certain we will see activity next week and possibly Sunday/Monday the week after.

I know it is early days but Reading are looking extremely useful. Having hit the top with 9 points in the bag already I expect them to stay in the hunt. From what I have seen so far, I think we have already played the best team in the league- Bournemouth. I don't have the feeling about any club this time out I had from the get go about Leeds- they were always going to take one promotion slot while Fulham were always the class outfit in the Championship 2019/20. Places 1 to 6 are very open this season. One point I will add, feeling very grateful about Sheffield Wednesday's -12 start. They are looking a strong outfit and were extremely unfortunate to lose at Bristol City.

We will have at least a week as our Summer window closes 7 days after the PL window.

Important to keep the momentum going. I suspect this will be high scoring with both teams getting on the score sheet. Sooner or later if we repeat the slow starts like we had against both Wycombe and Derby we will let in the first goal and make the afternoon significantly more difficult for ourselves. However, no panicking when it is still 0-0 after 20 minutes please. Saying it will be the same team as last time except Nyambe in for JRC is a pretty safe bet.