I don't think they have this season. Even yesterday, I felt like Khadra looked somewhat tired and was not surprised to see his number go up.

No way is Nathan Byrne better than Nyambe, especially defensively.

To be fair, I don't get the impression that any of the team is unhappy, very much including the contract rebels. Why would they be, team doing well, regular football and seemingly a close knit spirit, they have all opened negotiations with the club so there is some willingness. But ultimately it will come down to momey, and that includes with Kaminski; it is perhaps the most important contract of his career and if we cannot pay the going rate due to an overly strict wage ceiling, he wont sign.

Of course, but the issue is with the players quality or lack of, and inability to impact games. If Clarkson was a loanee, on a 1 year deal or on a 5 year deal, he should equally be nowhere near the team. If we signed an older player on a short term deal and he wasn't improving the team, or even if it was a player on a long term deal, the "getting in the way of our own youngsters" line wouldn't be trotted out, whereas with all of the loan signings, it was regularly regurgitated before they had joined.

I am surprised that this obsession regarding an unwillingness to treat loan players equally continues to be fair. Are you happy with Van Hecke and Khadra, both of whom have been very good, or would you prefer 2 inferior players (Carter and Dolan) to play, being our own youngsters? Football is not just about the long term, you can't take your eye off the here and now. If we treated players only here for this season unfavourably then Nyambe, Lenihan, Van Hecke, Rothwell and Khadra all wouldn't be starting games.

I also think that if Mowbray actually thought that Clarkson was a bit crap, will never make it even at Championship and it was a waste of time signing him, Mowbray wouldn't say as such in the media! Of course he will say positive stuff in the press, standard fare.

If people have made a judgement on Gallagher, it isn't because of an unwillingness to give him time. This is his 3rd season here, 4th if you include his loan spell, all of which he featured regularly in. I think that Brereton has come on leaps and bounds for a number of different reasons. The Chile situation will have given him confidence but mainly through the utter novelty of the situation and the prestige, most if not all of his games came in front of empty stadiums, its obviously a situation that couldnt be replicated at Ewood. He also has thrived being the main man for the first time this season, the way we play suits him, he is 22 now and has physically developed, all in though, no one could have predicted this a year or 2 ago, 20 goals before New Year. I feel like with the fanbase, you are unnecessarily and purposely provoking people with your opinions surrounding confidence, purposely yet not blatantly implying a lack of support. Anyway, back to the transfers. No thanks to Burke. Maybe he would show something he has never done prior in a Rovers shirt, but I would much prefer a striker who will help Brereton out, along with Dack of course.

Id suggest that bringing back up "a minority of groans" from 2 years ago is the overreaction. Out of interest, take today, a few times stray passes went out of play or a poor ball/unnecessary foul ended an attack. A few natural, totally organic growns ensue out of frustration. Would that be defined as abuse?

The specific form of abuse is never particularly clarified or specified. In ground, on here, elsewhere on the internet? Assuming in ground: Isolated idiotic individuals? Groups of people together? The whole crowd? Every game? Every mistake? Occasionally? Online chatter? Moans and groans under peoples breath? Booing? Chants against him? Aimed at the player specifically, the manager, the team, all 3? Its just all still to vague for me and seemingly others. What is defined as abuse to you? Is there a level of judgement that can be deemed acceptable (writing he didnt play well on here for example) or a line whereby you can get to whereby it is understandable, organic, spontaneous frustration? (a moan when a pass is misplaced etc) Could the lack of confidence stem from the actual underperforming rather than fan reaction?

That would be so unlikely as it would require firstly a valuation for Brereton but also mutually agreed valuations for 2 other bright prospects within that deal, not to mention the assumption that both would like to sign for a Championship side and also then be able to agree wages baring in mind that we will not be paying their full wage and that we are under a strict wage ceiling as shown with our inability to sign up our own assets. Think its safe to dismiss.

75m?

So you are putting Rothwell's poor performance mainly down to Nyambe?

I don't think that Adomah is. Kakay is who rarely plays and also their main keeper Dieng.

You have been championing Maja for a while. Even if he isn't the correct fit, there are surely players out there that can play the way we play with pace and an actual goal threat.

Aside from a bit of early promise many years ago at Forest, I am not sure that has been evident.

What makes you think that Burke will give us extra quality compared to what we have?

Selling Tarkowski to Newcastle would be absolutely mindless, beyond us selling Lenihan/Rothwell/Nyambe to say Bournemouth. May as well accept relegation at that point. Newcastle are in a situation whereby even players like Trippier etc (Ramsey is reported to be on 400k at Juventus) will have to sign with potential reduction clauses if they go down, is it worth the risk for them? It would be great to see Newcastle go down.

I thought the Buckley one was probably a yellow card with them looking to attack and to be honest I could see it coming. It isn't the first time that he has picked up a needless yellow card for a foul like that.

Does Brereton do loads of defensive work? Not really. Was Armstrong particularly lazy? Not really, in fact the other day he put in an incredible selfless shift for his team who were a man down v Spurs which I watched. Obviously he won't be coming back but was just an example, but as is usually the case, I haven't a clue specifically who we could get that is available, Armstrong was just an example of a familiar player who ticks the boxes, quick, scores goals, can drift wide if necessary. Like you, I have never seen Healey play and certainly won't be making conclusions based on YouTube compilations. Maja I have seen for Sunderland and also for Fulham, maybe he could be the man as he seems to have an ability to sniff out goals, I remember him v Everton scoring 2 for Fulham. But his career has been stop start plus he has injury questions so maybe not. My view on Burke is that he has been poor every time I have seen him for Sheffield United, Scotland and West Brom. Quick but no end product, any initial promise he may have shown years ago has fizzled out. He has pace ergo "fits the style" but thats no good if he has no quality, signing Usain Bolt would "fit the style" in the same way! Of course. When a team has a goalscorer like we have both this season and last, it naturally makes other players goal contributions seem more meagre in comparison. If Brereton had 10/12, Gallagher on 5, Dolan on 4 and Khadra on 3 would not seem as distant in comparison. I just think that another goalscorer (well 2 if you factor in Dack) would really give us another string to our bow. Burke is crap, every time I have seen him he has been poor, just quick and I don't see what he would offer that those other 3 players would.

It might suit our "counter attacking style" but its no good if the player isnt very good and doesnt have any end product. What is he offering that Dolan, Gallagher and Khadra all don't, all of whom have pace, directness and chip in with goals but not particularly many each? Depends what you mean by natural strikers, someone like Armstrong would be ideal next to Brereton, it doesn't have to be a 6 foot 6 lump, someone who can give us pace but an actual regular goal threat as we are very reliant on Brereton to score as the goalscoring charts proves.

Any news on the Pickering injury? Like everyone he wasn't at his best today and was no better going forward than Nyambe, but any absence would be a blow as he has proved a very dependable addition to our team.

Of course there is always a chance that a player will never return to their full pre-injury form. But let's take hope from the fact that last time, there certainly did not appear to be any fear from Dack regarding collisions and he was really hitting form prior to the second injury, back to his old self.

Burke doesn't offer a goal threat and for me wouldn't offer anything that Khadra, Dolan and Gallagher already don't. We need a striker, not a winger that is neither here nor there.

We don't know the money that he is supposedly seeking. He was blunt going forward today but no one from an attacking sense had a good game, and Nyambe has made a critical impact to our 6 game winning run.

I have never said otherwise. You seem to take me wondering where he fits in and getting excited as me saying "lets rush him back with urgency, not taking the due care that he needs post injury" and then arguing back against that fictional argument.