Liam Mandeville

[Chris Black come back]

I would imagine that Close is probably our highest earner, or among the very highest earners. Him, Anderson and Taylor.

[DonnyOsmond]

He's had numerous managers at different clubs and he's never looked like a world beater over a prolonged period, so let's not act like it's all Ferguson's fault.

[steve@dcfd]

Liam is 25 now he has matured and playing good football for Chesterfield. It appears he plays on the right side of midfield attacking position. Would he improve our side not sure but I will say the most disappointing player we have is Molyneux the expectation of his signing as not been justified. I agree with Brian the level of National League sides is improving and bypassing League 2 sides

[The Beast]

And no mention of Alfie?

George Miller has in 5 months nearly scored as many as Alfie did in his Rovers career.

[Bentley Bullet]

Mandeville has played 101 games since leaving Rovers, scoring 12 goals. That's a goal every 8.41 games.

May has played 141 games since leaving Rovers, scoring 53 goals. That's a goal every 2.66 games.

Mandeville has played in a lower league since leaving Rovers.

May has played most of his games in the same league as Rovers, or higher.

[Goole Rover]

I agree loosing May was a grave mistake by Moore. IMO Miller and May would have been a sound partnership, thanks Darren.

[ForsolongaRover]

People change from within. They also change as a result of where they are, their “working environment”. There is no guarantee that if DRFC had retained him he would have developed in the same way. Ferguson was a good man-manager in my opinion and he certainly has a great record in identifying and developing talented strikers.

[Bentley Bullet]

The point is some of us commented on May's potential when he was at Rovers and didn't want him to leave. They have been proved right. Others thought he was out of his depth and wouldn't score frequently in League One. They have been proved wrong.

The annoying part is that the latter are still denying they were wrong even with proof of hindsight!

[ravenrover]

And no mention of Alfie?

George Miller has in 5 months nearly scored as many as Alfie did in his Rovers career.

And?
Miller is played as a striker, Alfie wasn't

[steve@dcfd]

The decision made by Darren we all said we needed a centre forward a replacement for Marquis. To achieve that and Alfie wanted regular football he was allowed to move hence saving his wages assisting the signing of Okenabirhie

[dickos1]

Well in the FLP he acheived an 8 out of ten rating v West Bromwich Albion while Anderson was our best rated against Orient on a seven, at the moment I don't think any of our players are capable of giving a performance like that against a higher standard team as simple as that for me.
 They have struggled against Hartlepool, Kings Lynn, and Colchester, not to mention Barnsley's second team and Newcastles u21s themselves pretty poor teams, which just about identifies the standard of player we currently have and the level we are starting at.
  Most top half National League sides would fancy taking us down, and very few of our first team would get in the Notts County, Wrexham and Chesterfield sides, and at least half our squad would not be considered as signings for those sides, in fact very few would get into our side we had when we were under Dave Penney in the then Conference, certainly none of our mid field players at present, and very few if any.

One of the most over the top negative posts I’ve ever read on here

[selby]

  None of it fictional though buddy