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I'm really starting to warm to the idea of Ebanks-Blake coming. At a supposedly lower price than Rodriguez, he provides power, pace and a great goalscoring record at this level. However as others have mentioned, can he perform consistently at Premier League level?

Will they still be laughing when they spend most of the season in and around the bottom 8 or so teams?

Keogh is set to join Leeds on loan. Good signing for them. And Fryatt is clearly a quality player. If you take notice of the Championship on a regular basis you will see a lot of his finishes which are usually excellent.

And coming from an Italian club we may well be in contention should he leave. Anyone know if he's pacy?

Brilliant result, great steel shown by the team after a moment of stupidity and we've finally beaten a Keith Hill managed side! Interestingly there wasn't a single draw in the Championship today and what a superb day with Pompey, Leeds, Leicester and Forest all losing!

Saints and Brighton in the automatic promotion spots

No Gorkss in the squad for QPR today...

He's going to be 13.

Adkins also mentions that we would look to sign 'two,three,four players that could improve the team.' The number seems to be increasing every week!

Fourth_Official Fourth Official QPR have signed Brazilian defender Bruno Perone #QPR Could this push the Gorkss deal through...?

I would suggest after targeting Billy Sharp, Nicky Maynard and Jay Rodriguez during the summer that Ebanks-Blake is exactly what we're looking for. If fit, Lambert is going to start most matches and Guly can fill in for him if not, but what we're really missing upfront is that extra bit of pace, especially now Chamberlain has left, so someone with those qualities is what Adkins will be looking for.

Jay Rodriguez hits his fourth of the night for Burnley. I wonder if we have a scout up there tonight...?

Hat-trick for Rodriguez!

Rodriguez scores another penalty. Six Championship sides trailing at the moment...

Rodriguez scores a penalty for Burnley.

Elsewhere tonight, Boyd starts for Peterborough, Rodriguez and Fox both start for Burnley and Waghorn starts for Leicester. Henry on the bench for Millwall and no Ings in the Bournemouth squad...

Where's Jaidi?

This was in the Daily Mail this morning. I doubt very much that it's true.

I think I may have misunderstood what you meant, but still fourth_official tweeted just afterwards something similar that suggested that we are on the verge of making some big bids... Fourth_Official Fourth Official Leicester City are also concerned Southampton may rock the boat on a few of the deals they are lining up as they look to spend big #Saints

We can't help it if players decide to turn us down though, doesn't mean we haven't put significant bids in.

I wonder why he wasn't involved tonight then. Maybe he was here for talks today but has decided against the move?

Ammunition for the Cortese bashers. Brilliant. I for one would much rather have Gorkss, a player that has vast experience in this league.

Great goal by Taylor-Fletcher, great result for Blackpool if they can hold on..

If these rumours from the agents are true I'd imagine we're right in there too.

Gorkss and Mackie? Long and Alex Pearce? Maynard and Fontaine/Nyatanga?