For the record to anyone not watching, that’s on Mowbray.

wtf is going on? We'd done the deal but the deals didn't get done. How does that happen?

Oh mate, try to watch some of the Dalglish days along with Souness and Hughes. Amazing times. Some of the Hodgson and Allardyce days were pretty good too. It's a shame YouTube doesn't capture the feeling of being there, it all seems like a dream now.

I was doing a recce in that same suite years later and it brought about a shudder at the thought of those helpless early days. Hasn't got much better though has it. I think I'm just desensitised.

And there was that unused footage in Manchester of Balaji where it was obvious Balaji was in charge from the outset. No idea where that went. Like the prank Derek phonecall. Or the SK car park cctv. I’m surprised they didn’t resurface for posterity.

Penny pinching Gav? Running down his contract?

Short term not so good, long term better for the club. I'll take short term no wins in this case. I think we'll deteriorate under Mowbray and I see no signs of improvement with his weird methods.

It's always been Balaji's baby. @J*B can tell you that.

The point still stands that he's a good league 1 player but won't come here. Poor do. A new low I'd say.

But if you're a football manager and you're handed £7m and another £5m 6 months later, you don't splurge it on two strikers (of any quality) when you're "skint" and you need to build a team in the league you've just been promoted to. The fact that Brereton at that time was a kid and Gallagher hadn't set the world on fire up to that point only adds to the stupidity of it.

Why should he have to come up with a style that fits the players best? He didn't bring them in. Mowbray's paid a ton of money for making that work.

And when you're skint you don't go gambling £12m on two strikers.

Poor do that we can't even sign young players that haven't set the championship alight previously. And yes I know he was only a kid and has bags of potential, but it's still disappointing we can't sign someone as yet unproven in the championship.

I'll buy him some maltesers.

May 2022 I believe. My theory is that they will employ a new manager then and let them prep for the new season, unless it looks like we're sliding towards relegation in which case bring in someone earlier. A risky game as there could be an ideal candidate available that won't be next May. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46405156

Either of those would be a massive level up. You've got to admire Wilder's CV though.

I've always thought that was the case. It's strange they went from spending £7m in consecutive seasons on permanent signings, then just £500,000. I know there's ffp to factor in, but it's still a strange one we didn't sign a striker.

It was the year after being promoted for me. He deserved his time in the championship but I could see he was sleepwalking through the job. The Brereton signing was mystifying at the time as we badly needed a defence. And he was holding onto players that were clearly league 1 standard. Frustrating times and at the time people were saying, well he's building for the future... The future is here and it's still frustrating being a Blackburn Rovers fan. Ps, that was 2018, the defense is still wobbly and we're heading towards 2022 without a striker that he's willing to play in the correct position. How much has he spent?

It doesn't save money, it's just an idea cooked up by lazy overfed halfwits in suits promoted beyond their station. Trying to justify their jobs by making bad decision after bad decision. It especially grates because I've been in meetings with moronic suggestions like this, and middle management noting it down with a stupid fake smile on their face. And you just know it's being greenlit the following morning. I was always that person to say "why?", I'm so glad I don't have to put up with it any more.

A bad thing? It's not really clued up to see that Mowbray has done a poor job. Praise him all you like for steadying the ship but he's done a good job of unsteadying it. At any other club, after spending the money he's had, and the quite frankly baffling decisions he's made on and off the pitch, he'd be out of a job. I've seen some daft comments about us getting promoted to the Premier League since we signed a league 1 full back. Am I really unkind saying that's "daft". It's just common sense that losing a 29 goal striker and bringing in only one permanent signing, a league 1 full back who is being paraded around like a star signing, isn't going to turn us into play off candidates overnight. But for some that's all it takes, it's daft talk. I hope we get lucky but history and basic sanity would tell me otherwise.

It sounds like he'd play anywhere if given the opportunity. He's damaged goods but I'm surprised a lower league team hasn't took him in yet.

Sturridge could do a job for us and inspire a few, it's a shame the club have lost all their ambition. Souness or Hughes would have been all over that. Talented player.

About right.

Not due to lack of talent, due to breaching betting rules. He scored 7 goals in 16 games in Turkey. At the moment if a club were to offer him a 12 month contract he'd take their hand off. Last year.

At the moment he's training with Liverpool's kids. Also didn't we just sell someone combined with letting a load of players go? And don't we need bums on seats? Not really speculating to accumulate are we.