2-2 or 3-2 win is my prediction. Excellent effort on the tickets being sold. I don't see how us drawing to Burnley away will then see us lose to PNE away. Cant see us losing this one. JE is harry potter. Absolute magician. Gueye bags one with his head, whether he starts or comes on.

The longer a keeper does not play the worse it is for that keeper. Keepers need regular games to be sharp. Hes either been bought in to be number one or hes just been bought in as a body to hopefully be as good or better than pears. If hes not starting Saturday I would imagine thats because Eustace doesn't know a lot about him, and hes been signed as a punt and hope, lets face it, if hes meant to be good hes being thrown straight in (which I wouldn't be surprised if it was the 'punt and hope' due to how late he came through the door, sounded like he was about 20th choice on the list!). Lets just hope hes an improvement on pears, which will ultimately improve us even more.

I can see us drawing this one, or losing. Without Gueye I think we might struggle. My feeling says 1-1. hopefully yuki does the business and we win! Cant wait for this international lark out the way. Hopefully a new keeper in the sticks for us.

I accidentally walked in front of my own photo, I thought the photo had been taken, my phone delayed when i took it, mcfadzeen managed to stay still for it though

Cracking Day.. experienced my first away derby match, loved it! To top it off I went out in Manchester after the game and bumped into McFadzeen in 'Alberts Schloss' bar. I drunkingly called him a heading machine legend and he let me take a photo with him. What a man. Andreas Weimann - LEGEND

I hope im wrong, but does anyone else get the feeling the cantwell deal will break down and he goes somewhere else in the championship? I can see us getting the keeper, a random winger nobody has ever seen apart from youtube videos without a single mens appearance, and then a random free bee at 9:30pm. Either way a keeper and a pacey winger is a must. But like someone else on here said, I do worry if gueye gets injured. I wouldn't mind an old has been with a proven track record as backup on the cheap, someone that can hold it up win headers and pop up in the box when needed. Need 3 more in at a min IMO for this to be an alright window, we aren't far off a better squad than last season, Yes Szmods scored goals, but all round we have better quality in terms of depth compared to last year.

I think the 11 will be pretty similar to what played against norwich and derby. I think Gueye will start instead of onashi up top. I think the only player thats probably played himself out the team is JRC. Be interesting whether Yuki or weiman replace him. No matter who we sign between now and Saturday, I cant see anyone coming in and starting a debut in this fixture, not even a new keeper.

no injuries before the weekend will do. oh and a win i guess.

lets hope Gueye and Yuki dont get injured this week! Id take a draw. With both of them available we stand a chance. There is a international 2 week break after this game, so would be good to sign off the international break undefeated. Think this a big week for us. Lots of questions will be answered come the end of the week. Will the squad have depth? Will we get the positions we need? How far have we really come, will it be a reality check, or have we made good strides?

yes its working now. Didn't work for me when I purchased tickets at the time. Must of been a glitch.

seems like the coach travel is sold out? I cant book that. Managed to get my first ever away Burnley tickets though!

ah I assumed it would carry on until the case happened? Suppose nobody really knows the ins and outs..... Lets hope its allowed then!

what an absolute stinker this is. End of the day though they CAN still fund us. Just means any new money needed on top of whatever's in the bank needs to be paid in double due to the guarantee. Lets not forget they can still fund us if they WISH (which of course means they wont). Worse case scenario here is that we don't get sanctioned to spend anymore on new signings as they wont want to double the money for the guarantee, if they need to add more into the bank. Lets hope we can still get a few in. I fully expect us to max out the loan market either way which means another 4 in at least. We defo need minimum 4 more bodies in the door. I am still confident the lights will always be on, for whatever silly reason they still seem to want to.

2-1 or 1-1. We will concede from a set piece.

I can see us getting a score draw here. The cb pairing of hanley and duffy looked awful last week, but Gueye may be more beneficial for them to play against. I reckon we will start the team that beat derby. Im going 1-1. We will go 1-0 down then the onashi to come on and terrorise their 2 donut cbs.

this is pure torture, I was completely ready for szmods to leave.... he now plays the odd few minutes scoring goals, and it then gives you this false hope he may stay? 😂 I'm now to the point its going to be absolutely gutting him going at this stage. I think we all know how this ends. He gets sold in the final few days to someone out the blue, like a leeds. I had told myself its done in pre season. Now its like a slow death. Praying for a miracle he stays.

get a better keeper in, fullback cover, and potentially 1 or 2 pacey wingers, and keep szmods, then you cant not agrue a case for a playoff push. Seasons top scorer, a more stern defence, and a better bench. Anything is then possible. But 1000000% see szmods going the final few days of the window leaving us no time to spend any money, which is what venkys probably want to happen, gives them an excuse.

2,200!!! is that it?! thats a disgrace. Should be 4000 minimum,

I didnt go to the stockport game, but I am only commenting from what I saw on the rovers highlights. Looks like we played alright but missed a hatful of easy chances. I get the feeling gueye is a bit of a jason Roberts, great around the pitch, but useless in front of goal when it matters. Also painful to see nobody else take chances. If their is a god looking down on us and szmods stays, I can see him getting another 30 goals playing off of Gueye. From those highlights he looked a good player around the pitch, I just think he requires a goal snatcher off him. BUT we all know friendlies are not much to look at, we won the premier league without winning a friendly if i remember correctly! We need a couple players in with an eye for goal desperately! Wish the season was another month away 😂

Whatever happens friday, If its not great, I think fans need to remember, its going to be hard to picture what we are really about until probably mid September at the earliest. We have had an influx of new players that haven't played friendlies for us, plus he still wants another 3-4 players in. That would take it to like 8/9 new players with no friendlies, no pre season to bed in with our current crop. Think it will be a slow start. Not really ideal prep!

I'm going with 0-0 or 2-0 loss. Think we will be way off it till he gets a few more bodies in. But Eustace can set up a stern side, so wouldn't be surprised if this has a bore draw all over it. Weirdly Id take a draw... Think he just needs to keep us steady until the window closes, then I would expect a bit more from us given that hes wanting at least another 3-4 players in before then, of which I expect 2 new signings would be starters to go ahead of what we already have, is what id guess would be his thinking. If it isn't, then this will be slog. My guess of the lineup I think he may select: PEars Brittain hyam Carter Picks tronstad Travis JRC Dolan Hedges Gueye I also wouldnt be surprised to see vale start...

I didn't know where to post this question, as its transfer thread. But in the friendlies so far, that people have watched, what's Connor O'Riordan looked like? All of last seasons signings are gone apart from him. We paid money for him, you would think he should be in the fold this season considering, and already has efl appearances under his belt. With us being short of CBs is he good enough to be apart of game time? Would be like a new signing if he was capable.

Well I have had a stinker lol. I didnt want any personalisation so I ignored all that. So guess mine will come with it. But has any not received an order confirmation? I purchased a shirt but I have had no order confirmation. Not in the junk folder either. Even though my bank has a pending payment from rovers, so seems it did work.

Not exactly the easiest job. I imagine there are people high up in the blackburn staff that dont really know whats going on. I imagine budget goalposts get changed by the second, and i imagine only a very select couple of people may know. But with the Venkys, you've just got the unknown, he may well get told something by a rovers official only for things to just rapidly change. Either way I cant imagine the football club are going to phone him and tell him exact figures and plans. I would imagine the budget is going to be limited anyway. Its like us fans wanting to know whats going on, in what world do any clubs tell fans whats going on. Im sure we can all make our own conclusions of the mess were probably in, but it blows my mind sometimes when I read things on socials about fans not knowing about things. Club needs some form of tactical strategy when trying to purchase players. If we start sounding out we have a war chest its not the brightest strategy is it. And I'm in no way saying this is the case, just giving a potential alternative view. But I think people need to realise the clubs not going to be telling someone the ins and outs, maybe snippets to show some communication with fans, but we cant expect to be told the exact truths most of the times. I highly doubt he would release statements he didnt believe was true, knowing it will only make himself look silly.

Thank you all for the responses. Very helpful. Will do some research on the info given 👍.