His finishing with his feet looks poor, but he can certainly use his height in both boxes. And, as Chaddy says, his movement is surprisingly good for a big man which will see him get his fair share of chances. I like him and Yuki so far. It's showing up those people who defended the Broughton's regime panic-buy of Telalavic with "What do you expect working on our budget"

There's been quite a few players who we get too young and don't look like they will particularly make it, but couple of years later are established as Championship level or higher. Look at Jared Branthwaite here. Looked fairly poor. Harwood-Bellis looked a far better prospect. Now he's in England squads and linked with big money moves. At a lower level, Matt Grimes is another. A pointless kid midfielder loan who showed nothing at Ewood. A few years later and a mainstay for Swansea and now captain of their side. Morton and Moran will probably go on to have decent careers in the top two flights. Problem is neither were ready for what we needed them for. The Harvey Elliot loans are few and far between.

Such was the standard of medical teams back then, Shearer did his on Boxing Day but it wasn’t fully diagnosed and they tried to play him against Cambridge on 6th Jan, when he only lasted about 20 minutes before he went off injured and ended up having the op.

Has he? I stopped paying attention when he said the Japanese lad was in the UK and having a medical, and then it turned out a day later he was still in Japan.

Debut goals, decent crowd, big atmosphere and not actually screwing it up. Ultimately winning well. What’s going on? That was a great night

1. Winners of the Championship Leeds 2. Runners-up in the Championship Sheff United 3. Championship Play-off final winners Burnley 4. Where will Rovers finish the season? 19th 5. Which 3 clubs will be relegated from the Championship? Plymouth, Oxford, Millwall 6. Who will be the first club in the Championship to change manager? (For whatever reason) Stoke 7. Who will be the BRFCS Player of the Season? (As voted for in the Match Centre on BRFCS) Tronstadt 8. A wildcard prediction for something (possibly quite mad) that will happen to or at Rovers during this coming season Big Mac hat-trick in a high profile Ewood game

No deal has been agreed. Unless Waggot says so in that interview, we also have no idea if a BIG FEE has been agreed or not.

You forget who we have ‘representing’ us in these negotiations.

“ It was reiterated that after the 20th August the owners may willing to fund Blackburn Rovers properly again. However, if not, they will at least guarantee to keep you going for another 12 months”

1-1 Better side but don’t put our chances away. The wait for the Eustace home win continues.

Gallagher off injured for Stoke after 30 minutes. Been replaced by Ennis 😂

To be fair he's not wrong. Do you think we are a club with ambition?

Yep. One of them as experience and to bolster the squad was fine, but both of them leaves me pretty worried. I've seen comparisons to some of our experienced defenders from the past, but in those cases the likes of Short, Moran, Berg (2nd time) were dropping down levels from where they spent most of their career.

Far be it from me to have sympathy for that lot, but Burnley have Boro away at 8pm Sunday evening.

I ran the stats on this a couple of weeks ago. Brereton and Szmodics both scored at the same or better rate when Gallagher wasn't on the pitch as when he was. The players will all like Gally as he is a genuinely nice bloke, but he's certainly not the reason why BB and SS scored so many.

We’ve sent the coach for him.

Let’s have a look at your twitter posters shall we Mike and see if they hold widely differing views from on here. It seems to me they may have an issue with the forum but all want the owners out. SalfordRover has retweeted he wants Venkys out. Sonny has said “Get these bastards out of our club I beg” MatthewShaw retwteets Linz that Rovers is “a shit show” and “dying”. Also retweets roverschat that we have suffered “14 years of neglect and decay” Eoin has previously stated Venkys have fucked up the club. Was very anti-Venkys even as far back as 2012. Says everything is pointless until the senior management / owners change. In February Sam Lord says “Venkys need to fuck off now and so does Waggot” Umair also after the Maguire fiasco was Venkys out, posting the “enough is enough” badge. So all of your examples of “differing opinion” all want Venkys to leave. Still, you get some more Stone Roses played before matchday and give the next digital day your blessing.

You’ve finally got to the $250million question. Nobody knows. They have no interest in it, don’t attend and yet are happy to rack up loss after loss. This leads to speculation on nefarious accounting activities they don’t want uncovering. Remember these are the people who bought a club, sidelined one of the best functioning boards in the premier League, and gave the agent that brokered the sale of the club free reign to run the football side of the club (after said-agents own client Steve Kean had been put in charge of the first team)

This is the end Hold your breath and count to ten Feel the Earth move and then Hear my heart burst again For this is the end I've drowned and dreamt this moment So overdue, I owe them Swept away, I'm stolen Let the sky fall When it crumbles We will stand tall Face it all together Let the sky fall When it crumbles We will stand tall Face it all together At Skyfall

With who? Waggot 😂😂😂😂 As if he’d stick to it if he could squeeze an extra million.

Will Kane return and get the 47 goals he needs to break Shearer’s PL record? He’s 31 tomorrow. Chances are the earliest he would return he would be 32. With the deterioration we saw for England, he’d probably need 3 to 4 seasons. Unlikely.

Not really. We probably would have got £8mill anyway. Made Gregg look good in some peoples eyes though.

Anyone who last season saw the interview on the pitch at Leicester and that interview Sammy did with Big Sam knows he was going. If anyone honestly believed Szmodics would be here on the 31st August then they seriously aren’t paying attention. Norhing has happened so far that surprises me. I said Szmodics and 1 other would be sold, and a few cheapies would be brought in. Nobody over £500k.I didn’t expect the other sale to be Gally but there you go. Plus £500k now is laughable.

I take it back.

To be fair this game has been quite good for re-assuring that we won’t double-drop if we go down this season.