With a goal scored several minutes after the full-time whistle should have gone to rub it in.

I always find it worse when you head into these bloody international breaks with a defeat. 3-0 win and we enter the break in the play off places with three back-to-back wins without conceding. 3-0 defeat and it's a long time until we next play and have the opportunity to make up for it.

Speaking of this, who is responsible for our squad listing on this website?

Thanks - hadn't previously seen the quote from Semir. Certainly seems confident in his own ability. As for Hill - there are plenty of players who have U20/U21 caps that have amounted to nothing. Harry Chapman for one. I'm not overly concerned by the Hill signing as I don't think he'll play many games at all. I'm more worried at the fact that unless Sigurdsson is top drawer - we've gone backwards from last season.

https://rp-online.de/sport/fussball/borussia/borussia-moenchengladbach-semir-telalovic-das-ist-der-stand-v1_aid-95849645 "Semir Telalovic's application was impressive: With 15 goals and 13 assists that he collected last season for Borussia's U23s in the Regionalliga West, the striker went looking for a new club in mid-July. The hope of Telalovic and his advisors to find a place with a second or third division club has not been fulfilled so far" I'm also concerned that people seem to think Telalovic is rapid/fast. I've seen nothing to back this up from the clips I've seen - so not sure where that is coming from. As for what Hearts fans thought of Hill - they didn't think he was good enough for the Scottish Premier League - which is surely a concern?

He's hardly torn up trees at either MK Dons or Swansea. No idea why people rate him so highly. His win percentage over his career is 37.3% compared to JDT at 47.7% for example.

Well they've spent a fortune, not got a single point so far, conceded 11 goals in 3 home games and hard to see where their first points are coming from. £19m on a keeper that hasn't played above League One level. Idea for their commercial department: Sell season tickets for their away end. I don't think they tend to play at home at the same time as Rovers', so I could go and sit in the away end every time they play and have a great time.

Well I'm going to rate each signing and then come back and laugh at how wrong I was at the end of the season: Wahlstedt - 7/10 - I think this lad must have something about him. Already a Swedish international and reportedly scouted by Manchester United and Liverpool previously. Fully expect him to be cemented as first choice by the end of the season. Tronstad - 4/10 - From what I've seen so far appears to be a bang average midfielder with no particular stand out attributes. I'd not have him as a starter. Ennis - 6/10 - From the glimpses we have seen, definitely looks like he's got something about him. But it's clear he's got issues with fitness/injuries. Expect him to get 8-10 goals this season - so not the big goal scorer we needed. Telalovic - 2/10 - Good record at a very low level. Concerned that his advisors were apparently looking for a second or third tier team to take him on in Germany and they got no takers. Then along come Rovers'. Not expecting to see much of him at all and think he'll be well down the pecking order. Sigurdsson - 8/10 - Looking forward to seeing this one when he's fit. Expect him to come strong in the second half of the season. Hill - 4/10 - As cover, he will be fine. But it's concerning how unimpressed the Hearts fans were with him. Expect him to be fourth choice centre half. Moran - 7/10 - Think he be a decent addition and get at least 5 goals and 5 assists this season. Might take him a couple of months to get up to speed of the Championship. Overall, I'd rate the window as a 3/10. I certainly don't think we are any stronger than last season, but that's due to a complete lack of budget. As little as I rate Will Keane, he'd have been a better signing on a free upfront if we knew we couldn't afford a decent striker.

And it was only 3 points from losing positions from the first 45 games of the season.

All I'm saying is ignore his Wikipedia page as people can edit it. Which they have.

What are we basing the fact that he's rapid on?

I was scrolling through the donations and noticed John Buckley had donated £200. Class.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23757411.blackburn-rovers-player-ratings-8-0-win-harrogate/ You can tell this Dan Barnes is a dingle. 8-0 win and the average rating of the players in the starting 11 was 7. Moran and Wahlstedt both got 7 out of 10 for example.

He was taking part in a shooting drill in the warm-up before the Accrington friendlies (the one where you play a one-two with someone on the edge of the box and then shoot from the D). He was bending most of them in the top corner every time. Looked a very confident striker of the ball.

We've had 11 different goal scorers this season - and we're still in August.

Dolan as a right sided Le Saux. I've definitely heard it all now.

Wahlstadt been taking positioning tips from Pears already.

Thought Hyam was magnificent

Mo Salah the latest one to be linked - potentially with a salary of £1.5m per week (currently £350k per week at Liverpool).

I went to the second leg of City and Real Madrid last season in their tunnel club. Whilst it's a great experience as a one off - it's not football as I love it. They had a DJ outside the players entrance and then the players all went down a red carpet through the bar area when they arrived. Then it pretty much turned into a nightclub as soon as they game finished. Give me a pie and a pint stood in the freezing cold any day of the week.

This frustrates the hell out of me. You get to the stage where it's not even worth going for a pint at half time as you have to miss the end of the first half to give you a chance and then down it quickly so you don't miss too much of the second half. Same issue across various stadiums - but Rovers' seem particularly bad. If someone can invent a solution where you can pre-order drinks on an app and then collect from an Amazon style locker in the concourse (chilled) clubs would sell a hell of a lot more drinks.

A bit before my time, but fingers crossed history repeats itself (as in it doesn't last long). I remember Andreas Escobar being murdered in 1994 for scoring an own goal in the World Cup.

I just wondered what everyone's thoughts on the Saudi Pro League are? In a time when we're suffering from a cost of living crisis and ordinary people are struggling to put food on the table - we have veterans of the 'working man's game' earning absolute obscene amounts of money. Jordan Henderson will be earning £69 for every minute of every day whether he's awake or asleep. Cristiano Ronaldo will be earning £326 per minute (£3.3m per week). Presumably this is completely unsustainable and just the mega rich (most likely rich through questionable means) throwing money around like it's going out of fashion. Players like Jordan Henderson are comfortable abandoning his beliefs when offered £700k a week. Who can blame him? I've said for years that one day a big name player will retire at a very young age as it's like they've won the lottery. You only need a certain personality that isn't really interested in football to earn a lot of money at a young age for this to happen. Most of these players going to Saudi are players past their best getting one last pay day. But it won't be long before a big name youngster makes the move, pockets a huge amount of cash and then retires in his mid-20s. David Bentley retired at the age of 29 - you wonder if he'd have made the money early in his career in the Saudi League whether he'd have quit earlier. I'm not a particular fan of the Premier League and how money has completely taken over it (and made it uncompetitive for most) - but I just think the Saudi League is further ruining football. I for one won't be paying any attention to it. Player wages are killing the game and until clubs start to control them (Rovers last accounts showed we paid 147% of our turnover on wages - this wouldn't happen in the real world) it'll just get worse. I also watch Rugby League and the salary cap has at least made it more competitive in general - but you've still only had 3 grand final winners in 17 years - so I'm not even sure that is the answer. FFP hasn't helped at all in football either. The days of a Jack Walker coming in and taking his local club to glory are also long gone. No actual supporter can afford the sums of money these Saudi owners can put on. All the extra money is just going towards making the players richer and richer. I certainly don't love the game as much as I did when my dad first took me as a kid in the 90s. It's also hard when taking my son to a 2/3 empty stadium watching a team that struggles to compete. He'd have loved going during the peak days of the 90s/00's. I started writing this topic at 9:05am and I've made £8.40 in that time. Ronaldo has earned more than £6,500. Top 10 earners in Saudi Pro League: https://www.givemesport.com/the-10-highest-paid-players-in-the-saudi-league-next-season-ft-ronaldo-benzema-firmino/#jordan-henderson---al-ettifaq

U20s won the World Cup in 2017. Can we count that?

Spot on. Definitely useful as a sub - but if we've got aspirations of getting promoted - we need better starters.