Course it isn't the answer, the club however will play it as such with their acolytes at the Telegraph, and some supporters will cling to it as a comfort blanket as they will the January window but anyone who thinks it through will realise that if we were struggling to get business done in the permanent window it is likely to be much more difficult in the loan window. We'll probably get a couple of Premier League loans until January once they've got their new signings settled in which i suspect has been our preferred option all along but I can't see much incentive at all for Championship or League One clubs to let decent players out on loan at this stage when they could have sold them today or wait until January to sell them. Someone like Gallagher on loan may be an option but that's only 1 of 4 or 5 Mowbray wanted.

So you're happy with business then?

So essentially: OUT - Antonsson, Payne, Chapman IN - Rothwell, Davenport, Palmer Underwhelming is the least of it. Probably hinges on whether Palmer turns out to be as good as people say he is.

Means there's always been talk about cash being available and can be spent, always getting put off to a later date and never actually gets spent.

How many loan signings can we add? Can we get the 4 or 5 Mowbray wanted or are we now further restricted by a loan quota? Expect the 31/8 to come and go with a couple of short term loans without buy options and then it will be wait until January when we've money left to strengthen. Always on the never never with this lot.

5/10 maximum. Points awarded for retaining Lenihan, Dack, Graham and bringing back Armstrong. To be honest my expectations were eclipsed when we paid a 7 figure sum for Armstrong, that's more than I expected them to ever pay. Critically short in several areas and very little depth. 2 or even 3 of our signings unproven in the Championship.

But that's what we did, so its not a conspiracy. Sky Sports reported two significant cash bids when it was ultimately too late to get either done. No point talking about what we tried to do when it was too late to actually do it.

The story of Venky's time at the club. Could have, would have, should have, but didn't. Absolutely irrelevant what the budget was, what the targets were, what we tried to do. All that matters really is what gets done. By the manager's own admission we are significantly short of what he envisaged us being. There's a lot of talk at this club, but not actually much evidence of action to back it up. Lots of talk of big budgets, exciting targets and ambitious plans, the result being its debatable whether we've as much depth as we had last season. Those clubs that mean business get it done and do the talking afterwards when the players are in the building. The comfort blanket of the loan window is unlikely to be easy to negotiate. At this point I am predicting a long, hard, tough season. Yes survival is the target following promotion as it should be for anyone, but that doesn't mean you go into the season short and run the risk when we've had a real opportunity to do more.

As I pointed out on twitter, its very easy to 'bid' for a player at 4:30pm when it is impossible to actually conclude a deal. We could bid £200 million for Lionel Messi at 4:59pm. Means nothing if you don't get the deal done.

What's new?

Well they were donated a 55,000 seat stadium by the taxpayer and pay peppercorn rent on it so that helps.

We ain't buying him. At least these fanciful stories will convince the more gullible elements of our support that there was money there and we tried to get exciting stuff done but just ran out of time.

If you're Spurs then say the fax machine is broken and you get all night to make additions.

Apart from a tweet from a 'Sky Source' made last night where is the evidence or indeed remote suggestion that we have that sort of money left, let alone to spend on one player? I thought it was odd when I heard it last night and nothing since then has changed. I doubt we'll spend £4 million on one player ever again under these owners.

Think that might be the catch. I'd be astonished if there was that amount to spend.

How many Championship or decent League One sides are going to loan their decent players out to Rovers until January? If we want one of their players why wouldn't they wait until January when we can make a cash buy? What incentive is there for these clubs to send people out on loan in August with agreement to buy them in a few months? The Premier League loans are likely to be short term arrangements which we either cannot afford on permanent deals or their parent clubs will not be ready to allow them out on permanent deals.

If he had a list and failed to land any of them then the obvious conclusion is that the list was unrealistic and insufficient planning had gone into it. NOBODY has said we should be buying people for the sake of it at crazy prices. That doesn't mean you don't sign anyone and run the serious risk of relegation because of it.

Will the club shop be opening early tomorrow to deal with the backlog of the 1000+ extra season tickets being sold?

What does 'at such short notice' mean?

I believe we were interested, I'm highly doubtful that it was a £4 million bid or that we ever seriously thought QPR would sell their best player to us so late in the window. Once again it doesn't actually matter because he isn't coming here, but in the meantime it seems most Rovers fans have gone giddy with excitement that Venkys are splashing the cash and there's a warchest waiting to be spent. If it doesn't actually get spent it doesn't get us anywhere. Plenty now saying they don't want us to spend 'for the sake of it'. I don't think anyone is suggesting that they do yet we've had all summer to address obvious shortages in personnel so people expect those shortages to be addressed. We've also spent all summer listening to Mowbray saying he wants another 4 or 5 on preferably permanent deals and that he has a good budget to use. No evidence of either with 2 hours to go.

Who are these 'many sources'? It began about 9pm with Alan Myers pointing people in the direction of 'Sky Sources' and everything else has spun off that tweet. Either way though it doesn't matter, because it seems highly unlikely he will be coming, so doesn't actually matter whether it was a real serious bid or not. We could bid £10 million for Messi, that doesn't mean it would ever happen or that we were even serious about it. Bids aren't serious if made knowing they won't be accepted or that personal terms wouldn't be agreed.

People call me negative and obsessed with conspiracy theories but really I'm just not ready to swallow and accept absolutely everything that gets put out as being the gospel truth, certainly not at this club with its recent history.

Quite obvious that Sharpe only cottoned on to the Freeman 'bid' after it had been announced via 'Sky Sources'. If that Sky source hadn't gone public with it then there'd be nothing. The whole think has a funny smell about it, and true to form it is now being reported that Middlesbrough are in for him. I get the feeling it is all a game and we're being used. We have a threadbare squad from an attacking point of view. Our manager has said that the squad needs help by way of 4-5 additions. Are you saying Mowbray is wrong?

The fact we've barely spent any. It will take more than 11th hour twitter rumours of bids for QPR players to convince me there's a pot of cash to spend. Spending it will convince me. If we're struggling and fighting relegation with a threadbare squad will you feel better that we didn't 'overpay' for additions or will you wish we'd spent a bit more?

What makes you think we have money?