It's just the unrelenting deja vu that gets to me. You could sit down before the beginning of every season with Mowbray and predict how it'll go and you'd be right. Average to decent start, look promising around November, horrific December, unbeaten January, chuck all that form out the window, win 4 dead rubbers at the end of the season and make it look like the next season will be better. Rinse. Repeat. Our season is over now.

By the sounds of it I don't think the deal would have got done if we didn't agree to loan him back. No issue for me, Douglas is improving, Bell is just about capable of being back-up, Pickering to come in as first choice next season. Looking forward to seeing him play and hopefully he successfully fills what has been a problem position for years. Let's not get all negative an hour after the lad has been unveiled eh

Genuinely don't think outright naming who we're interested in would be for "the good of Blackburn Rovers" to be honest... When has any club ever regularly used that as their strategy?

As in name the players? Not really a professional way of going about things. Would only make the other club not want to do business

This is the kind of performance that often sees a manager lose his job. It's a shame there's no chance of it happening here

I'm not surprised the amount of crap the local journalists get. And then get a "any transfer news mate?" from the same people a day or so later

Personally would have taken 7 points at this point before the start of the season. Disappointing not to break down 10 men but it's not like they had 10 men for the majority of the game. Were always gonna sit deep at that point. Take the point, third clean sheet in a row, unbeaten in three. Better than the end of last season that's for sure.

We going to ignore the global pandemic that might be affecting some things at the moment?

An air of incompetence perhaps?

Certainly not miserable about the performance and result. But fair to say looking at that crop of midfielders I don't feel overly inspired in terms of any sort of tilt towards the top 6. Couple of injuries and we'd be putting a weak weak team out. I think at this point I'd take a LB and CM as our only other business. They're the 2 crucial positions for me now

"How to turn a mood with one interview" by Tony Mowbray

Might be mistaken but thought I read that we'd agreed personal terms but obviously the overseas team offered way more when they came in

Not much difference for me. Wigan fans wanted shut of Cook before Christmas then they suddenly found some results by playing very limited football. Perhaps edges Mowbray but would feel a pretty sideways move. He's been available most of the break and there's been plenty of jobs going, no one gone in for him.

Yes

Maybe Rovers should buy a few tickets too

From reading around twitter it seems more the opposite. Good at playing out from the back but a liability defensively. Who knows though. I'd rather it your way round I must say

He'd be a Championship player by season after this anyways. No chance West Brom are staying up

Was using it as more of a figure of speech but hey let's just leave it there. I'm not here to argue and neither are you so

Just another source ain't it. Never know what pops up here that isn't elsewhere. I'm not a big delver so pretty easy to find info on here. The news can be a depressing outlet but I still watch it as it is good to keep up on current events. I didn't imply that I was depressed reading this, I tend to skip past most of the bickering in all honesty, but you inferred that I'm depressed by it and now you're trying to flog it half to death. Trying to cause more arguments no doubt. Just chill out a bit, have a beer.

To see if there's any news... The thread is called "Summer Transfer Window" after all.

Yeah I can't understand how people are being slated for showing positivity. Imagine if everyone was as negative as some are on here, would be an even more depressing place than it often is. I don't class myself as being overly optimistic or positive, more realistic, but to see people slating and trying to make others less positive makes pretty grim reading. Misery loves company I suppose. Go out and enjoy the sun instead

Can't help but look at that team and think we're in trouble this season...

I would argue Carter showed in the last 2 games that he isn't ready, we conceded 6 in those games altogether. Particularly remember him looking really poor on the turn against Luton, their player raced away from him on more than one occasion. Mowbray has already stated since the first couple of friendlies that we need "men" at centre back. I don't look at Wharton and see someone who can dominate a striker. Granted Tosin didn't do that either but he had his other attributes. I'm not sure what Wharton's are. I'm agreeing with the Bell comments. He is poor, I just feel a poor left back is easier to mask than a poor centre half.

We haven't seen enough of Wharton and Carter at this level to know they aren't liabilities. And the centre of defence is arguably a more crucial position in general, literally the last bit of protection a goalkeeper has, you can't be be going into a season with only one good centre half at this level.

To be fair we have friendlies against Everton and Leicester coming up... Don't have to go to the continent to get decent opposition