I think that once the early date has passed, anyone who hasn't renewed by then is effectively lost. They will, at that point, have consciously decided not to buy.

We need someone with experience to replace Lenahan, Ayalya can't be relied upon as we know. Someone like Steve Cook at Forest. What an astute signing he was.

I admire your positivity @chaddyrovers. Perhaps not so much your logical thought process!

Probably DOA

I've long thought that the Ewood based 'execs' are simply lazy. Of course everything ultimately goes back to the owners, but that's no excuse for the likes of Waggott to not pull their tripe out.

The DOF will be what, a £500k gig? Money that could be put to better use, IMO.

Spot on.

Whenever I saw Weghourst play for the Clampets, he was terrible. Obviously thinks he's a lot better than he actually is.

When they announced the week extension for early bird, my initial thought was that they did that as they expected to make an announcement beforehand. Otherwise, I can't think of a single, sensible reason why they only pushed it out by only a week.

Totally agree in the main. Although, the next appointment - and any subsequent ones - are relevant IMO. In spite of the Venkys, there are still football matches to win, after all.

Hats off to QPR and PNE in taking a risk by appointing younger, up and coming managers. There'll be a buzz around PNE this season. 10k sold, and in Ryan Lowe, a manager to get behind.

I fail to see how we couldn't have done far better than a company who sells vaping products. We were on TV loads of times last season. That should have appealed to prospective sponsors, for starters.

On one hand, you day the proess has taken too long. On the other hand, you say it's right way of doing it. Make your mind up!

Which is pretty much what they've done/are doing.

Unless something material is going to happen over the next week - like getting a decent manager signed up! - then it's totally pointless. All it will achieve is to give those like me who are leaving it to the last minute, another week to leave it to the last minute.

At the last game, they'd moved the complementary tickets (Ewood Express) up to where I sit in the JWU. Perhaps that's what they're going to be doing this season. Probably to save costs opening up the BBE upper.

Or...don't piss around in the first place, go straight for the number one choice, and do what you can to land them.

A bit of a contradiction there Chaddy. What did you expect? Choosing the process they did meant it was inevitable that it would take too long.

It screams 'we couldn't be bothered atracting a decent sponsor'. More laziness from those in charge.

It's really suprising that the club haven't shouted about this via their newly improved fan communication stategy.

The time to worry about style is when we're a stable premier league side again. We need to get there first, which is why Dyche is the best option irrespective of the style he plays.

I would without question. Peak Allardyce was a winner.

Let's use the pitch as a way of validating these so called improvements. What are they specifically doing differently this time around that has not been done in previous years?

I think either him or Liam Manning, both of whom would be decent (assuming Dyche/Carlos/Farke are a no-go). I'm only guessing mind you.

If they truly were flying off the shelf, the club would be shouting about it a la Bolton.