If you had significant incentives within your contract of employment to reduce costs and make a profit, would you potentially have a reason to 'accidentally' scupper any transfer deals that could be quite expensive to the club and negatively impact your own income? Quite the conflict indeed.

Call me deluded but I sincerely hope this long term managerial contract will be the start of a domino effect for important first team players..

Wrong line up and completely inept tactically. We would comfortably go down with a very lowe points total if Dave was in charge full time.

No it wasn't, we looked open from the start and any shape from the previous management team has worn off. Hedges could have cost us three times before he let his man get free and score the opener. Wrong team selection and no shape. Lowe wont make any drastic changes as he knows hes a job for life at the club however useless he is.

Haiffa won the league. He was at Tel-Aviv, came 3rd and his successor won the league the following season. They are in the title race again this season and sit 2 points off top. He failed and they improved considerably under a better coach/manager.

Duff has done a superb job at a lower level and has the potential to show his worth at a higher level. Karanka on the other hand is on the significant decline and most recently led the favourites in Israel to 3rd (a bit like coming 3rd with Celtic) before his successor won the league the following year. I'd love a proven Championship manager of higher calibre but who in their right mind would come and work under our shambolic regime?

The contract issue, the longer it goes on, is a huge concern. Our manager has left at least partly because of it and if we aren't securing our decent players, coupled with no funds to buy, where do we end up?

Another fantastic performance today, crucial we sort out these contracts for the medium-long term good of the club.

I see that all home shirts except small are out of stock and suspect the same for the away and third strip. We aren't even in December and on payday weekend in the run in to Christmas the club can't bring in revenue because we have been penny wise, pound foolish by ordering significantly insufficient shirts for the demand. Just another example of a lack of ambition and refusing to speculate to accumulate in a year we have our best set of kits in years. Rant over.

Should we start to get worried about the complete lack of new contracts since Broughton left? Whether you rated him or not, he seemed to do a very good job of securing our talented players to long term deals on a regular basis but I can't recall anything of note since he left. Off the top of my head surely you would be looking to tie down regular players like Hyam, Travis, Brittain, Carter, Tronstad etc? Is this a cause for concern or do we see deals getting done soon?

Bolton and Preston going ahead down the road. This rainfall has been forecast since early in the week so competent clubs were prepared. Unfortunately the men in charge are incompetent chancers*. *In my opinion.

Have we really not had a penalty for 50 odd league games?

Hes had his side locked down so far this season against some quick players. When fully fit he uses his exceptional positioning and reading of the game to offset the lack of pace. Admittedly when returning from injury or not at 100% he can be more easily exposed. Technically very good too which seemingly goes unnoticed.

Keep calm, I'm confident it gets announced this evening once hes done his medical.

Appalling but not surprising. Improved communication? Give over, we need to get these owners and all the clingers on far and away from this club to end this nightmare.

Surely the time for improved communication is long gone? They need politely informing that the only positive outcome now is putting the club up for sale immediately.

Always an exciting time when the fixtures are released regardless of off the field issues. Derby at home on a Friday night gives us a chance to put points on the board early albeit not many new signings expected in our eleven.

Prices are reasonable if you purchase via the early bird offer, which I have done. Sadly they went on sale far later than they should have done and the early bird offer doesn't give most people the time they need.

Very very underwhelming. Last job as Lee Johnson's assistant at Hibs and not been able to find a new job for almost 12 months. Also doesn't seem to last very long in a job in recent years. Cheap and a yes man for Steve as he clings on for as long as he can IMO.

Fantastic effort by those at Ewood yesterday. The heat must remain on Steve the chancer and the owners, win, lose or draw, until they move on.

This really needs to go happen. Show him that we are insulted by his behaviour today.

A new low for slimey Steve. Trying to use the players to get sympathy and stop the fully justified criticism of him and the owners.

We have no hope. Just spoke to a fellow fan on the train who described the transfer window as very good under the circumstances and no concerns over the ownership. Said he felt more connected to the club than ever and that we would be in serious trouble if it wasn't for the owners. When asked about the decade absence I was told to be grateful for the monetary support over the years.

White handkerchiefs in the air on the 23rd minute Saturday?

Strange as I thought we played some scintillating football and could have had 5 or 6 on another day. JDT is working wonders and turning water into wine. Roll on Wednesday.