Think It will be a similar team to last weekend. Just Travis for Buckley for me.

Obviously a talented player, i'm just wondering to where TM will play him. I'm inclined to think that it might mean more of this "split strikers" nonsense with Dack in the "false 9" position. Travis & Johnson holding, Holtby just ahead of them with a front 3 of Gallagher on the right, Dack in the middle and Downing on the left.

Or he could be on his way to Leeds....

Imagine the scenes if he ends up signing for someone else after all this ?

Could be in TM's mind that Dack won't be here in January/July and that Holtby is a ready made replacement.

The only way you progress in football is to continually sign better players than you already have, I think we can all agree that Holtby would be an upgrade on anyone we have in midfield, so it's a move we should all be wanting to happen.

Could be Graham out to get Holtby in?! I mean its funny that Graham is linked away and a new signing is linked to coming in within a few days of each other...

If he's going with 3 at the back on a regular basis, couldn't we line up with Holtby, Johnson & Travis as the midfield 3 with Dack in behind Gallagher?

No way is Downing not playing. Can just imagine Rothwell's & Chapman's faces should this deal happen ?

Christ if we sign him now by Tony's standards he wont play until April.

In the league, Travis against Norwich last season?

Still, I think I would rather take that risk. We're only an injury away from Evans being back to a mainstay in the midfield which just makes me shudder.

If it pushes Evans & Smallwood further down the pecking order then I'm all for it.

I imagine come the end of the season our wins, losses & draws will all be a similar number, our goal difference will be somewhere between 2 & -4 & our league position will be somewhere between 12th & 16th.

Couldn't agree more. If I can manage it living in Cheshire which is rife with Utd, City, Liverpool & Stoke (?) I'm sure people who live in Blackburn with the club on there doorstep can. I see similar here, most of the parents in my lads under 10's team are Port Vale fans, but there kids rock up at training in Utd, Liverpool, City tops etc. I ask the question every week and just get told " how can I make him a vale fan when all his mates support Liverpool etc". Easy, like I have, make an effort to get him interested in the club, take him games etc. It really isnt that difficult, theres no converting my lad to a "big club" now.

Can't be recalled until January?

Second lowest attendance in the second tier today.

First half was the usual Ewood affair, saved by a peach from Derrick. Second half was much better with Gallagher on for Buckley, who to be fair I thought showed a few nice touches but looked a little lost. Thought we looked more fluid with Rothwell on, both him and Arma should have scored really. Still, good win and hopefully something to build on.

Spoiler.... He won't.

Does anyone remember that year where there were two group stages in the Champions league? Think the second group stage replaced the round of 16. What a long drawn out farce that was.

Can't fathom anyone who would pick England glory over Rovers. Agree with AJW though, if there's one thing I would love to see Rovers do in my lifetime then it is win the FA Cup, unfortunately we're a long way from that happening.

I've only missed the Hull game so far this season, and even that I watched on TV. I have seen no evidence of this "new style" so far, apart from as someone else said, a few non descript passes across the back four, into midfield and back again before playing either a long diagonal ball to Gallagher or one through the middle to Graham if he's playing, instead of Lenihan pinging it forward at the first opportunity like he would normally do last season. It really was very Mowbray like that after all his pre season jabbering about being more "technical" that within 5 seconds of the opening day of the season, we kicked off, played it back to Lenihan who then lumped it straight out of play. The 4 home games so far including the Oldham game have been really, really dull, and I don't see that changing anytime soon, any walk on's that attended any of those games will hardly be rushing out to buy a season ticket. I look at this side at the moment and I haven't a clue who is going to score our goals, we don't remotely look like scoring from open play unless the other team practically gives us a goal, Bennett at right back and strikers on the wings is becoming more infuriating with every game that goes past, Buckley looks to be the next Mowbray project that he will continually shoehorn in off the bench now, he just looks like a slightly more "technical" as Mowbray would put it Corry Evans, I can't ever see him changing a game, he should have been sent on loan somewhere for some much needed experience. If we get above 12th for a prolonged amount of time this season I will be amazed.

And we're one of them. I'd be very surprised if we weren't bogged down between 12th-16th all season.

Really? Based on what?!

Well, they did. Why sugar coat it? "Because they are young lads"? They looked miles out of there depth against really poor fourth division opposition, and both had awful games. That's not to say they won't improve in the future, but if we're looking at that game, then yes they were terrible. Platt has just gone on loan to The National League hasn't he? That's probably his level, and good luck to him there. Nyambe was awful too I will give you that, but I've seen more of him to suggest he has some of the tools to at least make it at this level.