Exactly what I think will happen. Szmodics will be a slow burner, I think he starts the season with us, then if he hits a few goals before deadline day and say a Leicester, Ipswich etc are struggling they will hit us with a last minute offer which like you say we'll take.

There's no way our lot will be able to reschedule something else in it's place so I imagine that will still go ahead, unless they cancel it i suppose

Stockport away in the first round.

Not going to do this regularly, but was just curious now they have been back on sale for nearly 24 hours. Available to buy now - Blackburn End - 1168 Riverside - 3719 JWU - 2623 JWL - 1147 That shows that 353 people have bought with a price hike in the first 24 hours.

That they won't (or won't be able to) send any additional money over and we'll be ran for the next 6 months on the next Wharton installment, Raya money and Szmodics sale before panic sets in again in Jan. Any incomings will be very cheap loans or frees like McFadzean and Fleck to bolster what we have.

Let's be honest, I think it's pretty obvious what will transpire.

The use of the word "should" is why I don't really believe it. Still, it has seemed to satisfy a lot of folk that we'll be spending and adding to the squad as "normal", whatever that is in venkys land.

Still nothing on the Austria trip. Weren't we meant to be having a home pre season game on 3rd August too?

Yep he is, an absolute whopper of a bloke.

I don't think they can. The allocation has to be 2000, or 10% of the total capacity if the stadium is below 20k.

The comment from Gestede about recruitment and budgets said everything to me. Acting like we're sat in the March international break.

There is no way this lot will get in 4 or 5 of the required quality to move us up the table while keeping everyone we already have, as others have said 4 or 5 isn't really enough anyway. I don't know whether to shake my head at or admire anyone who after the last 14 years still thinks that something like that is possible. Unbelievable.

Unless they mention Suhail, then they will be gone within a week.

Not quite, there was 39 people viewing when I logged on for a bit. The whole Eustace/Gestede bit irritated me though so I turned it off and put the footy on.

Just need to flip the ticket map around with the icon in the top left corner.

Well a quick tally up can tell you what is available to buy... Blackburn End - 1488 Riverside - 3722 Jack Walker Upper - 2648 Jack Walker Lower - 1152 I just don't believe we have "smashed" any sales looking at the ticket map, it looks emptier than ever.

No Championship games at 3pm on the opening Saturday.

Within 7 days according the a post a few up from yours.

Remember Eustace also said the squad doesn't need much adding. If we have more than one player in before the season starts I will be amazed.

To be fair, at not far off being 25 years old playing in that league, he probably should at least have those stats if he wants to have any hope of playing in the second tier of English football!

This is exactly what I would do. But I imagine we will flit between 523 and 4231. I just think if we could sort some pace and directness out wide then a 433 would be the way to go with that midfield when Szmodics goes.

Conflicting messages from the club, who would have thought.

Siggy and Szmodics were away for 11 days each on international duty, so I imagine they will come back 11 days later than everyone else so everyone has had the same "leave"?

Lots of draws, some defeats with the odd win scattered about.

Another way you could look at is in JDT's first summer we had only signed Callum Brittain by the time the first game come around. We also had Nyambe, Lenihan, Rothwell, Van Hecke, Khadra who all played significant parts the season before leave in the summer, along with other squad men like Johnson, Poveda, Davenport, Chapman and Butterworth. We went on to win our first 3 and 4 out of 7 before the window closed. Maybe our core squad was stronger in that summer than it is now, I don't know. For me we can put out a competent 11 that will be fairly competitive at the minute (that's with Szmod granted) but we absolutely need 6 or 7 good players through the door before the window closes with nobody leaving just to be somewhere between 12th/20th next season.