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tbf that was pretty much the point I was trying to get across - we'd only have a sniff if literally no-one else was biting for some reason.

Wilson is the sort of signing we have a chance with if no other club has even given him a hint of interest by February, and he wants to keep his fitness ahead of a real move in the summer.

Remind me, we don't actually own Baradji do we? Or is it an obligation to buy next year or something. He's one of the few looking decent at the moment, it would be fairly typical of us to have paid to nurse him back to health and not end up with him as our player...

I mean, is Atcheson a big bugger? Improvised rough and ready Samba style target forward for Cantwell and Ohashi to play off? I'd buy into it were it not for the fact that we've got one of those already and he hasn't made the squad...

Got to love the BBC just openly reaching the point where they have no idea who our players are or what their positions will be. Currently they have us lining up with Gardner-Hickman at right wing back and Atcheson as a Striker. Sod it, worth a go I guess.

oh joy, three number 10s to get in each others way. You can think Gueye is as useless as you want, at least he occupies a different area of the pitch.

'The former Generation Next Football Club (GNFC) player, together with Bermudian Under-20 international Kennahz Fray, joined the Backburn Rovers Under-21 squad on December 9.'

Says that we also have a Bermudan u20 player on trial - it's all part of linking up with a development program rather than a serious look at the players I'd imagine. That said, does look like he's got a scholarship to play football at a US university and the last player we signed who took that path was Ryan Nelsen. He's also got some (moderately) competitive international experience, world cup qualifying caps vs Cuba and Honduras. Admittedly they lost both of them, but not heavily and I'd imagine that they were fairly hefty underdogs vs Honduras at least. Played CB and LB. Doesn't hurt to have a look.

Late to the party but happy to see Pryde making the list - So a bit of family history here but 'Big Bob' Pryde and my Grandad served in the same regiment for a bit during the war and they were mates - though funnily not the Grandad from the side of my family that comes from/supports Blackburn. Because of his status as a professional footballer Bob was given the job of PT instructor, and apparently his tendency was to get the men running, get outside of view of the camp and then tell them to have a sit down and a smoke break for 20 mins before jogging them back. Grandad didn't smoke (and would have been a sergeant or possibly acting staff sergeant at that point), so he got chatting to Pryde instead. This would have been (off the top of my head) Royal Artillery in Italy - Grandad got moved about a fair bit - probably about the time Vesuvius erupted (which he saw). Quite likely they were both at Monte Cassino. I'd have to double check with the family though. Grandad had a Pryde cigarette card which we ended up framing - not sure where it is now, it's got buried over the course of two or three house moves. I'm not sure how many years Pryde was off fighting during the war, but it's probably fair to say that he'd have otherwise got more than the 320 games he played for us and could have been up towards the top end of all time appearances - probably not right at the top but could have conceivably cracked 400.

This is surely the club laying the groundwork for not spending in January (as always intended) - 'we had a healthy budget and intended to make 3 or 4 signings but circumstances outside of our control...' etc. No need to sabotage a fax machine on Jan 31st that way.

Championship Reddit just has many photos of Ismael holding up pictures of clouds. I think that after fifteen odd years some fans of other clubs are beginning to twig that our situation might not be normal.

Not a bad game for someone to step up into midfield though - Wednesday aren't overrunning us, goal up, good performance under the belt for Baradji and he might kick on

I mean lets see how he does, if he looks dead after 20 mins or gets sent off or something it would back up Ismael's opinion. But yes, I'm sure there is someone out there who could come in and do a job, unfortunately they'd probably want paying.

We need this to be the one battling, blood and thunder, leave everything on the pitch and die at the end of the game performance that Forshaw manages all season to justify his signing.

Once again I will bang the drum on my one man campaign for us to give Pickering a try as a left sided defensive midfielder because I think he has all the attributes to play there and it won't expose his lack of pace like wing back.