Ayari looked neat and tidy with two notable moments- a dribble past four Cambridge players in close attendance and a wriggle down the goal line. The gulf in skill between the Cambridge players and our's was considerable so I would say promising, to be convinced. If the Cambridge players' touch wasn't typically a yard from them, we would have been undone this afternoon. As it is the belief was flooding back in our players and we played some lovely stuff. Very entertaining game and noticeable at the end that there was a 5 minute passage of play from both sides without a stoppage or ball out of play before Gamble and Finnernan could get on.

Leonard on for Telalovic

Coventry have just hit Oxford, a much better outfit than Cambridge, for 6. Stevenage also challenging for promotion to the Championship lost at National League South Maidstone.

Thanks- great stuff! I believe the land holdings are outside of their operating business structures unless you saw anything in there with rental income and property development earnings. The land is where the real wealth is.

Glad we have gone with that XI. A chance for a few to redeem themselves after some less than stellar performances recently. That said, play like we did at Huddersfield and we are out.

Give the kid a chance. Clean slate and all that.

What it tells me is the Court doesn't exactly trust the Venky's so the Judge is requiring them to come back again after 3 months. But the precedence has been set so assuming there are no changes in circumstances or buggaloos in the paperwork, the next hearing ought to be a formality in clearing the next transfer funding Rovers.

Batth has had 9 appearances in a miss firing Norwich defence so we got lucky with that one.

Even with all the injuries and rubbish results, few people posting were including Travis in the their starting XIs in game previews. Looking forward and hopefully with injuries clearing up, I cannot see Trav displacing either Adam Wharton or Tronstad and if we find ourselves needing to replace either of those two, is Trav going to be ahead of Buckley if Wharton is unavailable or ahead of Garrett if Tronstad needs replacing? Obviously JDT is unsure to say the least but until all the hand wringing about Trav going out on loan, the balance of opinion on BRFCS was Trav would have been 4th or 5th choice for one of two places and a risk whenever he was a makeshift fill in out of position. Hope his Ipswich loan goes really well for him and we get either a revitalised Travis or a few million in the summer.

Nope. The precedent is that all operating expenses are itemised and justified as operational and approved for funding.

If Chris Sutton is right, stayaways will be missing the biggest Ewood goalfest since we tonked West Ham 7-1. If... We are apparently going to make less than the 10 changes JDT made at Harrogate.

The transfer policy which has cost us is not so much individual player selection as the finances which restrict numbers. Show me a club which gets ALL its player purchases and loans right. Show me a Championship goal scoring forward signed permanently this summer for under 1m. We took a gamble in balancing between quality as reflected in transfers and wages and quantity then got hit by an abnormal if not unusual prolonged injury list. Almost all of the season we have had at least 5 unavailable and at least 8 and sometimes 10 during the current bad run of results which also coincided with being on the wrong end of bad referees. My issue with Venkys is their cavalier stupidity in their first seasons with us not only cost us a superb club organisation and Premier League status but Indian jurisdiction found them to be lawless and the consequences of a property purchase and a birthday party a dozen years ago are a severely damaged 2023/24 season. Poking holes in a Director of Football who picked up a lower league midfielder for a relative pittance who is now the runaway Championship leading scorer and a coach as respected and dare I say it, loved, as much as JDT is not helping anybody.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/january/05/chrisene-completes-rovers-switch/ Defender comes in

Yes. The financial heft of even newly promoted clubs in the PL means they can winkle out pretty well any Championship player they want. And TK yielded nearly as much as Raya did in terms of initial payment- we have no idea whether there are sell on provisions but TK has his admirers at other PL clubs. If he avoids any more bloopers between now and season end, not beyond the realms of possibility he would stay in the Premier League if Luton go down.

If it is any consolation, Cambridge have an injury crisis and their new boss has said the next League game takes priority. Like a helping of humiliation with our embarrassment at losing?

Has Travis actually left?

They got 20m for Lewis-Potter in the Summer so have no FFP issues

Chris Sutton has made an extraordinary prediction. Rovers to win 6-1

I watched that Wimbledon game. Well on top playing nice stuff until the box where it all fell apart. Increasingly lost our way, our rhythm, sense of purpose in the second half. Sound familiar?

Toss of the dice. Sheffield United under Wilder play to Ben's strengths despite being a basket case. If he scores soon after arriving he will surprise people.

Assuming this is the preview topic, avoiding a Cupset will be an achievement in current circumstances.

On hopeless keepers, Jason Steele at Ewood but watch him last night. Just hope we don't have to wait ten years for Leo to come good...

So goal keeping coaching, personal opinions about transfer and loan strategy and zero rumours. Either no transfers and GB and the scouting department of 8 are on a New Year cruise or there is an effective lock down. Either way we are in for a surprise. Probably unpleasant...

Loan terminated and returning to Ewood for recovery.