Rovers apparently have an agreement with Rochdale which enables him to join Rovers on the first day of the summer window.

And Forest not releasing the lad from training on the morning of transfer deadline day. Forest deserve the dead loss they are suffering just for that.

There was an agreement by all parties to go to arbitration. We don't know the terms of the arbitration agreement but it is usual for the arbitrator not to accept the job without an a priori agreement for the decision to be binding and all parties to hold each other harmless outside of the arbitration decision. So there should be no legal afters beyond the decision on costs. Steve Cooper's rant is - reflective of him messing O'brien about - and if he genuinely heard nothing from Rovers means the powers that be at Forest don't trust him and kept him in the dark. I very much doubt a non-playing player who cannot make a 25 man squad in a relegation threatened club will be worth £10m in the summer.

JDT undoubtedly the best boss we have had since Sparky. Really appreciate the way he has set out achieving his project at Rovers. His man management seems exceptional and has engendered a fantastic team spirit amongst a really nice decent set of lads who are responding to him. Fitness levels are great which obviously is at least equally down to Gregg Broughton and the back room team. JDT also comes over as a really decent eloquent bloke in that way. We have a gem of a first team coach.

Hoping for a big walk on so trying to spread arrival at Ewood as much as possible. As a Sky game, I doubt saying there are 500 still at the ticket office will cut much ice at 12.15

There will be two plans for Summer Championship Premier League

Saw that JDT grimace and my reaction was oh no there has been a possibly big recovery set back being assessed.

Ahmedhodzic is a lot more than a central defender further Blades even though he is the tallest and most mobile and agile defender they have got. When I have seen Sheffield United play he also links play going forward, breaks the lines in midfield and recycles attacks in open play. His height is a big problem when Sheffield United are using their long throws an from.corners and free kicks taking defenders with him creating space for others even if the ball doesn't come to him. I am hoping his suspension can prove decisive this lunchtime.

In the published agreed time line, the player didn't countersign the loan agreement until 23.15. If we are going to be legalistic, that is when the contract came into being which is when Rovers would have had the legal right to register him. It feels very unjust that the EFL apparently bent their rules to allow Sheffield United registration of Ahmedhodzic when they were aware the stage payment to Liverpool had been missed and the same money in effect used to gazump Rovers, then successfully used 13 minutes as a reason not to register O'brien. That said, I am still perplexed why a Company Secretary as experienced as Ian Silvester allowed us to get into this situation.

Well never expected the three points coming back with us' Kaminski is fabulous. Douglas had a better game and Nyambe a poorer one. Travis looked lost until sparking into life late on. I'd keep Davenport in the team. Elliott is great but needs much better coaching than he is getting. Arma had his shot settings awry today. All credit to Branthwaite in the way he handled himself after that incident. Boro looked like they were too physical for him but he came through well. Really good game from Lenihan. Thought the triple sub by Mowbray was mental but we were much better for the change. All three players were excellent and Dack is simply different class. Can we play Boro every week? We have finally broken the duck of not beating a side above us. Watch go and throw it all away with three sub par performances against clubs we should beat in the next games.

The bus on the left is Darwen Corporation number 17, the Crossley Regent which is pictured earlier in the thread- it was the only one with that arrangement of rear windows in case you think I have amazing eye sight. The reason why nobody could place the location of the photo is it still exists and was probably on its way to a rally somewhere. Two Darwen Corporation buses survive and four Blackburn Corporation buses are in preservation also. If the bus on the left is number 133, that is one of them.

9 points off 6th and now an inferior goal difference as well. This is a must win game for play off dreams- I won't use the word hopes as we all know Mowbray is hopeless. If we look at the respective teams and squads, this should at worst be a 50/50 game. When we look at the respective managers and their motivations, the odds switch to 99/1 in Middlesbrough's favour. We might well play decently but this is going to be a deeply depressing Sunday evening.

The utter disorganisation and managerial insouciance of the Doncaster game meant Dack would still not have received a decent pass if the game were still being played now... Mowbray hasn't got the first clue how to fit Dack in with the other players at his disposal.

Barnsley home- he got that horribly wrong.

I am wondering about my eyesight if anybody thinks what is happening is ok. For the last couple of months it hasn't mattered who we are playing or what our team is, I see 11 individuals wearing Rovers shirts wondering where the other 10 are. Passing is pedestrian at best. Even Rotherham were more fluid and fluent than us. They instinctively knew where another Rotherham player was going to be. Rovers are vastly better players but simply not properly organised or instructed. Is that Mowbray's responsibility to sort that out or isn't it? If you agree with me that it is Mowbray's job then it follows he is now rubbish at it.

If we are waiting to the end of the season... Well our season effectively got ended by Doncaster in case nobody noticed...

Watch for us trotting out with rakes, hoes and a steam roller on Tuesday evening

We usually lose games which I start match threads for so I guess this is a free hit. The only game I have seen this season where we were unambiguously the worse side/not at the races/ totally out classed and out played was Swansea away so there is little reason to believe Tuesday night will be any different (checked- it is Tuesday night but watch the kick off time of 7pm in the UK, 8pm for me). Venue is a ploughed field near Lower Darwen or a remote in your living room. Weather outside cold but that's academic because none of you are allowed out anyway. Yes we were particularly badly hit by injuries at the Liberty then but so were they. I guess we might be surprised to discover our returned walking wounded are better than their's so hope springs eternal but then snubbed out by their boss blossoming in the meantime while our's has wilted to a shrivelled gurning presence somewhere near the tunnel. As for selection, I would much prefer Davenport alongside Travis than Johnson but I guess we might get Buckley who probably would be an upgrade on Johnson on current form. And if it is essential to have somebody hugging the touchline in the Mowbray world of playing as though we actually have wingers in the squad then I'd opt for Brereton over Rothwell who has to have the option of space either side of him to really express himself. Probabilities for this one: 80% defeat and Swansea to put automatic promotion a mere 16 points out of our grasp (this will be only game 25 of this anticlimactic underwhelming season) 19% draw 1% the moon is made of blue and white halved cheese.

I believe that pitch improvements fall outside the FFP calculations.

Mowbray's management 100% at fault for not winning that game. In years to come we will look at the players we had at Rovers this season and wonder how we didn't go up. Now 7 points off the play-offs.

Well that was poor. Again Rovers looking like they have never met each other- abysmal management from Mowbray.

Those comments are woeful.

Nobody can blame us. Look at the table.

Stoke's two loan signings will make them much more dangerous up front against us. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19011134.stoke-city-sign-second-premier-league-loanee-week/ They are without a win since they beat us... And we all know what that means- perhaps only half a Mercer on 0-0

I feel indifferent between Rovers 0 Stoke 5 and Rovers 5 Stoke 0 but the first one might take us further forward quicker if it sorted out our Management. Of course, Rovers 5 Stoke 5 would be entertaining but the worst of all worlds. Rovers 0 Stoke 0 will be the zero entertainment result and feel like the worst of all worlds. You can put a Mercer on it.