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I really like the new kit, a proper shade of 1992 blue and the sponsor in black on the front looks very understated, much better than it would be in red and at least we don't have to endure the toilet seat on the front of our strip anymore. Best for years, I think I'll purchase (if they're on sale). I don't mind looking like a (royal) blue and white sausage for a couple of weeks until the weather turns too cold to wear it on it's own!

Based on today only Wharton looked remotely near Championship standard. Thought Lenihan was very poor but also thought the midfield piled pressure on the defence by being non existent between Holtby going off and Dolan coming on.

He's likely to be disappointed ........ my mates son says Doncaster want £3m for him.

I half agree with you, I thought JRC was terrible and consistently AWOL (has Mowray played him in every position bar his favoured one?) but I also thought Rothwell was extremely disappointing when he came on today and I'm a fan of his.

Very fortunate in the end after that second half display. Thought both full backs had terrible games, Fisher had looked confident but then did "a Walton" for their second goal. Bell did redeem himself slightly by doing well for our pen. In midfield thought Johnson was a joke second half, must have thought he was playing walking football. Rothwell was anonymous as well when he came on. Up front thought BB did quite well then he missed a sitter. Armstrong didn't look arsed, hope he's not angling for a move, didn't think Chapman was as bad as people are making out,did some nice things but Dolan looked the pick of the bunch when he came on. Overall a lot of improvement needed and on that evidence we need Holtby back ASAP.

Never a pen but only ourselves to blame, haven't come out of the dressing room second half. Fairly typical of Rovers under Mowbray, 45 mins at a time.

I thought we played very well first half until Holtby went off, not so good thereafter. Love the new kit and the darker shade of blue. Love the front 3 of Armstrong Brereton and Chapman although I have to say Armstrong doesn't look particularly up for it so far. Love the fact Wharton is playing and I feel far more confident playing with even Fisher in goal than Walton. No doubt Tony will dissipate the feeling of optimism by bringing on Evans and Bennett at some point. Pitch in a very poor state as everyone says, if its like that now, what will it be like in January or February? Half asleep second half so far though.

Agreed, but as decent as Downing was considering his age, that type of signing is never going to propel you to promotion imo.

Yes, but 2 or 3 older heads to provide the know how while you build a young team. That's a "long term plan" not spending a fortune on mediocre loanees and players in their twilight years every season to limp in in midtable. For example I don't think it's necessary to sign 2 CB's , I'd rather see Wharton challenging for a starting position. If Lenihan's as good as people say he is then Wharton or anyone else should find it easy to play alongside him.

I'm quite excited by the potential emergence of various young players like Brereton, Pike, Wharton, (Chapman?) and Dolan. The Covid crisis might be the best thing that's happened to us if it forces us to rely on youth. I just hope Tony doesn't cite the need for "experience" and bring in a few one last payday merchants on loan to block the youngsters' progression.

I'm not bothered about Graham and Downing going either. In that respect being especially skint might actually have done us a favour as in more normal circumstances Tone would no doubt have been busting a gut to give them new deals

Hmmm.........

So sorry if I've missed it but has Kaminsky been confirmed yet?

Yep, better leave him in the wilderness indefinitely to learn how to play "the Rovers way" and forget about him until he's at least 27. Mowbray will be particularly peeved that Chapman impressed as well. That'll be the last we see of him until Christmas!.

Shouldn't be a need for any ( hopefully) if we make 2-3 modest low cost acquisitions like this proposed keeper given we'e shed seven players off the wage bill from last season.

I don't think they'd be aware of the state of the outside of the ground just now, no. I see no reason why they'd be happy with it though. Responsibility for that has to lie with those on the ground so to speak at Ewood. Have they been working from home or the stadium?

The neglect of Eeood Park isn't really a new issue, John William's used to comment quite frequently ten years or more ago at the Fans Forum that ground maintenance issues had been deliberately overlooked in an attempt to maximise the playing budget. This seems to be taking it to a whole new level. though.Shocking really when things like the weeds could be so quickly and cheaply sorted out. Great idea to send the pictures to the owners who Iimagine would be appalled.

We don't have a senior keeper on the books and now might be signing one for 500k euros 1864! Hardly that earth shattering in normal circumstances but we're coming at it from such a desperate position we're all like a dying man in the desert stumbling upon an oasis. Might be a bargain though like I've said.

It's always the same, not one person mentions it would be a good idea to sign a particular player then someone gets linked out of the blue and all of a sudden everyone suddenly becomes an authority on said player who suddenly morphs into the greatest player of all time in his particular position! ? It's only natural that people will get excited, On an objective level I can't say too much about this bloke until I've seen him play as I'd never heard of him until a few hours ago. Would I have preferred someone with Championship experience? Possibly. Would that have been a lot more expensive? Probably. Could he be a bargain? Maybe. On the face of it, it does sound promising and I think if there's one position on the pitch you don't want a loanee it's keeper their abilities notwithstanding.

Shame, in your rush to be an arse you'll have missed my considered views on the proposed deal and my cautious optimism further down!

Think some of the euphoria surrounding this potential Kaminski deal is a bit OTT, at this stage I think we would all be happy with someone with a pulse by this stage, and we still have to agree personal terms. That said, he's an ideal age, permanent and anyone coming in has the considerable advantage that they aren't bloody Walton and are going to appear like Gordon Banks in comparison as long as they perform to a reasonable standard. The bits that caught my eye about the article were that he is in the last year of his contract and had been dropped following a series of mistakes so there is a possibility that we might be picking up a Raya style bargain with his contract situation and with him having fallen out of favour with management etc Overall then reasonably promising - if it goes through. Not sure a fee initially reported at 500 k euros is evidence of a particularly large transfer budget however, no-one has ever said there's no money whatsoever as far as I can recall, just that money is exceptionally tight. We should also have earned ourselves a bit of wiggle room by seven players having gone out so it may simply be a case that the playing budget is similar to or slightly reduced from last season when we didn't spend anything on teansfer fees but since then we've shed a few off the wage bill.

Relegation six pointers more like.

Don't know if it's just me or not but that explanation still doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever unless they're worth way way more than £2 billion, I'd suggest that a loss making liability that on paper formed as much as 10% of your net worth would be a massive concern. If it formed a far smaller percentage of your business empire, maybe not quite so much.

But no offer which would tend to indicate he's not within our 'budget" whatever it may be. We could 'enquire" about Lionel Messi but I doubt we'd get very far! If we had an adequate budget to land the players we wanted you'd imagine the first time we'd be hearing about it would be after they'd signed.

It's irrelevant whether the cash would still have been here now or not, no-one could have predicted Covid a year ago and the money WAS given to him, and if you're being very charitable, it could have been spent better. I'd also disagree you'd be asking him to make four great signings in a row, arguably they're his ONLY two permanent signings and the rest have been duds and Armstrong was 2 years ago now.