RevidgeBlue

So was Jason Lowe.

Good post. I didn't even realise England were playing tonight until midway through the second half so haven't seen tonight's game. I caught the first half hour or so of the Belgium game during which Belgium tore us a new one and were very unfortunate note to be two up due to the disallowed goal at which point I gave up on it. I was amazed to hear after we ended up winning. My overall view on England is we have some great players but a terrible manager. Wonder who else that sounds like?

Lol.....fair comment although Furphy's side with those players in did look destined for decent things as well before he was poached by Sheffield Utd as well. Field was obviously exceptional but I never really rated either Garbutt or Bradford - "the first £1m player". ?

The battle now starts to get the Championship Clubs an equitable deal. With the big 6 voting rights issue now off the table the other 14 PL Clubs might not feel quite so magnanimous towards the second tier Clubs who are desperate to replace them. Need to be careful any deal doesn't include the first gradual steps towards ringfencing the PL off as was the situation with the original proposals.

Brentford seem to be the exception that proves the rule but that very rarely works imo. Look at us over recent years. Sell Shearer, rapid decline culminating in relegation, Sell Duff and Dunn, marked decline and eventual relegation, sell Roque, Bentley, Jones etc ditto. The only way to succeed imo is to keep your best players and build round them with some astute signings as Mark Hughes seemed to favour.

We've got players with lots of experience who'll be on the pitch. Lenihan, Ayala, Holtby, Johnson. I don't suppose Bennett will be offloaded either. I don't see why we need a non playing player to come in and lend advice. We almost might as well give Shearer 10 k p.w. to come in and show Armstrong how to be more clinical in front of goal.

Agree with this. The owners never seem to put Mowbray under any pressure to sell anyone. Which only makes his failure to mount a challenge all the more unacceptable.

Spot on.

Talk is cheap. I'd rather see some decent performances on the pitch.

Disagree. All he'd do is keep them out of the side and if he doesn't there's no point him being here in the first place.

Our offer might have been very different ut he didn't take it so maybe he thinks he should be on something reasonably similar. It's his prerogative entirely but personally I'd look elsewhere.

Hardly free. £15 k p.w. last year supposedly plus any signing on fee.

Mark Pallios from Tranmere currently on Sky saying it's a good thing the proposals haven't gone through and rightly saying you have to look at the long term rather than just this season or next season. The League 1 and League 2 Clubs weren't saying that yesterday when they thought there was nothing else on the table and there was reportedly unanimous approval for the measures so an element of double standards there but never mind.

Joe H was citing a back 4 with Douglas in as evidence that the defence wasn't the same as 3 years ago etc etc.

A temporary victory for now until the next time the big 6 decide they want a bigger share of the cake. Ironically, such has been the level of opposition to these abhorrent proposals, they may have set their cause back a good few years.

Chill out, you can discuss whether you'd like player X, Y or Z all you want. What I mean is you can't say it's been a good window on the basis of people who haven't actually signed.

I will agree with Sparks Rovers that is is completely pointless theorising about it being a good window "if" player X Y or Z signs etc.

Yep, that's all it is.

That's the key Stuart. I can't believe certain posters are so set in their ways of defending everything the Club does that they're also defending them on this. No - one expects the Club to clean up Ewood on the Council's behalf. They just need to tidy up any debris next to the perimeter fencing.

It would almos serve them right if it went ahead in its current form and then the big 6 subsequently withdrew funding altogether after this year though.

Come on chaddy, you need to be a bit realistic on this, the Council might act if a mountain of rubbish ten feet high was suddenly dumped overnight against the perimeter fencing but they aren't going to keep coming down on a regular basis to clear bits of debris the Club could easily tidy up.

Hard to disagree. With the season four games in, we still haven't opened the Club shop have we? I note Swag was reluctantly talking on that podcast about opening it up for "a couple of days a week" until Christmas. The cost saving between having it open and not must be absolutely negligible, a bit of electricity, but yet again it's about showing pride in your Club and demonstrating a presence, that you're still here, open for business and ready to help people out with what they require if needed.

Yet if we do sign someone who subsequently turns out to be useless, I'm sure you'll be all for it initially! You'll applaud us if we don't make a signing as it supposedly demonstrates financial prudence but equally if we do sign anyone you'll applaud that as well.

I note you ignored my question completely! Bits of Rubbish piled up against the perimeter of Ewood Park might technically not be Rovers responsibility but it's poor not to tidy it up regardless.

So if you lived in say a terraced house on a Public street which was littered with rubbish outside your house, you wouldn't tidy it up a bit?