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? You don't give up chaddy, even when you're flogging a dead horse. I'll give you that!

I have zero excitement ahead of the coming season and it has nothing whatsoever to do with COVID, Those likely restrictions if they come in are unavoidable and out of our control and whilst I think the current measures being taken to get the virus downfrom minimal to negligible levels are a massive over-reaction and I don't agree with them, we'll likely have to suck up the inconvenience if we wish to attend in person. (I may not bother attending on principle until its restriction free but that's a separate issue) My apathy is entirely due to our lack of prospects on the pitch. And I'm sure I'll feel this way until Mowbray, Waggott, Venus and Lowe depart.

You're just being argumentative for the sake of it now. There's no comparison whatsoever between Countries with large Cities which also attract holidaymakers in massive numbers and Austria. My last word on the subject as it's not the end of the world whether we go to a pre season camp either way. I just thought it was bizarre how you were so keen to leap to praise the Club for NOTgoing on one!

I'm fine thanks. I'm not the one swearing at people. ?

Spot on. Another thing that bugs me about our so called transfer "policy" is that there seems to be no element of planning whatsoever. Most Clubs decide on the players they like, ascertain whether the fee and wage demands are within their budget, and go out and get them. We seem to go in for players without establishing their likely demands then get surprised when they're more than we thought and then hang around all window hoping those demands will be reduced. A large part of our business also seems to depend on Premier League Clubs making young players available for loan at the last minute. There's no way you can absolutely guarantee this, nor that players will be made available in the positions you want. Like you say "winging it".

Give over chaddy, please don't try and make out Klopp doesn't know what he is doing because it's different to what we're doing. I assume they've researched the pros and cons of going to Austria thoroughly and found any risk of a potential quarantine is negligible.

Ridiculously aggressive post. I'm not particularly impressed by that list of names either and you must also have missed the bit where the original poster said "nothing remotely close". Would you think there were a "few even better names" on there if we had reported interest in Messi and Pope? It wouldn't mean they were any nearer to being over the line either. The only thing I disagree with Richard Oakley on is that if we absolutely have to sign a striker I wouldn't go near Rudy with a barge pole due to his glass knees. His attitude isn't the best at times either. The key thing for me is that money has to be spent bringing in the right keeper in on a permanent deal. I fear another Walton type disaster if we bring in another loanee or scrape the barrel with a permanent deal. We can make do with loans and freebies elsewhere and personally I'd tell Mowbray he has to wee with the willy he's got on the striking front if no-one else leaves.

Thanks for sharing, I mentioned Chris Martin as a possibility a couple of weeks ago, I thought Mowbray might want a Graham alternative. Overall, pretty depressing reading, as most of us suspected it sounds like we're completely brassic which will be particularly bad news on the keeper front if we have to make do and mend once again.

Many thanks for posting, wonderful watch, I'm actually on there behind Jack looking a lot better than I do now celebrating a couple of the goals against Derby and I never knew that footage existed! Random thoughts: Terry Ibbotson right at start of clip, best Chief Exec we've ever had, had to deal with all sorts of opposition from all quarters regarding the building of the new ground. John Howarth former Club Sec - completely out of his depth after Jack took over - ditto Beamish to some extent. Dear old Bill Bancroft managing to sound incredibly pompous Crystal Palace away - shudder- worst day of my life up to that point prior to my parents passing away. later on in life. How churlish and ungrateful did Burnley Bob Coar sound about the whole thing? Dear me. Contrast that with Dalglish who showed suitable appreciation of Jack's input and knew everyone was only there because of him. I don't think anyone around today has the personal charisma King Kenny had back when he joined us nor the kudos he carried gained from the unique combination of him being a world class player and subsequently incredibly successful manager. Wonderful memories and times.

Grabbi by a country mile for me The story goes Souness wanted a centre forward and asked his team to go out and get the top scorer in Serie B. We ended up with a (homesick) player who considered himself a no 7 for a price at which you could apparently have bought the town his parent Club was in, let alone the Club or the player.

Take Downing off there and you might not be too far off! He hasn't accepted our contract offer has he?

I just randomly looked Liverpool up as well and guess where they are....... Austria, where chaddy says you can't go now! He'd better get on to Kloppy and tell him we're right and they're wrong! There must be a reason why Clubs have always used pre season training camps, it must be judged good for morale and we've all heard the old saying "a change is as good as a rest" In the general scheme of things this doesn't even register on the scale of our list of problems but it's just indicative of the general feeling coming out of Ewood that there's nothing going on and we're closed for business.

You have to give chaddy his due. With less than a month to go before the season starts, we've no season tickets, on sale, no season ticket holders, no new kit, no kit sponsor, no senior goalkeeper, one first choice centre back and no first choice left back. And he's on here applauding the fact we might not be going on a pre season training camp!

Obviously not Mark Venus!

Yep, We usually seem to have the utmost trouble getting people in at the best of times and obviously these are exceptional circumstances. This one is probably right up Mowbray's street though, with the possible exception of the addition of the cheapest keeper possible he won't be under the usual sort of pressure to disrupt his cosy little group.

Yep, the reason you can't rely on him is not because he is injury prone, it's because you can count the number of really good games he's had in eight (?) years at the Club on your fingers!

You might be right, but the LT article commences with "As Rovers "begin" their search for a new shirt sponsorship etc. Evidence of more incompetence on our part if any break clause permitted 10 Bet to bail out so close to the start of a new season. If however we have known for months then we seemingly haven't been able to secure a replacement with the season less than a month away. Not a good look either way.

Hart's been sussed out now, he'd never get a starting spot anywhere higher than top half Championship at best imo. At least if the Clubs have any sense.

I was about to post something similar. I keep going on about this but assuming we're not going out of business imminently, I can't for the life of me understand why no effort whatsoever has been made to get supporters on board for next season. Get people signed up on DD for a nominal amount and adjust the figures upwards accordingly when it becomes clear what we can and can't do. As things stand the Government are probably going to make a last minute decision on fans in stadiums and we're going to be left completely high and dry with zero season ticket holders or members and faced with the impossible task of having to sign ST holders up from scratch within a matter of days. It's incompetence of the highest order from Waggott and his team imo.

Yep, Dack, Lenihan and Armstrong.

Whoa, someone needs to set the record straight on Evan's, he's absolute garbage and been stealing a living at the Club during his time here. Yet he has a half decent game every few months or so and some people think he's a decent player. He only looks passable when being carried by a proper player such as Travis and like Bennett he epitomises everything that's wrong about the Club - consistently one of our highest earners yet worst performers. And like Lowe before him we'll never do anything with him in the side. Apart from that he's all right........

I'd also like to see Wharton featuring for us next year. I'm not sure what he's done wrong since (imo) impressing when Coyle was here and it would in my view be lunacy to sign this lad from Stoke or Wharton's CB partner from Northampton without giving Wharton the chance first. So that's what we'll probably do......

If we sign Walton or Joe Hart at any point and in the unlikely event I've purchased a season ticket by then, it's going back! (Not that we'll have got round to formulating any sort of ST package by then but the point still stands)

A prospect under a decent manager, will probably turn out to be a myth under Mowbray which is not necessarily a reflection on the player as Mowbray didn't appreciate Harrison Reed's talents either.

Good post. I have commented in the past many times that the way forward would have been to add one or two peak age performers to go straight into the first eleveneach transfer window but to me it seems Mowbray is most averse to that idea and will generally only bring in "ones for the future" he can put on the back burner for a year or two or one last pay day types so he is not upsetting or dislodging the established players already at the Club.