Where does the myth that prices drop towards the end of a window come from? Mowbray used to trot this lame old excuse out every window to make the lack of activity seem normal. I'd have thought exactly the opposite was true, by the last minute selling Clubs know you're absolutely desperate and have you over a barrel. I.e. like when we hadn't signed anyone of note in the first season back in the Championship then with 2 days to spare started throwing telephone numbers about at Forest for BBD and at QPR for Freeman.

The equivalent of that this season would be Gallagher scoring 30. I wouldn't say we had lost four such key performers at this stage a year ago either. Maybe lightning will strike twice but as things stand I'd treat it as exceptionally unlikely. The one variable in the equation is that at least it isn't Mowbray so that gives room for a good old dollop of blind optimism I suppose regardless of the recruitment situation, or rather lack thereof.

I was really counting the players who were actually in and around the first team last season not the lads out on loan who were no where near it. But fair comment if you want to look at it that way.

Not sure why the usual suspects, and some who should no better, are gloating about the possibility of Nyambe ending up at Wigan. If it happens, it will probably be a bit of a disappointment for the player. However the fact would remain that if it happens Wigan would have a bloody good full back on their hands at Championship level. We have no-one! This 'Nothing to be worried about" approach from some posters is getting somewhat grating now. It's almost like they are revelling in the Club's misfortune and our angst. It's the sort of thing you'd say to take the piss out of a Burnley fan if they'd sold fifteen players and not brought anyone in. Sure, if we make four stellar signings over the next eleven days to replace Nyambe, Lenihan, JPVH and Rothwell then come back and tell us "We told you so!" as presumably the usual raft of loanees will be coming in last minute regardless. Until then however............

Becoming increasingly hard to disagree. Even with only a passing interest in what's going on down at Ewood it SHOULD be blindingly obvious to the owners that everything he touches turns to ****.

Let me know how you go on. I forgot to add "Tasked with securing the three players who were in the last year of their contracts, he failed to deliver on ANY of them."

It's also a bit like saying: "How many goals did we concede when BBD was in the side as opposed to when he wasn't?" ie. completely irrelevant.

Absolute rubbish. If you were Nyambe would you sign a deal knowing that Lenihan (who is certainly no more vital to the side than yourself) was being offered 2-3 times as much?

That's rather unfair Glen. He has a number of proud achievements on his Rovers CV. - Probably the first (and last) CEO in the history of the game to raise prices in advance of a season where no- one could attend due to the pandemic. - Removed affordable seating at Ewood. - Introduced the "Waggott tax" to discourage last minute sales on matchday. - Tried to introduce a matchday charge for Blues Bar for ST holders and had to back down. - Tried to sneak through a sale of the training ground on the false premise that Cat 1 Academy Status could be retained on a vastly reduced site. Forced into an embarrassing climbdown no doubt costing the Club a fortune in the process. - Promised a brand new pitch then failed to deliver. - Has overseen the deterioration of the stadium into a particularly shoddy state. - We've lost nine players from the squad as it was at the end of January with not one single addition coming in the other way with eleven days to go before the start of the new campaign. It's the polar opposite of "What have the Romans ever done for us really isn't it?"

Problem is, you don't get players of that quality for next to nothing. Unless you get lucky on loan but then you still have to pay a hefty loan fee and are left back at square one at the start of the following season unless again you're promoted.

Very much doubt that is correct. If it was, why add another substantial wage to the pay roll in the form of a DOF?

If he goes there it reflects even worse on us!!

We don't need pointless interviews from Broughton, I'm not interested in knowing what his inside leg measurent is. We do however need results from him in the form of some inspired recruitment. Which obviously hasn't happened yet.

What's the point in going after people if we don't land them? Might as well be after Messi and Ronaldo.

You're even further up this guy's backside than you are Broughton's. The former hasn't even arrived yet and the latter has been here 5 weeks and hasn't overseen the acquisition of a single player! Hope you have fun with your new chums in the executive lounges this summer. Are you revising your initial opinion based on a couple of soundbites from Btoughton a few hours after he arrived that he can deliver "in spades"?

If we'd have been hammered 5-0, everyone would have been saying the result didn't matter. Hope no-one is fooled into thinking the squad as it stands is adequate.

I think he was being facetious but the jibe was misplaced imo as Nyambe is as good a full back as you will get at Championship level whereas Carter is a CH filling in at RB.

Can't be right. Full backs better than Nyambe are ten a penny in League 1 according to the sages on here.

Wouldn't say the first X1 looks great, but look at the state of that fucking bench. Doesn't look as though JDT regards Markanday as being particularly high on the pecking order either.

Changing manager certainly isn't but losing 4 key members of the first X1 and (so far) not replacing them certainly is!

Probably a Head of Recruitment. Who can't attract any players either.

Yes, I omitted to include Dack and Kaminsky, fair point, my bad, both big successes but I would caveat Kaminsky by saying we let an equally good if not better keeper in Raya go for peanuts then wasted money loaning the useless Walton for a season. I will have to disagree on your last paragraph, I don't think we've been any good in the transfer market since Gary Bowyer's Dad Ian was scouting for us.

Not sure how Middlesbrough have done anything wrong. I can see why we might have a gripe with Bournemouth us they came in for Rothwell to destabilise us and very much succeeded in that respect.

Fair comment. But if it was strictly limited to who we'd either actually been linked with or signed it'd be 1 -2 pages long.

Won't be a surprise to anyone - I thought he was dreadful in the transfer market. Just using last season as an example Last 4 permanent signings: Pickering - done all right - jury still out Edun - completely unnecessary signing in same position as Pickering - been very poor Markanday - might be great in due course but hasn't contributed thus far Hedges - Really poor signing imo Loans JPVH - excellent Khedra - did quite well Poveda - Complete waste of a lot of money Clarkson - abysmal Dutch RB - useless Giles - looked a useful player but was messed about and didn't click That isn't a particularly good strike rate imo and before that especially pre pandemic he's been allowed to bring in countless players either on permanent deals or loan, again (imo) with a very poor strike rate. Obviously in his defence he can point to Armstrong and Brereton (eventually) I was hoping recruitment was going to be much improved under the new regime. Maybe we've decided to go down a "more quality and less quantity" route which would probably be the right approach - as long as we actually get them in.