Would be a strange signing based on the information available and with the ignorance of not seeing him, position, expected settling in time on loan, lack of senior experience, hoping its a natural right winger.

Hes obviously even worse on the wings but hes been really poor even when he has played up top which is easily forgotten. As much as I am pleased for him to score an excellent finish today, you look at justifying a central role for him, which is the only position he should be considered for, and Holtby should be the number 10 for the forseeable future in Dacks absence and obviously got 2 today. So there is one place left, and whilst Armstrong is comfortable wide right, he has had a couple of very productive games up front so I would not move him to accomodate Gallagher.

He is the biggest attention seeker in football that man. Very unprofessional on his twitter. Wouldnt mind them failing to make the play offs!

Theres no point being biased about the red card decision, it was incredibly harsh. Doesnt take anything away from a brilliant result or mean that we dont sometimes get decisions against us to admit it!

Cant comment directly on todays performance but a fantastic result, well done to all concerned. Very lucky with the red card which was a poor decision and made our job easier but even against 10 men we often struggle so to get such a scoreline at a difficult ground is a brilliant achievement. A few more general observations: Really glad to see Holtby get a couple of goals, and scrappy, scruffy goals from close range at that. A lot of people have clamoured for a 442 formation in the absence of Dack, but Holtby is a high quality footballer who understandably has had to be shoehorned in when Dack was fit, despite his own quality. I dont think its realistic to expect him to post the numbers and thus impact of Dack but we should build the team with him as a 10. Armstrong didnt score but got 2 more assists, and he is absolutely key. Would be interested to know how he played as the number 9 as I still cannot shake lingering doubts that he should play that role due to certain deficiencies (cant really hold the ball up, always wants the ball in behind but often poorly times his runs and gets caught offside) but he is becoming a very important player for us Really glad to see Gallagher get a goal at the end, ultimately overall his numbers are still very, very poor and his previous 2 goals havent led to him kicking on but it was a superb finish and I hope this can be the cataylst for him to push on. The wing experiment should be stopped so I do wonder how he would get much game time with Armstrong and Holtby down the middle. The one thing that I can always guarantee with him is when you compare him to Brereton, he grafts and busts a gut whereas Brereton doesnt. So good on him. The centre back pairing are one I am happy with, I just hope Lenihan is here long term, give him the captaincy full time, and we are back to square one next season once Adarabioyo goes back but he has been a very shrewd short term addition. Nyambe I hope goes under the radar and his body is capable of standing up to the rigours without repeatedly breaking down injured, he is a good one on one defender who really causes so many problems with his pace and power going forward, he cant cross at the moment so hopefully he is practising plenty but him and Bennett are night and day and he really has made himself a key member of our team. Downing is a class act as we know, Mowbray often uses Bennett as an example of versatility but whereas he is basically a liability wherever he is played, you can put Downing at left back, wide left or today and perhaps where he is now best at his age, in the centre of midfield and he will almost certainly perform to very high levels. If he carries on like this he is a must for an extra year. And great to see Rankin Costello come on and get an assist. The last player who came through ie Buckley looks a million miles up so it would be a huge bonus if JRC could come in as a regular member of the squad in those wide positions which are very much open to nail down. It would be interested to see who is loaned out, JRC definitely not I would suspect, Brereton and Buckley definitely should be, the interesting middle one is Chapman.

Agreed but in a way its a god send for him because people forget how bad he is up front too!

Mowbray has been moaning about the injuries again, and no doubt that they are a bad stroke of luck. He was also banging on about not being a Premier League club with 20 odd quality players. Theres absolutely no personal responsibility as ever. Any team that loses their best player warrants sympathy but all it does is really further expose his abysmal transfer dealings. You cant spend 12m on strikers and they offer absolutely nothing and then still whinge and moan. Regarding Cunningham, again it was a huge blow but as he was only a short term plaster over our left back problem, he now has the flexbility to be able to send an injured player back without having to keep paying his wages, surely opening up a void for another player to come in. Evans again is a blow but we are presumably paying good money to have Johnson and Downing here. The Mulgrew situation is strange too, it seems obviously that it was at the players request, but with money so tight, surely say "sorry Charlie but we cant afford to bring you back."

"We haven’t got loads of money to think ‘we’ve lost a midfield player let’s go and spend £1m to get another one in’." "Regarding the transfer window, what doesn’t change with the players we’ve tried to identify and like, when you ask in the first week or two, millions of pounds are being quoted,” “At this moment we’re miles away with trying to negotiate correct deals for the club.” Or in other words, I wouldnt hold your breath!

Why would they give us their starting left back for so cheap and why would he join a club far less likely to be near the play offs?

Whilst I also dont think he is up to it, Gallagher has put in repeatedly woeful performances all season (including many up front) and you think "theres a player in there." And you have repeatedly defended Bennetts inclusion ad nauseum. So seems a little hypocritical, based solely on what Mowbray does.

I love that you are spinning everything into a positive once more. Why didnt you reference Adarabioyo ans Reed as youngsters that we have loaned? Because they are successful and dont fit into your argument! And why are loans of youngsters from the PL the only alternatives to using our own kids considering we have money as you say. We dont want to be playing Buckley because hes absolutely nowhere near being ready. If Mowbray is right to not overpay for players, why did he spend 7m on a total waste of space, then repeat the same mistake by spending 5m on another? Its quite clear that our bids are nowhere near the asking prices and hes made a million and one references to us having a limited budget. Lets not pretend that that is down to some sort of principle that Mowbray is not buying these players, the budget is seemingly not there. I struggle to be overly excited about the rest of the season, before you spin that into a superfan narrative I will still be attending but for the reasons I have given, poor recruitment, little chance of us upgrading the squad as required, injury woe, a stagnant manager and a miniscule (at best!) chance of anything other than a mid table finish, its hard to be overly excited.

If we are talking Rhodes in his last spell, he was absolutely brilliant here, nothing less. Ultimately all of these other smaller things, hold up, creativity, they are all geared to try and eventually get goals. Rhodes made up any deficincies there by actually scoring that additional amount of goals himself. I find it incredible that goalscoring has seemingly become an underappreciated part of a strikers armoury. Having pace, strength, flair, whatever are usually tools that are used to get the player the end product of goals, but having the brain to sniff out opportunities and the composure to then take them trumps them all. That level of consistently superb goal output meant quite rightly that his place was guaranteed. Whether he could still score at that rate is a different question.

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-could-turn-youth-17581331 This is a depressing article, a suggestion that money is incredibly scarce, that we are miles off signing anyone, and that we may have to resort solely to the youth players. The whole season just seems to have no promise or excitement to it already. The recruitment to date has been really poor, and that in turn seems to have emptied the kitty meaning that improving the squad seems an impossible job. Throw in the unlucky triple blow of 3 season ending injuries to first team players, one our primary goalscorer, and it seems destined to fizzle out. Stagnation at its finest under Mowbray.

If a guaranteed 20+ plus goals a season "isnt all that" then your standards must be off the scale!

To be fair, if we are going to go back, at least go back to someone who was brilliant for us, not spend loads on someone like Gallagher who was average in his best season!

Goalscoring is the primary function of a goalscorer. If you are scoring 20 goals a season you are doing your job, even if you do have (massively exaggerated) limitations elsewhere.

Big blow him coming back and taking a chunk out of a seemingly very limited budget with his wages. He is a massive defensive liability sadly as much as he is 10x the captain Bennett is and far better from dead balls than anyone else. Talk about him tearing up his contract and spending months doing nothing at his age is fanciful in the extreme, he would require a huge pay off so either way his return financially restricts us.

Walton Nyambe Lenihan Adarabioyo Williams Travis Johnson Armstrong Holtby Downing Graham To be honest, I can't see us getting anything sadly.

If Armstrong plays up front from now, who holds the ball up and who plays wide right?

The thing with Rhodes is that he can score goals even in teams that dont give him particularly good supply. In his first season, he played as a lone striker (with a number 10 usually) and also the team behind him were fairly dismal. He nearly scored 30 goals. Gallagher for example is the polar opposite in terms of anticipating chances and his movement.

Regarding Ronan Curtis, even if we did stump up the cash you do look at Jamal Lowe who stood out for Portsmouth last season yet has been dismal for Wigan.

For me, hes had more than enough chances and hes proven to be nowhere near up to it. With 6 months to go on his contract, its time to cut our losses. Left back should be a priority but even without, I would take Downing there before him and even Williams.

He played all last season and was awful, its not being in and out of the team that causes his poor performances. The reason he is avoided where possible is because he isnt trusted clearly.

It would be a cruel twist of fate if Mowbray cannot be moved on following his own horrendous transfer dealings because they in turn have ensured that we dont have the money to let him go!

Agreed. If what Dyche did was so easy everyone would do it!