Are you making assumptions that the 3 signed are accustomed to the championship when you state we are stronger on the left wing, attacking midfield and centre forward. How are those positions stronger when we haven't signed anybody? Where we can agree is that we have trimmed some dross fron the squad (last year loans).

Deary me. The clue was in AS OF TODAY. By the same token we haven’t finished signing then, but that was about as relevant to my post as your response.

Well this thread is kind of for that Chaddy. Although I think people may be sensationalising this a bit much there isn’t going to be anything earth shattering contained in the minutes or causing the delay

do we need to go over this again RF99? No one is naming players for the sake of it. I will recap again current squad Keepers - Toth Pears Michalski RB - Brittain Alebiosu CB - Carter Hyam Wharton McLoughlin LB - Pickering Ribeiro CM - Travis Tronstad Montgomery Tavares Forshaw RW - Hedges AM - Cantwell Tyjon LW - De Neve Karbgo CF - Gueye Ohashi That's 23 maybe 24 if Leonard is going to part of the first team squad under Ismael this season or loan out. Then its appears from Ismael wants another 2/3 more signings so that gives you around 25/26/27 players. So where have I named names just for the sake of it? please can you answer this simple question

We haven't signed a striker, and are seemingly hoping two will be adequate to see us through a 46 game season yet somehow we're "stronger" in that position than last season? I've seen it all now. Not even chaddy would have the front to come out with that one. Lol.

you were told alot of story that doesn't happen does it? no new bids since Boro bid over 2 weeks ago which was rejected by us. have they? based on where given we turned down similar bid from Boro over 2 weeks ago. nothing reported anyone on social media so where is this story from

The frustration isn't a pissing contest about stronger/weaker than last season- it's a toss up with weeks to go to the failure to file on time... The frustration is we came 7th, have a boss who clearly knows what he is doing, we are gazillions under the FFP limits and we are so lacking in ambition to press on for a promotion that would be reasonably attainable this season, fans are debating our relegation risk. Pasha hang your head in shame.

the hold up isn't with Rovers but with some members of the fans forum so maybe directly your questions them?

We haven't finished losing players yet.

That's ignoring the fact that we've lost 14 goals put of last season's squad from Dolan and Weimann which. with 12 days to go before the start of the season, haven't been replaced.

I'm concerned about goals. 14 goals gone - we need a striker. Would take experience.

“You’ve missed out the ‘F’ in money…” ”There’s no ‘F’ in money…” ”Exactly…”

NO

Squad/First Team strength compared with last season (as of today). Context is important and I’ve taken into consideration the change of manager Nd how he wants to play, and also how accustomed to the Championship the players are compared to last season. GK - stronger RB - stronger LB - no change RCB - no change LCB - no change CM - stronger RW - weaker LW - stronger AM - stronger CF - stronger

I read the following and doesn't it just sum up what a short sighted and miserable call it was to essentially defund the women's team. There had to be another solution to keeping the team professional, despite the challenges. A really poor look for Rovers as a club and its reputation. 'Georgia Stanway, Keira Walsh, and Ella Toone were all once on the books of Blackburn Rovers, and all three started the match'

I'm not disagreeing they were shite - just like all our new signings maybe shite at Championship level. You asked where we were weaker. We are effectively 4 bodies down (plus ACD as you pointed out ) in attacking areas, which makes the squad a damn sight weaker. You seem to just discount it because they were shite. If we sign replacements for Weimann and Dolan, sign an experienced loan striker from a Prem club, plus another from a Champ club. Or sign the equivalent number of players from Europe. Then the squad would be comparable and not weaker.

Then I've misremembered a little, sorry. As he posted a little after, he has rebuffed your offers to bet with him and repeatedly said he won't be doing anything like that. Outcome being the same, it won't be happening. I think I've seen him say he doesn't drink? And that's probably what I mixed it up with.

We're weaker at CB except for the fact that Batth is a year older (who knows when his legs will go) and Eustace's system protected him. He wasn't asked to do many sprints. Ismael's system clearly asks more physically from his players (hence why we're loading up on athletes) - so whilst I still think Batth is a loss, there's no guarantee he'd have thrived in a system that asks its CBs to sprint and cover ground.

We'll see how they get on, but I wouldn't be surprised if DeNeve turns out to be quite a shrewd signing. He's by no means a silky player, but he gets up and down and has pace - something we've lacked for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if he chips in with his fair share of goals and assists.

Re the Brittain saga. I'm used to the Alice in Wonderland world of Venky Rovers but this leaves me totally stumped. If he was always going to leave why force him into preseason training showing him all the new patterns of play and game management strategy and then sell him to a Championship rival who can leverage that knowledge and even share with others in the game when the time suits to manipulate their league placements. Quite likely I'm a numb nuts but I'm genuinely scratching my head.

They weren't attacking options when they were here.

I think we overestimate how strong the Championship is. Besides the parachute payment sides it's mostly filled with the best cloggers in the land. If you're organised and determined you can survive in this league.

They barely played and were shite. It’s like moaning about losing ACD, another who was shite. If De Neve has 5 good games he’ll have contributed more than those 3 combined.

I’m sorry I asked you to justify position/by-position where we are weaker. As suspected you hadn’t thought it through. And I’m in a ‘hoop’🤣 And who mentioned the season after next? That’s quite a bizarre deflection from the discussion about if we’re stronger or weaker this season. If you fancy naming the positions we are weaker than last season (outside of the ones I’d already referenced in my original post) I’m all ears?

You also need to factor in the loss of Woodrow and Dennis (as shit as they were) as attacking options we don't have.