Sign that fella for the name alone. That aside, the fact that its come to battling Oxford to sign players says it all. The implosion when Travis gets sold and Forshaw returns as his replacement is going to be off the charts.

€3m euros or £700,000 ? Take your pick, certainly don't trust transfer market ! The truth probably somewhere in between.

Ok then 1 with a further year option in our favour. 🤣

We'll just be getting some arse covering from the club being fed to Nixon and the Venkygraph over the next few weeks. The club, or the stooges running it, will want to get the last word out. They won't be happy at all that the trio of Tronstad, Travis and Brittain have publicly confirmed the truth - that the club hasn't even made the effort to speak to them about new deals - this disrupts the club's spin that they are hard at work and trying to sort it out but the greedy players are holding out for something better. They succeeded on that con job with Lenihan, Nyambe, even Dolan. It isn't working on the others. So we will get bits in the press about this with the club trying to convince supporters they are trying, when most of us know they aren't.

Blessed are the Keersmaeckers.

It is the question that should be painted in 10ft high letters around the walls of Ewood Park. We just need to get some of those shady arseholes who ride around pulling wheelies and being antisocial wankers to take a few quid, a few beers and a few lines of Bolivian Marching Powder to do the leg work.. I'm sure a few cans of luminous graffiti paint can be left judiciously around the stadium to facilitate the operation... Sorta like...

Obviously not solely to blame but fully complicit.

Maradona, perhaps?

Sorry can't help on the signatures Clitheroe, but @MaxPhythian collects and maybe able to help. @MaxPhythian - I'm still looking for a signed shirt from the Kendall era, I know you have one 🤣

I am skeptical of the rumour, especially as Mercer has jumped on it and claimed his famously wide of the mark "sources" think its true. Bur wanting O'Neil wouldnt be good PR. He is a shit manager. Equally, I dont get how you can pin what happened to Eustace on Waggott.

I wouldn't try to defend Waggott at any price. Neither liked nor trusted the guy. Think the Eustace 'issue' actually goes back to last summer which seemingly led to Eustace putting himself on the market (how many jobs did he supposedly apply for - at least 3 spring to mind) some months before his almost inevitable departure. I heard the O'Neil link from who I would regard as a strong source. Was never keen on Waggott from day one but his card was properly marked with his cack-handed efforts to sell Brockhall (or part of) some 4/5 years ago for housing.

Initial thoughts are he looks more suited to be a Tronstad replacement.

I'd say we have 3 truly world class players in kane Bellingham rice

Forgot it was a cup game but it’s still a win and an away win same with the draw away to Leeds and Sunderland at home I didn’t say the return was decent but what I’m saying is is that there’s isn’t a direct correlation to trav not playing and bad results

Remember the two club rule. Players only come to Ewood if there isn’t an alternative. If the mighty Oxford are in for him forget it.

There's a fair bit of PR fluff sprung up about Waggott since his departure. So he was prepared to push the boat out for O Neil, but wouldn't lift a finger to keep his (supposedly) own man Eustace? Sounds extremely unlikely tbh.

De Keersmaecker seems like far too sensible a signing for us

Good.

Ardiles in the ‘78 team was world class as were Kempes and Passarella.

Think a few of us heard that one. With that and the women's team debacle (Waggott had seemingly secured third party investment / sponsorship but knocked back by Raos), it would seem the sands had been shifting from under Waggott for some time.

Have you got a job as Steve's new PR man or something? 🙂 No way Waggott was sanctioning a deal for O Neil imo. All indications at the time were that talks with him never got off the ground and were over as soon as they started.

The win against Boro was in the Cup. Just had a quick look and between the Sunderland game and a good win against Preston end of Jan we had 1 win, 2 draws and 5 defeats from eight games. (Five points) I wouldn't call that "decent" but if you don't think it was down to Trav's absence it's irrelevant for the purpose of the current discussion I guess.

He is their man, alright. Anyone else heard a rumour that Waggott had agreed a deal for Gary O'Neil, but got "overruled " by Pasha?......similar to the Warnock /Coyle flip...

According to an extract from the early minutes - published in a programme dated 9th November 1909 - a meeting held on the 9th November 1875 states the following: 4. That the colours be : White jersey, blue and white skull cap, trousers optional. Proposed by H. Greenwood. Seconded by R. Higson. a meeting held on the 15th November 1875 states the following: 1. That a Maltese cross be on the left breast in blue. Proposed by W. Baguley. Seconded by A. Constantine. At the second meeting it is noted that a total of 15 caps were to be ordered. Of course, this is all so long ago and, sadly, the original minutes are no longer around to confirm any of this.

Draw against Sunderland - promoted draw against Leeds - promoted Defeat to hull - awful defeat to Burnley - awful / promoted Defeat to Oxford - poor defeat to Coventry - poor / playoff team wins v boro and Pompey wasn’t an easy fixture list and would have been better if he was playing but I don’t buy that because he was out of the team that’s the main reason for the dip in form as you can see we still picked up decent results