I suspect they don't really want one. Players in attacking positions, even average ones cost money that we aren't willing to part with. Hoping someone comes out of favour and aren't going to be registered with there current club in the last few days of the window is my guess. Remember week or so back when Jackson said there is money for a right winger, of course there is!

It’s not a nailed on certainty guys 🤣 We have 45 games ahead of us and a relatively competitive squad. And a solid experienced manager. Don’t think we’re coming anywhere close to play offs obviously, but there are at least 8 clubs I wouldn’t swap our squad+manager with. As for ownership, I’d swap with the 22 (all excluding Chansiri). Too early for this!

How can you refuse to accept and publish minutes of a fans forum meeting which all different fan groups attending agree are accurate, and then say they are committed to “open communication.”

What happened to good communication with key stakeholders?

The issue is that the players who have moved clubs are on ‘big money’, meaning over 15k a week. I guarantee that the players that we have signed this summer are getting paid less than 10k a week- that’s our market. I actually think we will have a reasonable season finishing mid table with the squad we have. The biggest worry is the number of players with championship experience who are leaving- When Wrexham can spend 10 million on a 28 year old striker it shows we can never compete with the owners that we have 😞

so much for open and transparent communication😅 club is acting like a soviet style enclave,we only let you know what we want you to know

1 league game in and we are issuing statements like this, off the back of fan unrest. Laughable. We're well and truly in the shit. Also, this basically reads as "Trav is sat in Derby right now"

Amateur hour. Remains committed to open communication when it suits.

Nothings really changed with these owners from the day they took over. They’ve always been of the opinion that they don’t need to spend on transfer fees and that bringing through youth players can be successful. 15 years that’s been their thinking. They’ve always believed that it’s for the managers/CEO’s to back and support that ideal, rather than for the owners to actually back the manager. They’re set in stone and nothing is going to change their minds. In fact, if anything I reckon their views have hardened in that respect. We’re stuck with it - and them.

Excellent post.

Bizarre, overly defensive statement with the maturity of a toddler throwing a tantrum. Thanks Suhail.

It was late March 1999. One of my most enjoyable footie experiences. I’d been invited as a corporate guest notwithstanding my Rovers affiliation. Unashamed gloating was the order of the day. P.S. The corporate hospitality was only marginally better than the home team’s efforts.

I GUARANTEE no mainstream media will pick up on this and think, "what the hell is going on at Ewood Park" to need to release this. It is heartbreaking.

😂😂😂😂

I watched it on now tv via the laptop, i was there under Carabao Cup

With K-Hods resignation as the BRFCS nominated spokesperson (thank you once more for your ongoing commitment to BRFCS and giving up your valuable spare time @K-Hod), the BRFCS owners have spoken and the decision was made to not send a representative as it seems to be a complete waste of valuable volunteered time. Then, I decided if we’re not going at all, we may as well go out in style. I will be representing BRFCS at the next Fans Forum meeting. Please send me your questions via private message. Buckle up, Suhail, it’s showtime.

As a former one season Prem team loaded now with parachute cash there'd be nobody to get from Luton for less than ten grand a week and not one on £6k a week. So they won't even have even looked there sadly.

Our transfer strategy is nothing more than a pile of garbage. Would argue that we have missed out on tons of good players from mainly the domestic market because we only look at foreign teams with relatively low status compared to ours: - Failure to sign anyone from Luton. This one is for me the biggest mistake. You're talking about a team who played in the PL only two seasons ago. The likes of Doughty, Morris and Adebayo (still at the club) could've been picked up for below market value prices. - Failure to sign anyone from Plymouth. The likes of Bundu and Mumba (still at the club) would've been cheap but good, Championship-proven acquisitions. - Failure to sign Gassama from Sheffield Wednesday for a cheap price before Rangers swooped in for him. - We haven't explored the free transfer market. We have missed out on McBurnie (Hull) who would've been a decent signing for us. The likes of Diangana is still available but rumoured to have now been offered a contract from another club. - We haven't explored players who did well at L1 last season (Kone - QPR, Poku - QPR, Barry - Sheffield Utd etc.). - We haven't explored the loan market, especially PL talents. Many of them have already gone out on loan to other Championship clubs instead (Doyle, Cashin, Rushworth, Lankshear, Devine, Barry, Collyer etc.) All these opportunities yet the club still hasn't signed a striker or, more alarmingly, a right winger knowing full well that Dolan was never gonna sign a new contract and we only have Hedges as senior player on that position. Instead, we cry foul because we no longer have any ESC slots left (see: Miyoshi). Disgusting.

Unfortunately we can’t sign a traffic cone, we’ve used up all our ESC slots…🤓☝

I think you imply it in your sentences following this but Gestede does what he is told ie get older (expensive) heads out so we can reduce overall expenditure.......

Especially when we might as well have fielded a front 3 of Kygo, Lisa Stansfield and David Gray. Would have been equally effective as our current attackers.

i did`nt mind him when he first signed,he could whip a decent cross in and was hard to knock off the ball, but since his bad hamstring injury he`s been shocking and offers nothing,he should have been released

I realise that’s probably correct. But I also ask myself how that’s possible 😆😭

Off topic: Don't know if anyone else has had trouble with NOWTV. Couldn't get to the Bradford game and will miss odd games so the option of joining NOWTV to watch same televised games on Sky Sports + although with the cricket100, test matches, etc it seemed a good deal. Until Tuesday's live game. Couldn't get it on even though two other games were showing. I search for about an hour but no "Caraboa Cup" link and after a useless live CHAT with a NOWTV I gave up. Anyway, looking forward to a live game back at Ewood ........ 1 1 (Miller)

I genuinely believe you could stick a traffic cone in the opponents box for 90 minutes each week and it would have a better assists/goals return than Ryan Hedges has over the course of his Rovers career.