Buckley back in from the cold today, coincidence? I think not.

To start with the keeper Montgomery and Tyjon is insane. One got sent back from Bamber Bridge last season deemed not good enough. One played a bit at Chorley. The others done ok in 21s. To suggest they should start in League cup beggars belief given none have ripped it up at levels well below. Players should be earning the right for minutes not being given them. It's a death wish from our gaffer if he keeps an inexperienced 18 year old on bench as our number two.

What diabolical defending for the first goal, all alone at the back post with nobody marking him, and he slams it in the back of the net. The seconds even worst, Michalski pisses about, loses the ball, and in the back of the net again. If we don't improve 100%, we'll be playing Bradford again next season.

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

And honest Harry got a new extension to his house.

Surprised it took so long

lets see in 10 games,we`ll be able to gauge it then

Don’t kick a guy who is Already down 🤣

Operation blame the player : Achieved.

So tomorrow as does happen with rovers with bad news there will be a story or a link to try and soften the blow Who are we guessing I think baradji name will be put out in the morning again

The weird contradiction is that we “made mistakes” in the past by not renewing contracts. However JRC, Buckley and Pears seem to have been frozen out because they have (or had in JRC’s case) long term contracts on a decent wages

Well that does happen coming through the academy you get paid an academy wage until your first ‘big’ contract most sites have him at 15k with hyam and cantwell at the top around 20k

tyjon was ok but he needs bulking up.a few months at league two side would sort him out in that dept,thats if he does`nt **** off to arsenal

Not enough end product though roversfan99.Looks another unhappy player to me.

Whoever we bring in isn't going to be up to standard as venkys want to do everything on the cheap. The only thing we can do is force venkys out

That means bugger all the top paid player at the time was Gallagher on about 15k signed years before for 5 million from a Prem team where he took a big pay cut but was offered 4 years at Rovers instead of 3. Then they extended his contract. Trav as an academy graduate won't have been in the same ball park but 10k a week would still be in the higher end bracket. Waggot and the other berk didn't want him sat on the bench every week on that money.

Complete guess: Id wager he's on about £7-8k p.w. now and Derby have offered to double that. I remember years ago when Trav was a kid a mate of mine who knew him a bit saying he was threatening to leave because a) He was on £2k p.w. which he thought was a shit wage and b) He was behind Evans and Smallwood in the pecking order and he thought he was a lot better than both of them. He wasn't wrong on either count.

Tavares did pretty well, and certainly agree on your comments on the young lads not being ready and needing an overhaul in attack. We have no competent wingers. Need 2 and a striker.79 But of course we will miss Travis.

Left unmarked on the back post to stick it in the net, shit defending.

the right back experiment needs binning,i thought he did ok when moved into the middle,he`s not at starting level by any means though

On a slight tangent, my E-Ticket worked perfectly well tonight.

So all in all, a fun time down at Ewood had by all! Yay.

Eustace knows all this that's why hes been after virtually every half decent players we had. They have a budget and hes told them they can get cheap good standard Championship players from Blackburn due to low salaries.

Do you still think that my comments about squad depth are "ridiculous?"

According to this he is on 15k pw https://salarysport.com/football/championship/blackburn-rovers/