So plan for that possibility in January.

So he pinned his hopes on getting one of only two players that we couldn't afford without any backup plan. Sounds like terrible forward planning to me. What happened to his 3 short lists for different price brackets?

Well that’s what you get for giving managers on the scrapheap a contract, and giving them £5m to spend on an underwhelming player, who continues to underwhelm. By the way I didn’t say no championship manager would have him - Mowbray did and gave away almost all of our transfer kitty in the process. I’m sure someone out there would have him. Not for £7m+ though. But if by some act of God we did get a decent manager I don’t think they would want Gallagher ball watching for most of the season whilst flicking the hair from his eyes. I honestly believe he only gets in the side to justify the purchase to Suhail and co - and maybe because TM is quite a stubborn guy as we know. As you say a bench player at best but any manager with any nouse would sideline him immediately with a view to moving him on imo.

That's actually true and frustrates me more about Mowbray. On occasion he's shown he can do a decent job at getting the team to play but then he'll follow that up with baffling tactics, teams and subs. If he could reign in his giddy inner Pep and was a bit more pragmatic he could be a decent manager.

You said if he's as bad as I say. I don't see him being bad as a subjective thing to anyone with a pair of eyes. I didn't say anything about anyone buying him, I said moving him on. Personally, I'd give him away. Or are you saying that he's that bad that no one would have him if he was a free agent?

But worryingly, what a rich man it can make you with very little effort. What was it, two months in the job?

As I say? I'd hope that people would be able to see with their own eyes that he's simply not a good footballer. He's applied himself recently in a few games like he did last season. And like last season a few seem to have had a system refresh and forgotten how poor he was overall. He's been here for 3 years now and at 26 year old I can't see him developing into a good player. It's not just his ability but his attitude seems off, like he doesn't have any desire for it. He's looked up for it these last few games but that's in complete contrast to the rest of the season.

Maybe not immediately but he'll be sidelined and eventually moved on if the new manager has any ambition. Unless the new manager is capable of working miracles with poor to average players. He's been a passenger in most games, even the games he hasn't played wide. A few games at the end of the season doesn't cut it. If you're happy to play with 10 for most of the season then he's your man. Pickering is another that needs to be replaced if we want the club to do anything other than mid table plodding.

No wonder you wrote it in white.

From absolutely terrible to bang average? Aye, I'm sure he'd be on every Championship managers team sheet. He has been mismanaged but can you honestly say if you were the boss you'd pin your hopes on him consistently scoring over a season, as a number 9?

Remember that season with the record breaking 7-0 loss at home followed by that capitulation from 2nd place to 10th in four months? The pinnacle of Venkys ownership. Ah, those halcyon days.

One of the houses would do.

When he leaves I'm fully expecting it to be like when Princess Diana died down at Ewood. Mass mourning, candles in the wind, cuddly ET toys, the lot.

Short memories...

Short memories... Stabilised the club... He's got us where we are today... He was let down by his players... He saved everyone of us. Actually that last one was Flash Gordon but it's difficult to separate the two they are so similar.

FFP at its finest.

Pickering, Gallagher, not good enough. No idea about Hedges and Brown. Or even Markanday for that matter. Ayala will play a handful of games then fall over. The bench... It's an insult to our youth team that some of those are ahead of them. If Mowbray does stay, imagine him having to sign half a team. We'll end up with some right dollopers and panic buys.

I wouldn't be surprised if Gallagher gets moved on if TM leaves. He's only persisted with him because of what he paid for him. A new manager won't have the problem. Did someone say FFP isn't a problem next season?

There you go. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/oct/31/blackburn-henning-berg-new-manager Blimey 9 years ago, it seemed bad then but we still all believed we could get back up with the right manager. Now there seems to be a mass acceptance that we've found our level.

He said it the Summer before he arrived. That's why there were news reports at the time stating he was taking the job, despite criticising the owners.

Then he took the job.

Hopefully it's just because he has another month left on his contract and they'd rather he sort out the cones than give any compensation out.

... Being left completely to your own devices, giving contracts to people who haven't even seen a pitch in years or are too old for it, bizarre tactical decisions, signing £7m flops, a 7-0 record breaking drubbing at home, two absolutely abysmal death spirals, going from an auto promotion place to 9th place in a few months, deciding not to sign players in January and admitting in the local press you could do but it doesn't fit your bizarre ethos, when others around you are strengthening. And you'll still end up picking up around a million a year in wages. Or in short, do whatever the #### you want with our football club and you'll still make a fortune. Who would possibly want that job?

I'll be fascinated if he gets a job elsewhere, just to see if he takes his bonkers decisions with him.

Which is why we should have strengthened appropriately in the January transfer window. As you mockingly replied to me at the time, "we're doomed." You weren't wrong to be fair.