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It isn’t inexplicable Jim. This squad isn’t good enough. There isn’t what you could call a top Championship player to be seen.

We looked weak. How many of our players beyond the back line won their individual battles - any? Powder puff performance and technically lacking today. Very poor.

Physically weak in midfield and upfront. Too easily brushed off the ball.

It’s a fact that nobody under the age of 64yrs has seen North End play in the top division. Just tell ‘em that.

That should open a few eyes tonight. This squad of players is terribly weak and is going to find the long hard slog of a Championship season a huge challenge. Where is the penetration, whose going to replace Smodics’s 30+ goals? No threat down the right and we finished tonight watching Sigurdson turning back to cross with his right foot towards Ohashi. That was it really. Scary. We don’t just need bodies, we need class and in more than one area.

I would hope not.

Full backs were coached to show them the outside in my day ER. Away from the danger zone.

Would Venkys being found guilty of financial misconduct/tax evasion affect their viability to own an English football club?

So I wonder why the Indian authorities decided to remove the no objection document. Did something change or did Venkys chances of winning their case become a bit bleaker. Also, if they were to lose that case, would they be able to fund the club at all? Pardon my ignorance on this. Maybe I’m well off track here.

Seems I’m in a minority here but I have serious doubts about both Ohashi and Gueye. We’ll know more when they’ve both started a few difficult away games. That’s when to judge a player. If those two do fall short, where would that leave us?

Because he’s been struggling to make an impression?

Waggott has no feelings for the club. No understanding of its history nor any real belief for its future IMO. He’s an imposter and Jack Walker would never have employed him.

So we sign someone from Japan.

I just get that feeling that Rovers are dabbling in markets they know very little about, for players they know probably less about. Linked to the fact that anyone at our end is for sale. Thats how it feels to me. I’ve no confidence in them whatsoever. Would love to think I’m wrong and everything has changed. Doubt it has though.

There are plenty of posters in the LT comments section that are fully behind Venkys recent actions. Many think the sales are good business and look forward to the future with a certain amount of relish. They’re the realists apparently. We’re just one of the smallest clubs in the championship, with the smallest fan base and must live within our means. They don’t see anything beyond that. There really isn’t a problem in their eyes. So when people call for organised protest, don’t forget not everyone would be behind that.

😂😂 ha, thanks bluebruce!

So what exactly attracted you to the freebie unknown Chinese player from the hopeless j league Mr Waggott?

Chaddy. I don’t know how Eustace set up his Birmingham side, but you’ll have great difficulty persuading me that any manager doesn’t want creativity from central midfield. They might not play creative players there because they don’t have any.

You could say that if we were signing a 14 year old park player for goodness sake. Its an opinion on a football forum.

My only thoughts are around the idea that £30m in the bank and there isn’t a better bet between here and this guy for a striker. Really? There isn’t another striker anywhere between here and China? WTF are the club thinking?

So the last player of any real value - and the only goalscorer in the squad is being willlingly sold and replaced by a 26 or 27 year old Japanese player who has no experience in English football whatsoever. A complete and total gamble. That’s the best Waggott and his chums have got. The squad is on its knees both quality wise and numbers wise and this is their answer? What an effing mess.

The new ground being built about 2 miles from me.

It’s obvious now what Venkys are doing but I hadn’t read previously that the staff at Ewood had been told that was the case. Had anyone else?

I’ve no idea who this is or the credibility of this post.

Why? Why do we need to sell absolutely everything or anything with any value? These sales more than keep the lights on surely. When Smodic has gone, who’s going to pay the electricity bill next season? Not a single word from the club. The supporters deserve far better than this. About time those who can, start asking the tough questions. Starting tonight with WATR and the LT.