Is he a striker? Think he's more of a winger/midfielder. Anyway, for the figures quoted, it would have been a good permanent signing. It seems the Hedges transfer was brought forward from Summer when we missed out and/or Markanday got injured We have 6 players for the 2 roles upfront.

Well it's true. You would complain the club didn't sign a replacement if someone in any position got injured, from goalkeeper to Striker and every position in between. Then you would complain if we signed players who didn't play because the players who start didn't injured and were starting ahead of them "Why did we waste money on so and so" All this stuff is easy to moan about in hindsight

I think you answer yourself here. They spent more than FFP allowed and and a club either owns up, or tries to hide it/get away with it 4 clubs who were in our division at the time have had deductions relating to breaches of FFP and/or their actions in relation to FFP You really think some some clubs have accidentally spent more than was allowed under the rules? Very badly run if thats the case..... I agree it's worse to try and cover it up, but ultimately it goes back to breaking FFP rules/guidelines in the first place

Flawed? I would say more hopeful, but really what else can we do? As you say goalscorers cost a lot of money. Brereton, Dack, Khadra, Hedges, Markanday, Gallagher, Dolan and even Vale. Thats 8 for 2 positions, although Dack will probaby play in Buckleys position and vale is young, but still its 6 players. QPR fans are complaining they didn't sign a striker too

I assume you didn't give Brereton much chance of stepping up when Armstrong left?

How many did Brereton have before this season? These guys need to step up now

Quote directly from LT is different He won’t be available this weekend which is a blow but it’s an opportunity for someone else to come in and see if they can knock the goals in. “Ben filled a void when Adam Armstrong left and if Ben is going to miss a game or two then someone else has to step up.”

Where does he say potentially months?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19931975.ben-brereton-diaz-injury-update-blackburn-rovers-boss/ Sounds like 2 games max

We brought in Hedges and Markanday who can play in one of the 2 front positions. One got injured after 10 minutes. We also have Gallagher, Khadra and Dolan who can play there. It's always easy to say we should have signed players after someone gets injured. Brereton was always going to start with one of the others mentioned above. Bournemouth signed Moore for £3.5 million and on more than we pay anyone, to sit on the bench. They have parachute payments, we can't afford to do that.

They broke the rules to try and avoid FFP requirements. It's the same thing.

We pretty much do play 2 upfront though? I don't see why tracking back is a problem, in fact his defencive headers are pretty good. It's his positioning and desire to compete for headers offensively with defenders that is his biggest problem. Not his only problem though ,as he's not great technically. Maybe it's confidence, but he needs to be attacking things and hitting shots earlier, cos that's what he is good at. It's him not delivering, rather than the formation that's the issue imo

You have been saying clubs don't get punished for a while now, but you can't just not include Derby and Sheffield Wednesday with the other 2, it's all down to FFP and it seems more are coming. I know you think rovers just use it as an excuse not to spend, but it is actually a real thing!

Gallagher plays upfront, his inability to find positions centrally or attack the ball there is on him, not the formation. How come Brereton can do it from the other side? Buckley has had a good season playing where he is

Can't find his thread, but Duffer about to go into his first game as a manager https://www.instagram.com/reel/CaDQYSwjhMT/?utm_medium=copy_link

Gallagher played there what ,10 minutes one game, you're exaggerating about players playing out of position. Especially if that's your best example!

Yes but keeping the basic shape. You're talking about switching to a back 4 from a 3. We have seen in the past this just leads to confusion on the pitch. It's an unnecessary over complication at this level. You need consistency hard work, with a bit of quality in the final third. That's what leads to results

I just said they tweak positions and swap players. Do they change formation?

I don't think Liverpool and City do this even. They tweak where the players are positioned and swap players, as do we. There is a reason we are where we are and that's consistency of personnel and formation.

No disgrace in any of those draws. Hull and Swansea we were unlucky, the only really bad performance was Forest and in that we even rallied with 10 men. No need for panic

If we get the intensity right at the start, we should have too much for them

It's amazing that a draw away to WBA is now part of a death spiral Shows where the team is at and the expectation thats there

Have you watched any interviews with him recently? If you did, I don't see how you could think he would be happy if we don't make the play offs.

And we did much better over the previous 27 games, hence why we are ahead of them.

Back to the good stuff here I reckon with the starting 11 that brought us great success. 2-0 Rovers