I'm still very bitter about this and wouldn't welcome Wagner to Ewood, despite his relative success. Would much prefer Farke or Carvalhal from the early foreign candidates.

The only positives I can see of one of their sons getting involved is the direct communication lines they'll have & the hope that it becomes a passion project for the lad & he's given relatively free reign with their funds.

That's actually brilliant. But fully expect more betting odds posts to be made in the next few weeks.

All smell of L1 appointments to me. We should be aiming higher.

You could easily repurpose this tweet...

Finish what job? The watering down of fan expectations... Couldn't make it up.

If he's as good as he's being made out to be, I'd like to see Ash Phillips given a look in during pre season.

Cracking post mate. I'd imagine we might need to look deeper in to our squad and youth teams to find some more players for the first team squad. Would be surprised if we had any sort of meaningful budget to work with. Could see the following given plenty of time in pre season to stake a claim as part of the squad. Carter (Centre Back), Brown (Right Back), Garrett (Centre Midfield), Vale (Centre Forward). I'm sure I'll have missed some.

Couldn't disagree more. Thought he was our best player tonight. Crazy how people view the game that differently. Each to their own though. Can't be arsed arguing in this mood.

My bad. Long day. I'd have quoted your post as the latest one in the line of comments about Hedges. Wasn't picking yours out as being especially harsh. We need to get to the Premier League before we start using that benchmark to be fair.

It wasn't aimed directly at you, otherwise I'd have quoted your post. But after one game, yeah probably.

Feel like there's been some harsh criticism of Hedges after that game. Obviously early days, but in a game where we didn't get the ball down and play much, I thought his pressing out of possession was good and he made plenty of positive runs.

He was awful in that position last time we tried it. But I agree, that's probably where he'll have to slot in.

Pedigree/Potential

You do when there are options behind them that would bury those chances. However we don't have those options at our disposal unfortunately. If you don't deliver the numbers, why would you be expecting to start?

He'd certainly get regular game time, yes. Although the system is working well, we've had games where we've struggled to unlock teams and made a few changes to personnel and changed our shape. To do that effectively, you need options. We simply don't have the right depth or quality in reserve in forward areas to do that. As for Khadra, I've been impressed by him but by no means do I think he's undroppable. For example after his miss against Huddersfield I'd have been dropping him for the next game. A bit more composure in that brilliant position and he wins us the game. Small margins make all the difference.

That's the same with any signing. There are no guarantees that they'll work out. However not making a signing in that area of the pitch guarantees that we're more at risk of failure in that area.

After the Markanday injury we were crying out for another forward (in addition to Hedges). Without his injury the transfer activity would've been just about right. Instead we're left short. What pains me isn't the Bournemouth spending spree (I echo other comments that they might struggle to find a consistent side now) but that teams like Stoke & Hull have picked up Maja & Forss. I get the need to control our spending so I never expected us to splash millions on players but a decent loan signing like that could've really added to our options and eased concerns over where our goals will come from if Diaz reverts to type.

Likewise with Nyambe I'd suspect. Main surprise of the three is Lenihan, as he's routinely been backed by the manager. However he seems to harbour ambitions of the Premier League. Of the three I'd take a guess that he'd be the most likely to sign on, especially if we're promoted.

Can't wait to see the goal in the highlights package tonight...

He's truly awful and was resoundly slated when he was last mentioned. He's worse than Nyambe and presumably the incoming Dutch lad.

Amazing. What a time to play as well.

I've just noticed that Football Aid (the charity that organised games at Ewood Park) has just ceased trading. https://www.footballaid.com/ Always been a dream of mine to play at Ewood and I'd saved up the money to play when I turned 30, but I snapped my ACL returning to Saturday league (after 52 minutes) and couldn't sign up. Been hoping they'd get the postponed game rearranged at some point so I could get involved. Absolutely gutted. Did anyone have the chance to play in one of these games or were due to play in the covid-postponed game? Would be nice to hear of anyone's experiences of it.

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Anyone seen much of Josh Bowler? The goals and assists columns don't scream out "standout Championship star" for a winger.