Just seen the Mansfield highlights. Good to see us defending corners as badly as usual ! Any sign of that centre half yet.

In all fairness, I'm not a fan but I've seen worse. At the end of the day we see the team in it maybe once every 3 weeks. I stopped buying replica shirts 20 years ago. I think it's the people who buy them regularly who are most annoyed. They probably actually want to part with £50 to the club to buy it but dislike it enough to not bother.

" So Mr Bauer, everything is agreed. Just sign the contract, you'll be a Blackburn player and then we will get some PR pictures of you in this new away kit." "Err, can I just nip to the toilet please..........."

I made my feelings known on the transfer thread but he's here now. Hope he can prove himself as a main man of the team rather than just a squad strengthener. Another bonus is he's probably better at defending corners in the air than most of our defenders! Welcome back Gally.

Adrian is an interesting name. I think that would be a great signing. If we signed him or Ruddy I think that would be a big boost. Prefer Hart over Carson.

A Birmingham fan I deal with through work asked me what I thought of Sam Gallagher when they signed him. I said "Don't expect a premier league striker. He's a bang average championship striker" 6 months later I saw him again and he said " he isn't even that good" Whilst statistically he got a good return last time, I didn't think he was brilliant in general. A bit underwhelmed to be honest. I was hoping for an upgrade on DG but I feel we've just got a decent backup. Injury-free, I still think the best signing for next season could be Chapman.

Bollocks. The club would love to charge extortionate matchday fees for all games but the backlash would be huge. They are using Sheff weds and Leeds own pricing policy to help justify their own. How can Rovers be sticking up for their own fans by ripping off their own fans who decide to go on the day? How will fleecing Leeds and Sheff weds fans, who don't control their clubs pricing, help bring ticket pricing under control? What is the justification for the £3 match day surcharge? Rovers smell a way of getting more (money) for less (attendees) and have gone for it.

I agree. But for people who aren't hooked, and aren't going to commit £340+ in July, they are getting priced out. I know several people who went to a handful of games last year. They aren't on here. They aren't on the Rovers website. They will never know about the 1875 club to offset these increases. If they wan to draw attention to Sheffield Weds ripping fans off, they should have gone £10 a ticket, filled the ground and gone on a PR offensive

And casual fans, who may decide last minute to go, are shit on twice. Once with another price increase and again with the ridiculously unjustifiable £3 match day fee. Ive not slagged Waggot off once since he's been here but that's just taking the mick out of our own fans. So, Leeds and Sheffield Wed don't care about their own fans and rip them off at £40 a ticket. In response, we rip the same sets of fans off ourselves. Do you think either of those two clubs are going to reconsider their pricing because of this? Sheffield Weds £40 for god sake.

Yep. As above here too.

I didn't log in to be honest. Just browsed. I'm out now so cant check.

Still same. Sometimes on Chrome I get this As Stuart says, definitely started occurring at the same time as the skin change. Just checked Firefox again and that works fine.

Stuart - just give Firefox a try and see if that behaves ok.

I'm on an 4th gen ipad on OS 10.3.3. Safari loads the main board page but won't load specific threads. Well it didn't but having just tried it as I type this it has partially loaded one then froze. Eventually it gives the "A problem occurred with this web page so was reloaded error" and clears the screen. After about 40.seconds the page does reload but you can't scroll it as it is so slow and eventually it clears and gives the same error. Chrome loads the individual threads page but is very slow loading. When you scroll the page up or down it just scrolls to white and then takes about 10 econds to load what should be on screen so is not usable. Firefox seems to work ok

I can get to the messageboard ok on my iPad. (10.3.3) Using Safari, if I click on a thread kt gives "A poblem occured with this web page so it was reloaded" and stays blank. On Chrome it gets to the messageboard and just doesn't load the thread. Just freezes the tab and doesn't load. No problem until today. Any ideas?

The fact he says Darwen Cricket Club is only 5 minutes from Ewood Park tells you all you need to know about that post.

I do think Davenport will be fresh blood and hopefully a positive effect on the squad from last year so I disagree with the 2 usual suspects. But rounded on? Lol. Give over. That's a similar overreaction as the bandwagon comment I quoted someone on yesterday. It's comments like that that give the impression that people who are unhappy with Mowbray are unreasonable bullies who aggressively shut down conversation. No. They just voice their opinions which some posters, and the club, probably don't like to hear.

Left back full stop is weak because Bell is also fairly poor defensively. In order of preference for replacement in the defence I would be looking:- Centre Half Left Back Goalkeeper

What bandwagon? Explain?

I don't read every post as, if I've missed a day or so, I just go back a few pages to get on topic with the conversation. However I don't get the two points I've quoted. It's a summer transfer thread. Since as long as I can remember, rumours and speculation have happened. Just because it's just a random rumour, it doesn't mean the merits of that player can't be discussed. If your referring to something else, please just quote me a couple of examples as I really don't know what your talking about other than, what appears to be, you don't agree with some people and therefore you don't want to have to hear other peoples opinions.

I keep repeating myself on this but he was being lauded by Charlton fans most of the season. His wife then gave birth about 4 hours before the play-off 2nd leg and he still played. However he was poor in that game, and not great in the final. If you're judging him purely on the plays offs it's worth noting the charlton fans all said he was poor in those games but excused him because of the circumstances. There's many players wouldn't have played that semi final game.

The problem with Bauer falling through isn't the circumstances around why it fell through. It's the fact we have appeared to need an aerially commanding centre half since we went down 24 months ago, have gone through 4 transfer windows and the only centre half we have been seriously linked with in this time has turned us down. We have conceded way too many headed goals from crosses and set pieces for two years now, and it's still not been addressed. That's what worries me about Mowbray and our lack of action, not the failing of the Bauer deal specifically. We don't seem to be able to upgrade the obvious weak areas. We know we have another problem at left back but I fear that issue will run and run for another half season at least. Plenty of time left yet this window but I've thought that in previous windows and been disappointed.

Agree although we have had VAR around for about 2 years throughout Europe and this happens all the time. It's not a new occurrence, hasn't been addressed yet and I fear it's going to happen time and time again. That ref tonight should be dropped from the tournament immediately. As for VAR in general, dont get me started on the disallowed England goal against Holland !!

Watching the end of the Scotland v Argentina game and another VAR timing masterclass. Penalty given on 88 minutes by VAR. 3 minutes injury time goes up on the board. Had to be retaken as keeper came off her line according to VAR. Was eventually scored and game restarted on 94 minutes. Therefore there should be 2 mins normal time plus 3 mins injury time left. Ref added about 90 seconds on. At the final whistle both teams went to the ref in disbelief. Games should be lasting 100 minutes+ in some instances but it's simply not happening. We are getting 3 or 4 minute delays with only about 40 seconds being added extra.

The problem is I've said for 4 previous transfer windows we need a new centre half. I've waited every windows and it hasn't been adressed. For 3 of those windows it is well known we have been sniffing around Bauer. I didn't know a lot about him other than Charlton fans rated him, and missed him when he was injured. As he was obviously Mowbrays number 1 target, I hoped he would be coming in at some point so am disappointed that we've now lost him to Preston. Theres a lot of people on here decided that he is suddenly shit, who I expect would be saying good move by Mowbray if he had signed. If the strategy is going to be sign cheaper from below, rather than pay more money for proven players from above, it may be one that has slipped through the net.