Me too...but that is because I want it to! As someone else said, that McAnthony bloke is an attention seeking ****

I guess there must be a doubt, given his lack of goals and experience in the Championship. We'll see soon enough anyway..

A pretty fair summation, in my view.

Conning's the name.. You know those TV programmes they do about "Rock families", and how members of one group morph into another? I would love to see a similar programme about agents' "families" and their links to other agents, including some apparently dissolved. As you say.. Shyte players and on very, very long contracts...

Nail...head...

I prefer Venky apologist!

Easy. Blame the doom mongers..

Agreed. What was worse under Bowyer is that we had Gestede and Rhodes, banging them in, yet we were only ever in the play off positions for an hour or something!

I get your point. On the other hand, we'd have gone down in that first season without him!

Got to feel for Shrews fans. Echoes of Furphy, returning for Field, Garbett and Bradford....

Doom mongers lol..What will they say indeed?!

Yep. That is the worry I hope not to have by the end of the window!

Yes, if it ends, as it is now, I will be very disappointed. Given Mowbray's integrity and the amount of planning time he has had -since Doncaster at least -I still have hopes. I do share your concern, however, as It is definitely leaving it late to bolster a league 1 team minus Armstrong, Antonsson and Payne....

The loans that year weren't that great. I thought Emnes was pretty poor with a few all too brief flashes. Joao-he didn't have enough time to really convince. Gallagher..hmmm..I just hope he has improved, if we are going to rely on him again. In my heart of hearts, I am not sure that loanees have the stomach for the fight, when the going gets tough. I think that was a contributory factor to the last relegation. However, as you say, the muppet on the sidelines was the main problem. (What a shame Warnock and Jepson got that Monday morning phone call and said muppet appeared like the ghost of Steve Kean...)

Agreed. Not a John Le Carre. It's a B movie all right. No subtlety. All too obvious from the start, who is on which side..

Excellent. I know we are in the middle of a cold war on this site...but this is what a message board is for!

Imagine confusing the 5th largest statue of Jesus in the world with a medicated, Venky chicken!

I agree we need a niggly, Speedie/Dickov type. Re the chicken dance, somebody I know says that in the days before that Rovers game, Garner was in the De Lacy, going on about how he was going to celebrate in that way, if he scored at Ewood.... I had no idea that it was something he did every time he scored throughout his career... If he does sign for Rovers and starts to do that every time he scores, I guess we will be calling it post irony!

I think it is called deferred gratification!

Anyway, the only serious question for me is what he could bring to the team. If Rangers could sign Mo Johnson after all his sign of the cross celebrations in front of their fans, when he scored for Celtic, perhaps I could forgive a mere chicken dance...

Are you saying that that chicken dance in front of the Blackburn End had nothing to do with Venky's? A genuine question, by the way..

That was a joke-obviously, I would have thought!

French fries and urination alert.. I remember Scott Dan saying one the main reasons he came to Rovers was Steve Kean...(sorry)

And when you consider the incoming transfer fees, 1.5 years in the premier league , plus all the parachute payments under the Venky's, it really is an eye watering achievement to be over £100 million in debt Hence, many feel that there is something unusual about money going through this club. Ah, more dirty linen!

Only listened to the Ken Furphy one so far. Loved it. It really captures the revivalism of those times. Tony Field, Kit Napier and Johnny Price...wonderful memories!. Gutted, when Furphy went to Sheffield and kept coming back for our players. One of my mates compared the fans in those days to the disciples after the crucifixion. He was never one for understatement! I remember a very sarcastic letter in the LET, saying how we might as well change our name to Sheffield Utd Reserves. But-not unlike that darkest of days at at Selhurst Park, you can never know what joys are around the corner...with Gordon Lee...