All these other clubs busy snapping up the free agents. What market are we in again and what are we waiting for?

Hey ho let's wait and see when the boxes turn up. Not like we've got money to make or anything.

This talk from Sharpe about waiting for the accounts to be published through Companies House I think is a red herring. I got my copy of shareholders accounts through the post about 10 days ago. I'm not sure why the Club/Football League need to wait for Companies House to do anything. Once the Club has had the accounts signed off by the auditors they go to the League and can be scrutinised.

The conclusion I arrived at some time ago is that the people running Rovers thrive in the uncertainty. They certainly don't like sharing information unless they have to - like the training ground stunt. Only thing to draw from it is that it is either bad news that they are scared/embarrassed to release or there's some advantage to them keeping quiet.

Silva will need to live up to the hype. Done well abroad at Sporting and Olympiacos, had spurts of results at Hull, Watford and Everton yet each one didn't last very long and left under something of a cloud. Hull he ultimately took down (though couldn't be blamed for it), Watford he seemed to lose the plot completely after Everton took an interest and then Everton he had a decent first season before it unravelled. Think he could be a good appointment for Fulham.

To be honest re. Reach I'd take him now. If nothing else because we are looking woefully short, particularly in the creativity department, and he has shown at two other clubs he has something in his locker. Nothing to get excited about but right now I'm worried about relegation and so experience and some quality would be welcome. I doubt there's much in it. Probably just people putting 2 and 2 together with the Boro connection and his agent trying to get him a deal at another Championship club and us dealing in the free agent aisle. He'll rock up somewhere like Birmingham or dare I say it PNE as they will gazump us by moving quickly.

We need to worry about relegation not promotion. You've just named 4 CBs. Two are injury prone and barely featured last season. Wharton is out for the foreseeable. One is a kid who has had half a season in League One (albeit under a better manager than Mowbray). CB does need attention unless gambling Championship status is the way of it.

Mowbray has proven in his time that he doesn't trust Chapman and won't give him starts. Uninspiring and bizarre decision but only to be expected here. To only go for one year suggests that there isn't much confidence at the clubs end. I wonder if the plan is to just play him come what may over the next few months and then try to sell him for some sort of fee off the back of it to raise cash.

Reach an obvious link for them to come up with through the old Boro boys club. Will have been on huge money at Sheff Wed so seems odd but of course we usually find decent cash for wages when we need to. Its the things like reimbursing fans and cleaning Ewood that there isn't enough money for. He will have other suitors including clubs that try to get their business done early and quickly. We don't shop in that market. I see Sharpe now dropping a suggestion that the embargo is still in doubt. If true then there needs to be a local media investigation.

Pretty much everything you've listed there has happened or is likely to happen in the near future under these owners. The only good they do is pump substantial money in but any advantage from that is nearly all squandered due to mismanagement anyway. Our support base has been decimated under these buffoons. Hard to see how it can get worse than 2500 season tickets.

Perhaps the only people who have done well out of the last 10 years have been our managers and those that represent them. Quite the gravy train and no end in sight.

I see Craig Honeyman has taken to twitter to praise Venkys for their latest cash injection. Claims they are fantastic owners who deserve so much for how they support the club and community. I kid you not. A quick Google search will tell you Craig Honeyman is involved at HSH sports and was involved at SEM. He's also from Middlesbrough. Doesn't take much to join the dots around here.

I suspect this is at the insistence of the Football League. They will want to see evidence of actual cash going into the club rather than into holding/parent companies. When QPR were in bother one of the outcomes was they had to agree to convert 'debt' into shares and I suspect this is a similar arrangement/motive - I can't see any other reason than for FFP requirements although I stand to be corrected.

I don't read anything into that. At this early stage of pre-season the first team squad and u23s will all train together. It will be fitness work only for the first couple of weeks so little point in splitting them up. Mowbray will also do his usual trick of using a number of the u23s in pre-season games against lower league opposition and then not use them when the season comes around.

I think we are a PL/Championship club in name, facilities, history, reputation - run as a non-league outfit in terms of ownership and management. Other clubs at this level are perhaps Championship or League One in the above but are Championship or above in how they are run. Sadly for us even with a bottomless pit of cash and thriving academy/brilliant facilities ineptitude from the owners down renders it all pointless. I'm not sure what makes Pasha and Waggott appropriate people to be running a club of this size or what either has done in earlier life to qualify them for such important positions (other than Waggott being Mowbray's chum). Pasha - who knows other than the owners 'trust him'. That doesn't mean he is up to the job of doing whatever it is he does.

We are hopeless. That was my point. Barnsley show how to operate and we are a million miles off it. This is because of the owners and their goons and not because of Blackburn Rovers, which could and should be so much better.

Apparently they're off to Scotland for some training but no friendlies up there. Anyone heard the same?

Nothing wrong with a club policy of investing with a view to accumulating down the line. A few major flaws though. Firstly - the structure at this club isn't there to effectively carry out this policy to great success. To do it you need an overarching plan and structure, overseen either by the owners or a competent board of directors. We have neither, the whole thing revolves around Mowbray and his mates. Couple of problems there - Mowbray and his mates aren't particularly good, and I don't know why anyone from the owners down thinks they are. Also removal of the manager brings the whole thing crashing down which naturally implants reluctance to get rid of him. That should never be the case as the manager should be judged purely on results and axed if they aren't good enough. Not here though St Tony is our great leader and the club cannot function without his oversight. Secondly it should never be the central focus or core of business. The focus should be solely on promotion and assembling a squad - quickly or gradually - that is good enough to achieve that. The problem here is that much of our business is done with zero intention of promotion but with the focus being on individual development and profit Thirdly - and this is the giveaway - even in cases where we have done well and massively increased values we aren't proactive or decisive enough in ensuring those players are secured and our investment protected - Armstrong is the current one but there have been others and will be others to follow. If you want to profit greatly from these players you have to be willing and able to get them on long term deals - 4 or 5 years - and then sell when the big bids come. We're going to lose Armstrong for a fraction of what we should get and then next summer we will be doing the same on Kaminski, Travis, Nyambe.

When you look at the dreary names we've had here or linked with the job here and the bungled managerial appointments and compare to how Barnsley operate it is chalk and cheese. Which is why on a fraction of the losses they actually got to the play-offs whereas we plod along wasting millions. They've done two things in the last week that haven't happened here in a decade and won't happen under these owners. Firstly they've had their manager headhunted and snatched away from them as he performed so well last year. Secondly they've responded to that by targeting and lining up a replacement in a matter of days who doesn't come from the washed up or cheap and cheerful brigade.

Can the club afford to risk that and just hope these people find out via friends/relatives? Or should they be ringing these people up/posting leaflets to them begging them to renew? A good friend of mine who goes to every game home and away has no internet or smartphone and he's 63. He doesn't buy the Telegraph (can't blame him given the quality) and he only knows about season tickets being on sale because others have told him, not the club.

Ah - I must be off the list as I haven't had anything.

Has anyone else had any communication from the club regarding season tickets? I was thinking letter in the post, text message, call, email? I haven't. All I've seen is what is on the club website and in the Telegraph. Bad news if you don't have internet or buy the Telegraph.

I always wonder - are we looking at these players and deeming them to not be good enough for our high standards? Or are we not even looking? Or are we interested but unable to get any of these early deals done due to financial or incompetence reasons?

I see Luton have signed another - Mendes Gomes from Morecambe. Always looked decent whenever I've seen them play. Meanwhile Mowbray is too busy sharing his tactical acumen with the Brereton fanclub.

I'm confused again. So our market this summer is free agents and loans. So why aren't we signing free agents? Birmingham, Luton and Huddersfield to name 3 clubs who we should be expecting to finish above are signing players on free transfers. If you want to use that market you have to move quickly to catch the good ones. Is this a serious policy? Waiting until they are all signed up elsewhere then bemoaning a lack of options? Expect some more Mowbray snobbery or nonsense about players demands to justify inertia in the market