Or he's not got authority to....

The group I go with buy tickets as soon as they are released, so if I don't join I'll have to go off on one and sort myself out. The hassle of it just isn't worthwhile. I also find it wrong that if you subscribe to the official away travel season ticket you don't need 1875 membership as you automatically get an away ticket as soon as they are released. So effectively if you prefer to travel by coach rather than train or car you don't need the membership and still get priority. Doesn't really seem right to me.

That Derby away shirt is very nice.

I'd like to renew my 1875 membership but it isn't as easy as I thought. I've logged into the website which confirms I've renewed my season ticket but when I try to buy 1875 membership it is trying to charge me £16.50 for some unknown reason, even though it should be £10. I'd rather not ring up and deal with the staff but looks like I'll have to.

Completely agree. Meanwhile Rochdale are still going ahead with their game this week v Huddersfield. So much for the pitch not being fit!

He isn't good enough by a million miles. That much was obvious within 10 minutes of his debut. He's been on loan at two garbage League One sides that barely avoided relegation to League Two. We need much, much better, unless we just want to waste our season giving players a chance in the hope they attract interest from elsewhere. That's the only logic I can see in giving him a new deal.

Absolutely the issue. It's only sustainable if Mowbray remains in post long enough to see it bear fruit PLUS it is sustained once he has gone. We're 2 years in now and no indication its ready yet. Mowbray won't be here long in the scheme of things whatever happens. Is there the structure and expertise there to survive or thrive without his input? Probably not. Mowbray rightly deserves credit for 'rebuilding' the club but the issue really is that it shouldn't have ever have been his job to do so, and it all hinges on him delivering results on matchday.

More like nobody at Rovers has bothered to update the website.

If Evan's goes and assuming we don't re-sign Rodwell I hope that isn't a way of keeping Smallwood. Not good enough. Reasonably pleased with Gallagher, in theory some good attacking options at the club now. Need to offload Nuttall and Samuel. The window can only be deemed a success when the GK and defence have been addressed. That doesn't mean signing a kid on loan from an academy. An established and proven CB required. Not having the excuses.

Playing Rochdale this morning at Brockhall.

I'd like a defender (centre half) between the ages of 23-30 who has played at a decent level before who we will actually own and be able to build around rather than have to replace in January/next summer and repeat the cycle again. I believe that doing the above is more likely to result in longer term success than gambling on unproven kids, signing over the hill 30 odd year olds on short term deals or a repeat cycle of short term loans. I also believe that Venkys will not sanction the above, or certainly won't on defenders which it is clear our focus should be on, hence Mowbray's gradual regression from his comments early this summer. If the above makes me hysterical or negative fair enough. I look forward to my negativity and hysteria being proven to be wrong.

I don't disagree. But all that can be done without going cap in hand to them or taking Joe Hart off their hands.

It matters to me, yes. I could accept it if we were depriving them of one of their better players but when it's the other way around then no. I'd like a bit more self respect and imagination with our targets.

Can't think of many more embarrassing things than going to Burnley trying to sign one of their reserves or their washed up goalkeeper they'd be delighted to get shut of and hoping that they'll do us a favour with the fees/financial package. Any self respect we'd steer well clear. Plenty of other fish in the sea which we could get without doing them a favour or haggling over one of their reserves. Sadly the range of our scouting seems to decrease each and every year, and we're now down to clubs/players previously known to the manager or that lot up the road. So much for a new scouting department.

All built on Sky money though. One relegation and it's all gone. In terms of infrastructure, facilities, profile a long way to go.

They've managed to let Burnley and Preston catch/overtake us on the pitch and at this rate it won't be long before they surpass us off it. Some people call it the circle of life, I call it incompetence and negligence. Accy will never catch us as a club but having an owner who cares and wants his club to improve is more important than writing off big losses from India every year.

Dear me. That's it then. The club has done everything that could possibly be expected of it. Nothing more to be done. Prices frozen. After a 17% increase the previous summer. So an average of almost 9% rise each year. Imagine the take up if they'd have put another rise on! They've introduced the extra finance option AFTER it became clear a lot of people were being denied the opportunity to get a ticket. A good move but really late in the day AFTER people have been told 'no' and may well have had their noses put out of joint. A combination of stand closures, finance rejection and price hikes won't have gone down well. You can't fool the people. Sales figures prove that. Wagott and the club have gone too far with their antics. Why do our tickets only go on sale in May? Too late. What promotion outside the town has there been? Genuine question. I've seen the posters in Preston which were apparently taken down soon after as there was a bit of a media storm. Anything in Hyndburn, South Ribble? I haven't seen anything on my travels. The responsibility lies at home. Time the penny dropped on that one.

Have we signed Gallagher? Must have missed that . So if we get him for £5 million minus the £3 million for Raya that's a net summer spend of £2 million. That isn't top of the Championship.

But how many of those other clubs have released their back up CBs, signed no defenders and ended up in February with no fit CBs at the club?

There really is no room for him to wriggle out on this one. It's there for all to see and hear. Even if he hadn't said those things 99% of us know the defence isn't good enough. Stats back that up. If he fails to strengthen or add to the defence he's going to be in big trouble as soon as results dip.

Up a level as in Fulham, Middlesbrough or Brighton like our last assets were sold off to? Reinvest? Nice idea but unlikely to happen with this lot.

Yeah I was focusing on those who have appeared since relegation whereas Dann was a Premier League signing. Very concerning looking at the list above.

Nyambe- academy graduate Bennett - converted midfielder Caddis - free Lenihan- academy graduate/converted midfielder Mulgrew- free/converted midfielder Downing - free Elliott Ward - free Hendrie - loan Rodwell - free Olsson- free Spurr - free Kilgallon- free Wes Brown - free Gordon Greer - free Michael Keane- loan Alex Baptiste- loan Todd Kane - loan Ben Marshall- converted midfielder Jason Lowe - academy graduate/converted midfielder Grant Hanley- academy graduate Adam Henley - academy graduate Sam Hart - free Tommie Hoban - loan Derrick Willaims - 200k? Amari Bell - 200k? Shane Duffy - some sort of fee I'll go out on a limb now and say that our defensive issues will be 'addressed' internally or with loans/free agents. Remarkable that all those managers have chosen not to invest into proper defenders. Almost as though there's a common denominator here.

Armstrong for 1.5, Brereton for 7 and Gallagher for 5. All strikers by trade yet none will be playing there. Meanwhile in February we had no fit CBs and had to throw Magloire in. Makes no footballing sense and I refuse to accept Mowbray is entirely responsible for this. Its Venky policy.

We signed him as a left back. Without him coming in we wouldn't have had anyone to play there as we got shut of Spurr and Kilgallon. It really was needs must time as the season approached and we couldn't put a defence out so spent a bit on William's and gave Mulgrew a multi year deal.