Park is an old mate of Waggott's and was in his phone book. We know from experience that Waggott will turn to his old mates when the need arises (Totally Wicked, Watson Ramsbottom). With Broughton going Waggott needed a quick and easy solution. Answer is to go to previous. Easy Cheap That's it.

Which people do you identify as currently employed by Rovers who would be made redundant by an administrator? Do you really think Waggott is keeping non-essential staff in employment right now?

How do you know that? Why are we signing players to be third choice? You keep saying what Eustace wants. It's irrelevant what the manager wants. JDT wanted many things and didn't get them. He had the balls to resign rather than allow the lowlife to take advantage of him. What actually matters is what Venkys and their minions are willing to do. We all know, as will Eustace and the rest of the staff, what we need and what we want. I think you know the chances of getting it are slim which is why you keep saying 'Eustace wants'. He's not in control of this rotten vessel.

Abundantly clear to anyone watching last season that the GK position required urgent remedial work. If that work consists of keeping Pears at No.1, selling Wahlstedt, pocketing the cash and replacing him with a free agent 22 year old with 0 senior appearances then it seems even my admittedly low expectations might need adjusting even lower.

I'd like Waggott to explain why the club aren't holding league-mandated supporter consultation meetings nor shareholder meetings.

We'll sell Szmodics either soon before or soon after that date. Even if that means taking £6 million we'll get whatever we can and this will be enough to keep things going until the end of the year or beyond with the Raya money with it They'll then get another court date months down the line and we'll be having the same discussion in November, and they'll have to find another one for the January sales. They've been lucky with these players to sell. That won't last forever. Then it will get interesting.

They'll just be stringing Eustace along. Ain't daft this lot. They'll be worried that he'll do a JDT and throw a wobbler before the new season starts. So they'll be playing the good old tried and tested 'jam tomorrow' game as they have so many times. Telling him money coming, just not quite yet. I think they did the same with JDT, cutting his budgets then keeping him here telling him it would soon be resolved and back to business as usual. Waggott's already tried that one with the fans, trying to convince them that all is fine when it clearly isn't. Wouldn't put it past them to have told Eustace when he joined that he'll get backing in the summer if he kept us up. As we've seen here talk is cheap. May well be a game being played. They won't want Eustace to walk and suspect he's not the sort to do so as unlikely to land a better job any time soon, but probably made assurances to him since February that as yet haven't been delivered on. Wouldn't put it past this regime at all.

I'd be interested to know how many days a week Waggott actually goes to Ewood Park. My bet is not very many. Between 'home working' and his office at Brockhall I suspect his visits to Ewood are quite infrequent. But when you've previously worked at Roots Hall and Priestfield a bit of mould and grime at Ewood won't be causing him any concerns.

You don't have to accept it by pretending it is right or supporting it. You can still support the club whilst not accepting how they are doing things. As far as I am concerned part of being a supporter of a club is demanding better and not accepting whatever it is that they come up with when it clearly isn't good enough.

Waggott the only CEO in the world of business / sport that isn't held responsible for the direction and performance of the organisation he leads.

So our failings of the last number of years are nothing at all to do with budgets set by the owners and everything to do with failings on the part of former employees Mowbray, JDT, Broughton. If Waggott and Suhail could pick their favourite sentence in the world this would be it.

Any potential signing would be wise to remember the horrendous way we have treated potential new signings in recent transfer windows. It wouldn't be the first time, hell it wouldn't even be the second, if we lined a signing up, got nearly all of it done, got the player wearing the Rovers shirt at Brockhall and having his photo taken, only to be pulled at the last minute. You'd be a brave or desperate man to sit back and have faith that this lot are capable or serious about getting a deal finalised even if we show serious interest. Would I want to join such a club and be utterly humiliated by having my photo in the shirt plastered all over media and announced as a signing only to then be told to pack my bags and go back to where I came from? Certainly not. Any agent would be aware of this and advise their players of it before even speaking to this gang of charlatans. Oh but of course Broughton and Silvester have gone now so lets just forget about the reputational damage and appalling conduct of the club over the last couple of years. Nothing to worry about but the same owners, same CEO and same shadowy individual are all still here. Same people = nothing changes. Some might want to delude themselves that corrective action has been taken, that we are now in a bright new era where the admin errors don't happen again and all is in the past with that. But it is very easy to develop a reputation whereby people/clubs/players/agents don't trust you and don't want to do business with you and it takes a long time to get it back. Of course anyone with a braincell at Ewood will know this and know that their shenanigans in January 2023, January 2024 (and presumably many others that didn't play out in public) will have caused serious medium to long term damage to this club's reputation in the game. Not that they give two hoots about that.

As depressing as those names are we won't be getting them. We play this game every transfer window, in the end permission won't be granted for funds to be spent or 'large' wages added so that's the end of it. Keeps people like Nixon relevant and it might even be correct that Eustace would be interested. But since when does a manager get backed with his own signings here.

'A coup' might be pushing it for someone who spent last season at one of our relegation rivals. We do need experience and cannot start the season without a new goalkeeper to knock Pears out of the starting XI but I think it is desperate times when we are looking at people not far off 40 as good signings

On the contrary if you work weekends you'll probably not miss that many with all the fixture changes to come from Sky.

Season starts in less than 4 weeks and yet we've still not signed a single player and have a weaker squad now than the one that just about survived last season. This is a reason to be positive?

I don't believe that for a second. We've heard similar many times under Waggott's 'stewardship' - about how we are supposedly offering players better terms, trying to keep them here, bigger wages. Yet each and every time the player has moved on elsewhere. Either we aren't offering pay rises or we are but we are talking pitiful amounts that are never going to be successful. It works though, because in one swoop it shifts blame and responsibility away from Rovers who are now seen to be 'trying' to keep their best players and willing to do what is needed - and on to the player who is seen as to blame for not accepting what we are offering and forcing Rovers to cash in to protect the investment. A familiar old tale. The end result will be Szmodics sold, money disappears and muppets online saying we had to sell because he refused to sign a new deal and we 'did all we could'.

Brentford got £30 million for Ollie Watkins off newly promoted Aston Villa. He was 25 and had never played above Championship level and that was 4 years ago. So for a younger Adam Wharton we may have got to that figure or higher. Granted Watkins had goals to his name in the Championship but Wharton's importance to the team can be just as big, as Palace have shown.

£18, 22, still not enough for a kid getting picked for England. Palace had our pants down and Rovers are the ones left looking like idiots. To make matters worse they attempt to milk some credit from the situation on social media. Perhaps if there had been one single ounce of ambition to get to the level of mighty Palace he'd have been able to showcase his talents in blue and white in the PL. Unfortunately no such ambition or plan here, bundle him out the back door on deadline day to the first lot who threw proper cash on the table. We saw what JDT thought of that one. It finished him off.

There's nothing respectable at all with getting less than £20 million for a 19/20 year old lad who has played every week in the Premier League and been a member of the England Euros squad. In this day and age we are at least £10 million short, if not more. He'll be worth £40-50 million now, so Palace are absolutely laughing. Venkys and Waggott are laughing because that cash has saved their arses for 12 months. Blackburn Rovers and its fans are the ones who suffer, as usual.

We need to get Morecambe's secretary. They can sign 15 at once and we can't even click submit on one.

So long as he remembers which foot to put the protective boot on I remember Hanley had protection on one knee in the first half and second half it was on the opposite knee.

£20 million, £6 million, £1 million Whatever it is Blackburn Rovers won't benefit from it, all we are looking at is how much it helps Venkys do whatever it is they are doing.

The less we get for Szmodics the more Venkys have to find from elsewhere. That's all that matters. Forget about reinvestment or improvements, ain't happening in a month of Sundays. He's the last asset on the books. Once he's gone there's no more silver left to flog and the clock is ticking on the next lump of cash needed. Bring it on I say. £20 million would just mean more to help Venkys hang around for longer. The less the better if it pushes them out.

It's something different and I like the central badge, should do that on the home shirts IMO. Not sure why we have a third strip as should be totally unnecessary. Surely a pink away shirt and our halved home shirt would not clash with anyone else?