Wow. I know they’re academy lads but how on earth is Nyambe and Travis propping that list up? Gallagher needs to earn his money. Johnson needs to fuck off. The rest is as expected really, except for Davenport and Chapman who are both stealing a living at this club right now. We will lose Travis soon to better wages if we don’t bring him in line with the rest. In my eyes Travis is one of the first names on the team sheet every week

So why isn't he in the team or even close? I don't think I have ever seen Mols even on the bench.

Buckley was chased by Liverpool weren't he? I don't doubt the lads ability, despite him being shown up physically he's made some touches / passes in his time that have shown he has a football brain. I don't think we are going up this year, sadly, and I'd love to end the season with the likes of Buckley, JRC, Nyambe, Lenihan in the team whilst Butterworth is back fit and pushing for that place too. We need to start using these academy kids given our financial situation. I've heard good things about Mols too and I suspect he won't be far off a chance given the amount of chances being handed out at the moment.

I fuckin hope so now lol. Always assumed they were ?

I don't doubt there are occasions when players need to be sold for the sake of dressing room harmony but I'm not buying the whole "not fitting in" scenario. If the coaching staff is strong enough and the dressing room is together one bad apple won't set in a rot. I don't particularly buy into the fact that certain players shouldn't be signed because of attitude problems. In the past it has worked for us - Bellamy, Bentley - players that had bad attitudes that excelled in their time at Ewood. If we look at Wilder for example he brought Ravel Morrison to the club. A free signing that maybe hasn't worked out but it's not disrupted the dressing room in any way. Now, 2.5m is a bit different from a freebie but is Marcus Maddison that bad of an egg not to warrant a punt with the kind of returns he boasts of? I think not having seen his brothers application. You'd also think with James Maddisons past with TM we'd be front runners in any chase for him. Edit: Turns out I was talking shite and they aren't brothers. Who would have thought two people could have the same surname and not be related.

Personally think we should spend £3m on a left sided defensive player / centre back in truth. I'm certain we could afford one at that fee. That said this Curtis lad seems highly rated and I'd rather him be in a Rovers shirt if that's the case. Can't say I've seen much of him to warrant £3m to be honest and if we are going on stats you'd have to argue £2.5m for Maddison is a better deal........................

What else do you call the same handful of people who ask him the same question topic after topic? no he wouldn’t sack Mowbray, yes he trusts Mowbray in the transfer window, no he doesn’t think there’s a better manager out there for us. We’ve all read it before and it’s getting annoying seeing the same questions posed to him to get the same answers back all the time. Clearly you will have to agree to disagree.

Jesus Christ, talk about setting a man up to fail.... We all know Chaddy wouldn’t fire Mowbray and he’s explained why he wouldn’t a billion times. For once can the mob leave him out of it ?

I'm not a football scout, and no expert by any means, but I don't for the life of me understand why we haven't bid for Maddison. If his release clause is 2.5m and Ronan Curtis is 3m then we should sign them. 5.5m to basically solve our out wide problems. Play Holtby between them, Graham/Gallagher/Armstrong up top and suddenly you've got a front 4 of players in their actual positions. If you need to raise 5.5m sell someone but make sure that money is spent on them players.

This just proves all of the thoughts I have had in my head over the Christmas break. I was looking forward to it as I knew I'd be back in town and could attend a few games. I didn't go once. The truth about it all is that all of our talk about Mowbray is guff - it doesn't matter who is in charge because nothing will ever change whilst they are here. We are shackled by three people who will probably never step foot in our town again. It's disgusting that the EFL allows this kind of thing to happen. All this talk every time we are on sky about how much our owners are pumping in, how committed they are to our cause is bullshit. This is their own doing. They bought a club for £20m and sold a player for £17m. They had the perfect business, ran by genuine football people and they threw it all away in their pig headedness / desire to have a club to write off loses in the Indian market. I've no sympathy for them and honestly I would rather face the bullshit we'd get from our rivals and start again in the lower leagues than have them three wankers have anything to do with us. What are we supposed to do now, be thankful they service their debt? No, fuck them, they made this bed. Sadly for us fans it's our ego and our club that suffers but part of me is happy it's denting their wallets too. Sacking TM, hiring Pep, whatever it's all pointless. We may as well appoint Kermit the Frog so Balaji can actually have his hand up its arse rather than pay a person to masquerade as a coach. Nothing changes. It's the same shit, different year. It's about time the football league and its sponsors started to consider the communities that these clubs service as opposed to their bank balances. The Venkys have no affiliation to this town, club or county; they are strangers in the company they own and are nothing more than deadwood with deep pockets. Well done for paying the electric bill but when you eventually do swallow your pride and piss off the only legacy Venkys will leave is one of pure filth. If family reputation is as big in India as they say you should know that in this town you are bottom feeders.

This could be down to the club not operating on a proper level anymore. A board is usually made up of a handful of directors, each with their own staff, whereas ours is made up of two and only one of them really has any idea about the goings on of the club (Waggot). A lot less people to have information passed through and eventually leaked. Plus it seems to take us 4 weeks to get information through to our owners so let alone letting the local reporters know. A terrible state of affairs.

I think the only information you can gleam from that is that nobody actually knows anything.

Tell him to shake Brereton upside down and we might get some loose change. Either that or a goal...don't know which one I'd prefer. Find the £2.5m for a guy that has accumulated over 30 assists in 3 seasons. Why sign Gallagher to play on the wing when there's literally a winger there for HALF THE PRICE

This is just fucking nonsense man and part of the reason I'm absolutely at my limit with this club. Other clubs have directors for this. Loan managers/analysts who scout and chose a good fit for them. We leave it onto the lads agent who no doubt only cares which deal is sweetest for him. I don't particularly think Brereton will improve but going to ADO Den Haag and being coached by Pardew can't be much good for the lad. They are in a terrible position and I'd imagine a relegation artist like Pardew isn't going to save them.

January is a bad month to try and address problems. The best we could probably hope for is a Premier League loan to give someone who isn't playing much some game time. Our only downside is that the PL suffered unprecedented injuries over the winter months so it's unlikely there's many good players available. However, if we can't beat Charlton to Maddison and we lose out on him ala Bauer then a few people in the Rovers engine room need to give their heads a wobble.

We have Crimpshine. They won't go and don't care how little we think of them. They are horrid people. I think this topic should be locked after the below response. Q: Are Venkys welcome? A: NO

Walton had a good start but has made so many mistakes. It's remarkable how he is in the top 5 keepers for clean sheets this season but you can imagine he'd be head and shoulders above every other keeper if he can cut them mistakes out. Sadly, we won't ever see if he will. I thought Walton was an upgrade on Raya but he isn't. Raya was always going to be a good goalkeeper and we've dropped an absolute clanger letting him go. A shocking piece of business.

This is a problem in football. The fans see the players detached from themselves. I’ve no doubt if roversfan99 brother injured his back severely at work and his employers just cut his contract down and released him he’d be citing unfair dismissal. Gladwin was allowed to be rehabilitated and then he got shipped off. Quite what was wrong with that is beyond me, we did what we could by the man and I’m glad we aren’t a club to throw him aside and leave him to his own devices. I don’t want us to be a club associated with that type of ethic. Talk of not paying him is ridiculous. This is the mans employment at the end of the day and he injured himself whilst working for us. Just to point out too that I consider Gladwin the worst footballer to have played for us. That doesn’t detract from the clubs duty of care to him. I’ll never forgive him for not winning a single header against Beardsley vs Burnley. He had about 6 inches on him ffs

I thought Pedersen was a good player, not a great one. Hence why his form declined. Players found him out and knew how to defend against him. This happens to players in the PL and it is why it is the best in the world. The players around him also gradually got worse and he spent a lot of his later years as a defensive winger. That said, amazing with set pieces and I still reckon at 38 he could teach a few of our lads how to play the game.

I’d be going for Emre Mor myself. This man was tipped as something great and we have (past albeit) history of taking strikers with suspect attitude problems and watching as they set games on fire. Although we have had our fair share of bad ens to....Goodwillie. I just think Mor screams Rovers. Turkish and brilliant with the ball. Knowing the history of the club like any fan would I’d have tried to land this bloke in the summer. Sadly though we don’t have that pulling power and the likes of Leeds and Brentford are now above us in that regard. It would have been a (Turkish) delight seeing one of theirs playing on Ewood again

I don’t even see PNE as a rival in truth. More of an irrelevance. I have some respect for them as their history goes back as far as us but that’s where it ends. Us playing them so often now is just another symptom of having the owners that we do. I get excited for Burnley and Utd, other than that it’s just another fixture against another club.

Neil Warnock would get a club promoted even now. He knows what it takes to get out of this league. He's retiring because he is 71 not because his time in football has come.

He literally got Cardiff to the PL two seasons ago....

The English language is amazing. By your use of “play off chasing Preston” one would assume they’re light years ahead of us. Yet the truth is they are 3 points ahead. It is a matter of a single win out of a remaining 20 This is a winnable game

Undoubtedly my favourite season in a long time as a Rovers fan. Not just because we were winning, which of course helps, but because we saw some proper footballing grounds and places I'll probably (hopefully) see again unless they come up. Our travelling support was excellent that season. The Championship feels rather numb in comparison - too many stadiums on retail parks, not enough character.