Unfortunately I fear the man least culpable for this charade is likely to be the first out of the door.

As much as I've admired JDT and his style of football, it's now looking pretty obvious that his general demeanor and disillusionment with the current situation is having a detrimental effect on the players on the pitch.

The uncertainty around his future can't be helping, it needs to be resolved one way or another. If he does go I hope he is swiftly followed by the real  culprits in this farce that is Blackburn Rovers at present.

30 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

My experience is that it’s ten times harder to get people to return than it was to attract them in the first place. Once people walk away they tend to stay away.

In other news - Charlton are near to signing Nathan Jones as their new manager. One to scratch off our potential replacement list.

If the egg is still here after this latest fiasco, he presumably would be the man who will decide who takes over from JDT if he walks.

If that's the case, it won't be the likes of a Warnock or Ainsworth or Jones. He's on record as saying it would be someone with similar principles to J DT as all the current sides from the 21's to u9's all play the same way.

Who that would leave I've no idea.

The guy Will Still was linked with Sunderland earlier in the season and he seems to have done a good job in Ligue 1

1 minute ago, nbdrovers said:

i thought people saying the recent mess is worse or as bad as when we first went down were speaking a bit of hyperbole, but i'm fully behind that sentiment now. this stuff?? again??  more insular rich kid infighting further crippling our club.

Absolutely correct, we go down, we ain't coming straight back like before

Had characters like Danny Graham , Dack and Charlie Mulgrew. There's nothing like that here now

24 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Yes, there will be fans in the ground unhappy with JDT's transfer dealings as manager.

His transfer dealings ?  I think the last 48 hours or so certainly disproves Broughtons comments on his arrival when he said that no signings would be made without the managers approval

That seems patently not true now

50 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

A. Wharton knew he was going on Monday night. He's been in London since at least Wednesday.

The money was there to be spent they've clearly simply been told they're not allowed to spend it.

The deal almost collapsed late Wednesday so he may have been down there, but the money certainly won't have been.

Like I say, after calming down slightly,maybe, just maybe I can now seen some sort of plan.

Short term fixes hopefully get us through to the summer and then have a real go.

I'm hoping the LT are asking the same question of G B when he pops up.

If Fleck is fit I'd give the window 5/10, before that 3/10 at best.

McGuire obviously an unknown quantity, thr other loans don't see making a huge contribution, especially the Liverpool lad

Went to bed last night after the McGuire signing very disillusioned and actually was going to come on here and ask for Waggots and Broughtons e mail addresses to let them know what I thought of their transfer window.

Woke up to find we had signed John Fleck (on another short term deal admittedly) and after some thought I am hoping this is the case :

Certainly we lacked leaders and experience as admitted by JDT and these two certainly bring both of those qualities without doubt.

I should know better after all this time with these owners , but I am prepared to accept that the Wharton money may have come to late to do any major deals and to possibly make some mistakes by panic signings

IF that money is made available in the Summer (and it won't be £18m) then it gives the recruitment team breathing space to identify targets.

Let's see if Broughton confirms that in his post window assessment. If not I'll be back on asking for those e mail addresses 

3 minutes ago, ben_the_beast said:

Agreed. Though fortunately Field is suspended for the weekend.

The bloke that worries me is that Sinclair Armstrong. Big, quick, powerful unit , can see him having a field day against our defence. 

Have to keep his back to goal, if he is allowed to turn and run at us we are in trouble 

2 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Anyone heard a name of the midfield PL loan? Why such a big secret?

It's not happening this time of night, if it ever was

14 minutes ago, rigger said:

Lets see who plays in midfield on Saturday, that will show who is going to replace Wharton.

He won't be playing on Saturday as he is injured. Can only imagine it will eventually be Buckley and I'm not his biggest fan tbh

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Wharton's body language is usually pretty poor - but he looked particularly forlorn in his tracksuit as the last player to walk off on Monday.

Little did we know that'd be the last time we saw him in Rovers colours. I hope he comes back for a home game so we can give him a proper send off. 

Yeah, we are going to miss him, especially if as it seems we don't replace him.

Players like Adam are rare indeed , someone who can make the game look ridiculously easy at times 

10 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

Give Wrexham £1m for Mullin. Easy.

Did you watch the game the other day ?

5 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

 

Is the fax machine working and are the Rovers management in the office or at the pub?

Can someone remind them it's McGuire and not Maguire

Oh shit 😱😱 what could possibly go wrong ?

Although we won't be getting £18m up front for Wharton, the fact we have only spent around £500,000 on ,McGuires loan deal, means that we are being taken for idiots by the people in charge. It's a fucking disgrace tbh

2 minutes ago, yellowsubmarine said:

Slightly 10mil on an untested USA soccer player? HAhaha

❓

1 minute ago, TommyRovers said:

Alan Myers working part time for the Lancashire Telegraph today

Aye, 2 hours since Jackson last posted some trivial detail. No idea what is going on there, useless

Just now, DanielMB said:

So another f****** loan deal. 

Don't mind that personally, gives us a chance to have a look at him before making a decision.

1 minute ago, Hasta said:

Looks to me like we what the early morning rumours said. We are currently unable to sign anyone permanently for a fee and commit to any permanent contracts. 

Ths deal says there is a big loan fee involved plus if we do decide to take up the option to sign him it will cost more than the £2.3m we were due to pay

Hefty loan fee involved .....

19 minutes ago, OssyLad said:

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned but Issac Hayden is at brockhall 

Glad someone's got some info cos we are getting absolutely fuck all from Jackson today. 

Come back Rich Sharpe

Nixon

2 minutes ago, callumrovers said:

He’s probably right. Until Wharton money hits the bank, nothing will happen. 

It's coming by pony express. Really didn't think the club could fuck up more than the summer window but looks like they've managed it.

Last season for me as season ticket holder, they've finally worn me down

3 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Really got to feel for the lad

 

Flashback to Leo being pissed about at the airport while Rovers fiddled as Ewood burned

4 minutes ago, Jimmy612 said:

Very sceptical about this.  Okay, so the Wharton deal may have been stalling, I'm not going to speculate on that for the minute.  Who knows why or how that would be the case. 

Why on earth would Rovers immediately advise Orlando that the deal won't be happening?  Based on timeline of events, it can't have been much earlier than 9pm UK time when we advised them.  He's supposedly on a flight here so there's a nice natural buffer there, and clearly the Wharton deal wasn't completely dead. If, today the Wharton deal is dead, we have a perfectly acceptable reason for not progressing the McGuire deal. Instead, we appear to be in a position whereby we've sold Wharton and conveniently, the McGuire deal is gone. 

Prove me wrong Rovers, but currently this stinks.  It looks to me like we can anticipate another 'not our fault', hard luck story in the next few days.

Question: Who is Bayes' source? Was it him who conducted the cosy interview with Waggott in August? 

 

 

Have no idea why the Wharton deal nearly collapsed, but if I was guessing I would say that Rovers moved the goalposts and asked for a bigger initial down payment than was originally agreed, possibly to be able to bring in these players they were.linkef with last night.

Unfortunately it's probably all too late now