Chris Hughton is really starting to look a tempting prospect.

Which was an own goal.

Rovers commentary team having a laugh at the moment. "Encouraging signs from the game today". We haven't had a single shot on target with four forwards on the pitch.

Referee is having a nightmare in the 2nd half. Bennett was fouled for the 2nd goal and he's just booked Bennett for a tackle in which he fairly won the ball.

2-0 Fulham.

Easily one of the most humiliating days I have ever experienced as a Blackburn Rovers fan trying to get information out with regards to the clubs deals. To say it was a shambles would be an understatement. This club is in big big trouble. The attempt to sign Harrison Reed for instance has really shook me in terms of how low we have fallen. Fancy trying to sign a player on loan at 30% supplemented wages and offering to sign him at the end of the loan for under £3 million. Soton laughed it off and got the full 100% wages plus an agreement to sign for £5 million come the end of the season with add-ons from Fulham. The Cunningham deal which has been apparently worked on for 48 hours couldn't even be completed with an agreement to sign him at the end of the season should he do well for us. 3 CB's were bid for along with a goalkeeper. Haven't a clue who they are. But they were all laughed off as being too low cash offers. We are now categorically left with a weaker defence than the League One defence we had, let alone what we had last season. Mowbray know's it. Everyone in the building knows it. Whilst I don't rate Mulgrew, not replacing him with an experience 1st team CB is absolute suicide. I expect Mowbray will pay for this abject failure with his job before the end of the season. Notice Cunningham has very clearly been listed as a "left-back" on the club website. As I clearly outlined the other week when we signed Tosin. The condition was that he would a) be played in the 1st team and b) be played at CB. We are left with Derrick Williams, Tosin Adarabioyo, Darragh Lenihan, Lewis Travis, Joe Grayson and at a push Ryan Nyambe for CB. I expect Bennett to be handed the captains armband by the way.

A couple of weeks ago we were theorising that we could/would sign Adriano or Carson. A couple of weeks later Adriano is a Liverpool player and Carson is a Man City player. ? Talk about back down to ground with a bump!

I think we would. But the clubs selling would have us over a rope. They could dictate price and terms because of the late hour.

Crystal Palace might be interested in Bradley Dack. £12 million seems to be the asking price.

He wasn't signed to play right-back. Tosin was told he would be playing CB.

Can't say I have heard anything along those lines myself. A couple of weeks ago I would have gagged at the prospect. Right now I would be cheering if it displaced Mulgrew from the Starting XI.

What the manager says in public and what Rovers representatives are saying behind the scenes are very different things. I didn't suggest the switching of players around in the same team. It's worth noting that people laughed at the prospect of having Martin Olsson at left-back and Marcus Olsson at RW/RM. It did work for a time. We need some pace on the wing and Bell has that somewhat. If we lose a chunk of games testing players, it could be the difference between 15th place or relegation. He has played LB for Scotland. Mulgrew is a disaster at CB, and if Mowbray is so obsessed that he has to play Mulgrew then I'd rather he did so at LB than CB. I think that considering how teams who expect to be around us come the end of the season have improved relative to us not really. We would be lucky to finish 15th.

The idea was to bring in 2 goalkeepers and I would have thought that Walton was going to be the understudy, then alarm bells started going off when he was referred to as the Number 1 keeper. We were looking for an experienced goalkeeper to replace Raya. Walton does clearly not meet that description. From what I had heard, we were trying to find suitors for Smallwood, Samuel (loan), Leutwiler (2 keepers signing required), Evans, Hart and maybe let a few other younger players go out on loan. Remember a while back Mowbray said he wanted 3-4 signings. But that was before the departure of Nuttall, Wharton and Raya. Whether he had factored the four into his number before the departures is a question mark. You could certainly say that Gallagher is a sort-of replacement option for Nuttall and maybe even argue that Downing is a sort of replacement for Conway. But it is obvious we are lacking in some key areas depth and squad quality wise. My honest opinion: GK: I am unconvinced by Walton and would have liked a veteran keeper brought in who's experience is higher than League One. LB: Bell is obviously not good enough. Hart struggled to match League One level. If money is tight. I wonder whether Mulgrew could go out to left back and a more commanding CB be brought in alongside Lenihan RB: Nyambe would work at a push. But I see this as another weak area. I honestly never thought I would be longing the day where Williams returns from injury. CB: Mulgrew for me is a liability. I actually think Williams is better a CB than Mulgrew and Mulgrew's goals somewhat saves his defensive blushes CM: Yes I know the jokes about having to many CM's. But I really think we are going to miss Harrison Reed this season Wing: We lack pace which makes us very containable for better teams. I had mooted the suggestion that we should try Bell out wide considering his attacking movements. But I am unconvinced he is a complete enough player even at the age of 25.

When you adjust for players with experience at 1st team level.

I trust the scouting data I have reviewed.

7 actually. He also spent time out on loan at Scunthorpe. I have seen some scouting data on him. He was the subject of some transfer interest in Greece and is highly thought of. Trent Sainsbury? Honestly don't know if he is a player we have shown interest in. I don't know who the Holland based player is. I only know 2 of the names of players we have shown interest in, in Germany. One has been made public and the other I listed some pages back but is out of our price range C- The club are lying about the available budget in terms of transfer funds and are constrained on wages. Whilst Mowbray has been saying he wants to retain players, I know for a fact Rovers have been trying to find suitors for several players both on long term deals and out on loan to reduce the wage bill. There is a reason Mowbray said one thing in May. Had his meeting with Venkys in June and then does something completely different in July/August.

My suspicion is nobody. I reckon we will end up doing what we did last season. Sign some League One/League Two player on loan with a view to sign them in January. In January that player will return to his club. I maintain this club needs at least 3 defensive signings to stand a chance of having a successful season this time round.

Barnsley left-back/left-wing back Tom Pearce moving from Leeds United to Barnsley. Miles ahead of Amari'i Bell in quality and development. Rovers nowhere near it regardless of blatantly needed left sided defensive reinforcements. They are paying in the region of £300,000 for him. Absolute bargain! Meanwhile Rovers are taking the very casual attitude of "well we don't need anyone, but if something good comes along we might go for it". This a week after 72 hours of solid enquiries and bids for a range of defenders in Germany and one in Holland. The club is not making itself look good at the moment.

It was classed as an U23 team. I listed the players I was made aware of playing.

An U23 team featuring Lutwieler, Nyambe, Magloire, Grayson, Rankin-Costello, Evans, Vale, Smallwood, Chapman, Buckley and Brereton were on the wrong side of a 4 nil drubbing at the hands of a Manchester United U23 (behind closed doors friendly) team today. The United team featured Paul Pogba, Alexis Sanchez, Jesse Lingard (2 goals), Mason Greenwood (1 goal), Tahiti Chong (1 goal), Sergio Romero, Matteo Darmian and Axel Tuanzebe. Worth noting that Rovers U23's are still not playing with a permanent Head Coach.

So ditch a player who got us 15 goals, and 12 assists in the Championship last season and replace him presumably with Joe Rothwell who got 2 goals and 2 assists last season. We have already clarified that the owners don't reinvest money gained from sales. But hey... What the Hell... What could go wrong when were are struggling to defend right now...

£1.25 million = The total sum of cash transfer signings we have made for our defence in 6 seasons. £10.6 million = The total sum of cash transfer sales we have made for our defence in 6 seasons. Shane Duffy - £400,000 - Everton - Since left Elliott Ward - Free Transfer - Bournemouth - Since left Gordon Greer - Free Transfer - Brighton & Hove Albion - Since left Derrick Williams - £250,000 - Bristol City - Shouldn't be a guaranteed starter/inconsistent Charlie Mulgrew - Free Transfer - Celtic - Awful defender Wes Brown - Free Transfer - Sunderland - Since left Paul Caddis - Free Transfer - Bury - Since left Sam Hart - Under £100,000 - Liverpool - Meh at League One level Paul Downing - £200,000 - Milton Keynes Dons - Released on a free to Portsmouth Amari'i Bell - £250,000-£300,000 - Fleetwood Town - Shouldn't be in the 1st team Jack Rodwell - Free Transfer - Sunderland - Since left In addition to these signings (and subsequent departures), we have also seen the additional departures of Bradley Orr (no great loss), Josh Morris (talented), Tommy Spurr (solid), Grant Hanley (never replaced), Adam Henley (injury prone) and Matthew Kilgallon (solid if not unspectacular). Our defence is currently made up of Ryan Nyambe (academy), Derrick Williams (Bristol City signing), Charlie Mulgrew (Glasgow Celtic signing - arguably not his natural position), Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town signing), Darragh Lenihan (academy), Sam Hart (Liverpool academy), Elliott Bennett (Norwich City signing - out of position), Tyler Magloire (academy) and Tosin Adarabioyo (Man City academy). It should come as no surprise that we have a poor defence when it is made up from Free Agents, low cost League One players, injury prone players and academy players. The defence has suffered chronic under-funding for way too long now and that doesn't look as if it is going to end any time soon.

Reading the managers comments post match yesterday, I have absolutely zero faith that he can recognise the problem we have. Come January people will be able to point to the date very clearly where we chucked away any chance at the play-offs and instead find ourselves in a relegation battle.

Tony Mowbray's conclusion of the home defeat to Charlton Athletic. ?

Mowbray slammed our defenders at the end of last season. When he spoke at the fans forum on May 2, he said that the defenders knew they hadn't done well enough last season and new ones would be coming in. Yet we are days away from the end of the transfer window and we have lined up with the same defence as we did last season. In fact with the exception of Mulgrew taking Williams place, it is exactly the same defensive lineup we fielded against Swansea on the last day of last season. Now I obviously know Tosin couldn't play today. But does anyone really think he would have made that much of a difference?! If we don't get AT LEAST a CB, a RB and a LB before the window closes. We will struggle. It's just not good enough. Unless somebody has stopped him doing what he said he would do. He really has no excuse. Mowbray.MP4