A bit pie in the sky but could the £7m reference be to Patrick Bamford? Be a bit crazy if Rovers were after him but that figure used by TM was a strange choice. I also remember Phil Hay the Leeds journalist saying we were interested in Kemar Roofe. That may be one possible target.

I just get a sneaky feeling and I hope I’m proven right on this but I think Mowbray might be a lot more ambitious in the targets he is pursuing than we all think. That article implies that Chapman and Armstrong are on the D list, or the C list at a maximum.

I suppose that means that players we are targeting and still haven’t moved are considered better than Armstrong and Chapman. Can this be considered a good sign?

We all just want a proper permanent deal that everybody can be happy with. Will lift the whole place I think.

This is gonna be a huge anticlimax. This transfer window is agony.

Has Duane Holmes gone anywhere yet? Sky linked us with him a while back.

Ultimately Mowbray can’t win in this situation. We all know that we need a nasty centre half. If he goes out and gets one permanent some will moan about ‘wasting the budget’, but if we get a loan some will say ‘why are we relying on loans?’ and ‘we should have kept Wharton instead’. Who’d want to be a football manager eh?

All of this “if nobody else came in” is quite a pointless exercise. In honesty none of us have the foggiest idea of who we’ll bring in, in what positions and the number of permanent additions. Only Mowbray, Waggott, Silvestre and other club officials know that. We only know that we won’t be finishing the transfer window having added no players to the squad. There is no evidence of this happening.

We never knew that did we!

Diaz isn’t a striker though? We need 1 or 2 out and out centre forwards!

Rich Sharpe saying the City player isn’t Nmecha. Who is it then?

We agree on that.

I’m not saying we’d have spent loads in the summer of 2016 but I think part of Coyle being given the job was that he agreed to work with practically no budget whereas almost all other managers would have looked for some level of commitment, especially Warnock.

The reality is we can speculate, guess and moan at hypotheticals but Rovers business is done strictly under wraps these days. Even when players are correctly identified such as Davenport, they said it was a loan when actually it was permanent, and for Palmer they got the length of loan incorrect. The reality is it wouldn’t surprise me if we signed someone that we haven’t been linked with and catch everyone off guard. Let’s hope that is the case and if so let’s hope it’s a good permanent addition.

I agree and would love 13-14k season ticket holders but I believe we can achieve that with a longer term approach of slow and steady growth. I think we all know the only way the support base will get a shot in the arm is if we are playing Premiership football again.

It’s a question we’ve all been asking for a number of years now, but we are nowhere nearer the answer.

I agree, but the club isn’t in a position to grow fan bases by shelling out millions upon millions on transfer fees. Therefore the only way the club increases revenue short term is by increasing ticket prices and securing as much sponsorship as possible. Then look for thousands more ticket sales as results on the pitch follow. We’re an unknown quantity in the Championship this time around, and our season could go either way.

I acknowledged that it was a price hike for most fans.

Long long overdue. One of the clubs we should be looking to finish above.

I’d heard that Wednesday had been embargoed on the sly and the club aren’t telling the fans.

I sort of agree with that but despite price hikes we’ve still sold more, so the club will be increasing revenue substantially in this area. Waggott’s objectives are to increase club revenues. I agree we would have all liked a higher number to be sold but in reality if prices were slashed, how many would we sell? 12,000 - 13,000 if we are being generous. The club could actually lose money this way, so it’s a difficult balance to strike.

Yes I would have hoped for 10k. The slow transfer window and price increase probably stopped that happening. Hopefully we can get close to 11k including half season tickets if we’re doing ok in the league. Gives a foundation to build upon.

Did you stop when reaching 9k or is the actual number sold just over 9k?

Lots of mixed messaging at the minute. One article implies 2 more signings earlier last week but then the latest interview with Mowbray indicated “a few before the deadline and a couple before the loan deadline”. That sounds like 5 additions including Palmer to me. I don’t understand an earlier comment that the way Mowbray is speaking means we won’t fill the positions we need, but we’ll have to wait and see.