Ghost7

Anyone saying things like "I'm fine with Tomasson walking" are missing the entire point. I'm not sold on him yet either as a manager but a manager with ambition feeling he has no choice but to leave the club is a disaster.

Where do I even start. Long story short, if this continues JDT will be walking and you'll be applauding no one.

Laughable.

Interesting that one of the most underwhelming and unimaginative transfer windows is occurring under the new setup. It's hugely disappointing given our hopes and strong league position again. The squad needed strengthening in both full back positions, two new centre midfielders bringing in and an attacker or two as a bonus. I expected extra numbers now partly to make up for the short window the new team had in summer and mentioned so often. As a season ticket holder the lack of strategy behind the scenes and their ability to get results time after time does make me wonder why I bother. Let's get it straight we've supposedly missed out on a goalkeeper and a centre back, two positions that wouldn't have been a priority for you this window if you were watching the games. Having to get everything done on deadline day, or even in the final week it's bad planning and execution right the way through and the people in charge must be made accountable when the times right, the problem is that doesn't happen at Rovers. Waggott and now sadly Broughton... These guys can seemingly talk the talk and that's about it. Every window is important and about building for the future, so far they are not delivering and if it continues I wouldn't be surprised to see Tomasson walk. 1 6 month loan isn't good enough. Lets not pretend they've done well, the forecasting in the summer had us set to be short, we were, the forecasting now has us set to be left short come February. We probably will be. It can't happen again next summer. If it does they've got to go!

Yet we still can't attract him!

So little patience on here like back in the summer! Calm down everyone, the club are working hard behind the scenes, we just have no control over our own transfer windows any more -they are in the hands of the Premier League clubs. Unless another team goes into financial difficulty, in that case we could pick someone up earlier than expected this week but again that would depend on the other clubs. Either way Pear's future and a new goalkeeper will all get resolved on deadline day and the worst case scenario there is that Pear's stays, I'd be happy with that; he's been in great spirits on the bench this year and integral in some of the warm ups. You have to understand that we simply don't have the revenue to compete, so I've decided to increase season ticket prices again for next year! See you all down at Ewood.

If we had decent owners my message to them would be sack the CEO immediately, bring in a team that can work together with the fans, restore some pride and with that generate some revenue for this football club.

This is last January all over again. Slow, no money, no new bodies in early to lift the team and fans... injuries mounting up, games and points passing by, and no real intent for promotion. Momentum lost. Act like a team in 12th, finish 12th. Hugely disappointing so far and not confident about Bristol away. RB, LB, 2 CMs and a new attacker needed while Ben is still here to stand any chance. Results so far.. 0.

Can't wait to see Porteous's range of passing to Kaminski and back to Kaminski then back again to Kaminski.

Refund them.

I suspect he isn't good enough but since he hasn't been backed in a full window yet it's very difficult to tell and currently the blame still lies with the owners, CEO and the Directer of Football for failing to get results behind the scenes.

The losses aren't just losses, they're no show hammerings. The combination of this manager, no funds and no ambition isn't going to work. One is going to have to give but I suspect we'll continue to drift along and that Tomasson will quit before ever getting fired by our passive owners.

For a team at the top, this isn't good enough. Again!

Go on then, who’s going to be first to say “calm down the signings are coming” this time. Then we end up with another Hirst and Mola! 😂

Do Everton really want to be signing out of form Championship players? Seems unlikely to me.

I'd expect both to be recalled due to lack of game time, I doubt either of the parent clubs/ players are happy so would expect something to be worked out.

I don't think JDT is interested in keeping players happy that are costing us points. Where are the cards for proper tackles as another poster touched on before the game? Anything else, you can do when you've achieve a lot more in the game than our squad has currently (Nothing! Maybe some of them need reminding of that). Flicking the ball at the back of opponent's heads, in a league game, when you're struggling to get in the first 11? Not for me. We've seen a good few matches treated as a joke by the players in recent weeks, Burnley, Preston and tonight's. Team meeting needed tomorrow, similar to the above with Hirst, Morton and Mola playing Goose.

I think Tomasson and Broughton will have seen enough now, that said, you'd struggle to sell a lot of this squad. Money needs investing, loan players need returning (their mistake!). Surely some business will get done early for once.

The state of Lewis Travis for that goal. He is letting this team down week after week with his lack of ability. I've said it for 4 months. Sell.

What a poor set of players

Lewis Travis. I have been posting about him for months now. Not a good enough footballer, I'm seeing it week after week after week. The sooner this gets realised the better. If he changes direction to go left he can't even play the simplest of passes with his left foot, stretches and tries to play it with the outside of his right whilst falling over and losing it, saw it again plenty today... embarrassing at this level. Sick of watching him.

My opinion on Travis remains the same, he doesn't have the ability. It needs fixing in January and we must spend money on a better central midfielder + bring in a striker to have a chance. We're also short of good wingers either side. Hopefully JDT has found all this out in the first half of the season. Zaroury, Benson, Brownhill, Cork and Cullen were too much and those are the exact positions we're short in. As Tomasson eluded to today 6 in wasn't enough in the summer, way off in fact (even though a good few fans were crying for patience daily, when most could see we needed more action)! Money must be spent centrally and up top IF we want to go up this season. Last year we spanked Sheffield United at home largely thanks to two loan wingers in Khadra and Poveda. This year we have George Hirst and Mola not making any real impact. The fact we're 3rd given the money spent and the amount of players we brought in is still pretty incredible but ultimately we're too reliant on the academy (as good as it is). Spend a bit more money and we could be a real contender. We need Venky's, Broughton and the scouting department to step up now! I'd also be happy to see us get rid of a handful of players for fees if we can but if we don't invest in players this January and Brereton leaves for free in the summer, it might be one hell of a long journey to the Premier League... or a never ending one. As it stands this team isn't going up without any backing.

I say it every time we try it... Brittain at LB should not be happening!! He is one of the best RBs in the league. Playing him at LB weakens the team immediately as the left side is totally unbalanced and the right side also isn't as strong as it could be because of this, throw a new defender inside of him in Mola and you have a recipe for disaster on paper and in a big game like this that's exactly what it was. Whenever I've seen Tomasson try it we've looked off and we were off again today to say the least, an absolutely appalling performance by the lot of them but it starts by not playing players in their strongest positions. A no show of a performance. Disgraceful from the players and the staff.

Overhyping average players has been a problem for years with England. Kane, Shaw, Rice, Phillips, Rashford, Maguire, Dier, Wilson, Sterling, Grealish. All average, we'll do nothing sadly.

Great to hear ambition and a winning mentality. Love it Ben! If this is the mentality around the club then the signings will come.