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He's been pushed, mate. We shipped him on loan and declined to put a contract Infront of him.

Translate it to any other industry and I think you'd have very similar results.

Some of them, yeah. His closest mates have left, a good few players have just arrived. I just don't think it was an answer that was helpful to anyone but those that are trying to push Trav out.

I understand that sentiment but there are other factors at play - you have to consider the impact of the answer on the team and squad. And honestly, expecting a player - or anyone for that matter - to risk their income on spilling the beans for little to no benefit is not realistic.

I'm seeing a lot of people espouse complete honesty with no tact as implicitly positive. It's the same in politics; "he says what he feels, he's just so honest." Imo VI either didn't think about the impact of his answer to the question on Trav or has been briefed to push him out. Trav is our captain. The impact on the squad - the majority of which he won't have confided in that he wants to leave - to hear the club captain and cultural leader wants out could be cataclysmic. We all know how important momentum is in this league and we've turned in two insipid performances. If morale is destroyed among the newer players within a month of joining they don't have a fucking chance. VI has thrown a grenade and I'm not sure whether it was a slip of the tongue or preordained.

Travis will not be in the squad.

Quite how you can summise we're paying players more than the going rate given what we know about Venkys is honestly, astounding.

Yeah I thought Kargbo was the only one who didn't stink. The entire front line played awfully, apart from him imo.

Glenn and a few others have mentioned how poor morale is at the club at the moment, I'm not surprised.

I understand wanting to find a silver lining but I couldn't care less.

I don't know where to start with this shit show. Rotating so heavily was foolish in the extreme. It was patently obvious Bradford would be right up for this. What the fuck was Montgomery doing starting at RB? Individual performances across the board really, really poor. I could pick out maybe one or two that didn't disgrace themselves but I'd be grasping at straws. This is Bradford, playing in league two last year and don't let the possession stats fool you, we barely laid a glove on them. The good news? Our captain will very likely be sold this week and we get to welcome Big Club and 7000 cocky Brummies to Ewood this weekend. Fuck off.

Ey up

Yeah, hesitated. Classic GK overplaying it.

Oh lads

Weird how our right back was non existent. Fucking stupid.

We've bought two right backs and are starting a (fairly) promising midfielder there. Stupid team selection makes a change from stupid transfer and contract policy, I guess.

Sure but sounds like they need the midfield bolstering in some way. Eustace will be pushing hard for Travis.

20 touched in 70 mins from a midfielder is abysmal. I'd be going for Trav, too.

I don't post the following to be controversial or make a point, but I was busy today and where I would usually check the score every 5 minutes I saw us losing after 20 and checked result after 90. I've stopped caring. If you haven't, then that's great, but I honestly have started to lose interest. I also don't post this as a response to us losing, we could have won 4 zip and I think I would have had the same level of reaction. I'll probably attend 3 or 4 away games again this year but my interest in the club is waning.

I can count the amount of disagreements I've had with forum members on one hand, I can't imagine you can say the same. Wharton was obviously known to the clubs you mentioned. Them not buying him doesn't disprove that.

Contrarianism isn't entertaining. He will absolutely have been on their short/long lists. Crystal palace stole a march as they tend to do on championship stars.

The amount the owners send over depends on the revenue from sales, at least that's my understanding. Sell Travel for £4m and reduce next year's tranche payment from India by that amount.

I'm not convinced. He seems to have some attributes and knows the league but hasn't delivered for a year and has had injury problems. If I was in charge of the money there's no chance I'd be forking out anywhere near £2m.

Obviously either selling or not registering some of our worse players.

If we bring in Miller I'll hold my hands up, I absolutely was not expecting a replacement. I don't know much about him but the consensus seems good. Still, sort out Brittains contract 12 months ago and we wouldn't need to replace him.