Even based on that, get the other Wharton in the first team, looks a class above. After that I'd just like to comend Stanley on the setup, absolutely light years ahead of us. Madri on tap the icing on the cake.

I doubt Ayala put much effort into getting 'fit' to play for a manager with 0 enthusiasm to be honest. Which he shouldn't really need as he's getting paid handsomely to play regardless, but you never know, he might miraculously make himself available more for JDT.

I wonder if anyone far more imaginative has some new songs lined up for today. If not I'm sure JDT will enjoy his first live airing of Barmy Army 😕 Looks a lovely day far it, I'll never forget the absolute monsoon last time we played them. I knew it was gonna happen so went in the covered home end. The open terraced away end must have been half full after 20 mins of constant rain and everyone retired to the crown 😆

The parachute payments most certainly need binning off. Poxy little clubs like Bournemouth are able to throw money at promotion to secure it. Yes there probably is an element of jealousy and bitterness in my opinion

Yeah there's loads of free parking within a short distance unless you're particularly bone idle.... A better idea is a bit of a pub crawl though, weathers looking decent for it 😎 Looking forward to welcoming the new gaffer.

No element of I told you so on my part, my point was that there's no way you can make a comparison on ability purely based on the little game time Zeefuik had for us, especially when the nobhead in charge played him out of position for part of his time here. The only thing we can say is he's either a crock or had bad luck. We'll never know unless someone can be arsed to follow his career from now onwards.

Not even in Nyambes class based on 6 appearances, half of which were sub appearances in stupid positions? Give it a rest. He wasn't much use to us but none of us are in a position to say that based on ability.

I was thinking this earlier, an update of some kind. Hopefully an honest, transparent one. I wonder if JDT will be giving a presser ahead of Saturdays game or if they won't bother as it's only a friendly. I miss him.

I'd rather we visited schools in surrounding towns and give kids free shirts, imagine something so simple to engage with them and get then interested in the club. A bit like, you know, Accrington Stanley do? Funnily enough I was at a friends child's birthday party last weekend and football obviously got mentioned to a few of the adults there. A number of whom are going on Saturday, in the home end as their kids want to go, fancy that eh? Their schools had all been visited by Stanley, all had free shirts. I've noticed numerous people on here setting up meetings with Waggott etc, can they PLEASE try and establish why we're not tapping into schools in the areas around Blackburn instead of focusing purely on Blackburn itself?

Wonder if they'll let him take their penalties 🤔

Beyond horrific. Their man man just recycles whatever Sharpe posts.

I did say it'd be a slow news week with Sharpe being on holiday..... There could be 2 signings set to be unveiled today and we'd be none the wiser. That halfwit at lancs live most certainly can't be trusted as a source of info! I will admittedly be worried if there's nothing done before the Stanley game though...

Birmancevic who we've beeninked with and a familiar face Martin Olsson on the scoresheet for Malmo, decent game 👍

Us Blackpool Wigan Exeter The only 4 EFL teams yet to sign a player if we're not including the Preston lad. To say how many bodies we need that's pretty grim reading. Can only hope Greg is working round the clock......

Someone on fb said they spoke to the ticket office and they're received them this morning BUT They didn't know how much they were going to be... Think its a case of Celtic piss farting about more than anything on this one though.

I'm not gonna spend time defending him, he seems a decent bloke just trying to do his job. I don't envy him trying to get any sort of information from the circus of a club and all the clowns involved. Barely anyone has decent sources anymore, hence all the shite we read on here that never comes to fruition.

Well I don't expect much in the way of news till/if players are officially announced with Sharpe being away on holiday. I know he's got critics on here but he remains one of the few reporters with half decent links to the club.

Which is why I'm struggling to see us spending 3m on Anel sadly. What's worse is 3m is around the money we threw about previously on shite like Goodwillie & Leon Best without hesitation too 😵

Plane spotting looks to be the new talk now then, its certainly throwing up some random topics in here. Surely he'd land at Doncaster/Sheffield Airport anyway if going there?

I had a feeling we'd probably sign Brannagan early this week. He played (and scored 2) in their friendly yesterday though so I'd say it's unlikely.

3m is a lot for us these days so that'd be pretty much our main summer signing I would have thought, unless potentially Brereton is off...

Hell fire what a sponsor 🤣 Actually looks a decent shirt too apart from that

It's either strap in time or strap on time as Madame Desai dry bums us again 🤣

Was this the guy that said Dack looked particularly sharp? I hope that's the case, I can't imagine he's had much of a holiday and has concentrated on getting his fitness to the next level. He was clearly still way short last season (understandable) so hopefully getting there now.

Yes there's a lot to do, but it was expected when we changed manager anyway to be honest. And yes past transfer experience and the sluggish nature of it will haunt people, at least for now though we have to trust Broughton to pull some strings and get that side of things right. Proof will be in the pudding.... If Sharpe is right and Broughton is returning to the UK before the players, he may well have his shortlist tucked away in his suitcase and get straight down to business. Why else would he return home sooner...