Parachute payments strike again.

You always want better than what you have, but to me it's time to give Garrett, Wharton and Buckley a good long run out in the second half of the season (rotate Morton and Travis in). We won't find much better in our price range. The problem we have is that players are missing gilt edged chances. Brereton, for example, has missed AT LEAST 3 during this current goal drought (he's up to 10 games now), and that's without me actually counting. Gallagher doesn't really get into position to miss them, but he's lashed plenty wide from promising positions too. You can see the system coming together, but we're not punishing teams.

That's the most depressing thing - I think we had 9 Academy players in the squad on Saturday and that's with letting another 2 walk in the summer. We're set up to be a very, very strong team in this division if we could just supplement the Academy with good transfers.

He's played centrally for a lot of the season and has only scored 4 goals.

Check out Malmo pre and post JDT...

Smart man - if we can't even get a CF in on loan when we're sitting 4th then I shudder to think what the summer is going to look like.

Too late.

This is my last go-around to be honest. If they mess up this partnership by not supporting JDT (after years of supporting Mowbray and his wasteful signings) then I'll be done. It's a soulless club now anyway - the town is detached from the club now, you can feel it.

I mean a parachute club has won the league every year since 2016 - Burnley have spent £40m on transfers this season alone when the rest of the league doesn't have a pot to piss in. It's beyond a parody at this point.

Football will be dead in England by 2030 - the fans of those lower down the pyramid won't put up with it. EVERY new rule is designed to keep the status quo.

You're literally playing out the string if you don't bring in a CF. That's not disappointing, that's criminal. JDT will walk in the summer - he's no doubt got his agent feeling out other jobs as we speak. Broughton will be on the lookout too if there are any more budget cuts in the works - he's far too ambitious to try and work with those shoestring budgets.

They don't even TRY to bring money into the club. They turn down bigger sponsorship deals with gambling and alcohol companies because they're morally against it (vaping is obviously fine though) and price out the average fan with ridiculously expensive season tickets. I swear they own us out of spite.

We literally need a CF - there's no "well we tried, but couldn't get who we wanted in" response to that. We'll finish outside the Playoffs if we don't get someone at #9 who can score goals and bring others into play.

Honestly if the mandate is to clear another £100k a week off the wage bill when we're already in the bottom third in the league there then you might as well just gear up for relegation.

Yeah we won't be bringing anyone in now. This French lad was clearly the last chance saloon - someone available that Broughton was familiar with. We were gazumped for Geldhart and Undav has backed his chances of getting into the Brighton team with all their injuries. That's three options they've failed on - we won't have any others lined up, especially not in the time left.

Khadra was clapped by those around me in the Jack Walker on Saturday when he took a corner. I asked why they were clapping a loan - he was never our player.

Is our manager in that 4, cos sometimes it feels like he's not.

At least one club based in Lancashire is making signings - Lancs have signed Kiwi duo de Grandhomme and Mitchell for their domestic season. We're gonna win the league.

We've fallen away both seasons because we don't have a top 6 squad. The first XI, maybe, when everyone is firing, but once players lose form or get injured we have nobody to replace them with.

He has 6 to Brereton-Diaz's 9.

I've no idea, I have a day job.

Basically this. He's the only player that hasn't been punished with a spell out of the side for his poor play (albeit Kaminski is teetering on the edge of that now).

I've just read his Twitter feed - that lad is away with the fairies.

Longer highlights. BBD's miss isn't on here - but good lord that was criminal.

Yes, he bossed us when we played him at Ewood last time - I assume that was against Hyam and Ayala. He's fantastic in the air.