£300k a year and Waggott still can't get a tailored suit. Bloody hell.

If the relegated teams manage themselves competently then they go straight back up. Leicester, Southampton and Leeds all had their prized possessions pinched, but retained enough of their PL squads (with additions) to walk the league. The year prior, Burnley simply spent £40m on a brand new squad. For a parachute payment team that's peanuts, especially if you get promoted and start the cycle again. It's becoming a closed shop I'm afraid - albeit there's still a little time to kick in the front door, but I fear we've missed that opportunity.

Neither is Markanday, but he keeps on getting the occasional game.

Who's going to offer decent money for him at this point?

He provided zero goal threat from that advanced position - we also have 6 #10s on the books already.

I think Garrett's problem is that he desperately needed to play football, but we were so short of numbers that he was retained under JDT (who clearly didn't think he was ready) to occupy a place on the bench rather than sent on loan to L1. He hasn't developed like he should and is now going to be asked to play major minutes in a struggling side in a relegation battle.

He was clearly a panic signing at the 11th hour when they realised the Venkys were determined to sell Wharton even without a loan-back option. Granted I expected more than 15 minutes out of him, but I fear that's all we'll see of him in a Rovers shirt. It really was an innocuous incident - it wasn't a kick, he stretched for a stray ball and stayed down.

No, he's sat at home whinging that Rovers haven't offered him a new contract / triggered his extension despite just 48 goals (and 25 assists) in 221 appearances for Rovers.

Buckley needs a rocket up his arse. He flashes being a brilliant player at this level, but drifts out of games and dallies on the ball at times. Sadly he's 24 and recently been sent out on loan which tells you that even Rovers have given up on him ever maturing. He's also a poor athlete, so asking him to be a runner in a midfield 3 is putting him on a hiding to nothing. Sitting in a 4-2-3-1 was, I thought, the ideal role for him, but we've moved away from that with Eustace.

So your stance is that if someone isn't 50+ they've not earned their colours as a fan? Lovely stuff.

Isn't that every Rovers manager since Hughes (bar Kean)?

Who's the 'aggressive, hard bastard' in their respective teams?

Pretty much. It's shite, but effective football - I hope that's not his mantra going forward, but I suspect it might be.

So that was 5 paragraphs to say "I'd probably bring Ayari in for the injured Fleck on Tuesday" with the rest just being digs at our players? I love Rovers fans.

I hate the Championship.

Sadly the parachute payments mean that you can waste £110m in one season and still be ok in the Championship. Realistically Burnley should be stuffed - they'll just bounce back up next year.

3 games in and 4 points.

We knew it was a disaster when they sold A. Wharton and weren't allowed to replace him.

You have to have exceptional WBs to ask them to be the focal point of the attack...

We're not much better at home. I don't know if this is the style of football Eustace wants to play long-term or he's just adapting to the players he's got at his disposal, but it's clearly going to be a scrap every game until the end of the season to accumulate enough points to survive.

Hyam is hilarious btw - often treats the ball like it's a hot potato, but then randomly goes on a run from CB in the second half. We're lucky him losing the ball there didn't end up in a PNE goal.

I thought it was a battling performance against an in-form PNE at home. We're woefully out of form - I'm delighted with a point (less so having been 2-0 up), I thought we'd get battered.

He's a luxury player who wants the ball at his feet in and around the area. He's being asked to chase lost causes in this formation. He got back and defended well in the second half, which isn't what he's known for.

Everything is being lumped over his head.

I think he's scared to make a tackle these days - anytime he goes in hard he gets booked. It's neutered him as a player.