It's news to me that Hughes didn't get any backing... I must have imagined Bellamy, Bentley, Santa-Cruz et al.

I think they cancelled the loan.

It's 2024, there are no hard men in football anymore. It's all about diving (or 'simulation' as the professionals call it) now. Souness, Batty, Keane et al would get sent off every game these days.

If they don't get on during the game they have to do a training session after the match anyway - so it's not like he was just going to jump straight in his car after the full time whistle had blown.

He literally has no money to work with. I'm not sure what people expect him to do. We clearly have nothing in the transfer budget as we can't even stretch to paying £500k upfront for a player and we clearly have nothing in the wage budget as we've loaned out Buckley and then Travis to balance the books. He had to sell to keep the lights on in the summer and undoubtedly A. Wharton will leave in 6 months to balance the books (with no money going to the playing side of the club, again).

Of course he's here for the money, he's a professional football manager. He's held a light to the shady ongoings in the Board Room at Ewood Park - neither he or Broughton have been backed. He'll leave in the summer to a non-basket case club on the Continent. He obviously thought he could either take Rovers up or convert this stint into a bigger job in England, but he's been cut off at the knees and isn't a miracle worker.

JDT wasn't allowed to bring his own staff in with him - Benson and Lowe came with the club. It's part of why we weren't able to attract a more experienced manager. Carvalhal walked away when we insisted he'd have to keep Lowe and Benson.

We're playing bonkers football. I can't work out if he's playing 3 at the back with JRC as a CB (who wanders into CM) and Sigurdsson as a LWB (who is getting roasted every time by Thomas) or if we're just not playing without a LB in a back 4.

Give over, he's run his blood to water today.

I've no idea what formation we're playing now, and evidently neither do the players.

Carter on crutches - bloody hell.

Bang average would walk into our team at the minute.

Movement is always going to be disappointing when you have Gallagher leading the line.

Where do you think he's playing?

I like JDT, but it's bonkers football having your CB overlap down the wing.

LOL gives Tronstad a yellow for less of a foul than the penalty he refused to give. Where do they find these clowns?

He's a LB being asked to play AML. At least he's a willing runner.

It's a pretty blatant penalty.

Shaky with anything in the air. Every team that plays us just plays for set pieces and crosses now 'cos we can't win anything.

I think they were playing zonal marking - you're not asking Pickering to mark their most dangerous header. He just beat Gallagher to the ball.

That's the best corner he's put in at Ewood Park.

He tried to gift them a goal before the corner - palmed it out into the danger area, S. Wharton was just the first to react this time.

Gallagher has a worse first touch and worse movement than Leonard. As I've said he's a bigger, better athlete.

Bingo. He's been directly at fault for about 4 goals recently. Clearly doesn't fancy it at the moment - or he's carrying a bad injury. Either way he's been disgracefully bad.

I think Leonard will go on to have a better career. Telalovic I haven't seen enough of and god knows what happened to the Plymouth version of Ennis - maybe he's just a good L1 player. If they're not selling Gallagher it's almost certainly to do with having an extra player who can head the ball in our box for set pieces. We're an unbelievably soft touch for any ball in the air at the moment.