Two weeks. The Head Coach has been in place a week and only taken about four coaching sessions. We have a two months to get players in - I'd prefer us to take our time and bring in the right ones, rather than rushing.

Having just listened to this interview with Broughton, he's clearly going to want JDT to play our U23s next year: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-g3f24-111bd9a He talks about how they need to be exposed to senior football at 17/18 to aid their development. He's clearly covering his back with a number of them now - signing them up to professional deals should they be needed later on in the season.

Broughton has been at Norwich and Luton before. He knows what a healthy Championship budget looks like - obviously the worry is that the owners have promised X, but will only deliver Y.

Please never use the term 'oven ready' again. As for the rest - I'm mildly concerned, but we have to trust JDT and Broughton to get on with the job. If they have anything about them they'll quickly realise which areas we need to strengthen and will have a shortlist of players to go after. Selling Brereton early in the window will be crucial. It was always going to be a tough ask with how long the manager saga rolled on (and the earlier start to the season) - we just have to roll with the punches now.

There's no different standard where I'm concerned - just expect a stony silence rather than a warm round of applause when you return to Ewood for your new team.

Rothwell will do nothing in the PL. Those mazy dribbles he goes on only happen because he has a decent turn of pace. Everyone in the PL has a decent turn of pace.

One of the many problems I had with Mowbray is that every offseason was a firefighting / patchwork job just to assemble a squad - mostly by bringing in 5+ loanees. He never actually built a squad, just survived year to year with loaned players. In a way it's good that now the buck has stopped, JDT has almost a clean slate to work with (Ayala's ridiculous wages aside), but he has a lot to fix in a short time.

Vilas lost control in the middle overs - we were strangling them in the power play, then started leaking 10+ run overs. They scored about 50 more than I expected them to. He's a poor short overs captain imo.

So have the new administration not offered him a contract? Why is he suddenly announced as leaving?

Our Director of Football and Head Coach have only just arrived - they need to watch a few training sessions (and a few games from last season) to work out what everyone can do before diving into the transfer market. Burnley's structure hasn't changed - and they must have known they were losing their two starting CBs and their starting GK the second they went down. We need to make the right signings, not just quick ones.

Duff was forced out, wasn't he? I read a story that basically he was told his bags had been taken off the plane (I assume we were off somewhere for pre-season) cos Chelsea had met our valuation / his release clause and he had to speak to them. I gather he was pretty miffed about how it all went down.

Friedel pissed me off on Five Live a while ago when he didn't correct the interviewer - said interviewer seemed intent on focusing on his time at Liverpool and Spurs, rather than y'know the bulk of his career and the reason he was considered a success. 'Big club' bias, as per. Never had any time for Brad after that.

Really poor from England today - gave New Zealand at least 50 too many runs with their moronic bowling before lunch and now you'd think they'd never seen a ball swing with how they're batting this afternoon. Test over. As Boycott used to say 'you can't win a Test in a session, but you can certainly lose it.' This is a textbook example - 4 down for nothing with an extremely long tail chasing 300+.

Genuine question - does anyone feel any sort of emotional attachment to the players these days? Maybe it's just me and the standard being so poor - I used to love Tugay, Emerton (for all his faults!) etc. This lot are mostly just replaceable cloggers in my eyes - nobody to get attached to. You don't feel like you're watching anything special. At a stretch I'd say I'm fond of Travis.

Bottom 8 is generous. If we played a competitive Championship fixture tomorrow I'd put my mortgage on us losing.

I'd give that honour, comfortably, to Lenihan. Bang average Championship CB on his best day. Earned the captain's armband due to seniority rather than on merit.

I think he's fantastic defensively 1-on-1. If he's able to stand you up you might as well just give the ball to him. He has lapses of concentration at times (don't they all) and his end product is poor going forward - which is why PL clubs haven't come calling. I think it's a big loss in terms of its another hole we have to fill (no thank you to JRC or Brown playing any meaningful minutes at RB), but he's not a world beater of a player.

My point stands. We quickly hired JDT after Broughton was appointed. That's no coincidence.

I won't applaud him when he returns to Ewood. I would boo him if he signed for Burnley.

Hiring JDT after Broughton was appointed.

He doesn't have to - they clearly want to keep the U23 (or U21?) team strong. If he's a decent contributor at that level then there's no harm in extending his contract to provide depth / options at that level. He won't be on good money.

If we sell Brereton for £20m and don't invest half of it back into transfers / wages, then yes we have no real desire to compete.

Yep, sadly that's the stranglehold the PL has on the game in this country.

Well firstly they both took 3 years to blossom, so you have to plan accordingly. Secondly, that's why you have Broughton in place - it's his job to find said talent. Otherwise why is he here?

Brentford don't have an Academy, so there's no model to follow.