Yes. Whilst I'd love to upgrade on Pickering, he's a solid Championship LB.

Wasn't he highly rated just last season?

£15m isn't enough if he's not pushing to leave. It needs to be enough money to be invested back into the team - £15m would just pay bills with these owners.

Surely you mean Arsenal. They did buy Rice for £100m this summer after all.

I can't understand this attitude - he downed tools for 6 months when his contract in Spain was signed. He's up there with Dann for me.

What a sickener the last decade has been. I remember when PNE were minnows that we never bothered about - now we have a similar sized fan base. Thanks Venkys.

Good lord.

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.