I actually didn't even see any of those. Except for Brereton's offside shot. That shows how much I can be arsed to watch right now. My personal highlight of the match so far is a comment I saw on Facebook before we had registered a shot, which probably took us until the half hour mark. 'Like an anti-vaxxer rally. Not a shot in sight.'

But I think we can class it as Arse and Laborious.

I've got very sad news. Once that's over, there's a whole other 45 plus injury time to play. I know, feels like we have already been bored for 90.

Not sure about that. There is a theme of the entire squad being injury prone, I think the graduates merely continue that theme.

Oh look, JRC went off injured yet again. If only we hadn't needed to risk him because we have a better right back in better shape.

We sure are, heavily. 61% possession, good eh? Meanwhile in less important markers of how well a game is going, we have had 0 shots and Wycombe have had 5.

Absolutely. How else will we get another 5 loans to fill the gaps left by poor recruitment strategy when we had a budget? Got to be able to repeat that cycle again, obviously.

Worrying if we are going to rely on all four of those when none have really shown it sufficiently at this level yet. And it would still leave us with a significant shortfall of playing staff, especially experienced ones.

Christ. Firstly, if there is any 'call' to be made on Armstrong for the next game, that call needs to be that he sits it out. We have nothing really to play for anymore and he is our only remaining 1) source of plenty of goals and 2) asset we could sell for a lot. If he picks up a serious injury now, we are goosed. But worse than that...it's going to be a summer of loan signings?! Again?! How is that even going to work? We already have a bunch of players on loan who will likely bugger off. 4 isn't it? And the max you can have is 5. On top of that a huge chunk of the team are going to be out of contract as things stand. Bringing in the max loanees and losing the current ones only gives us a surplus of 1 to compensate for all the out of contract players. Yes, some of them might sign new deals, but there are quite a few most of wouldn't want to sign. And it's a lot of negotiating to go, on that many deals, with us moving at a seemingly glacial pace. Those comments, with our head of recruitment also gone, make this summer and next season look like an enormous impending disaster. It makes me want to find if I can get odds yet on us going down next season. If they have even the merest sense of planning, you'd think they'd have identified all of this. The only ways to make it work would be to either get almost everyone expiring onto new deals, or to meet the shortfall with youth players coming through. If we are depending even slightly on the latter, they need to start getting more pitch time NOW.

How do we get to 13 million? I can think of Hanley for 5 million, Raya for 3. The lad who went to Leicester for 1. Then a bunch that sold in the 500k or less region - O'Connell, the youth keeper we sold (to Liverpool? Everton?), Mahoney...think there might be one or two more I'm forgetting. Are we counting Olsson, is that why? Seen him mentioned a few times here. I guess technically he counts, but he was a few months off being 18 when we signed him halfway through the season. I think we paid a fee, and he made his debut the next season, so tbh it seems a bit generous. We hardly 'made' him. I think people should keep in mind that in the past when we brought through all the players mentioned, we could offer them a direct route to Premiership football. This not only makes it harder to attract youngsters, but it means we can't develop them with Premiership games when we give them a chance. This also reduces the profile of said players, meaning that when they sell, they sell for less than players who have 5-10 Prem games under their belts. It also means the calibre of loan we can get them is at a lower level because of this perception. Some pretty average youngsters get a shot in the Championship, and I'm sure at times this is due to perception. How often do Championship sides borrow youngsters from other Championship academies? That's not just down to academy status. I could be wrong but I don't think Derby send youth players on loan within the Championship and they have a top academy too. Our youngsters of course need to break into our first team to get exposure at this level. Also, I think people are forgetting that a lot of these still have time on their hands, whilst we are looking at the ones from yesteryear when their careers are over or nearly over.

3-5 years, but you may have a different view in 12 months too. Hard to say how quickly players will kick on, development is funny like that. I'm sure Preston didn't expect Dolan to be slotting one past them a few months after release. He might continue to develop at that rate, or he might get Mowbrayed, injured, not have the capacity to learn more in the game, whatever.

Lmao ok, whatever you say. Not going to debate it, made my opinion clear, you've made yours clear. I feel confident about which of us will look silly in 5 years.

You can have outstanding attributes without being a world beater. Yet. I think he will be going very far, although obviously not everyone fulfils their promise ( I'm sure we all remember what happened with Freddy Adu). I also think Preston made a huge mistake, and I don't care why they did it. They're far from the first. And I'm certain they already regret it. Newcastle let Shearer go at youth level, so whilst he isn't Shearer, if that can happen clubs can drop the bollock on young players to any extent.

The good work is yours mate, well done on taking up the fight. Someone posted it on one of the Facebook groups, of all places, and even there with the usual pro-everything-the-club-does stance, it has mostly had agreement. And concern, from those who hadn't really known. So it's already taking root.

You don't always need power. He is pretty fast, could get faster yet, with a terrific shift of pace. Great work ethic, clearly a lot of hunger. But what I like most is he has the fastest feet, widest array of dribbling tricks, and not far off the best ball control I've seen in a Rovers shirt (started watching in the 90s before anyone wades in with Douglas etc), at just turned 19. If he doesn't get to the top flight without an injury or moronic manager interfering with his best development years, I'll be astonished. And to head off some probably inevitable replies to this - Duff competes for fastest feet, but whilst I'd say he was a better overall dribbler for sure, I dont think even his feet shifted the ball quite as quickly, it was his reading of opponents and probably pace that made him better at beating a man. Rochina is up there for the tricks, and I said not far off for the ball control because Tugay was the king of that. However you slice it, and whichever players I might have forgot, I've not seen many that best young Dolan for those categories. That doesnt make him a better player than than them and others yet, but he has so much potential. Once he learns to read the game and how best to use his attributes, he will be frightening. He really should be starting for us now whenever fit though, and I think some people have taken the fact he doesnt as a slight on him rather than on TM's bungling. Oh and Sparks, if you meant Jack Wilshere, a lot of his failing to fulfil the hype was his injuries. Still had a much better career than nearly all of our players will have though, power or not. 34 England caps.

The planning permission and actual planning of it all should drag on for quite a long time yet, I'm not really sure you needed to rush it. In just a day I'm sure you could have got plenty of sigs from here alone, I'd have added mine in a heartbeat. And it could have been in the public domain with an open signatory list to collect sigs before delivering the actual copy to the club. Anyway that ship has sailed, and I don't mean to criticise, it's very good work. I just don't want it to end up chucked in a bin by a club who think they can ignore all the questions in it because it was only three fans. Hopefully the public outcry, which is already gaining steam, will counteract that though. I'm surprised the supporters groups are being so non-committal, I'd have thought they know enough to be highly concerned about this. It's sad to hear. I hope the letter convinces them to put their weight behind it too. Don't we have a few people from them as members of this board?

I do think that was an inappropriate post. However...I'm just going to have to ask, not just because of the name but because he is also a Data Analyst I believe, and obviously you're big on data. I'm thoroughly expecting you to say no btw, so this isn't an accusation. But the curiosity of the coincidence is nudging me to ask - you're not related to Stuart Harvey, are you?

Dolan is going to play in the Premiership in time. I'm not a big gambler but I'd bet a lot of money on it if anyone knows where that can be done? Travis is blatantly at least Championship standard. He has been crap since returning but I honestly just feel he has rushed his comeback and isn't really fit. I expect him to be valuable to us again next season. JRC we will see, but I don't see League One in his near future unless injuries or relegation put him there. He does seem a little prone to them and that could be his undoing. We might go down, as you imply, if current abysmal management of the club continues. But otherwise those three will be playing at Championship or higher for a good few years yet. (Dolan is the only one I'm saying will play higher btw, slimmer chance for the other two).

I thought it was very thorough and well-written. However, I do think you should have tried to get more signatures on it before submitting it, for it to be taken more seriously. A petition, or BRAG, or the Trust, or all three. Also, in regards to the LT not running it, have you contacted Lancs Live? I know they probably don't have the same readership amonst Rovers fans, and advertising as such doesn't work the same since they're online, but I think they're a bit less afraid of the club and might run an article. Which in turn might prompt the LT to do so.

This isn't a bad one... https://www.protectjackwalkerslegacy.com/?fbclid=IwAR0QEORCmWaDnKgFF09u8XpH6PTXlvX78rrhhWaITgRsO8YZD7fHF6mBsQ8

The vast majority of them for me. I can count on one hand the amount of times I thought the opposition RB was better than him on the day. But game of opinions, and given your statement there you're obviously not going to agree with me.

I came here to say the same Chaddy, they look like they're in no rush at all. And frankly it isn't acceptable. With so much projected turnover of playing staff, between contracts running down and loans ending, before any sales, and nothing but pride left to play for this season, all attention should be turned to summer activity. And a crucial step in that is establishing who will still be under contract. Especially with so many running down, how can we possibly set our transfer targets without a clearer picture of that? But not only are we not even in contract talks with a player it sounds like TM wants to keep, but we haven't even had an informal chat with him about whether he is interested in staying on. Even though he is in the building and working with the manager every day. I mean on top of everything else I said, there is the traditional delay from Venkys deciding what the budget is, so we really can't afford this lackadaisical approach, and need to get the picture clear in the ways we can, ASAP.

Holland is actually just a region of the Netherlands, which is the official name of the country. Some Dutch also use the term to describe the whole country, but some actually find it offensive. I don't know if you already knew that.

Data is a great tool. But if the builder is incompetent, it doesn't matter how good his tools are.

Hopefully, yes. But honestly, I said before his latest setback that I didn't think he is ever going to get past being one of 'those players' who are almost permanently injured. I got a bit of flak for it actually, and then a couple of weeks or so later he was injured again. He has had a lot go wrong at a young age, and back problems rarely just go away. It's not impossible of course, and best of luck to him. He has always sounded like he can be a real player if he does manage to overcome it, and we all want that.