I think there’s a real closeness in the squad. Dack and BBD bromance has been good to see and I can’t help but think Ben will be keen to see it through and get promotion with us. I may be wrong but I’m hoping that’s the case.

This is definitely the type of game we’d lose in the past.

I do wonder if there’s some movement on the contract situation based on our current position in the league. Does the chance of premier league football with us now make us a slightly better proposition to the out of contract players.

It was going to be my first game at Ewood for a while but it’s the Wife’s birthday and funnily enough she didn’t fancy it lol.

We should definitely not sell in January if we are in amongst the playoffs. Not a chance. As Gav mentioned, you don’t sell your top scorer when pushing for promotion. The £20m is dwarfed if we end up with promotion.

Not going to get Sturridge on a free as he’s gone to Perth Glory

Highlights how threadbare our squad is

Awful so far. Could easily be two or three down.

Didn’t someone on here have him at silly odds to get 20 league goals? Bet the odds are smaller now

On the news story I read it also mentioned that Chile have stepped down their action against the English based players (isn’t Ben the only one??)

Match worn and still smells of fags and pure class. Even got a like from the great man himself on Instagram 😄

Just looking at the list of free transfers. I’m not sure if he’s fit as he’s had issues before and I know his background down the road will count against him for some but Robbie Brady could be worth a look if TM wants to add to his collection of midfielders. He may still live fairly locally as well I guess.

Not

Why mention that we would have broken the pay structure for Arma? Surely that’s the quickest way to alienate the players we are talking to about extensions. “Yeah, we’d love you to stay but you’re not as good as Arma so we won’t pay you any more”. Just seems no point in mentioning the Arma discussions now he’s gone.

I’m pretty sure their demands will be dropping daily as the deadline looms. Once the deadline passes they can’t be registered until January so would miss out on a few months wages. Reckon they may be a bit keener to drop their demands at that stage.

I’m sure we can

Apart from when he said Arma was off to Norwich yeah??

I’m guessing they would have something written into the agreement. Even this lot aren’t stupid enough to fall for that otherwise… oh hang on…

I doubt we would be in for him but I wonder if Wilshere could be the free. He’s come out today saying he’s looking for a club. He’s only 29 but has the obvious injury issues. would prefer a proper CB but we’ve been waiting for one of those for years.

I was going to say exactly the same thing. If he submits a transfer request I’m sure he loses out. If we sell him without him actually asking to leave then I think it’s slightly different.

We can offer but would they sign? Maybe if we somehow get off to a good sign and win the first few games it may put us in a position to negotiate contract extensions. Otherwise I’m Not sure if sign up for the long haul if I was them.

‘So many fans back in the stadium’ were there about 4000 home fans??

So it looks like Palace are the front runners…. After Nixon announced it was definitely going to be Norwich. Probably shouldn’t be shocked at that tbf.

Tom Carroll may be available on a free which seems an odd one. He only signed for QPR last year but was named in Derby’s team playing Salford on Saturday. If he’s available we should be having a look.

Not a mess at all according to Chaddy on the transfer thread :S It definitely looks like a mess today. That’s pretty much our strongest line up.