If it’s got a red trim then the signs are good...

Surely every poster on every football forum knows a summer transfer thread will be full of gossip, rubbish, over positive folk, over negative folk, ‘ITKers’, links to obscure sites linking us to player x,y,z, folk slagging off the ambition of the club, the inadequacies of the manager and on it goes. It was ever thus, certainly on brfcs. But for some reason this isn’t allowed when Mowbray is involved, he’s a nice fella, doing a decent job, but he ain’t immune to a slagging off on the Internet. So can we please stop with the daily arrival of his knights in shining armour telling people what is and isn’t acceptable to post.

Very realistic posts. Yet you know it will be the fans getting abuse on the LT ‘below the line’ for ‘too high expectations’, ‘the need to get real’, how can we compete with the likes of Middlesbrough?’ and so on. It’s only the manager that keeps banging on about top 6.

Looks like there will be movement on the takeover next week. But even so, with a minimum points deduction of 12, with more set to be added for the forfeited match. With only 7 players turning up for pre season tomorrow (5 outfield players) and still no season tickets on sale, it will have to be some salvage job.

Just imagine the furore if we were sponsored by a private healthcare provider in these heightened times. Folk ironing NHS transfers o’er top of the sponsor

I imagine they still can, a couple of their players already have, so if their agent hears of interest they may pull the trigger...

You’d think that Magennis will be looking for a move, scoring goals for Northern Ireland

If they do end up on about minus 20 points with a threadbare squad and a takeover dragging on, surely they must be looking at another relegation...

Luca Connell gone to Celtic. Think Bolton are down to about 7 senior pros.

Exactly! So obviously old quotes.

The problem with these articles is when was Mowbray interviewed? I was talking to a local journo once and he said to get them through the close season, a few lines from one interview back in May or whenever are drip fed each day for weeks to fill the back page. His thinking could’ve evolved again since (or not, which would be very worrying)

Keane has fantastic on pitch leadership qualities. For those 90 minutes he led by example. Totally different skill set to manage a team and staff daily and though I’ve obviously not seen him behind closed doors, he doesn’t seem to be cut out for that in the slightest.

Shame, a red kit might have attracted fans of the two best supported clubs in Preston...

No club seems to get more than that corner these days. Though I don’t see why not for a friendly, there won’t be 50,000 packing in for the Rovers... there should be, of course.

Good luck to them, but the ‘most caps’ thing is very disingenuous. For example Tiger Woods won his 15th major at The Masters, But the talk was him being three behind Jack Nicklaus, not they he’d just equalled the record of Patty Berg (most successful woman). And quite right too as they are separately organised competitions.

Don’t think I’d recovered from Brentford until about September.

‘We have a robust procurement process that aims to get the best value for supporters Thank you for your correspondence’

Feel free to discuss him. A good number of posters are saying he would be a good option in said discussion. Ergo lowered expectations.

A page called ‘fan banter’. I’d rather have rang ClubCall back in the day...

Nice income stream for them as they take loan fees for dozens of players every season, whilst qualifying as ‘home grown’ quota players too, I imagine.

Kane’s nearly 26 and never played a game for the club he’s spent his career contracted to. A symbol of a broken system.

Shows the rapid lowering of expectations being disguised as positivity on the forum. Nobody would have been suggesting Payne in May. As well they shouldn’t have if we have any kind of aspirations. Couldn’t get into our third division side and has just spent the season getting relegated to the fourth division.

Flat track bully. Made it look easy against the likes of Ipswich, didn’t look up for it against tougher opposition.

A fine example of the decline of Blackburn Rovers that a free, third division centre half has generated about 50 pages of discussion.

Hasn’t someone just photoshopped badge/sponsor on to that stock Umbro teamwear kit from a few pages back? But I suppose that’s what we get every season anyway...