Nay. Not Kipre either, who’s pissed Mowbray right off.

In - and not tonight, tomorrow afternoon I suspect. So go to bed, @Silas

Brace positions...

I really like Kipre as a player, but for me this has been going on too long now. This is the 6th day he has had us waiting to see what WBA do, I would rather we moved on to our next target, especially if they really want to play here.

In a bid to try and stop people using two accounts - this is @chris_h

I can only tell you what I’ve been told and this is: 1) There’s no guidance on the capacity and Rovers don’t want to be in a position where they have 7.5K ST holders that have paid up, but only 5K will be allowed in. How do you decide which 2.5K get a refund? 2) If no fans are allowed back in, Rovers don’t want to have to do the admin associated with selling 7.5K ST then having to also refund everyone. 3) Rovers don’t necessarily need the money right now, it could be that XXXK revenue quickly later down the line puts us in a better position in the transfer market. 4) Even if we did sell the ST’s, because there’s no guarantees the fans will be allowed back in the money wouldn’t be able to allocated within the club anyway, because we don’t have that amount of money spare. It would need to sit in an account until there’s official guidance confirming it can be allocated. The result of this is exactly the same as if they didn’t sell STs until the guidance.

I don’t see how we can blame them for not selling tickets that they’re not sure will be able to be used. In fact, I think they’ve done really well to ensure supporters hold on to their money rather than sitting it in the clubs bank account. From what I’ve seen the concept of 25% capacity is nothing but a suggestion, there’s no official documentation saying this will happen?

Yes and no - for a long time I did. I haven’t had a season ticket since the season they refused to sack Kean when we could all see it (not sure what year). Started doing pay on the door away games around 18 months later, then in the past few years have done the occasional home game because I just can’t kick the habit. I’ll be buying a season ticket this year. I said I wouldn’t until they accepted responsibility and tried to make amends. They haven’t quite done that, but the club needs my money now and I won’t stand by my laurels when they need us most. Because they can’t guarantee everyone that buys one will be allowed back in.

Do your bit to help the clubs finances - if you can afford to buy one, buy one, even if you will hardly wear it.

Sounds like Christian Walton has just broken his leg.

Does it work with a UK VPN?

In principle the locations are good IMO. You’d have liked to have thought they would have been cleaned, though.

I don’t either, but I’ve been told the opposite — Kipre will hold out for a big move.

£90 for a pitch view room at the Blackpool FC Hotel.

Because it’s not 1989 anymore and that’s not how football clubs operate.

It’s totally unrealistic to expect the club to come out and say 'financial circumstances mean we will be restricted to free transfers and loans'.

There’s still no official correspondence on FFP being lifted. People on this forum spent around 2 weeks saying that it was lifted, referring back to UEFA guidance on FFP which had zero effect on us a club. For absolute clarity, as things stand, we are carrying on as usual with FFP in the EFL. Ewood Ace has just explained pitch maintenance above. We cannot go into the season without a first choice goalkeeper. Whilst Kaminski looks astute and could be a brilliant signing, he’s realistically the most qualified first team keeper we can bring in cheaply. I have to congratulate the club for sourcing him and getting him in so cheap, but that doesn’t change the fact that we’ve needed to go for a cheaper option than Marshall or Phillips or some of our other options.

You’re crazy. The players currently don’t have a first team liaison because they cannot afford to bring her back from furlough. The grounds team has been reduced to one person and the number of pitches being maintained has been reduced because we can’t afford to maintain all the pitches. We have a very, very limited budget - the owners are limited to what they can put in because of FFP. We are lucky that some of our top earners deals expired before COVID. COVID-19 has cost the club millions.

DG has signed for Sunderland, for anyone interested

I’ve never seen this guy play. I hadn’t ever heard of him until 3 minutes ago. I think he’s going to be a star for us. Welcome to the transfer window!!

Sadly it doesn’t really matter how good he is - during the career at Rovers he’s averaged 28 games a season, league and cup. It’s sadly just nowhere near enough.

Not quite, Abramovich had never watched a game of football at the time he bought Chelsea and hasn’t attended a live game in years now. Abramovich bought Chelsea to give him a UK platform and persona to ensure that Putin couldn’t make him simply disappear for his alleged crimes against Russia.

Very much looking forward to finding out what tactic Tony has come up with during his annual leave. We’ve had 442s, 4231s, 433s, 4312s, 4321s, 352s, 343s - I think we could be on for a 361 this season.

Crikey, some achievement to win the league without a single player making an assist!

We ask for it in the initial post on the forum rule thread...