JDT’s spending the OBrien money on not playing Morton. Smart.

Swag will bus in as many as he humanly can. He'd give them the Blackburn End upper if he could. In better news I've been told Lancs Police won't allow them to win the league or the following game at Ewood. It'll move again if thats the way its going to land.

Semi-audacious prediction - Bristol City will get top six this year. Very good January.

The two aren’t intrinsically linked - Adam Henley was MOTM at Old Trafford playing against Ronaldo and he plays for Chorley now.

I’ve seen enough of Vale to make a decision - he’s toss. I hope he proves me wrong.

This lot battering everyone every week is very very boring.

To be fair we started the season with George Hirst and he doesn’t work hard, is slow and had no quality. So it would have been an improvement.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/rovers-to-exploit-welsh-connections/353

We try not to use it - every time we ban someone we earn less.

Dreadful journalist - someone said it on Twitter in a Rovers group that BRFCS are in.

Yeah, I've checked the logs. He hid it himself.

I absolutely understand there’s an unwritten rule that the away team puts someone senior in attendance on game day. That’s absolutely fine. What I can’t fathom is that under our specific circumstances i.e. it’s deadline day, we have multiple deals on the line, we are in the top six, we have only managed to secure on target on a short term deal, Waggott hasn’t taken a step back and said: ”Folks, I know I have a duty to attend the FA Cup replay at Birmingham but someone else is going to cover me. As Chief Exec of this club I am going to ensure we deliver on deadline day. I will work with the relevant teams to ensure there is no issues at our end.”

JDT is due to do a presser with the media at 1pm today. Will be interesting to hear what he says. Rumours of an all senior staff meeting this morning and a pretty toxic environment.

How on earth have the players both completed media but the deals were late? In what world have they sat through interviews and photoshoots and the fecking paperwork hasn’t been submitted?

This could potentially be a 300M pound mistake. Whoever is responsible must be sacked for it. Not ifs, no buts.

This site is going down for planned maintenance tonight. We thought it was safe. Wasn’t expecting deadline day to last three days.

Posted directly after a professional journalist summarises exactly what has happened and predicts what will happen 🤝

We’ve (somehow) agreed a deal with BRFCS legend Alan ‘Nicko’ Nixon to feature his Rovers stories on BRFCS. The first of which is now live for those wanting to keep track: https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/o'brien...-oh-dear.../348 Future articles coming soon… as always, if you want to contribute, we’re open to it. If you reckon you’ve got a Rovers exclusive, there’s a deal to be made.

Straight into message board gold, both of you.

Blackburn’s on-off move for Lewis O’Brien move is in the balance … and here is the breakdown of the drama. Deadline day starts with Rovers following up a previous inquiry for the Nottingham Forest midfielder. Rovers are happy to pay his wages in full on loan for the rest of the season and wait on the player to decide. West Brom coach Carlos Corberan wants his old Huddersfield player to join his squad but the club is yet to commit. Sheffield United are desperate for O’Brien and the player is keen on them. However Blades are under a transfer embargo and need to sell Sander Berge. The Norwegian is waiting on Newcastle, who do not seem keen come the crunch. Alternative choices are headed by Brighton but they pull the plug in Moises Caicedo leaving and do not come in. By this point Blackburn have kicked on and say they will take O’Brien and agree to the Forest demand that they sign him for £10 million. This part of the deal hinges on Rovers being promoted and they are happy to do that. Baggies do not want to sign up for that plan. At 3pm on deadline day O’Brien gives the green light to Blackburn and heads to Manchester for a medical. There are no snags and his agents are at Blackburn to sort out terms on the potential full time move at the end of it. O’Brien’s advisors and Blackburn discuss what the wages and length of contract will be in the deal should they go up. Those figures are disclosed and Blackburn are not out off, but no contract for that eventuality is signed. Paperwork is done and sent over for the loan but the timing is delayed by those discussions over the future of the player AFTER the end of the season. There are no problems again and Forest say they are happy for the deal to go ahead on the basis agreed between the clubs. In the frantic final minutes O’Brien, who did his interview with the club press, was interrupted just before the deadline to sign the form. But then it is discovered that ONE signed form that was needed for the deal to proceed was not sent off after it was signed before 11pm. Now the EFL are looking into the details and the explanations of the case - among several others that are also borderline decisions.

Pure speculation based on hearsay but I don’t think this happens. I think the problem is we didn’t agree a contract with O’Brien in time if the future fee was activated. We agreed the loan deal and the future transfer obligation, but not the specifics of the player contract.

It’s probably announcement delay anxiety but I’m worried now.

“O Brien, Brierley and Markanday going on loan. Didn’t get a forward.” Thats just landed… I’m going to bed.

Rochdale fans on Twitter are saying we’ve signed Ethan Brierley — have I kept everyone up to see we’ve announced a 19-year old kid from Rochdale? We’re about to find out…

No no no! Stop this!