Stewart yes but he didn't play tonight and out injured. Rest not me. Clarke over Brereton-Diaz?. Roberts over Thomas/Hedges? O'Nien over Hyam/Carter? No Chance for me

Brereton is key player if we want promotion this season.. Would you still of sold him for these lower offers we received?

Sunderland defended well but created very little. Burnley not good enough in the final third. O'Nien was the best player on the pitch for me.

Better squad this us? Are you serious?

I think he was worth 15 million based on what other Championship players have been sold in previous season after scoring 20 goals plus. Says alot when a top half Spanish team want him but no PL team put a bid in for him apart from Fulham. Everton, West Ham and Leeds all linked but no offers

He worth more to Rovers and our promotion hopes then 8.4 millions.

We didn't recieved any acceptable bids for him. Simple as. The bids we did recieved were rightly rejected. He is worth far more than the offers we got. It's a simple as that. I don't know why you still going on about it. We all know your opinion on it and you think Rovers were wrong to rejected those offers. Others including myself think we were right to rejected those bids and keep hold of a key player. We all understand the FFP argument aswell.

cos you keep mentioning it has 8.4 mil loan which the BBD case isn't. This is player who has been here for 5 years and the 2 years he has been very good for Rovers in terms of goals and performances. Yes we have took a gamble on keeping him here for this season but if get promote then it would be worthwhile gamble and I think he stays here. We never received an acceptable bid and we were right to rejected these low bids. You think we should have accepted one. We don't agree. Rothwell wanted out for ages. The contracts we agreed in the last 2 weeks are very good for the long term of the club and I would expect another 3 or 4 in the coming weeks players like Pears, JRC, Dolan and Gallagher. Travis, Buckley, Pickering, Brittain and Pickering have between 2 and 4 years left on their contracts but I would be looking to discuss new terms with Pickering and Hyam in the summer we knew we needed a centre back signing when GB and JDT came in. not the case with BBD in case we get to the PL and if we do then he signed a new contract here

Reading case was on going and it went to the panel before the deadline. It was suspend point deduction which has now beome activate, I hope Reading go down now with Ince in charge

What does Dack want and if it regular first team football then it could be elsewhere then but if he wants to stay and fight for his place and achieve another promotion here then activate the 1 year extension. Szmodics should be first choice on form. Ayala I would let go in the summer.

Maybe a reason why sales were slow cos of people pay day date. A large number of people would have been paid this week

Of course it matters but given their comments they back the owners valuation on him. Mowbray got extra 6 weeks contract extensions for a few players after the covid lockdown. He also.said he could suggest that a certain player should get a contract extension. JDT's role is different to Mowbray one. He is the Head coach here. Plus we have officially director of football in place. Something we didn't before. I answered your question but you didnt like the answer tho. I think it's strange way of looking at the BBD situation and irrelevant one. It's short term risk but worth doing it and keeping him here Rovers kept BBD and when you look at that we had complete overall of staff in key positions of Director of football, Head coach and head of recruitment. I think it was too much of gamble of replace key player like BBD without much scouting and research from those new appointments like Broughton, JDT and Williams I still think we made the right decision to keep him. You don't. That's the way you are looking at the situation and most of us on here aren't and look it we kept a player who is helping us get a playoff place and hopefully promotion, then maybe BBD will stay long term here

The below post is from this twitter account and he is spot on with his opinion in my opinion. https://twitter.com/_The72/status/1641397728054763520?t=YXV9EN3HvI6oDGfLz08IrA&s=19 With news that DAZN plan to broadcast every EFL game live, there’s no better time to explain why the 3pm blackout is so important. England has the deepest pyramid, in terms of attendances, and no other league has such a traditional and sacrosanct time for football for ALL games. There’ll be thousands of walk-up, casual fans who’ll stop going to watch their local team because they can watch the big boys on telly. It's these casual fans who pay their £10-25 on the turnstile, plus other spends, which helps to keep these clubs running in terms of a weekly cash flow because season ticket holders pay in one at the start of the season. Think of the amount of away fans that would stop going and travelling hours on a coach cos they can watch it on telly. It's also not about 1 game, or 1 weekend. It's about habit-forming, it's about behavioural patterns. It's about how removing the blackout could, in the long-term, have an irreversible effect on parts of the pyramid. England is the only country in Europe where we have one time slot. 73% of match kick off at 3pm on a Saturday. As opposed to 28% in Germany which is the next highest. You’ll then open up the possibility for people going to watch it at their mates or decide to stay in the pub and watch it. Again this is habit forming. It’s so dangerous and could kill what’s brilliant about English football. You get 40,000 at a ground in the championship. Three League One teams get around 30,000. A League Two team get 20,000. There’s a National League team that got 15,000+ this season. South Shields who play in the 7th tier average 2,000 fans. You can’t risk losing the beauty of that just to pander to those who don’t already go to football matches. I completely understand that there are circumstances that mean unfortunately some supporters are unable to attend. But the power of English football, it’s supporters and it’s attendances far outweigh that. A lot of this has been taken from @DaleJohnsonESPN who articulates this point so well. Let’s hope the 3pm blackout never gets scrapped.

I think it was right approach and option to keep BBD here Did either JDT or Broughton want to sell? He was Rovers manager at the time. It's am irrelevant question to be honest. We decided to keep BBD cos no one put an offer we deem acceptable and cos he is key player for us. I thought the offers we received were unacceptable based on what previous players were sold for after scoring 20 goals plus at championship level in previous seasons..

We had a valuation of BBD and no one met the asking price. No club meet that price. BBD being here has help us get into the top 6 and playoff place. I think we can take that gamble on BBD cos he only had 12 months left on his deal. The problem with BBD contract was the fault of Mowbray and Waggott not offering a new contract during the lockdown season/summer. But nothing announce tho? Maybe waiting to see if we reach PL then he might stay here and play in the PL.

Not surprised one bit EFL is pushing this. Will only hit attendances in Stadium and its another sign the EFL isn't fit for purpose

But keeping BBD has seen us challenging for playoffs and as @Dreams of 1995has said given that GB and JDT had just been appointed that summer and probably hadnt done their proper research and planning who they would replace him with. They took the gamble with keeping BBD and trying to get promote with him. I still think if we achieve Promotion then I think he will stay.

Not of O'Brien fiasco was his fault as far as I read everything

Tomasson has made the right decision by sticking with Pears. If there is any Doubt on BBD's fitness then don't play him.. . Dack wouldn't feature in this game. Build him slowly and ready for Bench role against Norwich

Delighted with Carter's new contract..Well deserved

Let's hope Carter and JRC will follow Scott Wharton. Then hopefully Dolan, Pears and Pickering

Good news

Surely you pick on form and past performances? Pears has done nothing wrong during his performances this season. He has improved massively from last season I think we should pick Pears for Birmingham game.

Pears for me Pears JRC Carter Hyam Pickering Travis Morton Thomas Szmodics BBD Gallagher