According to my guide its Norwich and the EFL semi final.

Dack being out for a decent period of time has taken my slight optimism of play offs away. His ability to just nick us goals here and there don't exist elsewhere in the squad.

No way on earth should this be overturned. I can't think of any external factors that would cause us to not be able to complete the deals. Getting the players to us could be problematic, with wages and future payments being ironed out etc but we had actually achieved that. We messed up the easy part which is unforgivable, clubs up and down the country managed to get this part right on the same day.

I spent most of the game pondering if we had had any sort of value from BBD after the 4th minute back pass to the keeper. Its hard to balance as he cost lots and goes for nothing so that really skews the value but his goal to game ratio is 1 in 3.6 which isn't great. He has been a strange player for us, most of his time here has been both extremes of good and bad.

I actually have no words for that performance. It was absolutely painful to watch, what was the plan? The transfer window followed by that just makes me want to give the rest of the season a passing interest.

Thanks for the repost. Fair play to Sharpe as he is often accused of toeing the line, but has been as questioning of the whole disaster as he should be. I said at the time and still standby, whoever dealt with the paperwork should not be in the job anymore. The only bit of slack I'll give anybody at Ewood is I'm sure they spent most of the day "on hold" to India.

Every person involved in the paperwork should be sacked for being god damn incompetent, this is a fecking multi million pound organisation. This is peoples bread and butter, all clubs signing players on deadline day had the same paperwork to complete. Its an absolute disgrace!!!! The manager said we needed more players brought in to help the squad as they were out on their feet earlier in the window. We have ended up with less bodies, it's a disaster!

The fact that Sharpe from the LT is silent gives me hope, he would have usually had his transfer window write up done by now if all was done.

The vicious circle then starts when these players make the step up and the first team doesn't have the quality to help them develop. If you look at the amount of academy prospects that get to our first team and then come to a crashing halt in terms of developing it is actually scary. The academy to first team plan has been in for years, Raya is the only person to bring in a decent fee.

They are consistent though. As I'm at my annual "how the hell does anybody work for these idiots" stage. I did (stupidly) think this year with having a director of football there was a slight chance we may line up some signings to hit January running but alas no. I'm now preparing myself for loan players who haven't kicked a ball all season, who will take until the end of March to get fit and then injured in April.

We need BBD back to form as Dack WILL get him chances.

Well now I know.

I don't know what his wages are to be fair, but I'd want a new agent if I was on relatively low wages if I'd just been bought for many million.

To be fair to the club (well a normal club, but go with me) Breretons first contract with the club as a £6/7m player with huge potential would, surely have been worth more than an extention based on what was produced in his few seasons. Then Chile and Diaz happened out of the blue and we haven't been able to sort anything since be that club or player.

Burnley are absolutely walking this league, to be so far ahead at this stage is impressive. Who would have thought that bringing in a manager and giving him the backing to bring in his own players would be so positive. Roll on tomorrow to watch us try to play the managers chosen style with last year's players.

Agree with all that, I see somebody like Rathbone and it infuriates more that our main stay in midfield is a lad who openly states that he is here for the learning process. Give me a dog of war any day over a kid that's here to learn ahead of 6 annual appearances off the bench for Liverpool at best.

We are simply just too predictable, we don't have a single full back who will give the opposition a worry. To know that nobody is going to bomb on gives your opponent so much less to worry about. Without Brereton (woefully out of form) or a Dolan (recovering from injury) or even a Markanday (not yet trusted) we can barely even break away out of own half. We've had it for years and days like yesterday bring it all back, playing for Blackburn Rovers is all too easy, all very nice. Nobody really expects anything at the club, keep getting paid, 4-0 defeat or 4-0 win the world keeps turning.

As somebody said before losing is part of football, it is actually something we are very used to, but I'm getting absolutely cheesed off at the amount of no shows. We cannot keep having performances like this, Preston which are humiliations. Also let's not forget the Cardiff away, Coventry away were we offered absolutely nothing and seemed clueless. I don't follow any other teams closely but I simply cannot believe that teams can be as bad as us when they have off days!

Hyam has been excellent this season but they are two diabolical, half arsed clearances for the goals!!

Dack is an excellent footballer.

He does make me smile, "flying into tackles are we boys!!"

Burnley fans are starting to challenge Liverpool fans for the world is against us title! If you are bringing a Daily Mail headline to a debate you are starting 1-0 down I'm afraid. Enjoy a season of beating tin cans, the standard in the league is dire, which as you'll be aware as a frequent visitor to this site we have said for years and not just because Burnley are doing well.

You can only take satisfaction from any win, it was a tough watch though. Hyam and Dack were massive positives. Diaz really does seem to be slowly morphing back into Brereton, the offside run in the first half was criminal with how good Dack's through ball was. Buckleys red seemed to be justified by the majority the other day, I'm struggling to think that anybody could justify their chap not getting one today for a hip high studs up challenge.

I think this gate may be hitting home to Tomasson just how much that Burnley game hurt!

If this is modern progressive football then I'm checking out. Our opposition, in the last two games (our bitter piss taking rivals) from coaching staff to fans to players must be in a slight state of shock that we would continue to play a way (that we can't!) and not try to change it when its going horrificly wrong! We as fans have to sit there being laughed at by our buck tooth friends who cannot believe their luck that we would continue to keep handing them the game. All the while our players are just getting smaller and smaller. I'm struggling to go two footed on Travis as he has shown in my opinion he has an effective game in the last few seasons, a rough scrappy game but he is very efficient at that game and we have liked him for it. Something is massively a miss at what he is trying or being asked to do as a player, I currently see a player before me who would be struggling to get in Clitheroe team.