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I'm just praying the lads find some form tomorrow. If I'm being brutally honest we don't have masses of different personnel to actually pick from with our replacements. We don't have a form player to replace an out of form player. We are getting to the point now where just not having people like Gallagher and Morton in the team will give fans the boost, can somebody step up?

I ultimately struggle to dig the players out too much, they needed help in January and we are reaping the pain of the calamitous transfer window. Yesterday was an awful day, poor performances all around but we know the squad well, the options ultimately aren't there. We simply do not possess the goal scoring options of most clubs in the top half. Brereton had a 2 season blast, Gallagher has never been a consistent scorer, Dack has been injured for nearly 3 years. We had to address this problem in January, we didn't and we all deep down knew this was going to happen. It hurts like hell but I'm not willing to say they aren't trying, they need help. I painfully feel we are going to flop over the line now, scoring less than a goal a game in the remaining fixtures!

I find stuff like this so frustrating, between the coaching team and the lad himself it should have been sorted out long ago. I stand by that this season is our best chance of getting out of the league, and if even young lads can't see that and put in what the manager wants then I'm massively disappointed.

Dack back is absolutely massive, you just know he will score in the next 2/3 games. His ability to nick goals is probably our best chance of making the play offs. I honestly think he is that important.

We are going to blow the play offs aren't we!

Absolutely magnificent decision, they are our top Rivals end of story. I remember City's promotion at Ewood all too well, to see Burnley having a party at Ewood, no chance!! Well done BRFC.

Hedges and JRC are so comfortable on the ball and so willing to take it. Taking them off gave us no out ball for the rest of the game, we literally had no spell of holding onto the ball. To be honest those subs would have made for a very long extra time had it stayed 2-2. Great effort up to the 80th min, terrible shape afterwards!!!

Thanks Morton!

To be fair I added to that noise with an "ooooo", as I thought it was a great effort at an attempt forward which before that had been in short supply. Then Thomas did great to keep it in and supply a top assist.

Buckley is a very good player, the problem he has is that his style of floaty close control looks really bad when it doesn't come off. His ability to hold the ball and keep it under massive pressure is probably the best in the squad, just needs a bit more consistency.

Fair play to this group of players and coaching staff, to keep on churning out results when we would all admit they needed help in January. Great mentality!

Not too sure, I'm gutted as it's a game I could with being on the red button!

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.