Not heard anything from Mercer for months, I do hope the lad is ok and happily picking up his big wins and enjoying the fine dining and wines in the Ribble Valley. Very unusual that he hasn’t posted predicting easy wins and I hope he is posting such rubbish again, soon.

Hasn’t Al Hamadi gone to WBA on loan ?

Spot on !

So the 20th January, matches and opportunities to collect points passing by the day/week and still not even a murmur of getting a decent offensive signing into the club. The only thing we really have to mull over, is Unleaded’s confirmation that O’Riordan will be going back to Crewe and that we are trying to get others out the door 🙈 If they don’t bring in decent players to support the HC/ Manager, when somehow he has us in the play off position, like JDT and Mowbray did in recent years, the few thousand of us remaining and the stay aways need to be going over the top and taking our club back.

I’ve never had an employment contract which didn’t allow me to leave with due notice, my guess is that Eustace will probably have a 12 month notice period.

The manager wanted him and rates him, that’s enough for me.

Because the Manager working miracles to have us in the play off places and who has worked with him before, badly wanted him. Dembele has unquestionable talent and pace and Eustace knows what he needs to improve Blackburn Rovers.

The manager wanted Dembele, he was available for next to nothing but he ended up at Oxford United. That really tells us everything about the way this club is still being run !

Yes, that one is definitely on Beck, face the ball and I think he prevents the deflection and the goal.

Bit bizarre as he is probably the quickest we have, perhaps Beck aside. We all know this team is about as slow as can be, been the same for a number of years, crying out for some genuine pace out wide / up front.

I think he got rewarded again with a new contract on promotion last season. If I remember correctly, our reported interest was in summer 2023 when it looked like he was definitely going and it was a surprise when it was announced that he had signed another contract.

We were heavily linked with him before he signed his new contract and then played a key part in their promotion. Would have been a good, well priced buy.

Yep, we need to keep it in perspective as we are somehow still sitting in play off place and even the most optimistic, even Chaddy, wouldn’t have foreseen that. I hope Eustace sticks with us and that they eventually back him, although already 3 weeks late ! It would be more than foolish to lose two good, young, ambitious and aspirational managers that could have delivered a play off place.

If Jim MK2 has travelled, we were on a hiding to nothing 😕

Won’t spend a dime and desperate for cash but they withhold tickets from sale for home supporters, work that one out 🤷‍♂️

Blew us away that day, wanted him for that season and would still love him here now. Just what we need.

If he is good, buy him, totally fed up with loans.

I keep hoping that Unleaded is going to pop up and provide us with some hope 🙏

I would love Rovers to get to the new Wembley, a real pity that we couldn’t hang on at the Blunts in JDT’s first season. However, we must focus everything on maintaining a play off challenge during the second half of the season and on that basis, I would be looking to rest as many as we can and let some of the young lads step up from the U21’s.

Wouldn’t be totally against Kent but he has played 8 games in 18 months and left his last club 10/12 weeks ago. My worry would be that he won’t be ‘oven ready’ and good to go straight in to tough Championship fixtures and that’s what we really need.

Spot on, take heed Swaghail

Spot on, with Yuki out, we need signings on the pitch against Pompey. No excuses.

The Venky madness, ‘Let’s have the same January window but expect a different outcome’.

Good post, pragmatic and valid.

I wonder whether Swag will run with ‘Offenders are coming’ like Tony’s famous ‘Defenders are coming’ pledge 😊