So you've said---several times! If they are under contract then they leave when the club thinks it appropriate in the interests of the club ie when we have adequate replacements lined up. Why didn't this happen! Because Venkys didn't mind ruining any promotion chances we had! Other clubs don't just fold to players' demands eg Palace over Zaha.

We are in desperate straits. TM moans we have too many players and he'd like to get back to having a manageable squad. But who handed out contract extensions to players who aren't good enough? We've had several transfer windows under this manager and out of our defence (back 4 +keeper) 3 are loans! Moreover, he has too many players for some positions but virtually no decent back-up in defence and no width. We could have strengthened in the areas we needed to and be pushing for promotion now----for less than he has spent! Instead we will finish bottom half again ---at best. He's a disaster.

Well "yes" its just that you came up with this gem: "Why would the owners weaken our chances of promotion by selling any one who is key to our team?" I went back to show you its not been a barrier in the past.

I think its high time the owners did!

Same as last season, same as next season.

We're trapped aren't we? With a manager who stifles any creativity in fear of the opposition.13th and 3 points off the play-offs again! It should be written on our burial stone. Dog Day Afternoon.

Well apparently Dack does! As for the two you mentioned, I don't mind them leaving, particularly Duffy, its the failure to buy replacements ie adequate replacements that got us relegated. And who appointed Coyle and why?

In short, he's blown it.

And how long did we keep Duffy? Sold him when there was no time to replace him and for a ridiculously low fee. So we sold Hanley on 21st July! I didn't look it up, you were obviously keen to prove me wrong! So I'll revise my point, they sold BOTH of our centre-backs in the summer and never remotely adequately replaced them. And we were duly relegated. So how wrong is your question?----Why would the owners weaken our chances of promotion by selling any one who is key to our team. 

What are you on about? They sold just about our entire Premier League team to get us relegated!! They sold the players Bowyer accumulated who should have been good enough to get us back up under a better manager. Then on the eve of a new season they sold our centre-backs and we got relegated again! All this enthusiasm for our owners is getting on my wick.

He did well!

"Each to their own"----exactly!

True.

Impressive post. I hope someone at Rovers read it. I absolutely believe this is the way to go. Snap up youngsters before its too late and we can't afford the fee.

No they shouldn't, they should post it on here and give us something to talk about. If the site were purely "factual" it wouldn't survive-----the Radio 3 of football sites! You've talked yourself into a froth over nothing and K-Hod has given you sound advice.

In any case, football fans sites thrive on rumour and always have. You can choose to take stories seriously or not without disrespecting the poster. If the poster goes off in a huff the site loses.

He's not going anywhere but his missus' place for nigh on 12 months! On thousands a week! Footballers always seem to come up smelling of roses eh?

Same old story. We get a sniff of the play-offs and it all goes pear-shaped. We face the rest of the season without the only player who scores regularly, we clearly have an inadequate and unbalanced squad and it looks like there is no money going into the January sales to either bolster the defence or grab a striker who can score. Manager seems to be in denial. £14M on strikers who can't score comes into stark focus now. No calculated, gradual build-up to promotion at Ewood, just a random collection of assorted players, several playing out of position, and looking nothing like a team. Manager to blame, plenty warned on here about lack of depth in defence and lack of width, and lack of scorers. Cracks papered over for half the season, now open for all to see. Going to have to look to the U-23's, what else is there?

Ah! We won against Bristol when Brereton was selected (he was subbed though!) and didn't win against Wigan when he wasn't picked, Therefore we should play him as he'a a "winner"! Right? Good logic!

That's why he's been left out (and the points of course!)

Not before he's had a long run in the team apparently K-Hod! Doesn't matter about how many points we sacrifice as a result of course.

Its a circular argument--Brereton isn't good enough to be picked, therefore, you argue, we can't judge him because he never plays! Classic Harry!

Nonsense. Keith Andrews/Jason Lowe/ and I'm sure there's others if I thought hard enough. But Brereton is up there sadly. Contributes virtually nothing.

Brereton has looked bereft of confidence since the day he arrived. Get real.

You think BB's performance in the Bristol game was worthy of note do you? He was rubbish! We won despite having him on. Gallagher was loads better, average performance from him!