Well thanks for the correction. No profound change there then! He's still young for a goalkeeper but not a kid.

Makes the Brereton transfer even more inexplicable.

But what about the spirit in the dressing room?

The trouble with all this incrementalism, getting nearer to promotion bit by bit is that I won't live to see it! Have a heart Tony and get on with it!

And Mac'Ginn. Would have been a great buy.

My God, that's frightening!

Spin spin spin. Rothwell was missing from the starting line-up for months even though the supporters rated him highly. When he came in late , he showed what we'd been missing. Same goes for Travis. Lenihan was an established starter before this season. Dack isn't young for a footballer----26. Bell's game has gone backwards but plays. Nyambe hasn't featured much lately. The last 4 you mention all made a token appearance or two when it was all over. Hopefully will be used properly next season but you wouldn't bet on it.

If we do have a wage ceiling its self-imposed. Giving contract extensions to players now sadly past it, signing players who were never there to start with with, blocking promotion to young ones with something to prove-----all of these have impacted on our wage bill. Signing a safe goalkeeper would be worth 10-15 points a season at least. I've supported Rovers when we didn't have a pot to piss in and its tragic to see us nearly back there. But we always had good keepers, some brilliant, without paying much of a fee. And we always had at least one rock at centre-back. Thank you for your complimentary remarks about my previous post---now sadly deleted by admin.

Find another Dyche and get promoted would do me. Didn't spend £7M on the entire team. I'd suggest Allardyce but they already sacked him.

To be fair his children haven't finished uni yet.

Well on that basis I won't be expecting Premier league football at Ewood in my lifetime. Maybe not in your's.

Its a challenge every club which has been promoted since FFP came in has risen to. They may well have awareness but where's the resolve? The blueprint TM seems to be following doesn't fill me with confidence. Sounds much like buy to sell to me.

There is only one way to solve our financial issues-----promotion. Can't understand why the owners can't/won't see that. Kean and SEM maybe?

That's what will have been recommended in those audits Venkys paid for. They're the rules and TM has to obey them. Considerably reduces the chance of promotion which would solve all these financial issues.

Unusual one that. Went from playing every game in our promotion season to hardly ever being seen again the next. (as I remember it!)

Dack/Linihen on the bench perhaps?

Another thought from watching that Play-off Final------how many players from the current squad would get in that 1992 side? My guess is none!

3 points from that video: The commentators wanted Leicester to win. That penalty would be given today 99 times out of a hundred. Same goes for the second pen but the commentators view when Newall missed is "Justice was done"!!!

ah......Backed the wrong bloke didn't we?

Exactly why did Ince decide to get rid of the best goalkeeper we have ever had? Didn't see that coming.Never seen any explanation.

Which people have said both?

Given the horrendous difficulties parking around Ewood,we should have more transport options for fans than just about any other club. Rovers should be much more proactive than we are.

Not often I disagree with you tomphil but Raya is 25 in September! Still young for a keeper but you could hardly say "he's just a kid". Flowers was 26 when we signed him. I think Raya went backwards this season after that game against West Brom.

If coaching can't improve him, then what can? Get rid now if that's the case.

So the goal-keeping coach is irrelevant then?