Agree but If they were they would be replaced by others who owed their jobs to Venkys. Nothing would change. All roads lead to India.

You talk as it we don't need back-up. Tronstad and Wharton won't play every game for one reason or another. Haven't you learned from our current injury crisis? We can't keep dragging kids in short pants out of school and expect to win in the Championship. I have no confidence that this is about anything but money. We want another club to pay his wages so we can buy/borrow someone cheaper.

So why sell him?

This...

I've amended my post above to make my point clearer!

Well you're the one rated Garret ahead of Travis in a list of midfielders. 4th or 5th you said implying he's keeping Travis out and we don't need him anymore. I know Tronstadt is first choice in that position but isn't Travis 2nd in that position? Don't bother mentioning JRC for a while! I'm arguing we do need him. And if BRFC only makes good decisions why are we in the shit?

Well, we are talking defensive mid-fielders here so bringing Wharton into it seems odd. Garret is young, learning and promising, he should not be a first choice. JRC is prone to long periods out and always has been. Buckley is not the player we hoped he would be so its risky to rely on him and is not what I'd call a defensive mid-fielder anyway. In terms of defensive midfielders we don't have a host of them as you seem to be implying. In fact we are stretched and I would not be selling Travis whose commitment is always 100%.

And if Garret is injured who will replace him? We are not building any depth in our squad. Playing a load of inexperienced young players is not working. We need layers so we can gradually bring these excellent kids on. We shouldn't be relying on them.

The main problem is that our owners have not departed or gone.

in the future presumably?

Its all about that snowball---revenge!!

Chalk and cheese the difference between this board and those posting to the LT. Overwhelmingly they blame JDT and many of them want him sacked! Hardly any reference to the owners at all. We might as well give up now if they are typical fans.

I'm more worried about the future.

As I said, puts his value up.

OK if you can't think past this week.

the difference!

Who for?

Yea OK! Player trading as we do it is a quick way back to Div 1. We've only one bloke who can score goals so let's sell him!

A necessary ingredient of a "discussion" with Chaddy! Pull out before you pass out!

Who should we be developing them for though? Spurs? West From? Birmingham? Or Rovers? I was pleased that we were offering players new contracts to ensure they didn't leave for nothing, but I assumed it was because we wanted to keep them. Now its looking like why we did it to get the money to keep the club afloat. What's the point of rich owners?

Certainly a sensible club would do that if it was keen on selling. Us?

Raptors are circling, enticed by the corpse which used to be Blackburn Rovers.

Yes! Because we're so good at that and the owners can always be relied on to use the sale money on new players. If you think we can sell Sami and end up better off then you haven't been watching. Unbelievable frankly that anyone can lap up this stuff.

Absolutely bleeds blue and white as well. Not happy about this.(and much else).

Hurst is doing well at Ipswich but was beyond awful here. Same with Branthwaite. Something wrong here.