Cut his hair, dye it blonde and call him Garrett !

First stretch and he's gone is both entirely predictable and not a good look all things considered with his recent history. However i do feel for him because he's a good player but again a silly signing considering the odds.

No, any time as i'm reliably informed but it has to be agreed all round for valid reason and it would mean a financial penalty to the club cancelling it depending on the agreement. It won't happen anyway because they will want to use him and he'll want to stay there plus we've used his wages. However point i was making is if it was me i'd be on the phone begging to get him back, somehow.

Lowe Mk2 headless chicken he really needs a season on loan somewhere to learn on the job, Jason suffered from being thrown in when he really wasn't ready for it. I like Garretts commitment and tenacity but he's a liability in this side in this situation but of course it wouldn't matter if we hadn't signed yet another croc and his role was still just ten min cameos.

Stop wasting my time go and cry about it somewhere else if you can't grasp it. Loans CAN be fucking cancelled IF there is the desire to do so !

We have no recall option but i'm sure they could cancel it if they decide it's pointless keeping him however that would probably mean some financial penalty but Rovers could always wave that. You, I nor anyone else knows what could actually be done if the desire was there by all parties. However it's unlikely they'd let him go anyway.

Broughtons main remit as far as i can see was to source and bring in young players to develop, get mins into and quickly increase in value. Forget the experienced signings and those paid a fee for there are plenty of pointers that they were already being lined up before GB arrived having been identified and the wheels put in motion with the previous mob. Whether he played a part or not again i'll come back to his main reason for being brought in here, the identifying and recruiting of players to develop which is supposed to be his area of expertise. Leo, Ennis and Tel are shockers and that side of it shows he really isn't up to the task, then throw in the 4 yr deal, the 800 grand fee etc and the alleged numbers he struck for McGuire, well it's no wonder hes been reeled in. Where does he get off agreeing to those kind of figures for McGuire after the initial deal went belly up ? Either someone was telling him there was plenty money or he went rogue trying to save face.

I'm sure it could be broken if there was an agreement all round it's been done before. We've wasted his wages on another croc though.

A very tricky next few fixtures means we are likely to get dragged nearer to the mire so i'ts a valuable point today even though in essence it's another two blown. Usual flaws exposed again but the second half resilience was good to see and gives them a bit of belief and something to build on. Fleck another stupid signing given his recent history, the DoF needs to pull his finger out and get Travis back right now, Garret is Lowe mk2 and needs to go away and learn in a lge below for a bit. The two Sams up front though we could be on to something there.

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Could be in viking or eskimo, he speaks many languages after all, a very intelligent man not like some British mercenary managers.

Card AND cash, no digi only, no shut ticket office, no restrictions.... Amazing eh.

He's going over the top with the PR spin because he is the latest shield they've provided for themselves and he'll have been fed a script. He won't be allowed to go rogue and to be fair the off field stuff is nothing to do with him so he shouldn't be expected to comment on it. Give it 12 months though and we'll see if he can keep it all in, as for Waggot, suhail, Sylvester. GB and co well lads the streets of Blackburn NEVER forget !

Like we've said before the '20 million a season' strapline covers for an awful lot of self inflicted obstacles to progress.

The club have blown it big style with him all he needed was similar backing to Mowbray and i firmly believe we'd be far better off this season. It wouldn't have been without flaws that style of football can cause it's own problem but being allowed to add a couple more the calibre of Tronsdat would have helped immensly. He and we have been royally shafted by the continuing stupid ownership and the ambitionless pairing of Waggot and shadow who now seem to have a vice like grip on the club. We needed to think out the box, needed something a bit different and a new culture at the club after the steady but dour previous regime. They found it, they blew it.

Good turnout all things considered and similar to what they brought here last season before they start running their mouths off as usual. I don't care it's only 15 mins up the road the away form has been diabolical and it's still 30 quid. Also we are due a result on the road !

A consultant masquerading as a Sporting Director whose wife was an agent. What could go wrong eh, now we have an academy director running the entire football operation who recently let it out the bag that the inexperienced in English football head coach was advising him on all manner of things. I'm sure it's supposed to be the other way around. And surely the CEO should be guiding the DoF ? Bloody circus this club, still.

Yep spewing money on short term sticking plaster solutions. Agents will do alright though as usual but classic Waggot and Venkys, why re-invest a million or two on a decent player when you can spend it on 2 short term frees and a couple of loans. The DoF and new recruitment dept model was supposed to alter this by having our better own ability to source and bring in players to fit the model. It's anything but when you look at Leo, Tel and Ennis so no doubt we are back to grasping what favoured agents offer.

Should still be a 19/20k+ crowd although knowing our lot they'll close the ticket office again on the day on cost cutting Police 'advice'.

He's a front foot player is Brittain but when he's on the back foot and we are being pushed back down the wings he's all over the place. I'm talking about when there is actual defending to be done he's often poor.

As was mentioned by philipL Waggot can't manage upwards only downwards that is where every bit of his experience and expertise - if we want to call it that - is. He was in a similar role at two clubs going rapidly backwards in Charlton and Coventry his whole ethos is that of squeeze what you have and shrink into a more manageable size. Do we ever believe that he has presented a 3 year plan to the owners to aim for the top 6 ? Do we ever believe hes gone and said i strongly recommend backing Tony for a striker to push us over the line it's the best chance we have. Or that hes gone to them and said we need to do an ST drive like PNE and Bolton to reboot the crowds and improve all aspects of matchday experience ? No chance all he does is present his modest targets and cost cutting ideas year on year to plod along. There s no way in hell he didn't know the huge risks of the model being run now even he isn't that thick, did he scream to the owners this will only go one way we'll end up relying on luck ? Did he balls. And that is a continuing major issue at Rovers the lack of a Blackburn based and Blackburn focused board of directors. Suhail is the owners puppet and he is Suhails puppet and a cosy little number they are both on i assume.

With the head coach change obviously being on the cards in the background for a while and the CEO now seemingly bringing in players over the last head coach and DoFs head it all points to being deliberate. He won't commit to that kind of signing and the new head coach he's brought in is a fire fighter who'll be prepared to lose more good players in summer and work with 1 shirt button as a budget. It's all being lined up by Waggot for a further downscale and water treading under him is set to be replaced by annual relegation scraps. What does he really know about the future financing or is this him and shadowman trying to impress the ownership again with their new model of Rovers.....

Because they work for owners for whom disfunction is the norm and if they like you it doesn't matter.

You simply cannot lose the senior players we have, cut the already modest budget we have, sell the talent we have and reduce the wage bill and plug holes with youth, recruit the types we mostly have without having some serious adverse effects. It's the perfect storm for disaster and that's before we include all the background stuff and fed up already small fanbase. Takes very shrewd operators on and off the pitch to steer any championship club through those waters.

Encouraging them to clear the lines quicker and be more decisive in defence will result in more balls flying upfield to no one or into touch. It should though prevent a goal like we conceded last night and several other opportunities they had. Bog standard championship stuff i'm afraid and at the min we just need points not style and if they'd cleared that last night we could have hung on for a 0-0 which would have be welcomed mostly.