Absolutely. Plus, and this is the most relevant point for me, GB only came out and did his sheepish interview after there was a massive backlash against the disgrace that was the official Club statement which completely lacked even the merest hint of contrition. Imo If Broughton was sincere, he'd have done that interview first and the official statement would never have seen the light of day.

It's arbitration, not the Court of Appeal.

Absolutely. Why would he want to come here after what we've done to him. Actually, in a perverse way, if we weren't going to get promoted anyway, I wouldn't be completely averse to that final embarrassment if it heaped further pressure on the inept Waggott and Broughton.

Only if the panel find in our favour.

You're being silly there, that's why I said "within reason". I'm struggling to understand why, even if what Nixon has claimed is correct, people don't think it's relevant what happens if we got promoted, signed him permanently, then got relegated again if the Club failed to address that. I'm thinking by now the appeal was probably rejected some time ago but the Club haven't dared/couldn't be arsed publicising the result. Just as they couldn't be bothered keeping everyone abreast of the situation for a couple of days after the window closed and any relevant info had to be drip fed by Sharpe aa opposed to being released by the Club.

That would indeed have been nice. Instead we ended up with Broughton.

You're assuming there, Nixon is correct and/or has the full facts in his possession.

Does anyone on here know for a fact what the regulations say about what you DO have to provide? Without knowing that and without knowing that what they (allegedly) asked for isn't stipulated or without knowing whether there's an additional catch all in the regs about "or whatever additional info the EFL might reasonably require" etc it's impossible to say the EFL were being unreasonable at fault.

I thought you had to submit some sort of a deal sheet containing the broad outline of an agreement between the two Clubs then the full details could be submitted within the additional period. Presumably, we didn't do that.

Absolutely spot on. If it's simply an official in the VAR room making a mistake instead of the ref, who doesn't get the chance to watch an incident over and over, the whole exercise becomes completely pointless. For me VAR is an absolute disaster and needs to be scrapped BUT if it's to remain then I think they need to change the offside rule to require clear daylight. I can't believe anyone thinks it's a good idea to have a brilliant goal chalked off because someone has a nasal hair offside. That's as far from "clear and obvious" as it gets. Conversely the lengths VAR go to to NOT overturn a bad non offside related decision from the referee, because it supposedly wasn't a clear and obvious error, is astonishing. Offside and non offside decisions are adjudicated to a completely different standard.

Fair enough. FWIW imo even IF the reason for the appeal was the EFL asking what would happen if we were promoted then relegated then that wouldn't be a valid reason imo. If the EFL raise any sort of requisition within reason then it would still be incumbent on us to answer it to their satisfaction before the deadline expired.

Thanks both. I'm not sure how anyone can surmise an appeal would succeed in either of the above forums when the Club haven't even divulged the reason/s on which they are appealing.

What's a B2B contract and what does CAS stand for? And by "available info" do you mean what Nixon has claimed? I haven't seen any actual evidence of what Rovers could possibly be basing their appeal on from any other source.

We submitted the registration late in one case and incompletely in the other by the Club's own admission in their "official statement". End of story. If the EFL by some miracle use their discretion to allow the appeal, it doesn't mean we weren't at fault.

Bizarre how many people seem to have convinced themselves that the EFL are somehow at fault, a classic exercise in muddying the waters and misdirection from the shysters running the Club - job done. The EFL aren't at fault, the Club are, and even if the appeal is somehow allowed then it will be on a sympathy basis for the poor player who faces being unable to play in this Country for months due to our incompetence. Even that seems highly unlikely as if the EFL allow this appeal they're opening the floodgates for a barrage of late registrations for all sorts of spurious reasons.

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Course you can. (Simon Leigh)

If the "experts" at Ewood Park had tied him (and other) down to a new deal the problem would never have arisen in the first place.

Christ. He's useless.

Easy with the benefit of hindsight. No-one knew at that stage we were going to amass a decent number of points by November then completely fizzle out making the second half of the season a dead rubber. (again) No one knew how the season was going to pan out. We might have needed his goals to keep us up or we might have looked to be in a better chance of the play offs than we do right now. Imo it would have been a big mistake to let him go for £8m at that point. £15m obviously would have been a different matter I suppose.

What's the alternative?

Dry weekend sadly.

Yep. Those bloody awful owners eh.........

Bit harsh to bracket Holtby in with those other players but otherwise fair point. Add in to that paying Mulgrew £1m p.a. for two seasons to play for League one Clubs.

You might have half a point if you didn't continually give Gallagher (who has done far less than BBD even in that form) a free pass.