Greaves was slightly before my time but fairly sure from what I've heard and read that Kane wasn't in his class as a player. Not sure why you need to belittle Greaves by bigging up Kane either. Bit like trying to make out that Beckham was better than George Best. Kane and Beckham are different sorts of character and might have been far more professional and/or had the benefit of modern technology for keeping fit but in terms of raw ability there's no comparison.

Think Burnley are a car crash waiting to happen following their takeover tbh SG. That's not to say I'm happy with our current situation either though.

I was only disagreeing with your point that half the fans would moan about appointing the modern day HK. I'd say not, as we'd be winning most weeks. I compared and contrasted Allardyce as I presumed that was where the rationale for your point came from.

We'd have gone down with the Walkers and Allardyce eventually anyway. Not even he would have been able to keep us up with no budget. Venky's did however hasten the process massively with their initial decision making. What was required at the time was a better manager than Allardyce which was well within Venky's means at the time.

Interesting hypothetical, if you offered Allardyce the sort of salary and budget to try and get us promoted that he accepts annually to keep Clubs in the PL, would he take it? Probably not, as he's already turned that chance down at WBA. If you offered it to say Hughes, I'd wager you'd get a different response.

It was the Walkers who refused to stump up the money for Lewandowski. All this talk about a volcanic dust cloud is Sam bigging himself up and making himself sound unlucky.

Come off it Gav. I know our unexpectedly good start and Hughton's demise at Forest fits perfectly with your "no-one could possibly manage the Club as well as Mowbray routine" but to call Neill an abject failure is simply wrong. He did at least as well as Mowbray if not better on a fraction of the budget at Preston. Yet you call Neill an abject failure whilst depicting Mowbray as doing the best he possibly can. Things also don't work out for certain managers at specific Clubs. That was the case with Hughton at Forest. Overall though, his record is far better than Mowbray's. As for Mowbray, as long as we keep our head above water this season I don't suppose he will be replaced and will be allowed to see his contract out. Then hopefully we can kick on with a new regime on and off the pitch to get us out of the mess Mowbray and Waggott have left us in. As to whether he SHOULD be replaced regardless in the meantime the answer is still a resounding "hell yes" if the right man was available and willing to come. Every newmanagerial appointment represents a gamble to varying degrees but it's as plain as day we'll never ever achieve any success at this level with Mowbray in charge.

Strongly disagree. The difference between Kendall and say Allardyce is that under Kendall we were winning every week or at least often enough to either be promoted or come within a gnat's chuff thereof. You can put up with a lot if you're winning every week. Allardyce was a survival merchant whose only aim was to win enough games to get to forty points and certain other games were sacrificed as a result. I didn't like the lack of integrity of not giving each match equal attention and your best shot. I was also of the view that if we were only clawing our way to survival every year anyway I'd rather be entertained. I'd sooner have had 30 scrappy 1-0 wins and be winning it though.

Not too much to say about that game really, we were good first half without threatening their keeper and poor second. The only glimpses of real quality came from Khadra when he came on. Very disappointed he and Butterworth didn't start. Can't see much in Poveda or Clarkson at all. Noticeable the 3 loanees got a run out today and our own player Butterworth didn't. Must be very dispiriting for him after doing well on Tuesday. Another disappointing showing from Brereton up top. Needs to concentrate on playing and staying on his feet instead of going down and/or moaning with hands in air all the time. Nyambe excellent, Travis a lot better, Lenihan and Pickering a bit shaky. A point nearer safety. Mowbray out.

So Khadra and Butterworth star on Tuesday but don't get the knod. Fairly standard.

Sounds like Tony trying to take the heat off his mate I think. He looked promising the other night, but blimey, he hasn't even had 45 mins yet, it's fairly premature to be bigging him up to that extent. Presumably Park was instrumental in loaning the centre half who isn't yet available due to injury as well. Didn't hear Tony making a point of that the other day.

That sounds a lot more plausible sort of scenario to me Len - Venkys' financial clout combined with a top class manager and coaching team and genuine direction and expertise behind the scenes. Sounds like the dream combination to do well. The only way that could be bettered would be if the ridiculous FFP rules were ever to be scrapped altogether or at least modified substantially.

Well, you've obviously been pushing for it at one Club or another for long enough, all the best in your new endeavour. Have to say the data based analytics approach appears to have done the square root of naff all for Rovers in terms of their recent recruitment though. Hope it works better for you up in Scotland.

They're 100% down to him.

How much would they be left with after all the borrowings secured against the garages are paid off though? Genuine question as I don't know. And what would happen to Rovers if Asda hits a bad patch?

Spot on. And unless I'm reading it wrong it's incorrect and misleading to say a deal has been done with this lad anyway as until pen is put to paper an agreement in principle to sign means nothing.

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. You can criticise Venky's for their decision making at various points but they have proved their financial commitment to the Club over a period of ten years or more and their ability to inject in large amounts of capital at will. All the talk in the financial press at the time of the Asda takeover was that the Issa Brothers Group were in a precarious financial situation as a result of overextending themselves with the takeover and were leveraged up to the hilt. Better the Devil you know and all that...... Is this alleged "local interest" even supposed to be them anyway?

And for that reason alone he should have been sent down the road long ago with a size 10 up his ample derriere. It's his job to fill the stadium with home fans on a long term sustainable basis. Not scare them off by chasing one off gains from away fans.

He'll "look into it".

The only surprise is that anyone is surprised by last night's turnout. It's the culmination of a piss poor CEO persevering with a piss poor pricing strategy (which was unbelievably originally introduced in the midst of a pandemic) after the fans have also had to endure three years of piss poor football and results on the pitch under a piss poor manager. Said manager hardly fired up enthusiasm for the new season either by spending the summer desperately touting around our star striker to anyone who was interested and, then showing a stunning lack of self awareness by helpfully informing us it was unclear as to whether any funds were available for a replacement when it was his fault star striker had to be sold in the first place due to the money he's previously wasted. And that's only the last three seasons. Apart from the brief respite of a League 1 promotion the years before that were pretty terrible as well. The question is: What do the owners do about it now in the medium to long term? Big changes required: I see no possible scenario whatsoever in which the fans come flocking back to Ewood with either Waggott or Mowbray in situ. Let alone both of them.

Have to say I'm still not convinced that this is the reason the benefit was removed, can't see HMRC having either the resources or desire to police and monitor something so trivial. If anyone can confirm this definitely was the reason, fair enough.

Not convinced by this argument, if you don't actually take up a free ticket, how can you be taxed on it?

I'd have thought so as well. When Brereton is on song at least he can turn and run at you with the ball and be a real threat. Gallagher just plays in front of you, has no real pace, guile, trickery or technique and is weak as a kitten for his size. Must be meat and drink for any centre half.

Disagree on Dolan completely, you really appear to have it in for him, constantly saying he isn't up to first team standard and highlighting the penalty incident on Saturday. I'd say he's been one of our players of the season thus far along with Ayala and thought he was our only bright spark tonight as well before the 2 subs came on.

Because although they both still have plenty to prove BB does have some glimpses of talent imo. His main problem for me at the moment is staying on his feet instead of trying to go down at the slightest touch all the time. Gallagher on the other hand has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. No striker's instinct, 6ft 5 and jumps 5 ft 8, no technical ability - nothing.