If that actually is the view from his house he doesn't need to close the curtains, he can't see it for the trees! Not much happening on the pitch then?

Perhaps it's a Macron thing then. Not good enough either way and doesn't bode well for the relationship.

Thought someone would fire back with that. The situation with the owners and and the Coventrio is somewhat different. Until such time as someone with massive pockets is prepared to take on the huge financial burden that is currently Blackburn Rovers, or we get promoted, we don't have much alternative. Mowbray, Waggott and Venus could be gone in an instant if the owners decided that was what they wanted. Anyhow hope you enjoy your day in Fleetwood and that the 90 mins watching the team in the Bolton/Preston kit doesn't detract from that too much!

You could just about put up with the new kits not being ready to be put on general sale by the opening game but for there not to be at least a set available for the first team is an absolute joke. Wonder if there's any other Club in the football League in that embarrassing position.

No offence, but why does he get a clean slate and a free pass from you this season? It's not like last season (and Brockhall) never happened is it?

True in general but imo you're talking rubbish about Ayala's injury woes being unforeseeable, If he's that good why didn't Warnock want to keep him? Plus speak to any fans of the Club's he's been at previously and he seems to have a reputation for going AWOL around Christmas every season.

I used to think that "a tipping point" was imminent at the end of every wasted season. Now, from anecdotal tales I've heard about Venky's wealth I believe they COULD prop us up like this indefinitely IF they wanted. However just because they could do this, doesn't mean they will, or won't tire of it all of a sudden one day. For me the ideal scenario would be to combine their financial clout with the leadership of a top class manager and some proper footballing and business acumen and local knowledge off the pitch. The offers of help and support are out there, I hope the owners take the olive branch and combine forces before the situation on and off the pitch deteriorates still further.

Would rather see Lenihan and Wharton together anyway if Wharton returns from injury as good as he was last season.

He will be if no-one puts a realistic offer in!

Amen to that.

Calm down dear. Either way it's not in our overall interests to sell imo with such a penal sell on clause.

No guarantee whatsoever we'd finish as "high" as 15th without him though. Far more likely we'd be in a relegation battle.

Thanks.

Has Mowbray been spotted yet then this pre-season? Is he up in Scotland with the squad?

Not my money but absolutely. If we accepted a bid of £10m what would that be clear to us? 60% of any profit over £1.75m according to the LT so 60% of £8.25m I.e. £6.3m. Not worth it. The only way I would contemplate a sale is if we were getting at least £10m clear which would require a bid of c £20m AND we had targeted someone within our budget to replace him on a PERMANENT basis. The notion that AA should be replaced by someone coming in on loan for a year is absolutely ludicrous and is something else Waggott and Mowbray shouldn't be allowed to get away with if they're here that long. (like Brockhall)

No way whatsoever the owners will let AA go for £10m imo. If Clubs don't get a bit more realistic with their valuations he might not be going anywhere.

We haven't had definite confirmation the registration embargo has been lifted and that we can sign players yet have we? Unless I've missed it.

Might think Mowbray's not going to be here......

Or replaced Allardyce with someone better.

Well we might be able to if Mowbray didn't have the final say and Venus wasn't the one responsible for trying to get the actual deals over the line.

No, that's what Tom was alluding to. He'll be creaming his pants at the prospect of Mowbray wasting any available money on his deadbeat clients once again. He may yet turn out to be disappointed.............

Don't worry, Joe will be along to tell us how crap he is any minute now!

What a great post Ben. All we had to do a year or two ago was prioritise our key players and look after the futures of the players you would at that point have regarded as our "crown jewels" Raya, Nyambe, Lenihan, Travis, Dack and Armstrong. Raya was ostracised and was allowed to leave for peanuts, the same will probably happen to Nyambe, Dack had a new contract chucked at him when it wasn't clear whether or not he would return the same player from the first injury, and Armstrong has been allowed to get to the position where he will either leave for a relative pittance (of which 40% goes to Newcastle anyway) or for nothing when his contract expires. Meanwhile there appears to be plenty of money to pay Mulgrew to play for another Club, Ayala to sit in the treatment room, to pay the lad who got injured to use our facilities, to pay Sam Hart for another few months not to play and to pay Stewie for another season to do nothing. It's so negligent it could make you weep.

I'd want money back for Brereton minimum. I've always said I can see a hint of a player trying to emerge with him and I think he would thrive under a different manager. Gallagher's a different story. I'd snap anyone's hand off if they offered around half of the £5m we paid for him.

Absolutely spot on. As for who is having their pants pulled down well it's always the owners by the succession of chancers they've given contracts to to run the Club on their behalf over the last ten years. It isn't these people's own money they're pissing up the wall, they always get paid and/or do very nicely out of it no matter what. Before Gav starts, ultimate responsibility lies with the owners of course because it's their name over the door. Wouldn't it be nice though for us, and for them, if just for once someone was not trying to feather their own nest at the Club's expense?