If this is true and we are offering Hart a short term extension to his contract when he's not available to play then that's a disgrace and on a par for stupidity with giving Gladwin another deal because we felt sorry for him. I wouldn't have given Smallwood an extension either but at least he is available for selection if required. If for some as yet unknown reason we particularly want to keep Hart for next season and beyond we should have let him go for now and signed him back up after the end of this season when he's available. If he wants to play for us he'll sign and if a bigger Club came in for him offering more money he'd be off to them anyway, the fact he had another month here won't have any bearing on his decision. But dont waste more money on yet another player who isn't available. If we're doing this type of thing as a deliberate loss leader to establish ourselves as a Club that really looks after its players that's one thing. But don't do it a week after pleading poverty and begging fans not to take a small refund to which they are technically entitled.

The discussion wasn't really about Bauer's ability per se it was the comparison between Bauer and McLaughlin in that they both appeared to be long term targets and at the end of the day we didn't land either of them. McLaughlin always seemed a strange one to me. If he was first choice at Sunderland, why would he want to come here to be a number two, and if we wanted him as our next number one then it strikes me that we weren't setting our bar particularly high. For all that it did appear that he was a long term target and it does seem to me that since being promoted we've found it virtually impossible to get our preferred targets in or over the line. Maybe this is down to Waggott and Mowbray having an unrealistic view of players' worth in the current market, or Venus being not up to the job, or Mowbray being reluctant to bring players in because he feels loyal to the existing staff or being unable to communicate with and get the green light off the owners quickly enough or even a combination of all of the above. I do however think it's giving us far too much credit to say that we're deliberately waiting to see which division we're in before signing anyone. I suspect it's merely a continuation of what we've seen over the last few windows of us being unable to get our ducks in a row.

? I have a better suggestion. Maybe we should chip in between us and get "a face in the crowd" of Walton between the posts. It would be considerably more agile and quite probably would stop more on target efforts than the real thing.

I know what you're saying but he isn't going to Liverpool or City where it would be reasonable to expect to bide his time and try and force his way in. If two Clubs from the same division are offering a similar deal but one expects him to go into the first team and make that spot his own and one wants him to come in as a squad player behind other incumbents anyone would be mad to choose the latter Club.

Just Downing for a year ideally. It would be ludicrous to give Graham another deal imo, he's already had one year too many. I find it extremely worrying that all these players have been offered extensions. It smacks of we won't be able to bring anyone else in for next season and they'll all be offered longer extensions once these short term ones expire

Wash your mouth out young chadders. Worst keeper I've seen in a Rovers shirt apart from maybe Alan Fettis. At least "Dracula" John Butcher (afraid of crosses) was a reasonable shot stopper!

Our dillying and dallying might bizarrely work in our favour if the unthinkable happens and we sneak up via the play offs. We'd be looking at a totally different calibre of replacement across the board.

I'll be eating an extremely large helping of humble pie if he takes us up via the play offs. I still don't actually think that will happen (although I'd desperately like to be proved wrong) and I think this is a massive sliding doors moment for Mowbray. If he takes us up, what can you say? Brilliant job. If we tail off a bit and end the season without ever having been in or without ever having seriously threatened the play off positions, then I don't think that's good enough. Of far greater concern still imo is the state he's left the squad in. We're in the mire as far as FFP is concerned because he's wasted £12m on two strikers who haven't performed thus far. We need one if not two centre halves next season, we don't even own a first choice keeper and arguably only have one passable forward. So far too early to say TM has done a great job. Ironically if we can scrape up he'll get away with his previous recruitment because we'll have the funds to rebuild.

The slip by Brereton was so cruel on him given his history here to date. If he'd been the only player to slip yesterday maybe you could say it was typical of his time here but so many players were slipping in the second half I think you can put it down to rank bad luck. I don't know why we water and water the pitch when it doesn't really need it. We water it heavily at HT in winter when its chucking it down with rain as well.

Wonder if that keeper from Sunderland is available now? Has to be an improvement on Walton even if he's only average.

Needs must on a (hopefully) temporary basis but I actually enjoyed today's game more than most this season. If it's deemed necessary in general to be ridiculously over cautious going forward then there's nothing we can do about it but as far as the football is concerned, if it has to be behind BCD then bring it on as far as I'm concerned.

Thought it was really harsh on Brereton to be subbed, make your decisions on what's happening on the pitch not because you've decided before the game to replace the entire forward line on 65. Other than that I thought it was one of the best performances of the season considering the enforced break. Walton and Gallagher were awful but we knew that already. Results went really well for us today as well. I Even liked the faces in the crowd. There in spirit if not in person.

Too many. Seems like a Danny Graham lookalike contest. Thank goodness for the well groomed Downing. ?

On the ifollow front my mate's son has linked his laptop up to their oled TV and it's a cracking picture. Not had any problemswith the feed at all. Sympathy to everyone who's been having problems.

Reasonably encouraging first half. Gallagher terrible as always, thought Brereton looked decent. Would like to see a lot more from Holtby. Difficult to see how we'll ever do anything with that dolloper in the nets though.

Walton strikes again. Worst I've seen in a Rovers shirt apart from maybe Alan Fettis. It's ok now though, playing quite well overall.

Thank you. Definitely not the fault of the ladies on the phones by the sound of it. The code works too! Just had a quick look at a match highlight and the picture quality on my laptop is better than I was expecting. We'll see what it's like on a match day with everyone logging in.

Wow, rang the Club, got straight through amazingly and the nice lady on the phone gave me the code straightaway. She said a lot of people hadn't had their code for some reason and there was another lady on the e-mails who'd been in since 07.30 this morning trying to get through all the queries. Blood pressure back to normal, well done to those 2 ladies doing their best to sort out this bloody mess.

No code received. E-mailed the Club before 9a.m. this morning as instructed on the Club website at tickets@rovers.co.uk and not had any sort of response whatsoever. Not even an e-mail to indicate there is any sort of problem. Not happy at all. Appalling customer service. Also bought a "face in the crowd" to help the Club out and won't even get to see that. Have had about 6 e-mails from them since placing the order just before 1800 last night to indicate the progress with the order, Rovers can't even generate an automated e-mail to acknowledge receipt of mine. Whether or not they subsequently bother to reply.

Where's this come from? Is this for everyone in all four divisions? Most managers under Venky's especially Mowbray and our alleged insider at the Club Paul Mani who pops up every transfer window have always said the owners never refuse funding when asked. If FFP is to be completely abolished for 12 months with no future comeback or strings attached then if the funding and the willingness really was there the thing to do would be to spend massively now and get everyone in you need for the forseeable future, and make sure hardly anyone was needed when the rules did come back into effect. We shall see. Not really holding my breath.

I do have an e-mail but thanks for the advice. If nothing comes in the morning I'll attempt to ring the Club.

If I ever get a code, do you have to sign up for I follow separately?

It was more a case of I didn't know if I automatically had some sort of my Rovers account as a ST holder and didn't know where to look. I assume that if like me you had never had any need to make any online purchases you won't have one. I managed to check this by putting in my e-mail address and usual password into the log in section and it said the e-mail address wasn't recognised. Go to Rovers.co.uk and click on the drop down menu options square in the top right hand corner of the screen. Select "My account" at the bottom of the drop down options and register for a new account giving all your personal details. (I kept having to redo this as my computer was selecting autofill options and putting the wrong things in the wrong boxes.) When you've put your e - mail address in and completed the registration Rovers will send you an e-mail with a link which you have to click on to activate your account. You then have to update your account preferences and the final step is to click on a '"link account" tab to connect the new account you've just created to your season ticket. If you've done it right your ST number should come up on screen. I did all this on Wednesday afternoon but haven't received a code as yet. Apologies for boring all the techies.

Thanks. No spam folder on my mobile, have checked my laptop and it doesn't seem to be in there.

I've not had my code yet, I'm in the category of "think I have successfully set up my account but missed the Tuesday deadline".