Andy

You'd be surprised at how many handsomely-paid people are ineffective communicators.

Well, hopefully - but that has always been my major concern with any potential sale of the club. Are Venky’s going to just write off that amount of money? If not, we’ll likely never have different owners (unless one of us wins the Euro Millions on a triple rollover week).

I like GB and todays interview has done nothing to change my opinion. He’s an effective communicator, appears to be honest and transparent and gives us something that didn’t exist before he arrived here; a strategy. In my opinion, we’re a lot better off with him being with us. I’ve seen a small number of strong opinions against him on here in the past and I’d be interested to know what’s that’s based on. And on Buckley, I was told that JDT was in full agreement with the loan. Which is interesting as everything else that the same person has told me has either happened or been confirmed, even down to GB confirming that the 3rd deadline signing was a winger from the Bundesliga (Oli Burke).

I'm sure he won't be too concerned, since his team are totally outclassing the opposition and will walk off the pitch as winners. Be quite nice if he scored, to shove it back up the home fans' arses.

Bellingham has been good, but so has Foden. If the other lads were on his wavelength, we score at least another 2 in that half.

1-0. I know it's hard to judge in a friendly and against such poor opposition, but we've looked pretty decent so far.

Based on the time we spent there under the incumbent owners, I'm not too sure about that. If Venky's wanted to make coin from the club, promotion is by far and away their best option.

Similarly, no Rovers fan would call us 'Blackburn'. If you refer to Rovers in a football sense, very few are going to think you're talking about Doncaster, Bristol or Forest Green, to be fair.

Definitely knows where the goal is. Debut goal on Sat would be amazing 👍

I mentally zoned out at the point of us chasing a win at 1-1, we brought off Bellingham and Maddison and left on Henderson. Incredible.

I think the implication by the club was that he was never effectively managed by Plymouth, hence the recurrent injuries - and if he's a drinker, that would absolutely have not helped at all. No excuse, if you're a professional sportsman. My hope is that the staff at Brockhall can get him in shape and strengthened in ways that he's never been. Looks a player from the glimpses we've seen of him so far.

The person answering the questions is the reporter, not JDT - so the reporter not knowing for certain isn't a massive surprise, to be fair. Regarding JDT's contract situation, I was told that there was some discussion about a new one a number of weeks ago - but if it happened, it would have been easier for either party to walk away. No idea if it's live / dropped / etc.

Really expect Moran to become a big player for us this season. He'll be more of an Elliott than a Morton. Encouraging for Gilsenan as well, very confident penalty.

I don’t believe the whole ‘tax’ thing was a legitimate concern for the club - think it was the red tops who brought that into play for us. Possibly got wind of something happening over there and 1+1=3. One element of this, from the info that was passed a number of weeks ago, is that Venky’s were aware that this investigation/process would be happening since Jan/Feb of this year. Club revenue was protected in the subsequent months by things like EFL money, season tickets, etc. So it only became an operational issue to us around the time when the sponsorship deal was put into place.

I think they did, to be fair - along with a number of other local charities.

Did you manage to meet with SW recently, btw Glen? Be interested to hear his take on the situation. He gave the briefest of hints in his recent BBC interview, as did GB on deadline day ('geopolitical issues').

This is my opinion also. The Gov't restrictions seems to be a perfect reason for Venky's to say 'you need to be less reliant on our funding moving forward'. So it leaves us in a bit of limbo; they stick around, but we never quite have enough funds to do anything other than tread water.

Garrett was due to go out to cover the Moran in, but the loan deal fell through. We had to get one body out of the door before the window closed - and it ended up being Buckley.

Buckley was the 'out' to the Moran 'in'.

No thanks. Can't imagine it'd appeal much to him either, it's not like he's not already managed a (relative) minnow in the CL. He'll have much bigger clubs clamouring for him, when he does leave Rovers.

Seems the most logical scenario. For the sake of the team, let’s hope it’s right.

From what I understand, it won't be that bad. They are still putting (and intending to put) money into the club, though the emphasis has been the club having to help out in this interim period (eg retaining some of the funds raised by transfers). How it affects the longer-term and whether it's a potential 'out' for them, genuinely don't know and we'll have to see how it plays out...

I hate games like this - Boro have been awful in the first few games, whereas we've played pretty well (even if all results haven't gone our way). It's like when an opposition striker has gone on a 16-year run without a goal before playing us. You know exactly what's going to happen and you're unable to do anything to stop it. All I can hope of is Wahlsted starting in goal, JRC moving into midfield and some of the new forwards playing.

Even players like Seamus Coleman at Everton and, more recently Evan Ferguson at Brighton. Picked up for nominal fees from Irish clubs - Ferguson in particular looks the real deal, reminds me of a young Shearer. The players are out there, for sure. Let's hope the new striker is one of them...

Would love to be in the room, asking questions!