The LET has an 'exclusive' on Dolan's contract today. Noting recent comments on the Rovers reporters they've had the article, in my view, is poor. Essentially outlines the state of play as being the same and then all the common sense scenarios people are generally aware of - could sign a better contract, leave for compensation in 12 months or go if we get a good bid. Hardly rocket science.

The club have confirmed Leo's exit

And another...

As long as the pace on the wings has some quality and work rate. Let's not be bringing in a Sorba Thomas type.

Venkys have been reading the book of football clichés and wondering why we've signed Hedges 4 times and Gally half a dozen times.

The smart move would be to get it on sale on Friday or the very least Saturday and capitalise on people watching the Euros games in the bar

Think it said week commencing, not on the 1st

Was Oliver Burke in the Bundesliga? Cos that article has Broughton specifically saying a player from the Bundesliga had a medical but we couldn't complete the transfer

O'Brien was a loan with the reported fee based on promotion. McGuire's initial agreed fee ok sure was reported as being closer to £2.5m. Irrespective of the above it does sound like there's some morally corrupt people in the club. Not surprising given Cole's story of getting shafted by SW.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23786661.gregg-broughton-explains-mystery-blackburn-rovers-medical/ We got a winger in for the medical last summer on deadline day. But then finances didn't allow it to complete.

Didn't we have a bundasliga winger in last summer ready to be signed on deadline day, medical done etc and then it was said we didn't have the funds to complete it?

Where have you got these figures from, genuinely? The last time I remember the club saying a deal was in the millions was dafabet and that was more along the lines of a 7 figure sum across multiple years. We've been out of the Prem for over a decade. How many comparable clubs i.e. those not in the prem in the last few seasons have nationally or internationally known sponsors? Don't get me wrong, the club might be able to do better with sponsors, but probably not by huge amounts. Even when we were in the prem or had recently dropped out, we had some naff deals and that was pre-waggott. Probiz anyone?!

If you read the article it says the third shirt will be out the week prior to the away kit, so w/c 7th July

If they land this it would be hard to doubt they're genuinely in the know. At face value, maybe it's a random piece that comes out by the end of the year where he's immediately gone and the shadowing turns out to be the handover period

Genuine question. Out of our last 6 transfers largely believed to be under £1m each, which have turned out to be good. Or alternatively, how far back do we have to go to find 6 transfers under £1m which turned out to be good. Putting aside the argument of the quality you can get around this price range, this assumes all will come good, which isn't likely.

Does anyone have figures from pre-venkys? I'm sure we ran at a loss under the Walker Trust - that's why they didn't want to continue to fund the club. We used to have to sell our best player nearly every season and re-invest, hoping for another player to breakout (Roque, Benni, Bentley, Warnock) to sell for good profit.

£15 a ticket match by match is fine and affordable. As a 23 game commitment over 8 months...I can't imagine many people know they can make all of or the majority of games to keep the cost per match near that level

Given this I can see why Rovers haven't lowered the price anymore. Yes there can be exceptions but ultimately it's the price of football overall which is the issue, not just the pricing at Rovers.

I made no reference to the bus trips, I only highlighted there seems to be little sense in playing a team ten times further away from the same division to a more local side. Regarding Scottish opposition being decent preparation, that's subjective. Aside from the top 2, many would see the rest of the league as not being particularly competitive. You're also assuming they'd want Rovers for a friendly at home and seem to overlook the fact that Rovers, on a reasonably regular basis, bring top tier sides to ewood.

Telling someone to grow up is, ironically, one of the most immature responses given when having a debate. I don't defend the club at every turn but don't expect you to have read all my posts (it'd be quite worrying if you had), but by the same turn you can't accurately say I defend the club on everything.

It's not just facilities - it's environment, weather, getting the playing and coaching staff away together with less interruption - call it bonding. A change of environment even when working will tend to give most people a lift, regardless of the line of work. Given we seem to do it most years they clearly see benefit in this compared to kipping at Brockhall for a week. Do you genuinely think playing a league 1 or 2 team 200 miles away will have significant benefit compared to playing a team 20 miles away from the same division? Most clubs outside the top tier will stay relatively local. There's loads wrong at Rovers but this point seems like criticism for the sake of it, without looking at the logical reasons.

No issue with criticising the club where it's deserved but this lacks common sense. Why would you travel long distance for friendlies when it's not necessary? Top tier clubs and Wrexham do it to capitalise on considerable international popularity but few others have that. Have a look at the pre season friendlies of other Champ clubs. Sheff Utd have York, Rotherham, Harrogate and chesterfield. Boro have Gateshead, Harrogate and Doncaster. We might get a 'glamour' home friendly but the club has done this a few times over the years - we got Girona last time and they ended this season qualifying for the ucl

Actually it says when he makes a competitive start. This doesn't say Nixon specifically has written the long list of inaccurate articles, just that there has been a long list of such reports.

Or alternatively, immediately once the page loads, click the x (which becomes refresh once the page is fully loaded). Seems to stop whatever cookies tell them you're over the article limit

So only saved the registration to drafts? 😳