1 hour ago, arbitro said:

It was said in an earlier post on here that Tomasson, Silvester and Broughton have gone along with the coach who nobody knows his name.

Perhaps they meant the deluxe upgraded coach we leased. Going to a mini van to cut costs. 

Perhaps we can plead stupidity and show everything was in place. 

"How incompetent must someone be to make similar mistakes twice in 12 months Mr EFL? Exactly, we have the most dimwitted imbecile operating the system. Of course everything was in place, you can see that. It's just our staff couldn't see the difference between save and submit".

"You're right, it's so laughably poor that this person needs assessing. Fair enough. See you again in 12 months, we'll move the deadline for Rovers alone an hour earlier next time so it's actually submitted by the point everyone else does"

1 minute ago, TheRevAshton said:

Who's his old friend? Swag? Gregg?

Assume he was at Cov at the same time as SW

Purely speculating aloud...the thing that can't yet be mentioned - possibly McGuire related or the shit show around transfers? Would have thought it would be brought up. 

The context J*B has given about half time talks is crucial. Having around 10000 people booing you can't be nice, bad enough for the experienced players but understandable how this could knock the youngsters. I'm not saying fans shouldn't boo, they have the right to express themselves, but the comments saying the players aren't focused on improving in the second half - you can't when half of the team have been shaken by the reaction. 

3 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

They’ll go for PJ instead.

Or Dunkin Donuts?

No room for sentiment but would have been nice for him to be in place for the fa cup game v Newcastle 

5 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

"set to come to a close this week" so not resigned/sacked yet. But it's coming...

So the posts by Bayes and Jackson are technically true. Still here at this time. 

Tomorrow could be F**ked Thursday, where we learn the striker loan appeal is rejected, JDT goes and as things come in threes....Kean is put in charge on a short term contract. Until 2034. 

11 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Maybe we're trialing a new transfer paperwork system from Fujitsu?

Get Alan Bates in to have a look at it and our records. He'll unearth that we should have had Lewandowski all along. 

Those saying the transfer of McGuire was never going to go through and blaming GB - one question. Why, particularly after last year, would he go to the effort of agreeing a permanent transfer, flying the player and his representative over, then agreeing a new loan deal - all while knowing it will never go through? In addition to the wasted time and energy, his reputation as well as the club's will be shot to pieces. 

If someone didn't intend for the transfer to go through I doubt it would be GB. Elsewhere in the club or ownership? Who knows. 

Was the error last year actually detailed? Similar sort of thing but I don't recall the exact issue having been made public. 

50 minutes ago, smiller14 said:

All those staying it has been twice in 2 January windows are also forgetting we did the same to Brierley. Even more pathetically, it meant he couldn't play for his club - relegation stricken Rochdale. We then, despite promises of a pre-contract, pulled out of that deal too. Bad faith. No chance we sign McGuire if this paltry 'appeal' doesn't succeed. 

No defence to the original error with Brierley, but the second part is slightly different to my understanding. I think we left the same offer in place and pulled it when it became clear that Brentford were offering more. 

Yeah about that apology I was hoping for...

27 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

The poor player is back in the US isn't he?

No idea but it's appalling. The club needs to make a public apology to him, his representatives and to the fans. And they need to explain what has happened, particularly in view of last year. 

20 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Not the most important point in that article but regarding the bit about Wharton.

Clubs should have to announce deals as soon as they happen - not half a day later because they want to do some fancy social media nonsense.

I don't necessarily disagree but playing devil's advocate....Duncan McGuire?!

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24097585.blackburn-pulled-permanent-transfer-mcguire/

Fits the rumour on deadline day. Can't say the LET are not publishing negative Rovers stories. Whilst this raises questions against the board it still doesn't explain the error with the loan. 

1 minute ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I thought that the EFL had a computer based system that clubs access which is essentially idiot proof if the instructions and prompts are followed.

The EFL handle loads of this stuff.

 

I think I've also heard this. But there'd also be the need to have documents physically signed, scanned and sent, unless they accept digital signature?

A bit more meat to the bone. Not a timing issue per se, but not all documents submitted. Perhaps something different when dealing with MLS? But still not an excuse, as people are being paid to know and do these things. 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24098463.mcguire-transfer-latest-blackburn-consider-options/

45 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

My maths isn't missing  something is it. I keep seeing the arguments that it's all down to the fans who don't attend.

Say for example we got 10,000 extra in the crowd. If they were all ST holders that's 10k x £400ish = £4m. Or if theyre all on the  day at about £25 per game, over 23 games that's £5.75m. So we'd £4-6m extra income per season before taking into account the extra costs of hosting an extra 10,000 people and ignoring the fact youd have to do something with the price to get that extra crowd. Is that really touching the side of the losses we're making?

Useful yes but solving all our problems? 

As you allude the additional crowd would increase match day cost. But it would also likely increase income in other ways - hospitality, merchandise, even likely sponsorship. More eyes on logos means you can charge more for shirt supplier, main sponsor, stadium sponsors etc. lots of variables to it though and you say, wouldn't likely eradicate the £20m deficit. Could impact results with a bigger crowd. 

3 minutes ago, phili said:

Gregg has apparently gone, refused to take the blame for it this time.

Don't blame him if he has, can you say where this has come from?

2 reasons he could still be interested in joining us if this falls through. 1 - it genuinely isn't our fault this time, for example if Orlando didn't do something. Yep, more likely it was us. 2 - the desperation to try and make it in England, which includes if we offer him/Orlando the best terms.