Nothing grim about the potential sale of our best player mid way through a season that actually threatens some success? Obviously I understand it but it wont make it easier potentially seeing our first reasonable chance of promotion back to the Prem under these wankers thrown away.

Even selling at 25m would be aggravating. Sell Brereton and we are saying that promotion isnt the primary intention, and wed be essentially giving up.

It is specificially stated that he hasnt asked out. If he did go though, it would be a professional moving up a division and for a massive wage increase as anyone would in his position. My anger would lie at the feet of the owners if it was to happen. It would be beyond a lack of ambition and short sightedness.

He still hasnt played all season due to injury, what will have changed?

How is that possibly Mowbray fault! He said that its up to the owners but he would like to think that he will at least be here for the season. Your desperation to protect the owners from criticism has now led you to give the owners no responsibility for the potential downgrading of our academy (if it was Waggott trying to pull a fast one whilst they were unaware, he would not be in employment once they did find out) and already blaming Mowbray for a lack of "cojones" if it transpires that Venkys sell our key player mid season in a promotion push.

https://talksport.com/football/efl/1001847/ben-brereton-diaz-transfer-blackburn-january-leeds-brighton-sevilla-chile/ Grim reading.

That isn't luck though, a league table is about placings rather than points. Ultimately it is a total irrelevance as to whether a certain points tally would have kept us in a different season with different teams, that season our points tally made us worse than 21 others.

The Gallagher contract situation is a totally different one in that he is one of if not our highest earners, coming from a big contract at Southampton. Rothwell came having been in and out at Oxford, Nyambe signed his last deal before he established himself and Lenihan prior to getting the captaincy. All 3 deserve and warrant increases. With Gallagher, purely speculating but I imagine that he would require little if any increase to sign, therefore the only question is whether we would want a player who is a high earner on the wage bill for 1 or 2 extra seasons, my preference would be no. But the other 3 will need increases to the current wage bill as well which Venkys seemingly are unwilling to allow.

Just before he leaves on a free sadly. Was very good on Saturday.

You keep mentioning the negative role that speculation plays, surely you aren't helping with such cryptic clues such as the below: "Thing is, its not just me who knows something about it, there are quite a few others who know some of the plans, know most of the plans and know a little less of the plans!" "I know a tad more about the specifics of this transaction" "When the details of a major transaction for Rovers break in the very near future there will be uproar from those who have no understanding of what is going on at Ewood" It just comes across as ITK willy waving, it isn't helpful because as seen with that last example it is done with an agenda to try and provoke people or at least put down and look down upon people who you deem to not know as much as you do. By all means share as much as you can, but be aware that if you are going to drip feed and do the whole ITK nonsense, then you will provoke people. Regarding player evaluations, we are on a Rovers messageboard whereby people will comment on player performances as they go by. Pears was really poor in his first few games, remember him running out of his net and conceding after 9 seconds v Reading or letting one slip through his body in the Cup. Yet after a couple of clean sheets (not the busiest and not without the occasional heart in mouth moment but 3 or 4 crucial saves and certainly contributed well to those shut outs) he has received lots of praise. When Buckley first broke in he looked lost, people commented on the games as they went past and he looked out of his depth. This season he again has got so much praise for growing into a regular key role in the side. Whats the problem? Can people not criticise a player if they dont look up to it in case they improve in the future? And yes, people have the right to moan if they cant get a bloody Rovers shirt at Christmas, there of course will be external issues and pressures but we are missing out on potential income by having supply massively under levels of demand. Your defence of such a situation is to quote massive hypothetical numbers to try and make out as if it is totally out of the clubs hand, and ignore the fact that other clubs dont seem to share our troubles which happen every year! To suggest that having people unable to get a shirt for christmas is part of a good business model is laughable. Im not sure what your last paragraph even means in that it seems to massively contradict itself. You say that you haven't become positive off the back of talks with people in the club, yet imply that actually you have. Otherwise, where else is this information come from? People are going to always be skeptical when judging owners that have put us through continuous pain since they burdened us with their ownership.

You seem very keen to provoke at the moment and shoot down any signs of "negativity" about a rumoured proposal that you seem very reluctant to do anything but vaguely hint at with cryptic clues. Surely the best thing to do would either be to reveal what you know and how you know or hold off for now. You also seem hell bent on making us all out to be negative doomsayers, after the last 11 years can you really blame people for assuming the worst? What you are hinting at seems somewhat unusual/unnecessary and is on the back of failed cutbacks fresh in peoples minds. Plus your sudden wave of optimism seems to be on the back of meetings with Waggott.

Its not what I want or think should happen, more what I sadly expect will happen.

I suspect that such strict restrictions would provoke protests across the country.

QPR is off tomorrow due to Covid, with Spurs off today and United also reporting numerous cases.

The increase in potential Covid restrictions may put such numbers in jeopardy.

We don't live in a perfect world. I have no clue why, but people seem to see supporting a football club as something that should universally be an inflexible obligation in terms of attending games. As it is, price does matter, success on the pitch does matter, the manager, the owners, many reasons all do matter, and not everyone supports any club to the exact same degree. The club should now be grabbing the bull by the horns and showing some longer term thinking and initiative and trying to get numbers up at a time of some on field success, Waggott hasn't hence the horrendous pricing for the next home game. On the back of a full house for promotion, season ticket prices went up, again we couldn't get people back into the habit because Waggott is an idiot. Also, it doesn't justify the clubs extortionate pricing strategy because others do it.

Its not what I want or indeed what I think should happen. I would agree with you that we have to live with the virus and would like to think that if restrictions went up that much, that they would be met with mass protests. Your points are very typically self focused, I get there early, I wear a snood, I don't use the facilities, you are just one person. There is no doubt that a football match even in the outdoors is a big spreading event, thousands of people in close proximity including in the concourses, indeed that will be the rationale, especially with restrictions seemingly going up. Taking a bit of the edge off the excellent start to the season, thinking that Boris and his cronies could stop us from watching in person. A man you regularly defend has taken the piss out of us all again having his Christmas do last season with the rest of us in lockdown.

I wonder what the chances are of Plan C not allowing fans into stadiums? It would be stupid not to but you never know with Boris.

Brilliant performance, great to watch, we look in control without having the ball, so well drilled and allowing very few good chances. Anybody looking at this team and encouraging a Brereton sale or indeed any of the contract "rebels" in January needs their heads testing.

I know, because I don't think that it did stop us from going into embargo. Obviously the income will help us moving forward to continue within FFP regulations, but it didn't historically stop us from going into embargo. All sales will help us with that ongoing objective, and allowing key assets to leave for free will massively hinder us on that front.

If Carlsberg did selling your most important player mid way through your first genuine shot at promotion to the Premier League since being taken over by negligent owners? Not sure that advert will ever take off.

You can say it as many times as you like, it doesn't make it factual, its your interpretation which I feel is flawed. You have an arrogance whereby you seem to think that if you push across your opinion so many times, you expect me to fall in line and agree.

Are you going to explain the cryptic nonsense or just keep it to yourself as an ego booster having been smooth talked by Waggott?

We can still get a big fee at the end of the season! But we might also not be in such a position to challenge for promotion as is the case at the moment.

Would the "dead stock" at a discount be sold at a loss or a profit? If it is at a (much smaller) profit surely it is not a bad last resort?