Agenda my arse. I dont recall very much that he did from an attacking sense at all, hence why I described him as very quiet. Won the ball back a couple of times, including once towards the Jack Walker when he sluggishly then allowed his man back ball side before fouling him. He wasnt awful, kept things safe a lot of the times and probably marginally better than Rothwell who kept losing the ball, but not enough again IMO. Good ball in the build up to the first though, but nothing else. But can we stop with the "agenda" bollocks please. Im sure we all have opinions on players so it is natural to have a bit of confirmation bias, I notice that your Analytics page is particularly bigging up Pickering who I thought aside from his excellent take and finish, was again not convincing. Buckley is a player who for me the physicality commonly mentioned is less of an issue, he just too rarely does much from an attacking sense. I often question Dolan and dont particularly rate him, still I am clear in my opinion that he really impressed me today. If I was agenda driven, id play down his performance. What did you make of Gallagher down the middle, where you have consistently said that he will be good at?

Lots of talk about the ref, he was poor and had little control but obsessing about him removes the accountability, we didnt draw that game because of the ref. We benefitted more than Luton from him because we should have had 10 men for 80 minutes, Lenihan's challenge was disgraceful. Gallagher put in as bad a performance as I can remember from a central striker. I have read a lot of unsubstantiated bollocks about him being a competent Championship striker "wasted" on the wing, today showed what he is about. Doesn't win flick ons, doesn't hold the ball up, horrendous first touch, clumsy, cant finish, thick as pig shit. Did nothing right. Brereton had a mixed day, he certainly isnt the saviour that a goal against Bolivia may have fooled people into thinking, although he has unlike Gallagher shown noticeable improvement, using his body, bringing others into play etc. Both of them were piss poor with the chance at the end. I thought Dolan had as good a game as he ever has, good goal and really gave their winger a torrid time, although a stupid dive wasted a good attack. Travis was off the pace and could have cost us a goal, Rothwell was poor and kept running into traffic and Buckley again was very quiet. Defensively, another game without a clean sheet without any stand out poor performers. Pickering looks a big question mark defensively, he is targeted because he is so slow, good goal though. Ayala is the best of the 2 in the middle and dealt with most things dealt with minimal fuss, Lenihan so poor on the ball and lucky to be sent off but deals with most things too, and Nyambe was fine. Kaminski his usual self, helpless for the goals, one good save, poor kicking. Mowbray got his subs horribly wrong, the 5 at the back nonsense needs to stop especially when Magloire comes on, he is so poor and so far away from Championship standard, summed up by how badly he misjudged that header early on. How with 3 centre backs do they score like they did, in the middle of the box deep into injury time, 6 yards out? Davenport was anonymous really too. I think that the day that pride is my primary feeling coming off throwing a 2 goal lead away to Luton is the day that I have started to lose interest.

Has he actually got a route into our first team at this moment in time? He is probably 7th or 8th choice even here, he is a boy lets be honest. Imminent first team minutes wont be happening here or at Liverpool, nor is it an urgent need. If it did become us v Liverpool, totally hypothetical of course and a huge assumption, the standard of coaching there plus a massive lift financially would be too good to turn down for basically any young boy.

That Sanogo is absolutely dismal, I would rather have Robson Kanu and that is saying something. I understand the desperation though, our attack is as lacking as anyone in the league, we are so short of goals. Lete just hope that there is a hidden gem from abroad that we dont know much if anything about, I wont hold my breath though.

Mowbray said yesterday that we have left a space open for a potential free agent according to the LT. If that is the case, it has to be imminent, no pissing around because anyone without a club will need time to get up to speed.

But ultimately tonight's result doesnt mean much, at least they are playing competitive football whereby the result genuinely matters, and if they make mistakes, they will have (a few) fans getting on their back, giving it that importance. But I agree that non league football is of little use, it is so far down that even if they go and do really well, does it prove anything? They should have been loaned to league clubs if possible before the deadline, the "we need bodies in ourselves" line doesnt work when we let them go even when we didnt get enough signings in. Unless neither are considered genuine first team prospects and are being loaned out with a view to eventually carving out a career in the lower leagues?

I thought the issue was bonuses? Either way, if true it would have been a really good signing had it happened, but becomes irrelevant when it doesnt sadly.

This would be mixed news, I hope he does start tomorrow but to miss him for 3 games in a couple of months would be a huge blow. It says a lot that we are so reliant now on such an average player, but there you go.

If Bell provides us with any worries, then we may aswell pack up now and accept relegation. Bell is not only a poor attacking player, but a horrendous one on one defender too, these metrics in the main tend to be worth very little. It would be worth getting Poveda to run at him as much as possible, mind you it will no doubt be Gallagher wide right, and Poveda central.

I don't see much attacking quality in either side, a nil nil might not be a bad shout. Goals in short supply.

Of course, but you can say that about all young players. Point being, we would now be in a position whereby we are reliant on them to come in and hit the ground running at a level so far beyond what they have played at so far, it is unfair on them and really poor from us. We should really have enough senior goal threats to be able to pick and choose which kids are closest to the first team if any to the point that they can be dipped into contention when it suits us, which ones can be loaned out and which ones are not ready for either and still need to remain with the kids. Put them down? Behave. I have no opinion on them because they have never played senior football. I am sure some of them are good prospects, but I revert back to my stance above. Youth cups are by proxy not of the same competitiveness as league football. The primary objective is development, not results, and you are playing against kids, not adults. And you know full well that I don't watch kids football as you repeatedly ask me. But I have explained myself.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/716858/blackburn-luton Looks like we can still barely cobble a squad together for Saturday. The team and bench look piss poor and an average Luton side will fancy their chances. Our game plan has to be to get at the incompetent Bell. Would probably go: Kaminski Nyambe Lenihan Ayala Pickering Buckley Travis Rothwell Poveda Gallagher Dolan Subs: Pears, Khadra, Butterworth, Clarkson, Davenport, Magloire, another kid chosen at random.

No mention that it was Maja. Just says a player, could be anyone. A shambles either way though and whatever the mystery reason was, as it sounds like the player was on board and convinced, it could even cost us a place in the division moving forward with such a weak attack.

It is a totally different prospect putting himself about against boys in a sanitised, uncompetitive kids match and against Championship level professionals.

If you had full, unreserved faith in the readiness of Burns, McBride, Butterworth and Vale to be capable of playing Championship football now, then as pointed out, you wouldnt have had any desire to bring in another forward before the deadline.

Would you be able to ask please about specifically what happened in the transfer window please, was it a case of having a budget and not getting a deal over the line, and if so, can the budget be specified? I think not the last winter window but the one before, Waggott said that 1.2m/1.4m (cant 100% remember) went unspent that window from the budget. Might give us some transparency on how much if anything was left over. Could you also reiterate the point please on the slowness on the concourses and suggest the ideas of pre preparing drinks and also fully utilising the bottle bars, maybe even some sort of bars outside to help to reduce queue sizes.

Was a little similar to what happened numerous times last season when Rovers had plenty of the ball in the opponents half yet never threatened.

Did we really threaten and create many clear cut chances? Mount again was anonymous, Grealish and Sterling didnt create much if anything either. Sometimes you have to look at yourself, and our attacking players were very quiet, its easy to blame the ref for your own failings but we didnt create enough to guarantee the win today. The manager was also wrong in my opinion to not freshen things up. Poland are pretty poor too, one obvious world class player aside, they showed in the Euros that they are not a brilliant team so dropped points is poor although unlikely to matter from a qualifying perspective.

Not enough attacking spark with Grealish always looking for fouls and Mount again anonymous, and no proactivity again from Southgate to make any subs. A point was fair. Poland showed at the Euros that they are poor bar one player but we cant just blame the ref or external factors, we didnt play very well.

Because Gallagher is average at best, Brereton is average at best, and the rest are totally unproven really. Dolan is still very raw and I dont think his end product and decision making are very good, and all of the others are totally unproven. Surely its self explanatory. We needed to buy someone but all the money from Armstrong has vanished.

I doubt they will get much if any game time. I suspect the main 5 for the front 3 places will be Brereton, Gallagher, Dolan, Poveda and Khadra, a depreessingly blunt group, with Butterworth ahead of the 2 mentioned, and I also think that Buckley, Rankin Costello or Rothwell would play in the front 3 ahead of those mentioned, that a change of shape would happen or even Butterworth would play who is ahead of the 2 mentioned. They should have been loaned out really.

Of course, but it is hard not to be worried when the majority of our attacking ranks are novices in the senior game.

Seems like at the moment, the situation will prevent not only Brereton but a number of players including Alisson, Firmino and Thiago Silva from playing at the weekend. "Reda Khadra having lacked game-time over the summer and unlikely to feature just yet" was the line according to the LT today, plus he has been injured. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19565739.decisions-facing-tony-mowbray-blackburn-rovers-return-action/ Your list is a really sorry list of players, the last 4 have never started a senior game between them, Gallagher is very average and Dolan couldn't finish his tea. Poveda is an unknown too. It is a bottom 3 attack.

A bit of context, he struggled to establish himself on loan at Rochdale. I am not sure that anything can really be taken from a game against Bulgaria's under 21s.

Seems like Brereton will miss the next 2 games, this Chile business is going to be a real hindrance to us with further international breaks to come. With Khadra seemingly one of 3 of our signings unfit at the moment and Chapman no longer here, we will be really light on attacking options at the weekend.