Just for clarity Chaddy, is that 4 or 5 more, or 4 or 5 total? Are Brittain, Szmodics and Morton already included in your count? And would your number change if Brereton goes? I think we need 3 or 4 defenders, a midfielder and a centre forward on top of what we already have. That’s without losing Brereton.

Well done Vale for that goal

It’s on the DAB channel

Andy Cook for them is a proper old fashioned wily centre forward. He’s going to be a big danger.

Ok, who is going to be the first person to say something along the lines of “we don’t need another centre back, Morton can play there” between now and the end of the window?

100%. As much as we moan about early cup exits, it’s always a thinly disguised blessing. Today I’m hoping that we pick a team containing players I know aren’t up to the job, because we can’t risk the ones that are.

By the time the window closes we’ll have already played 15% of our league campaign, as well as 2 cup games. Being annoyed by what looks like it’ll be yet another last minute scramble for a few deadline day loans (at best) isn’t an overreaction.

I’m not stopping him getting on with his job. Something clearly is though!

It wouldn’t be easy for you and me, but we have supposedly appointed someone with the correct qualification, experience and skill set, so it shouldn’t be this hard!

I’d say you abandon them at the point it becomes unlikely they are coming. We seem to have put all our eggs in one or two baskets in terms of centre backs, so far no joy. It’s cost us in our last couple of games and looks likely to for at least the next couple too. Its not just bodies either, there are plenty of good options out there. If that’s the reason for a hold up on centre backs, ok, but there are plenty of other glaring gaps to address. For clarity, the bulk of my criticism goes to the common denominator of the last 12 years.

I don’t know about easy, but it certainly shouldn’t be so difficult. It’s literally his job. Why is it seemingly a much harder task for Blackburn Rovers to sign players than practically every other club in the world? Is JDT being pathetic? Cos he’s clearly frustrated and growing impatient.

That’s another premature statement Chaddy. Everyone hopes the structure is right, but at the moment it looks dysfunctional. The structure might work if we had decent budgets, a top CEO, an established recruitment team, and a well established strategy built with the managers input. We appear to have none of that.

For once we have bought in a replacement before actually losing a player. I don’t think Dack is fancied for some unfathomable reason.

Wonder if he will be told to be patient/patience

If they had any real long term plan they would realise it was absolutely necessary to introduce a policy like this, especially given recent events.

Gregg has got some serious work to do to prevent this being the worst transfer window in Rovers history.

That’s fair enough!

Wow, some good players on there. I’d take Michael Hector in a heartbeat.

Nice tributes by Burnley today I must say.

I thought he was crap for his first few games to be honest. Improved drastically when he returned from his ban. As for playing in a 2, he’d be a lot better than bloody Pickering! If that’s the case why have we reportedly been chasing/waiting on him all summer?

Well as it stands we’ve got nobody. If/when we do sign someone they could be shit, get injured, have a family issue of their own. Doesn’t seem to have bothered Sunderland. I expect he will do well there, let’s see how he performs compared to whoever we do bring in.

So despite everyone (fans and club employees alike, apparently) absolutely clamouring for him all summer, as soon as it’s confirmed Van Hecke isn’t coming the “We didn’t want him anyway” posts start. Well I wish to God we’d had him this week! And to everyone telling us to have patience, maybe have a word with the manager, sorry, head coach. His seems to be wearing very thin.

I think the primary aspect to his job is winning games.

I’d kill for a couple of average players right now. They’d certainly be a marked improvement on our bad ones.

Kaminski - kept the score to single figures Brittain - Was never given an out ball, didn’t shine defensively. Jury is out. Phillips - nowhere near ready for the rigours of Championship football Ayala - Solid first half, dreadful second Pickering - abysmal performance, would be so bad it’s funny if he played for anyone else Edun - very poor apart from that short spell in midfield Travis - nothing game, petulance creeping back in Buckley - as anonymous a performance as I’ve ever seen. Went hiding. Szmodics - too soon to write him off, but he’s showing nothing. Dack must be furious. Brereton - Disappointing on the very few occasions he actually saw the ball Gallagher - seems destined to be a wide striker forever, so you’ll get a lot of graft, the odd goal, and a general lack of quality General word on Dolan - would probably be better suited in a different team where he might be used wide instead of big powerful forwards. As a pest in the centre it’ll work only very occasionally.