If true about the Ipswich offer then it would be madness not to sell him for both financial and football reasons. IF Gallagher stays, I would not be optimistic about us getting half a dozen games out of him and a mere 2 goals. Given they play in blue, perhaps they should become Ipswich Rovers with Travis, possibly Gallagher and even Sammie (with his strong family connections in the area) heading that way. Think the reality is that no one is not for sale!

The only thing that matters is results. I want Rovers back in the PL ASAP - the rest is irrelevant bullsh1t. Sadly, IMO, our club is in such a mess, and is riddled with incompetents from ownership through to management from top to bottom, that in my lifetime, the PL seems the impossible dream. The happy clappers need to smell the coffee and get a grip on reality.

We haven't a prayer on Saturday. Think we are in for a 3 or 4 goal tonking. All the time, JDT's reputation is diminishing. Think someone posted on this MB JDT unsuccessfully applied for the Stoke job and was interviewed. If correct, think that's indicative of how far his stock has fallen - JDT v Schumacher in the summer wouldn't have been a contest.

There were posts on here on Saturday that Leonard and Garrett were going out on loan the following day (Sunday). Thankfully, this hasn't happened, at least as yet, given our threadbare squad. Are there any updates?

Should Spurs contact Rovers about Wharton it should be a very easy conversation 'Have you £40million - no add ons'. If the answer is no or there's any attempt at a negotiation then 'well feck off and call us when you have £40million'.

Pretty sure there are no direct flights - with connections / stop overs, quicker by car. Trains longer than car with travel to and from stations.

You are right with exec. directors' remuneration costing £491k, however, you also need to add on employers' NI at circa 14%, circa £66k taking the total to some £560k. Cost of Waggott in those accounts to Jun '22 - salary £271k, pension £1k, NI £38k, total £310k!

That's about 180 miles (3+hours' journey time) back to his missus' lemon drizzle cake. Twice the journey from Ewood / Brockhall. Has Mrs Mowbray lost her touch in the kitchen or was 'being so far away from home' just more Mowbray bullsh1t!?

We need a goalie as neither Pears nor Leo are up to it. On average, I reckon our two goalies have averaged a mistake per game leading to a goal meaning you need to find a striker capable of netting at least a goal per game in order to 'stand still'! Mission impossible! If it was up to me, I'd be trying to offload Leo (there was competition for his signature when we signed him), accepting it wasn't working out for either party and use whatever we got to sign another goalie. If that enabled us to sign Beadle permananently then surely we would be no worse off?!

Think you are right, however, pretty sure Rovers have been having discussions with many clubs about many players and Beadle may well have been a conversation before Ayari was agreed if indeed it was a loan deal they were seeking.

Hear Rovers have asked Brighton about their young goalie Beadle. Highly rated but not the experienced goalie we need.

Great to be in the hat for the next round. Sadly, we are Sammie Rovers at the moment and goodness knows where we would be without him. Is there any official news on Sammie's injury - is it a groin or a hammy (heard it's a hammy issue)? Poor game management by JDT - Sammie should have been off after 65 minutes (at the latest) when we went 4-2 up. Today's win just masks all the problems we have as a football team and I expect 'normal business' to be resumed next Saturday with a resounding defeat at The Hawthorns.

So? If one of the likes of Ipswich, Leicester, Luton, Brentford, Palace etc come in with an acceptable offer to Rovers then little Sammie's leg wont touch the ground as he races off to bank his little fortune! You have been around long enough Chaddy to realise loyalty in football in the main is to the bank account!

As Harold Macmillan said "Events, dear boy, events".

If JDT and Rovers were offered Messi, would we decline because he didn't fit our style of play? Views @chaddyrovers?

A sad, sad day in the history of Blackburn Rovers. To lose a relatively experienced captain on loan to 2nd in the Championship and then bring in two young lads (Ayari and Chrisene) who have it all to prove, and it is doubtful even Chaddy has heard of them, tells you all you need to know about the state of our football club. Seems we are also struggling to agree a financial deal with Crewe for O'Riordan. The sirens are screaming and anyone who does not think we are in a financial mess needs to wake up and smell the coffee. By 1 February, I think the hatches will need firmly battening down at Ewood and Brockhall as I think there is worse to come on the transfer front.

Ashley Ward, Christian Dailly, Nathan Blake, Mauro Formica, Corrado Grabbi, to name but a few, were all 'big' fees and we thought they 'must have something'!!! I have no expectation of this lad based on what the Coventry fans have to say about him. Robbins is no fool and I'm sure Coventry would have wanted to keep him if there was a player there for the Championship.

I think it's by no means certain Sammie will be with us come 1 Feb. What a signing he would be for a Championship club with real ambition to reach the PL. His fee and wages would be a pittance relative to the PL riches. After today's absolute debacle, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, could be ruled out this window and it would no longer be surprising.

Quelle surprise! Lost a 'warrior' and replaced him with a 'whimp'. You couldn't make it up.

Utterly irrational. Think it's clear the lunatics are running the asylum.

First point correct. As for second point, I would suggest we will only be able to use a portion of any transfer fees realised this window. Given the club's overall cash flow position and uncertainty over future funding from India, it would be no surprise if there were not targets in place for January's window re achievement of a net surplus on transfer fee trading and also further wage reductions. We might not yet be in danger of the 'lights being switched off' but I think some of the optimism on this MB about things easing to allow new signings is misplaced.. We will know by 31 Jan. but I ain't holding my breath about good news.

JDT was hardly going to publicly express his dissatisfaction with the three was he? I fear if he has wanted to changed them, he hasn't been allowed. JDT does not have 'carte blanche' as evidenced in various press conferences - his frustrations are plain to see. Think you've been brain washed by Mowbray who was always banging on about 3 games per week. 3 games per week are almost as rare as rocking horse sh1t. The usual pattern is a midweek game (either Tuesday or Wednesday) followed by a Saturday game - that is 2 games per week. Very, occasionally we will play 3 games in a 7 day cycle ie Christmas and should a game be moved to Sunday for TV where we would then go Sunday/Wednesday/Saturday - this has only happened twice this season (once in October and at Christmas) and is not scheluded to happen again in the 2nd half of the season.

He looked a basket case here - a remarkable transformation and you have to ask how? When he came here, think he had some 200 games under his belt so certainly not an inexperienced young 'rookie' (older than Leo and Pears when he joined us).

There will come a point where his frustration boils over and he will not want to see his reputation sullied. As an intelligent lad, he will then walk away.

I think it's clear JDT had to accept Lowe, Johnson and Benson and had no other option if he wanted the job. That is not being happy with them! It's also strongly rumoured we 'lost' two other managerial candidates (if I recall correctly Carvalhal was one but the other name escapes me - sure folk on this MB can recall) before JDT's appointment as they would not be allowed to bring in their own people and had to accept Lowe, Johnson and Benson. JDT effectively brought in one coach (Remy) and also Rosen as fitness guru - based on number of injuries, recovery times and reported fatigue, not sure just how good or poor Rosen is.