Away from home with limited WiFi. Can someone please summarise the ins and outs without me having to trawl through 100+ pages.

So it it seems Palace have had encouragement from the Wharton family / agent to make a play for Adam and Gallagher is 'frustrated' with Rovers turning down Ipswich bids. Suggests to me all is far from well in the Ewood dressing room and 'key' players recognise we are going nowhere and want away. When this happens with a Blackburn born and bred lad like Wharton then alarm bells should be ringing.

It's not unusual with big transfer deals for the pursuing club to first sound out a player through his agent to see if a move to them might be of interest otherwise the whole offer / negotiating process is a waste of time should the player not be interested. If this has happened here, and I'd be surprised if it hasn't, the Whartons have seemingly not discouraged which is worrying. As for a Carter move, any news yet when he, or Pickering, will be fit?

I think there will be better opportunities for Wharton. I'd turn round and say 'I've a new long term contract and going nowhere unless it suits me'. What a feckin state we are in when seemingly we are hawking our prize asset(s). No doubt in my mind, the mess we are in is all down to 14 years of gross mismanagement. We need putting out of our misery.

Canny lad is wee Dougie

Think Jackson reads this MB and the post embarrassed him into publishing - think a reactive journo with no nose for any type of 'scoop'. I wonder if he's sat down with Waggott yet!?

Not confirmed by 'finger NOT on the pulse' LT's Elliott Jackson, though no surprise there. Where the feck are the experienced signings JDT wants? Scores on the doors, in 3 inexperienced youngsters, out our experienced captain. You couldn't make it up. Danger of building for tomorrow is tomorrow never arrives!

Think Caley is yet another Rovers' employee way out of his depth - IMO, a 'yes' man and a 'jobsworth'. From top to bottom we need forward thinking folk with a 'can do' attitude and not 3rd or 4th raters who are afraid of their own shadows.

Pathetic!?!? Feck me - I hate Venky's which should be as plain as day to any regular member of this MB. All I was trying to point out was getting a new owner, should Venky's decide to walk away and write-off their losses (giving the club away and not an insolvency), might not be as easy as some think as £100millionish would be required to have a real go at it. Sorry if the financials and implications are over your head.

Would beg to differ. Any business without proper funding is likely to fail. 40ish years as an accountant have only served to underline that.

Didn't Broughton say he was out in Manchester ensuring O'Brien got some nosh inside him! Incredible - Broughton should have been at Ewood or Brockhall ensuring all tickety boo as the transfer window rapidly closed in. Feck me, it's not as though there is a shortage of eateries within a 3 mile radius of Brockhall. With Waggott at Brum for the match it was clearly amateur hour all round on a huge scale. This thread is feckin depressing - so we are now after a Belgian nondescript who will probably rival Ennis and Semir in the useless stakes. Broughton and our recruitment team have much, much to answer for. Sack the feckin lot of them.

Why don't you see if you can set up a meeting for yourself with Waggott and Broughton so that you can share your thoughts and plans.

Didn't know you'd posted as such Chaddy but it's nice if we are in agreement every now and then!

Who on earth would want to buy Rovers!? Even if Venky's gave us away and wrote off their £200millionish losses, any new owners would need £30/40 million for working capital purposes plus, most likely, getting on for £20million to buy back Brockhall (though not sure what the caveats are around Brockhall following its sale). If someone out there wants to make a real go of it by appointing some quality management from top to bottom and have a 'war chest' for player acquisitions then I would suggest they need getting on for £100million to throw at it.

Would surprise me if either are fit before March.

@chaddyrovers we all know you are mad keen on Rovers and all things Rovers but, frankly, I think some of your postings over the last couple of pages are fantasy Island stuff. IMO, we are financially goosed and operating in a straitjacket. We might as well fire the entire recruitment department as I think we would only be able to spend button's even if we sold Sammie, Carter and Gallagher.

Not a chance we will see much of that money. Rajovic is a cart horse whilst we aren't getting knocked over in the rush for O'Riordan which tells you something.

Chaddy, we are bringing in dross - if Crisene and Ayari are the answers then feck me if I know the questions! The bottom of the barrel has well and truly been scraped away. IMO, our coaching team are fifth raters - we have no game plan and we are desperately disorganised, it's chaos as evidenced by results and performances. They need sacking. As for Broughton and our recruitment team - just what the feck do they do and what gems do they find? As for medical and fitness, we can't keep players fit and injury free and when they are injured they are out for weeks. I'd be surprised if we see Carter and Pickering within the next six weeks. If our football structure had performance reviews, IMO, they would all be feckin sacked. Judge folk by results and not their bullsh1t - what gets measured gets done!

Your wish list always reminds me of my wife in a morning casually running through what she needs from the shops . What we need and what we get are almost certain to be poles apart. Our window so far is a feckin joke and a disgrace and sure as eggs are eggs, it will only get worse. What we need are new owners who tear the club apart and get rid of all the dross from executive management, football coaching, recruitment, fitness and medical and commercial. IMO, we need one great feckin rebuilding job because we are one huge shambles from top to bottom. Time you stopped acting like the club's puppet and woke up and smelt the coffee.

Difficult one to call today. Two poor outfits. First goal particularly crucial today. Gut feel is Rovers will edge it given home advantage. Unfortunately, a Rovers' win will only paper over the ever widening cracks and keep the happy clappers even happier.

Yep, he was hugely disappointing. Think he fancied a position on Rovers' coaching staff. Never taken to the guy - goes back to his playing days, a bit of a sulker in my eyes.

We have had worse than 'Big Jim'! My God, he could head a ball - who can forget that header at the Blackburn End back in the late sixties against Man City in the FA Cup at Ewood to make it 1-1 in front of 40,000+. I was at the back of the Blackburn End that night and it was a magnificent header and the noise almost blew the feckin roof off. As for Frank Lord, add Alan Gilliver and Martin Britt to the list to name but two.

If Rovers sign this guy, will @chaddyrovers seek help from The Samaritans or will he turn over a new leaf and welcome even ex Clarets if they can help Rovers!? His goal record isn't great (think he's about a 1 in 5 man) but my goodness we do need a half decent experienced physical presence up front. It's almost scraping the bottom of the barrel but think we could do worse if Gallagher goes.

Nail on head. Sadly, I don't think this is happening. JDT could make us so much harder to beat. Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your principles for pragmatism whether that be short or long term. I think we are fecked. Our longevity is at the mercy of the Indian authorities. These are desperate times and sadly, I see no one in our exec. management, coaching staff or players on the field who I would want in the trenches with me. The white flag is almost at the top of the flag pole and the bugler is practising his Last Post rendition.

Ipswich seemingly closing in on Keiffer Moore. Could well be the end of their interest in Gallagher - a great shame for us.