Pictures I've seen suggest to me a good meal would kill him!!!

Sadly, IMO, they are not very good what they do for a living!!!

and they still sign, IMO, sh1te like Brereton and Gallagher to name but two!!! Many on here would back their judgement against Mowbray, Venus and Lowe and quite rightly so.

Buckley reminds me a bit of a David Helliwell who came through Rovers' youth / reserves in late sixties and made about a dozen first team appearances. Technically, a very gifted footballer but extremely light in build (think he was nicknamed 'Spiderman'). He simply wasn't strong enough and drifted off into the lower leagues and had a few seasons at Workington if I recall correctly. Was talking to a friend only yesterday about Buckley and mentioned the Helliwell comparison and he seemed to recall Helliwell very sadly died some 20 years ago at an early age. Some older posters will remember Helliwell.

You seriously can't credit our Academy with Tarkowski who, if my memory is correct, left us at 13 or 14 !!!! And out of that lot, you've one PL player - O'Connell who I think we gave away to Brentford for a box of crisps without having even given the lad a single chance (if I recall correctly). Is that 9 players then in 10 years or more !?

FFS, I thought I'd missed another Phil Jones type sale !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can dress it up any way you like but, IMO, we are not producing quality young players who are smashing down the doors to our first team. We have Lenihan aged 26 and Travis going on 23 who are decent Championship players holding down places. As far the rest, let's wait and see. IMO, our Academy over the years has under performed.

We sold a player to Leicester? Sorry, but can't recall - who was it? As for PL interest, don't recall seeing or hearing about a single offer from a PL club for any of our Academy players - think that's a decent gauge of interest. At least get your facts right. If you can find supporting posts (covering say summers of 2017, 2018 and 2019) of me "pronouncing imminent Administration/Liquidation every summer", I'll buy you a pint or whatever your tipple is.

I only wish there was more to be positive about! Out of those 9 mentioned, I think there will be only 1 regular starter (Travis) under Mowbray with JRC, Buckley and Nyambe in and out. IMO, we are not producing 'cordon bleu' but 'bread and butter' at best. This is evidenced by an apparent lack of any PL interest in any of the 'quality' players you refer to coming out of our Academy.

Too right. Same with all this possession stuff Mowbray now bangs on about. We haven't got players good enough. At times yesterday, I think it was embarrassing watching us p1ssing about at the back and that's against the mighty Fleetwood). Who are these 'quality' players you refer to? We have produced no one remotely approaching the level of Duff, Dunn, Jones or even Johnson. Lenihan is 26 and a decent Championship centre half - think he might get ripped in the PL. Travis is coming up for 23 and a good Championship player - not sure he could step up to the PL. Nyambe is another approaching 23 and can't even command a place in our team (though accept in part that is down to, IMO, our idiotic manager).

Couldn't watch the whole match but from what I saw: Not looking good for Fisher - no surprise he couldn't even make the break through at lower league level on loan Eastham more confident but IMO, too short for a goalie Dolan has that spark - a spark Gallagher and Brereton don't have! Chapman has a spark - Mowbray needs to give the lad a REAL chance as I've been saying for months

I do not blame Mulgrew one little bit. Waggott and Mowbray gave him a lucrative contract through to 2021 - that is where the blame should lie. IMO, we have seen £millions frittered away on nonsensical contracts including extensions for likes of Hart and Smallwood to cover the extended season for 2019/20. IMO, it really does beggar belief and it's little wonder we are seemingly up financial sh1t creek without a paddle.

None that you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why? Historically, pre JW, supporters were often told there was little or no money and we would be mainly operating in the free transfer market.

So some on here now think Rovers have a budget as we appear to have agreed a fee of about E500k for a goalie from Genk and everything in the garden is rosy. A budget can take many shapes and form and some posters need to curtail their excitement! Mowbray might have been told he's a net £3million to spend on transfer fees and wages have to be held at 2019/20 levels - IMO, very unlikely and I'd give this option no more than a 1% chance. Mowbray might have been told he's to bring in a net £15million in transfer fees and wages have to be cut by £5million from 2019/20 levels - IMO, and I've i've said this for weeks, very likely and I'd give this option a 90% chance. Rovers have to be honest with the fans. At the end of the day, Rovers will want season ticket sales, replica kit sales etc. They can't go round telling fans what the budget is exactly and I'm pretty certain no one poster has requested this. However, they could say 'we have a competitive budget which we believe will allow us to strengthen the team and look to push on' or they could say 'financial circumstances mean we will be restricted to free transfers and loans'. To say absolutely nothing is, IMO, crass, but unsurprising, management from Waggott and Mowbray. The weeds outside Ewood, as some have posted pictures of, is an absolute disgrace and, perhaps, IMO, sums up our incompetent management team who don't really give a jot.

and strip out all the lost income from March onwards and going forwards and there's your 'budget' gone! If only life was that simple Chaddy!

IMO, utter b0ll0cks. My wife's working to a budget. She's just bought herself a new car and some new clothes, however, we've ended up with £2,000 more cash because she's sold her premium bonds! So the question is, which players or players will be sold to finance the acquisitions!?!?

Never heard of the lad never mind seen him play. I'll reserve judgement - at least he has some decent experience and pedigree. The errors are a worry - bit like a golfer or snooker player with the 'yips'. Once these errors start, things seem to go from bad to worse and goalies can fall from grace pretty dramatically as seen with Hart and De Gea.

IMO, you also need a football manager who knows what the feck he's doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feckin hell. Think Mowbray will be cr@pping it for all it's worth following his 'Barcelonaisation' of Donny in the mickey mouse something cup.

The Rovers has barely any value to them. Forget the near £200million cost of acquisition and operating losses. A fair market value will have factored-in huge economic depreciation. I've been involved with some big companies and the usual approach to under performing / loss making 'associate' companies is ruthless.

and to think Waggott is likely to walk past it every day!

On that basis, you wouldn't want any of these five (Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba) who were Barca's defence when Bayern stuck eight in.............!!!!!!!!!!!!

The point is if that transfer and wage commitment had been spent more wisely we might have achieved promotion, been in the play-offs or, at the very least, been a far stronger football team. Instead, IMO, a £20million+ transfer and wage commitment has been spunked up the wall. That is not fantasy but stone cold reality.

According to our last football club accounts, wages and operating costs were running at almost £3million per month. Since March, we've virtually had no income. VLL made a £4million share issue in June which was probably to keep us afloat. To stay in business for the rest of the calendar year, I would think we need at least £20million (April to December). We may see only limited income streams until 2021. IMO, it would be no surprise to see the sale of at least one, most likely two, of our 'prized assets' just to keep the club in business for the rest of 2020.

I think it's fair to say we have been desperate financially for a big part of the period under the Venky's - they've now tipped in approaching £200million to cover the acquisition and keep the club going given horrendous losses. As each year passes, our financial position has got increasingly desperate - just look at the auditors' qualifications in the accounts. IMO, it was inevitable we would reach an eventual tipping point. Who knows what the Raos business psyche is but I can tell you in decades of experience, operational or otherwise, as an accountant across business, commerce and practice, I have rarely come across anything like it. I am just surprised it has taken so long to get to what seems a now critical situation.