The transfer window has closed. Blackburn Rovers are still trying to finish their squad.
After a 0-0 draw at Lincoln and defeat at Preston, Mike and Mark examine the bigger issue facing Rovers: how did Tony Mowbray end the window still desperately short of proven Championship quality?
New CEO Steve Curwood has faced the music and offered his explanation, discussing injuries, Mowbray's arrival and assessment of the squad, and how specific the manager became about the players he wanted.
But explanation isn't necessarily accountability.
We discuss Rudy Gestede and the cumulative record of Rovers' football operation, how last summer's recruitment has hampered this summer, Venkys and the familiar questions over budgets and timing, Suhail Pasha's role and whether Mowbray's supposedly narrow recruitment criteria are actually lessons the club should already have learned.
There's also the injury crisis, Gady Beyuku, the deals that collapsed, the free-agent search, Balázs Tóth and Celtic, plus reaction to Lincoln and Preston.
Then it's back to the pitch, with Sheffield United and Millwall both visiting Ewood.
Nearly 6,000 Rovers supporters travelled to Preston after sold-out away ends at Lincoln and Wolves.
The supporters have done their bit. Can everybody running the football club say the same?
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