ERIC Kinder says Blackburn Rovers will have to ‘look after ourselves’ when it comes to sending rising stars out on loan next season.

From 2016-17 onwards Football League clubs will only be able to sign and let players leave on temporary deals during the summer and January transfer windows.

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It comes after FIFA forced the FA to scrap the emergency loan window that operates between September and November, and February and March.

Kinder, Rovers’ head of academy, is an advocate of youngsters getting valuable experience lower down the League.

That is why he has been left disappointed by the rule changes, which mean Football League players sent out on loan cannot return to their parent club until the opening of the next window.

And that is why he reckons Rovers will have to take extra care from now on not to leave themselves sort.

The club’s first team currently has 15 first-team players under contract for next season, a figure which includes two goalkeepers, Jason Steele and David Raya, and teenager Connor Mahoney.

And Rovers’ development squad will mainly be made up from this season’s promising under-18 side, which reached the semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup, after a number of under-21 players were released.

Kinder said: “I’m disappointed with the way the loan market has been dabbled with because where are younger players going to get experience?

“But I do believe it’s a little bit different in the Conference. There’s not a great difference between Conference and League Two and a month in Conference will do them a world of good.

“But what we’ve got to do first is look after ourselves. We’ve got to make sure Blackburn Rovers are competitive. Never mind the first team; at under-21 and under-18 level, we’ve got to be competitive.

“But if it’s the right move to send a player out for three months, six months, a year, we’ll do it.”

Kinder believes midfielder Lewis Hardcastle is a shining example of the benefit of a loan spell.

The 17-year-old spent time with Evo-Stik Northern Premier League Premier Division outfit Salford City in the first half of this season.

Hardcastle excelled as Salford, who are part owned by former Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, and Gary and Phil Neville, reached the second round of the FA Cup.

And Kinder: “Lewis needed to grow up a little bit. He went there and worked with two managers who were tough, but also a group of owners who came through the system at the biggest club in the world. I knew he’d get looked after.

“He played live three times in the FA Cup, was man of the match in one of them, and he’s come back a completely different person. Nobody recognises the player or the person that has come back.”