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Not playing a shot. Smith run out ! We keep finding new ways to lose games when we’re handily placed !

Regardless of what’s happening with him, always has that big smile. Love the guy but ability, we all know…

'Nobody can get hold of him' - what happened to David Batty?

He uploaded a video of him on instagram and he was shooting. Of course he missed the first shot 😅.

Yeah, it’d be the equivalent of somebody signing Carter. He’s no stranger to the treatment room.

I watched that game Phillip. He played every minute. There was no sign of a “ deep gash”, no blood soaked sock etc. Maybe he slipped in the showers !

I was at the game but was only 11. My dad let me know how big a deal it was to see Moore's last game in English football!

Rodney Marsh on the back row I think ?

If he stays in this country, he will end up at another lower end Premier League team or a Championship team with parachute money

Apparently the local paper in Doncaster has a higher opinion of O'Riordan than what's been showing in his post match grades lately (from the LT): It's no exaggeration to say he's probably been one of the best players for Rovers in the first half of the season - probably only skipper Owen Bailey beats him to that title. Safe to say the majority of Rovers fans were gutted when the news of his recall was officially confirmed by Grant McCann. He looked a Rolls Royce at times. Just so calm and unflustered on the ball and dominant aerially. At first glance it's hard to spot any weaknesses. He has the height, recovery pace and defensive nous certainly to make an impression at Championship level. Perhaps against more physical forwards he may have a job on his hands, and there's the obvious issue of second tier experience (or lack of), but that only comes with being given the chance - and it seems he'll certainly get that back at Blackburn in the second half of the season.

The difference between us and Wednesday was they repeatedly stopped playing the players. Therefore boycott action to remove the owners was also seen to be supporting the players. I imagine it made it a much easier decision for match attendees to miss a game. Even then, they still had people that turned up.

As I’ve said previously, I think there’s a lack of understanding of match goers and their motivations. The lads around me aren’t particularly the happy clapper, turn up to Ewood to watch a team in blue and white and don’t think much else of if till the next game types (like some certainly are), they think the owners have been a disaster, we’ve had many a discussion about it. However, despite them, they see themselves as fans, as ST holders and as such they go and support the team. If you told them that they are ‘complicit’ because they are choosing to sit in a seat they’ve paid for to try and help the team stay out of the third division they’d see it as a very odd descriptor of them. As Herbie says above, only one winner from the looks of this thread.

Yep I can certainly see that and in many respects I agree, it is just in reality name calling...but I firmly believe attendance really is just justifying the status quo to those in their ivory towers. This is about a show of force; that fans have had enough. I suppose my overriding feeling is of sadness that some will not make a tiny sacrifice for the greater good.

Seen Gueye is training away from Rovers - think where Dolan was?

There was one article saying Everton have an interest in Alebiosu and that makes you think he has gone? Moyes has said Everton are unlikely to be signing anyone this January. I don't think they will sell Alebiosu this window, and not at the 4 million suggested.He be gone in the summer

The last Group game in which he got a deep gash which kept him out of the Round of 16 and might not be healed by Saturday.

Nah, we lack an Alebiosu equivalent at LWB and pace at CF.

He's muck 9 games out of 10

You made some good points in your initial post. But whether folk attend or not is a personal decision for them alone, and is no one else's business. Calling them 'complicit' should they choose to attend, is basically just name calling and serves no purpose.

That's excellent 👏 lucky you got to see them play (Best and Moore)

The notion of strong support can be countered irrespective of the success or otherwise of the boycott.

Depends if he is fit and motivated. A very small % of experienced player who drop down from prem to Championship are.

What's ridiculous is people not willing to make the minute sacrifice of not attending a single game to help prove a point and shine a spotlight a little more on our crazy owners. Imagine being one of those people and the history books... "Fan groups attempted to rally support against the Rao family ownership, by organising a blanket boycot of a single game, yet there remained a number of supporters who were unwilling to do so, instead insisting that they would not be told what to do by anyone" I can tell you now, that anyone attending the game will, by proxy, be supporting the spinned notion by 'the club' that there "remains strong support amongst the fan base for what we are trying to do here"

But but but Cantwell, the highest paid talisman

...who is prepared to cover his wages.