Based on last season he is the exact opposite person i would want to captain the side. A fair weather player if you ever saw one. However, we are lacking in genuine quality and there is a lot of talent in him. Giving him the armband looks to be a plan to get him to take more responsibility on the pitch. Saturday was a decent example of this. Ultimately if this form continues and the chips are really down. Is he someone you would want leading you into battle?

Travis didn't want to play for Blackburn Rovers, he made his mind up he wanted away. Better off without him, it affects the team, players who can't be bothered.

That's correct, I saw one or two away supporters battered in the car park, in the early 70s. Let's leave those days behind, and concentrate on football.

or if that doesn't work out, we can try backwards & downwards? 😉

Travis sold to Derby, Baradji in as his replacement. We might be able to move onwards and upwards now.

Definitely 2 sides fo the same coin

Does that make RF99 Dr Watson?

Do you agree with Mani, Chaddy, that the club is now set up for managed decline?

To me Cantwell is unsuited to being in a leadership position at a Championship club, BRFC has a lot of such individuals … so of course he gets to be captain, not exactly a difficult prediction

Totally agree arbitro. I thought there was a huge gulf between the two teams. As you say, Brighton were big, strong and quick but all seemed to have the ability to control the ball, pass the ball and looked to be well organised in terms of shape and movement. Sadly, I couldn't see one player in that team who I would be happy to put in the first team squad - and if we get any sort of injuries and suspensions we will be relying upon them to make up the numbers. Like the first team, there is no threat in front of goal. Two big home games for the Under-18's coming up - Burnley today and Fulham in the Cup on Tuesday. They will be interesting tests for our youngsters.

Duncan McGuire ... Oh!

Yea surely he should be playing to advertise his skills more.

Reading that Chaddy is the Sherlock Holmes of the message board, did I take something last night

Yea she did to be fair and though Gestede is a newbie in the role he knew what he was getting into

Yea she did to be fair and though Gestede is a newbie in the role he knew what he was getting into

This is a brilliant post. The most interesting part of this forum is sitting back watching grown men have full blown meltdowns about something they have zero control over, or very little actual knowledge about. How could we unless we worked for the club? The reason, as you say that Chaddy is often factually right in the end is because he’s the least emotive. He just pieces everything together, minus the emotion, plus optimism and usually ends up in and around the right area. Interestingly also, his ‘arch enemy’ and kryptonite RF99 (only joking) is also un-emotive and therefore usually gets closer to the truth. Minus emotion but with a side of doom! Haha…in another world, they would be best mates! Here’s how I see it… The Mission - Sustainability. Reduce reliance on the owners whilst maintaining status quo. The strategy - Cost cutting, penny pinching and maximising sale opportunities. The Method - Cut back on people, and wages. Use the foreign markets to buy diamonds in the rough, for lower cost on smaller wages. The result - Managed decline.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25411554.blackburn-rovers-transfer-latest-surprise-links/ Deals for Blackburn Rovers to sell John Buckley and Aynsley Pears could accelerate in the final week of the transfer window. Neither player is part of Valerien Ismael's plans at Ewood Park and so the club are open to letting them leave before September 1. There has been speculation about interest from Saudi Arabia in John Buckley, though suitors for Pears have been less public. Ismael did not dismiss the rumours around either player and admitted things could move quickly in the final 10 days of the window. "Yes, at the minute, as I say, we have a lot of talk ongoing behind the scenes, you can imagine, in and out going," Ismael said. "But there's nothing concrete and official now to say, so at the minute we can't announce anything. So let's see how the thing goes. "But as you know, the thing may happen quickly and now, especially when you know that you still have one week, a little bit more than one week until the end of the transfer window." Rovers are hoping to kickstart their season against Hull City on Saturday. It's an important game for the team after losing their first three in league and cup. "We want to get our season started," Ismael said. "On the theory side, it's easy to do but in practice, it's always something different but it is our focus. "We are focused on the pitch, we had a good week, more calm. Now we have a game where we want to put in a great team performance to help us compete. "Hopefully, we can get a result to lift and to start our season. They're playing well but we saw that they had some difficulties. It's a good team, they play well. "We will have our chance and at some point, hopefully, we can be more clinical. When we get our chance, we are really focused on that game. As I said, we had a good week of training with consistency."

Yep,that was it Someone mentioned Brereton yesterday who was an initial loan with either an option or obligation

Well put, I do not disagree with that summing up. I will add that when Barrett was given an extension during the summer, I assumed that this was for him t be third choice and allow Michalski, Goddard to get out out on loan to get games and develop. If Michalski is going to sit on the bench, then it makes no sense whatsoever, and Barrett should have been released

Armstrong? Or was just that a regular loan then a separate transfer?

So we managed to sign the bloke with the broke foot. Well done I said no way it was happening.

TBF, I fully expect Derby fans to react how some of our fans did when Mowbery was signing players from his old club 'use more imagination' 'jobs for the boys' etc. Unless you're signing genuinely great players relative to the clubs position, which none which have gone to Derby are, there's nearly always a greater level of scepticism of the signing.

Good to see the Rovers agents doing their special ops successfully yesterday.

Sublime - What I Got

I'd swap now with any of those clubs. We may have been anchored in the second tier but that's entirely by design. There is no point in this club existing under venkys. Chansiri is without question complete shit but he will be gone eventually. I'd swap with any of them right now without hesitation.