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RE Forshaw, he was taken off after 41 minutes last night for the U21s, the plan was to play him for 60 minutes, so pretty safe to assume he has relapsed

River level has dropped a lot overnight, there’s no planned pitch inspection this morning so got to assume they’ve got it all under control…

Great - let’s call off the game before the misery begins is there a record for the number of professional games being called off due to pitch flooding, I fear we may hold this by the end of the season

Ah thanks for reminding us about that - as a football fan that was outrageously funny but as a rovers fan it was awful I don’t rate rate VI much at all but he seems to be yet another yes man who won’t challenge them lot and just gladly walk us in to relegation it’s depressing thinking we have had so many terrible coaches under this regime

Currently lashing it down outside.

Fleck 2.0

Chaddy is extremely naive unfortunately.

Never ever going to happen unless there's a literal revolution.

That just shows how shit the rest of their ideas are.

I love how RF99 replies to your argument with logic and reasoning that completely dismantles what you're saying and the only response you can muster is "BORING!!!". Call me entertained.

You know it is. Cheaper to run a League One club than a Championship one. Indian government now got their eye on venkys overseas transfers so whatever scam they'd been running for the first 12 years or so can't be so easily pulled off anymore. Only option is to reduce costs. I see we've also deliberately reverted to the high playing staff turnover and plodding along model, albeit likely to be done in a lower division for the next foreseeable future.

Like slowing down to look at a car crash.

Not for the agents it wasn't.

You know what would guarantee it would go ahead and finish? If the owners invested some actual money into the drainage system and stopped letting Ewood Park rot.

This is such a bad idea I’m very tempted to buy a ticket to see it with my own eyes.

I'll never consider him as being a manager. Just a fucking cunt.

Into the bottom three we fall.

It's the same stuff as under Bowyer and similar to a lot of Mowbray style. Every now and then they'll press from the off and get a good win, other times some smart countering and an unexpected away win but in the main week in week out it's tepid bland bread and butter stuff. Designed to carry certain players and get plenty touches and so called development into them, in other words get the stats up, possession sitting off and try to contain the opposition football. Shite in other words and certainly not applied in other to entertain supporters or show ambition, putting value into players comes first. Thing is most of these head coaches now have done the same courses and are grounded in the same principles and under the same instructions from above.

Forshaw certainly was an absolutely pointless signing

I have struggled a bit to see how Ismael wants us to play, maybe especially what I thought was supposed to be a high press – or at least high intensity – has shown itself to a very small degree. Then we’re kind of somewhat organized at the back – until we aren’t. We’re not particularly direct, we’re not particularly physical, and the new players (apart from Alebiosu) don’t seem to have very clear basic skills or standout strengths. I really haven’t found a better description than the one a Watford fan gave to LT back when Ismael was appointed (not entirely sure on the possesion bit): "We were quite dour, not negative but we would tend to spend a lot of the first half shadow boxing to see what the other team had. They weren't playing by the same rules so often we'd be a goal down before we knew what happened. He was very safety first, massively into possession." https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24964221.blackburn-rovers-lowdown-valerien-ismael-watford-spell/ If Stoke comes out with high intensity in the first 10-15 minutes, I could easily see us going down 0-2. At that point, Ismael will need to decide whether to bring in De Neve, Kargbo, or Henrikson to turn our fortunes around.

Shouldn't have been anywhere near us once he left at the end of last season. He was at best average last season, left for free and now we're left like Baradji picking up his wages for absolutely no benefit. This kind of thing is exactly why no one trusts the team putting the squad together - literally everyone saw this coming.

A squad man who hasn't cost any wages yet, the payroll dept will love that. I'm sure his agent will have sent his invoice in though.

No loss as he isnt a Championship standard player these days. But another really shrewd bit of business. Did we know he was injured when he signed?

Forshaw subbed after 41 mins which suggests a possible injury as he was due to play 60 mins tonight

This weekends games for our loanees Saturday 12:30 O'Riordan - score/update - touch and go with an ankle injury Saturday 3pm Barrett - score/update Olson & O'Grady-Macken - score/update Edmondson - score/update Pratt - score/update Sunday 1:30am UK time Duru - score/update