Warm up your grey matter…the prediction competition will be here very soon. 🙂

Fixed it for you 😉 Sorry, but amazing would be pushing things, He is versatile, has good potential, but would be a downgrade in the immediate short term. With the caveat being that it would only be acceptable if he was tied down to minimally a 4 year contract

Wishful thinking: Bali Mumba as Brittain replacement - that would be amazing business unfortunately won’t happen

Lets remember that Chief Venky Stooge Pasha hasn't just turned up, he's been lurking in the shadows for at least 10 years now, probably longer. He's already overseen his vision once before, it began in 2015 when we sold off key assets like Tom Cairney and Rudy Gestede, followed by people like Ben Marshall, Grant Hanley and Shane Duffy. In a very similar fashion to what we are witnessing now those players were bundled out the back door or made to feel unwanted, sales were sought and Rovers trousered 90% of the cash. In their place we turned to the loan and cheap markets and recruited largely dross which culminated in relegation to League One. It was only after he'd delivered that relegation, Mowbray went off to India and agreed on a plan of action, and they started to act almost like fit and proper owners, that the decline was stopped and reversed for a few years. Now the Chief Venky Stooge has seen off Mowbray, his mate Waggott, and re-established hegemony over the entire club again with his dogsbody Rudy making the phone calls and wearing the fancy suits, he is setting us back on the course we were on in 2015-17. Hopefully one day someone finds out just what the real story is with this guy, where he comes from, what his qualifications are and what his remit is.

In National League cup games, academy teams only play National League teams, not other academy teams, at least during the league stage https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/15/rovers-learn-national-league-cup-opponents/

And Burnley. Probably scheduled for 8am on a Monday behind closed doors.

£££££££££££££

"Loans aren't free ya know....."

Does anybody know how long it takes for ‘minutes’ to be agreed. I’m pretty sure the meeting was well over two weeks ago

Why is this club so terrified of improving the first 11?

Yes they absolutely know the risk they are running with this model but it's either they aren't that concerned where it will eventually lead or they have no choice because the finance backers of Venkys are finally saying enough is enough.

A lot of pages have been written since the Brittain to Boro / Derby / wherever story bubbled up, and pretty much every perspective on him going or staying has been voiced on the forum. Despite this, the reality is that we will be losing a senior player, experienced at this level and capable of contributing known value to the side. And for what? No realistic chance of the transfer fee being reinvested in any meaningful way. A significant downgrade in our attacking threat. A cut-price leg up to a team usually considered a direct rival. In the days of Jim Smith, Bobby Saxton, Gordon Lee the need to trade players to balance the books was accepted as part of the reality of being a third tier club, lacking the resources to blaze a trail or flash the cash. Unfortunately I don't see any of the guile, commitment, inside knowledge, passion, connections or strategic thinking from the arseholes running our club, that were the hallmark of Blackburn Rovers back in the day. All I see is a bunch of chancers running the resources down, without a plan, with no pride in what Blackburn Rovers should mean (and could still be) and with no regard whatsoever for the people without whom the club would have no meaning (yes - I mean YOU and me, friend - the fans). It's an outrage. Rudy, You SLAAAAGG! VENKYS OUT!

50% of those games came in the space of 7-days, during a very turbulent transitional period due to the departure of Eustace, and subsequent, mid-season appointment of Ismael.... We also lost at home to Portsmouth and Boro in that run of 5 defeats on the spin. You can't tell me we'd have picked up 0 points in those 5 games had Eustace stayed in charge.

Semantics…but I think Venky’s strategy is “The losses* must not exceed X” & if the by product of that is relegation, then they aren’t unduly concerned. Rudy & Suhail are more likely to be targeted on financials than league position. Their task being to minimise losses recognising that if relegation occurs, the cost base needs to be cut even more dramatically. This explains short term contracts, no wage increases, no sizeable fees entertained, season ticket prices held (revenue is up yet sales have fallen don’t forget…). *the amount you want from us every season

I do have a bit of a theory on this, which may be way off the mark. It could be driven by betting companies, as an early kick off accumulator can be attractive to punters and then when that loses, they lump on the normal kick off games and try to recoup their losses. Betting is big business and live TV games do attract more punters.

Come on Eustace, bid 5m. You know you want to.

If Brittain goes through, Baradji in on a cut price deal, then only Tronstad and Travis to offload and you have the perfect window from Pasha's point of view. Start panicking mid October when we're rooted to the bottom with Wednesday.

A 'package' of 3.5 mill 🤔 So it's about 2 million in instalments and a bunch of may or may not trigger add ons then. Still it'll easily cover this summers real outlay. Onto the loan market we go.....

I see Rovers have drawn Morecambe in the first game of Group A of the National League Cup. Or maybe not...

Try and avoid relegation, embarrassing season coming up

Certainly a top 5 in the league right back gone to a direct rival its poor but it’s to be expected and would certainly explain the lack of progress on any other targets recently

And none of the £3.5M will be used for transfers. The (sensible model) of buying cheap and selling at top price only works if reinvested into playing squad. We never do. As fans, we shouldn't be happy if any of our first team go, regardless of price...

Every cloud 🤣🤣

Don't make me tap the "his replacement is already at the club" sign

Under Eustace he massively improved defensively and certainly doesnt go missing. Cant see a better right back in the league.