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The fact that Hedges being back tomorrow is a huge boost - and it is - just shows how little quality we have in the squad. Previous years he has been the one we winced at when he was playing as he's not that good, yet now we are just delighted it keeps the likes of De Neve out of the team. De Neve, Tavares, and Henriksson are all nowhere near good enough. Miller just about misses out being on that list but hes not that great either.

Has anyone done the Val doing the Love Actually carollers scene yet?

Not involved in squad tonight (although he hasn't featured for them in weeks & his loan seems to be "unofficially over") Farkas - score/update - started for our U21s on Tuesday

..hope it’s not too big and the “ boycott “ has already started.

are you on hallucinogenic substances

Hopefully Tavares too

Rev you can go to the ticket office tomorrow and tell them you haven't been able to print your tickets off and they will provide a paper ticket at no extra cost. I have done that in the past.

Not sure how I feel about a guy who has won 1 all season at home and taken us to the cusp of the relegation zone getting 'backed' in January. Of course 'backing' has lots of different forms and unless we are suddenly going to spend money on both fees and Championship level wages we are going to be shopping in the same aisle as the summer. We could sign 5 on 1st January and that would qualify as backing. But if they are more dross like the summer there's little credit for that. Of course it would be typical for these owners to suddenly release funds to support Ismael in January after doing zilch to support the last 3 managers who had all dragged us into promotion contention. Suspect the Stooge in the shadows is nervous and plans to use the early days of the January window to dilute fan anger by shuffling the deck with players. Getting Pickering out will naturally free up space for a couple of cheap incomings and unfortunately a lot of the support base will lap it all up as evidence of Venkys backing the club and about how they're doing nothing wrong.

given Ismael's comments on team news I think he will line up like this Pears Miller McLoughlin Pratt Morishita TGH Tronstad Hedges Cantwell Ohashi Gudjohnsen

I heard he took a swing at him but missed the target... (sorry - i actually like Gueye but he has lost what little confidence he had and should, for all parties, be moved on in January but we literally have nobody else as backup/sub... As for Cantwell - he should be stripped of the captaincy making that comment ON CAMERA!)

Given he has spoken directly to the owners, then I reckon they will give/back him with the signings he wants(I hope so), cos this squad need another centre back and striker Gueye, Pickering and De Neve will move on IMO

My example was a fair and realistic on what Rovers will be looking at and weighing on options and going for the targets. I hope we get them in early and they can have instinct impact we need them to get us up the league at least he has spoken directly to the owners and I hope this does help bringing in the signings we need in January and to re-shape this squad and give us another striker and centre back options. on adjusting the squad point, players will need to leave in order to bring players and also to register them within the 25 man squad. Players like Gueye, Pickering, possibly De Neve will move on I imagine.

Cantwell comes across as a snide little git.

Sadly, they do and life is becoming impossible to some extent without. Have you ever tried to prise a phone off a teenager? Like cutting off a limb. 😉 Go down the street, into a restaurant, on a train and they are full of zombies looking down. 🙂

I hope they do back Valerian, and we go shooting up the league. But I still will not be buying a season-ticket, for next season.

Me too. The whole world thinks everyone has a smart phone.

Weirdly reckon they'll back Valerian in the window annoyingly. All to save face on a botched summer window.

That will no doubt be me tomorrow with a big queue forming behind..... 🤣

Fed up of waiting in line for people who can't get stuff up on their phones. Edit just realised that might sound like having a go at you Rev -definitley not. Just resent having to use smart phones for everything. But not a battle I'm going to win.

That's a disgraceful comment from Bayes. It took Ismael one full game and eight minutes of his second to unravel all Eustace's good work.

Yep, immature. And how anyone can snigger with that hair... 🙂 We all know of Mak's (in)ability -what does childish sniggering achieve? He is a fellow professional (yes I know you can argue that he isn't up to it) but shouldn't a club captain encourage? I know plenty of past hard men who if they were Mak would have just decked Cantwell.

Nervous too. Clear there's no future for Pickering and it worries me when he speaks of "adjusting the squad". Working with what he has with no incomings because his hands are tied but he wont admit it. I'd give him until the close of this season because at the moment he's employed. Also sounds like he's saying it isn't his job to speak with owners and admits it "completely different" at Rovers compared to other clubs. imo its not working. Speak up venkys I can't hear you!

This team isn't Miles Davis but it is Miles Off It

"The Frenchman replaced John Eustace at Ewood Park in February, eventually taking them to within one place of the Championship play-offs last season." A lesson on how phrasing can distort reality. We were in the playoff positions and he took us out of them. That description from the BBC makes it sound like he guided us to the brink from the outside. Can't complain with Ismael's response to the letter, mind. Correctly pointing out that the issues run much deeper than his tenure and isn't just about disappointment in the current campaign. Granted you could argue he's saying that to shirk his own responsibility for current fan unrest, but at the same time he isn't wrong.