Yea I thought it looked odd when I wrote it. Bit harsh on him!

I personally wouldn't call anyone signed during the Venky era a club legend. We've achieved fuck all in that time save for a 2nd placed promotion from League 1. Outside of that we've either finished mid table championship, spectacularly thrown away chances to get in the playoffs more than once, or narrowly avoided relegation a couple of times. Granted the criteria for legend will be different for younger supporters who don't remember or weren't around for the pre-Venky era. I guess the likes of Dack or Trav would be closest to fitting the bill.

As @MarkBRFC mentioned, it was part of the plan. Gestede said one of the summer priorities was getting someone to compete with Ohashi and Gueye. Then it dropped off.

I've only seen him play fleetingly (two substitute appearances) but I know for sure that he is expected to be the shining star from the current crop of first year scholars.

Lol....Misread your comment, as "do well in League 11"

Just spotted this post on FB shared in a Rovers supporters group (original post 19 hours ago): Kent Non League FootballBlackburn Rovers have signed promising 16 year old centre back Archie Henderson after impressing at Herne Bay. The Championship side moved for Henderson after he had agreed terms for Herne Bay in the summer after featuring for the 1st team last season!

Yes, doesn't look like Ismael rates him. I'd keep him and sign another striker. We are just so lacking up there. He'd do well in League 1 I imagine.

My guess is that they are trying to move him on...

Not to mention the whole JDT vs Travis debacle that also seemed entirely unnecessary... Maybe his sticking point with management, but I like that Travis has aggression and I wish we were keeping him, the team always looks like it has more fight whenever he's on the pitch imo.

Gueye hasn't much form to lose! He's more likely to get suspended.

For me, Travis is decent but no more than that. I take off the the blue and white glasses and can't help but think about what went on with him at Ipswich. Theoretically, he was the last piece of the jigsaw in terms of helping them to get over the finishing line. In reality he was a bit- part player at best. I think this season will be interesting and afterwards it'll be either; why were we stupid enough to let him go, or we should have got rid sooner. Hopefully the latter as that would suggest a successful season...

I think that's a feature of how we set up to be honest. He's shown that he can drive forward with the ball well enough over his time here, if we played 442 (which I appreciate nobody does anymore) or even 433 then we'd see him do that much more I think. To be clear, I'm not arguing that Travis gets into every team in the division. Teams going for the automatics will have better options, as will a couple of others. But there are some absolute plodders who play his position in this league - we've had our fair share at Ewood! - so I think saying he's average is seriously underplaying his ability and how easy it should be to replace him. I hope I'm wrong, obviously, and that Tavares and Baradji are a class above! But I'll believe it when I see it.

I think from a pure numbers standpoint we need another CF. Ohashi and Gueye will get injured at some point and / or lose form. You can't then just pick the other as the default starter. They want Leonard out the door (and he's not a #9) and Tyjon is too young (and not a #9 either). The balancing act is what player you bring in - you should always be aiming for better than you've got, and it'd be nice to have some pace - but can we afford that? I've said from the beginning that I'll judge Gueye (Target Man) and Ohashi (Poacher) when they get consistent service - with Kargbo, Morishita, Cantwell et al they might actually get that now. They'll be different propositions entirely this season I think.

Admittedly, Skoda tech's come on a bit since the days of Franny Carr.

Ah okay thanks for the update. Lots of promise in him right? Looks a star

Seen a few say that, there was still 4000ish Wednesday fans there though. Full boycotts will never happen anywhere in football as folk love going too much, Blackpool came the closest with Oyston in charge, but they still had anywhere between 1000-3000 there each week.

Going back to Rudy's disastrous podcast appearances back in April, a striker was part of the plan then. He mentioned all the positions he would like to sign and a Striker was right up there. For some reason, that was quietly dropped (probably budget problems?) But now seems to have crept back on the radar again. For me we desperately need a new central striker to compliment what we have.

I mean the analogy started because I expressed my disappointment at having a painfully slow winger in the team. It went downhill from there.

Injured.

100% I hope he does too. However if he doesn’t then it’s leaves more questions than answers. Personally don’t see how/why he wouldn’t if he genuinely feels he’s been let down

Doesn’t even have a song

100%

That’s because of two things… 1) A striker was not in the plan. Honestly, it feels like an impassioned purchase. Like VI and RG have twisted Pasha’s arm. 2) The striker will cost much bigger money and was not originally budgeted for.

It very much remains to be seen whether the new players are good enough/up for it over the course of a season, but someone (or someones) behind the scenes seems to be actually trying, and other than the managers it's been a damn long time since we were able to see that. I expected us to add a couple of freebees and a bunch of loans to a very depleted squad and call it a day, this level of wheeling and dealing and seemingly attempting to scrape together a coherent squad with a tactical plan is unheard of in post-Venky rovers. I don't think that there is any way a random Saudi club came in for Buckley without someone here actively trying to find a way to move him on and actually make some money off the deal at the same time - in previous seasons we'd have just paid him off to get him off the wage bill. Someone is doing some leg work. It feels a lot more like the transfer strategy of back when we were a serious club. I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that I think this all comes from a decision made at some point after we had re-signed Forshaw. I think that at that point freebees and loans was absolutely the order of the day. We've seen this extremely late and sudden decision making before in reverse - when Ennis went from being a speculative punt early in the window to our marquee signing as the taps were abruptly shut off (not that they have been particularly opened now, but you get my meaning). This of course does beg the question why now, why not for JDT or Eustace? Who or what has actually prompted this? When are they going to get fired? How are Venkys and Pasha going to screw it up this time? It's shaping up to be the first season in a very long time that I am, idk excited seems strong but lets say intrigued, actually quite interested in how we are going to look rather than just my default of 'oh god we're definitely going down this year....' Venkys out, Pasha out etc. etc.

Have to say I didn't recall that until I saw it mentioned My dislike of that man is due to his character, although I can happily add that to the list of things I dislike about him