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As per Herbie's post above suggests the overdraft has been considerably higher during the year.

The overdraft figure in the accounts is at a single point in time (the date the accounts closed- 31/3/25) - it doesn’t break down how many days at what ever level of usage. You could take the interest charge paid from the P&L (c.£2m) , the interest rate charged (say 7% - Base Plus Margin) & calculate the average balance… So c.£2m paid in interest for the year at say 7% implies a £28.5m average balance through the period for example.

They had a brief spell. Different physical attributes obviously but nobody can tell me Gueye is an improvement on either. His contribution outside of a little bit last season has been virtually nil, nothing.

Hereford v Newcastle 1972, Ronnie Radford has to be the seminal FA Cup moment? The other moment I remember is Jim Montgomery's unbelievable save for Sunderand against Leeds in the '73 final.

I wouldn't mind us signing Gardner-Hickman on a cheap deal. He has been better than I expected him to be. A decent player in the middle who works well alongside Tronstad. I'm probably in the minority on this, but I like the player and think he is more effective than Travis.

UK base rate.

Can’t get anything past me 😁😁

Those games against Villa late 70’s, Coventry early 80’, Live on BBC 84/85 against Southampton and Man Utd will all go down as some of the best memories of FA Cup for me. I still love the competition, even though it’s been decimated by the bigger clubs and FA!

I wonder what the ban would’ve been if a fan had spat at him.

No shit Sherlock.

I don’t remember either of Vale, or Leonard for that matter, doing much in the way of putting themselves about.

I think the FIFA peace prize may have been rigged.

Me too.

Yeah it was a bad 'un. I can understand why Carbone was so incensed by it. What a goal by Carbone, by the way. One of the best opposition goals seen at Ewood for sure. Just to add on the weather front...it is storm like wind and rain out there in Blackburn right now. I've just been drenched getting back home from town. If this carries on throughout the evening, I think the game is at risk of being called off.

He won’t get us out of this division the right way. Just an handy lad to have on the bench.

Whatever it is it's now putting debt onto the club not the ownership books.

Sorry Rev, I didnt mean every game but just 4 to 6 games that are set to televised should be free to watch

Might as well have kept Jack Vale one thing he was good at or maybe the only thing was coming on to chase down and close games out. Total opposite of Gueye and maybe they wouldn't need to throw De Neve on to do the closing down at the front when he's a wing back ! If Ismael is to persist with these tactics i'd be looking to swap Gueye for anybody who can do that job OR play De Neve as a substitute forward.

As we've seen with the red button for mid week games that would surely be the death knell for the competition. Agree with the nostalgic comments above - when I was a kid and there was no live football on TV apart from the Home internationals, England qualifiers and the FA Cup Final - Final day and the build up was the highlight of the year. These days a lot of it is a bit dull. The broadcasters dont help themselves when they choose to show an all Premiership tie - it's still all about the David v Goliath ties and hoping the minnow can pull off a massive upset. There was a fantastic match involving Spurs and a very small non League outfit last season and when you get something like that it's still the best competition in the world by far.

I agree but at some point one of Ohashi or Gudjonsen are going to break down so we need to plan ahead. Also no more CBs. Sheffield Wednesday are one of our easier games so might be the time for a change. Also bringing on Ohashi to close our games rather than start them could help a lot with our robustness.

No way this game is on tomorrow its properly coming down now. Game will be off I'll bet

Is that over base on an Indian base rate or a UK base rate? If overdraft has gone up £8 million and interest gone up over £1 million doesn't look that competitive. That looks like 12.5 per cent to me.

Horrific at the moment. Heavy rain and very strong winds. The forecast I saw for tomorrow was better. Light rain all morning up until about 4p.m. then heavier rain. With winds half the strength of currently. So you'd expect it to be ok but who knows with this lot. Isn't it ludicrous that we have to be on pins every time there's a bit of rain. When's this drainage sleeve getting done?

i hope they call it off before kick off then,i got absolutely wringing walking up livesey branch road after the ipswich debacle🤒

Agreed. Absolutely bog - standard, like Hedges before we signed him, not the sort of player we'd need to sign if we had any aspirations whatsoever of moving forward at any point. Therefore no surprise whatsoever to hear we appear to be going all out to try and get him. (On the cheap of course)