That final run does NOT look fun.

I think they truly believe they can recuperate all their losses through being promoted. Whether they would or wouldn’t is open to debate, but we’re unlikely to find out unless they stop sabotaging (whether deliberately or through incompetence) our chances of a return to the top flight.

Down by Christmas!!

AUGUST Saturday 9th: West Bromwich Albion (A) Saturday 16th Birmingham City (H) Saturday 23rd: Hull City (A) Saturday 30th: Norwich City (H) SEPTEMBER Saturday 13th: Watford (A) Saturday 20th: Ipswich Town (H) Saturday 27th: Charlton Athletic (A) Tuesday 30th: Swansea City (H) OCTOBER Saturday 4th: Stoke City (H) Saturday 18th: Coventry City (A) Tuesday 21st: Sheffield United (H) Saturday 25th: Southampton (H) NOVEMBER Saturday 1st: Leicester City (A) Tuesday 4th: Bristol City (A) Saturday 8th: Derby County (H) Saturday 22nd: Preston North End (A) Wednesday 26th: Queens Park Rangers (H) Saturday 29th: Wrexham (A) DECEMBER Saturday 6th: Sheffield Wednesday (H) Tuesday 9th: Oxford United (H) Saturday 13th: Portsmouth (A) Saturday 20th: Millwall (H) Friday 26th: Middlesbrough (A) Monday 29th: Sheffield Wednesday (A) JANUARY Thursday 1st: Wrexham (H) Sunday 4th: Charlton Athletic (H) Saturday 17th: Ipswich Town (A) Tuesday 20th: Swansea City (A) Saturday 24th: Watford (H) Saturday 31st: Hull City (H) FEBRUARY Saturday 7th: Norwich City (A) Saturday 14th: Queens Park Rangers (A) Saturday 21st: Preston North End (H) Wednesday 25th: Bristol City (H) Saturday 28th: Derby County (A) MARCH Saturday 7th: Portsmouth (H) Wednesday 11th: Oxford United (A) Saturday 14th: Millwall (A) Saturday 21st: Middlesbrough (H) APRIL Friday 3rd: Birmingham City (A) Monday 6th: West Bromwich Albion (H) Saturday 11th: Stoke City (A) Saturday 18th: Coventry City (H) Wednesday 22nd: Sheffield United (A) Saturday 25th: Southampton (A) MAY Saturday 2nd: Leicester City (H)

WBA Away it is

Because there’s more demand now rightly or wrongly game is much faster and generally more fitness related as opposed to technical

Two excellent analogies there. Exactly how it feels!

Yet players seem to get injured far more now than back in " the good old days". Can you imagine the top teams playing 60 or 70 games with a squad of 15 players now like they did in the 70's and 80's? Lol.

The only reason we were losing £20mn per year on average was because of stupid deals and stupid pay offs that had to be cleared from the Accounts after each Financial Year. Not at home at moment(or in UK) but at home I have a list of the major cock-ups over 15 years. The ones I can remember to give some indication of a badly-run Club are things like: - Reuben Rochina's real cost incl Agents etc; Leon Best fee and pay off; Kean's Contract; Etuhu/Murphy 5 year Contracts and pay offs; Henning Berg's 6 week odyssey and Court Case; the 5 Portugese players; the list goes on and I got it to £148mn. The above is without Brereton, Rothwell, Lenihan and others(now Dolan,Travis, Tronstad) getting away because of poor direction and handling. This list would go with a Rovers Prospectus to sell the Club, to show that good management, vision and direction could attract the supporters back and re-launch our Club up the Leagues (assuming League 1 is beckoning).

Agreed. Imagine if what had happened to Rovers happened to Newcastle! The decline of Rovers was allowed to happen 'salami slice style', surrendering an inch at a time. The frog has now well and truly been boiled, yet many still have their heads in the sand.

The two comments beneath that video... 😑 The biggest conflict I have in all this is that the vast majority of Rovers fans deserve the club we were between 1875 and 2010, but a minority deserve all the utter shite that has come our way this past 15 years. They'd arrive home to find their partners shagging someone else and apologise for disturbing them.

Or makes it up while sat on the Privy.

All that fancy testing is the norm in all clubs happens everywhere

Saw word on Reddit from a PNE fan who has allegedly seen theirs and apparently we are at Deepdale on 22 Nov and they are at Ewood on 21 Feb. Can confirm in 23 minutes!

I am aware of 5 Consortia, plus the Qataris from way back. The approaches start very tentatively with a " we are looking to buy a UK Football Club" Its all VERY confidential and not for this forum, sorry. I remember Pasha arriving as an invisble man around the time of the Shelfy Shaw/Henning Berg Court case, but he may have been making Ewood trips before that.

…because of the idiotic, passionless Walkers.

Just need squad consistency for most of the season

No but I think Duru is still injured from the back end of last season.

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS LINK. EVERY ROVERS FAN WHO GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THIS GREAT CLUB PLEASE WATCH IT AND TAKE IN WHAT IS BEING SAID BY PASSIONATE SUPPORTERS....THE GRAVITY OF WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST WITH VENKYS IS BEYOND BELIEF,THEIR ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE ASTOUNDING. IT BEGS THE QUESTION JUST HOW THE HELL WERE THIS LOT GIVEN THE KEYS TO EWOOD? ,

I'm aware of 3 enquiries , one American, one Austrian and one Brazilian. All 3 approaches were sent to India and the response was. "Stop sending these approaches, we are not selling the club" To add some further info, 2 went on to buy other clubs but have been as bad if not worse than Venkys. I can't share who these bidders were due to breaking a significant confidence. These may be different to the ones the trust refer to, but these are 100% factual

All that fancy testing by the army of physios on day 1 did the trick then. We're doing well with the fitness record of new signings, Kargbo, this fella.

Seen a leaked list dunno if real or not. West Brom away then Birmingham at home. 8th Nov anniversary game at ewood against Derby

Thanks for the above. is Leo duru involved does anyone know ?

He's just a hard worker. Definitely not epl standard. Probably never will be

I remember going past one of the grounds - Haslingden ? And there was a big poster advertising Clive Lloyd as the pro. This was before he played for Lancashire. If you look back at history of the Central Lancashire League and the Lancashire League the only top player that didn’t come over as a pro was Don Bradman. He was coming over until the Aussie cricket authorities put a stop to it by buying him off. A old workmate of mine played for Milnrow in the CLL. The pro there was an Aussie all rounder called George Tribe who’d had a bust up with Bradman ( just like another great Aussie CLL player Cec Pepper ) and came over to England to try his luck. He later had a long career at Warwickshire. They were playing in the Wood Cup final and Tribe bowled out about 7 of the opposition to win the game. As was the custom he got a collection. Back then it was all three penny bits , sixpences, shillings etc. All in buckets. Instead of standing all the rest of the team to a round of drinks at the bar after the game Tribe tipped all the buckets into the boot of his car and drove off without a word ! Cec Pepper was a long time CLL stalwart before he became a first class umpire. Towards the end of his career his was driving up to the ground at Castleton Moor in his car through the fans. It was a hot day and he had the windows down. One guy shouted out to him - “ Bloody hell Cec, you’re not still playing are you ? You must be past it “. Cec replied - “ Past it ? , I’ll give you my address after the game, you can send your wife round . I’ll show you who’s past it ! “ Vinoo Mankad, the Indian all rounder , was the pro at Castleton Moor in the early 1950’s. He was on £50 a week when the average wage was about £10. He left the Moor to go to one of the Lancashire League clubs ( Haslingden ? ) for more money ! The Leagues were buzzing then was really large gates. All the pros were household names, top Test cricket internationals. You had to get down to Dane St in Rochdale early to get a good seat. Becoming a member was really difficult. Within 10 years all that had gone and crowds were quite sparse and becoming a member was easy.