‘I’ll see you in court’ probably.

Behave, like you wouldn’t be having the time of your life if we were bringing in those kind of palyers.

Given that Tom Wagner is co-founder and co-CEO of Knighthead Capital Management, he will have access and knowledge of a different range of people. I believe Knighthead Capital Management is worth around £7bn But still part of the wage bill and we are still paying the, pleased you aren't working in my finance department I wouldn't be paying any Championship player 60k a week. unstainable

Regardless of whether you think he will or not, would you like Gestede to make a success of things?

You'd want to make a couple of changes heading into this, I think. But who? Pickering? Maybe but doesn't offer much difference to Ribeiro. Miller? Not over Alebiosu going on last game. Foreshaw, Buckley? Absolutely not. Montgomery? I'd rather play Foreshaw. Axel? Nope, not yet. Gueye? Not if we fancy scoring. No real injuries of note and we're already scraping the barrel. When we've got 2 games a week and a few injuries the dearth of talent available is going to be really apparent. Can't see past a Hull (transfer embargo, remember) win.

Defo in agreement with no TNT.

Gonna guess that he's not bothered, as he can watch Sky at home 😅.

We can afford it, we are just unwilling to spend it.

FWIW - on here I start at 6 being the base line of a competent performance. Anything higher than that indicates there were memorable/significant interventions in the game. Below 6 indicates memorable/significant errors/mistakes/ineffectiveness… I may well be treating it too scientifically…😆

No, whichever centre half it was, he lazily stuck out a leg and tapped the ankle half hearted after the ball was moved on by the Brum player.

I always thought they liked a ‘Big 6’ game to open the season. Didn’t realise one of them had to be a Big 6 also ran… which is obviously true in this case.

Honestly a 2 word (one isn’t even a word) post from you is about the best thing connected to Rovers in years, welcome back, even if it’s just for that one post!

Watched chunks of their Oxford game. Hull started fast, Gelhart knows how to attack the near post effectively and McBurnie still knows how to be in the right place at the right time. Other than that these are a lot less good than WBA and Birmingham. We competed well with those and conceded goals VAR would have taken minutes reviewing. Going to Mkm (don't go to MK Dons by mistake) I am not as pessimistic as others, lose and I will be.

I have almost no expectations this year, so I will take whatever comes. I was thrilled we got a goal vs birm, so I can enjoy the small successes. I will be thrilled when we get a point, and when/if we win (got to keep our humor!) Even if we’re relegated, I’m Blackburn Rovers blue & white. Venkys, bad coaching, or crummy players on the pitch, won’t change that.

He could be the best manager in the world, but being given the dross we gave signed, he has no chance of success. His fault for accepting the gig, but his stock will be so low, after his time here, comes to and end, it will be his last managerial appointment and I have no sympathy. Statements like we have an exciting summer ahead, just makes me angry with him, for leading the fans on. By the way, we are now fourth favourites to go down, behind Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford and QPR and I think Thats generous, as we won’t finish above two of those.

Agreed. The fact we have spent a bit on fees this summer is rather deceiving (even though I'm sure outgoings will still end up seeing us turn a profit). The deception is the guise of investment though. We've slashed our wage budget again massively. Surely De Neve can't be on more than 5k per week. Henrikson and Alebiousi the same. We're recouping the fees and more with the slashing of wages, let alone the incoming transfer fees.

I don't understand how people do ratings. Am I missing something? If 1 is the worst level of performance a player could display and 10 is the best possible performance, then how do so many fans give ratings of 7, 8 etc to players when we have lost a game where we only had two attempts on goal and barely any possession? Elliot Jackson gave half the team 8s out of 10 as well. If I saw a team littered with 7s and 8s I would assume we had played pretty well and won comfortably. The score is for performance, not effort. I can understand, people would want to rate someone's effort even if they fall short, but that's not the same thing. I filled in the PoTM form for yesterday's game and the other matches this season and then when I see the average scores given to players in all three matches I feel like I'm insane.

For quite some time it has been: Waggott out, Pasha out, Gestede out, Venkys out. It isn't a case of just wanting one gone, or posters blowing with the wind. It would matter who replaced Gestede, but whilst Venkys are in charge it will invariably be someone corrupt, incompetent, or both.

They seem like very generous ratings to me. Especially in attack. Take the 2 wingers and striker. Between them, not doubting work rate but 7 suggests slightly above average. Between them, I can only remember the one chance where Hedges played in somewhat of a lofted cross that created a difficult header for Kargbo which never felt likely to really trouble the keeper. Have to do more in possession to cause problems. Tavares was a lot quieter but he played major roles in the concession of both goals.

Doesn't change the fact it's all that matters. Waggott, Gestede, whoever. The ceiling is mid-table championship nobodies while Venkys are here. To discuss the colour of the deckchairs on the Titanic for a second though... I have zero faith in Gestede. Even ignoring him giving me snake oil salesman vibes, he's unfathomably underqualified to be the "Head of Football Operations" at a club the size of Rovers. So he might be a success (which, I suppose is to keep us in the championship for the next 3 or so years), but chances are he won't be.

Reminiscent of the late seventies side under John Pickering. Regularly found a way of losing a game to send the fans home disappointed.

I wish they'd go tomorrow and we get a shiny new owner, but we both know it isn't happening.

It's obviously a possibility, whether it happens is another thing.

It was Venkys out, now it's Venkys out. That's all that matters.

Almost as though they want to keep their ownership of the club quite low key for whatever reason.....