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Back in my day, basically before these cunts turned up and started destroying everything, there were people who went round the stands with a bag full of them for sale.

The club does nothing well and hasn't done for 15 years. Supporters treated with contempt. I would complain in writing but I complained about the Telegraph ban and haven't had the courtesy of a reply. Shysters, charlatans, chancers with few if any exceptions; they don't belong here. A captive audience, we slavishly still turn up. An abusive relationship.

The worry is aswell, after this international break, thats when the games really do start piling up. We have a small squad with a lack of depth and quality and this is when it will be really tested. I think Ismael (and I have no confidence in him) needs to decide on our main formation, whereby we minimise the need to have to keep changing system or doing weird shit (like Hedges at centre back, one of the strangest decisions I have seen) when someone becomes unavailable. And due to the imbalanced, poor squad, its about picking the one that has the least glaring weaknesses. I think that has to be 4231. The back 3 has clearly had merit as a short term approach but a bit of unavailability throws it into chaos. If we go to a back 4, I think our best back 4 is Alebiosu, Carter, McLoughlin and Pickering (judgement call at LB) which itself isnt great. It brings the left backs back into the equation and it at least means that we have one player to cover the 2 centre backs and Alebiosu in Miller, especially as Carter is made of glass. If we carry on playing as we are, any minute that any of Carter, McLoughlin, Miller or Alebiosu are unavailable, he will have to come up with strange alternatives to keep a back 3 intact. It would leave us light out wide, but it also provides us with an alternative up front. I dont like going into games knowing that there isnt a striker on the bench that isnt a total shambles and a laughing stock, its not healthy. Ohashi is better than Gudjohnsen but neither is anything stand out in the division, so it also gives you the possibility of swapping on form and not having to keep flogging both.

good,i hope they all end up in prison for fraud or go bankrupt and get shoved in the black hole of calcutta

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Where was “135/15” today?

Share price fell 8 per cent on Friday after reporting a trading loss in second quarter.

Small kit detail I've only just noticed. Would of been better to release this on this kit from the start of season rather than being able to go and get it printed on after initial sales

If he or Henriksson offered for the ball in midfield, the CBs wouldn't have to keep playing hopeful 60 yard balls into the forward line..... terrible setup today asking defenders to do things they aren't good enough for. Still major question marks over the manager, whoever signed Tavares and whoever sanctioned the Hyam sale.

I think pears could of done better on that second goal his little rabbit flap was ineffective and no where near the ball

Norwich and Sheffield United, will both improve imo, throw Swansea in the mix too..

Think he's better than that. But even if I didn't, I can get behind the first two attributes .We can't afford (or won't pay for) better technicians, so I'll appreciate the athletic, wholehearted ones.

Miller. Great athlete. Wholehearted. Not a footballer.

I put this on the matchday thread so apologies to anyone who has already seen it but I thought it might sit better here. My contribution to the day 1875 Seventeen gather in a Blackburn pub eyes bright with promise 'This will be our club' Blackburn Rovers, set to thrive Born 1875 In Cotton Town they worked to spin threads of blue and white, that would weave within the generations that come between their dream and now. They wove the fabric of our club, our town. Blue and white shirts of great renown Blue and white ribbons on trophies evince success in every century since. History has never seen a more successful small town team. Those threads through history remind us whatever troubles come to find us.. Stand tall. Be proud. Let this club bind us. Raise our scarves of white and blue, Lift hearts and voices too: 'We Love You Rovers, We Do' Love and prides that still survives Born 1875

jdt was building a fine squad,if the chicken chokers had backed him we`de be in the premier league,im`e certain,that was probably was our last chance of promotion before they sold adam wharton on the cheap and ****** jdt about,we are miles further away from it now and i doubt now it will ever happen

Thought this thread had disappeared after our plucky three wins. But today was back to form, bizarre formation and line-up, permanently clueless manager. Back to 13/2 to go down now. We will probably need another ten wins this season to stay up, so roughly one in every three matches remaining with a few draws thrown in. Doesn't sound too bad, but our home form is really worrying and most teams rely on it to keep them up, we're evidently better away from home. Walking wounded currently with a threadbare weak squad. We have to play so many matches in November and December before the window opens, we need to somehow keep treading water til then. Though we usually botch January windows anyway. I think we're going to be right in this scrap all season. At least one of Norwich and Sheff Utd will improve at some point and skip past us, games against Pompey, Oxford and QPR are going to be six pointers for sure. Strap in. Thanks Rudy, Suhail and Venkys, happy 150th

Did Gardner-Hickman receive his yellow after yet another misplaced Miller pass or is my memory deceiving me? Same as Tronstad on Tuesday...

Yep they really struggle with the fact there is a regime running ‘the club’ that needs removing for the good of it, the regime is the club to them.

Just thought we made a team in 5th look poor on their own patch. Twine hardly got a kick,they created very little, just a pity the win was at such a cost.

Yeah, our run of bad form usually kicks in about this time of the season. What's up with Tavares? Unbelievable that he didn't made the bench today if he's not out with injury (which is bad in itself).

Exact same thing happened in BBE to me. I asked if I could nip back out through the turnstile to grab one outside but because I had already scanned in I couldn't. So I had to wait and queue for ten minutes after FT for them to open the club shop so I could grab one. I had just assumed they would have them on the concourse. I'm sure they used to?

Or being preserved as another fire sale asset?

After the game I queued up for half an hour for some overpriced piss poor lager they ran out of before I got there. one poor lass on her own. pathetic. shambles of a club. I only stayed to remind myself of the good times. amazed at how many stayed. but for the same reason I guess. It's like invasion of the body snatchers. Jack Walker's legacy highjacked by these chancers. Sick making. I didn't boo Ben, Baath, Wiemann or Eustace. Why would you? They are the symptoms, the canary in the mine. And they handled it quite classily I thought. I've probably said it before, but yes, Billy Bancroft, David Brown, Bill Fox; they weren't billionaires but they were Blackburn men like Jack. The club was at least honest if not flush. I preferred those days to this lot. I'm glad I'm 60 and been lucky to see what I have. I'll keep going to watch. On autopilot.

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Cantwell training one day then off the next with a reaction. Being a knee injury it probably means there's something wrong that hasn't been diagnosed. Could be a very long "wait".