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thanks for sharing Josh. very interesting and I'm sure we were linked before Venkys bought us to a possible Australia group/people buying us. Given our history will Aussie like Robbie Slater, Brett Emerton and Lucas Neill, then now with Miller, you can see why any Aussie Group would be interest in buying us.

A dreadful footballer who despite having all the attributes is either nowhere near committed enough or intelligent enough to see the opportunity that’s fallen into his lap. I can’t wait to see the back of him.

You're not getting the reference. Infamous Freudian slip from error prone former sports commentator David Coleman who said that about a 400m runner. (Alberto Juantorena from Cuba was it?)

Good job 14 years was spent chasing them out then. Venky’s “man on the ground” makes him just an employee of them, of which they have thousands. I just don’t understand how him deciding to eff off (v unlikely IMO) will lead to a collapse of the Venky regime. You only get so many chances to get the attention and motivation of the average fan, and I can’t see many being arsed about a bloke they’ve never heard of.

We'll see I guess.

In Scotland maybe.

At the primary school I went to, even though most of the boys played football, I cannot remember anyone saying they supported a particular club. I didn't start supporting the Rovers until I was 10, and that was only because my mum took me.

Been really disappointing with only Archer close to the level required.

They just need repairing.

Do you honestly trust the people at the Rovers to find and sign decent players ?

We really need cover for Tronstad and Ohashi. I guess getting someone in for Tronstad will be tricky though as the hierarchy will point to Tavares and TGH and say they should be used. Which is annoying as Tavares is lazy and lacks awareness, and TGH is not technical enough to play that deeper role though okay more box to box. But theres no argument not to sign one or two hardworking strikers to give Ohashi and Gudjonsen some support.

Yeah, but even so, they were ahead and the sending off (which was a poor tackle and a deserved red) was a problem of their own making. Lampard pretty much admitted post-match he'd been riled up by the crowd, hence his reaction at the end.

Were down to ten men from 47 minutes

No fan of Ismael but I think he got it right today. Was concerned when saw Litherland on the team sheet that he would be in the back 3, but thought the decision to play him wing back was a good one, protected him and kept Miller where he is most comfortable. He had a great game for his debut too i thought. I'm not sure about Millers football ability but I thought he was an absolute warrior today, got battered all over the pitch but kept on getting back up and asking for more. Hard as nails and a few more performances like that will have him as an Ewood favourite. Ohashi and Tronstad were also very good I thought, with Cantwell showing some lovely touches as the game went on. Also good to see Pickering, nothing spectacular but defended when he had to and used the ball well when in possession. A few around me were moaning about the second half being terrible but with out home form/record it was exactly as it needed to be for me, kill the game and see out the win. Enjoyable stuff.

He didn’t have many in, to be fair.

I know the Venkys never come to Ewood, but we hardly need owners Home and Away to replace them

Is that what constitutes fiery these days?

I remember after the away game at Stockport in the cup, thinking surely Gueye can't be this bad, I was wrong.

I bet the landlord loved you nursing a lime and lemonade for an hour and a half 😁

Seems weird for Lampard to be bigging it up over a 1-1 draw. Assume there was more to it than just celebrating a point.

VI played Pickering??! Has the penny dropped with VI then? He finally understands that he should not play Tavares and de neve

Context: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/profile-he-s-really-quite-remarkable-david-coleman-1535531.html

Let’s throw the cat amongst the pigeons, given it’s Saturday night and I’ve had a beer. Over the last 8-10 weeks, I’ve somehow been in contact with (supposedly) investors and advisors to the current owners of an Australian football club who have significant investments in land, offices and commercial property across the land down under. They said they have investment (I’ve no proof) to the tune of circa 150M to spend on buying an English football club and are actively in the market to buy one as their main business expands into the UK. I was told Rovers where a club they had identified as a target. Why me, I hear you ask? I have no idea, other than they knew (very loosely) what BRFCS was and I was introduced as a “leading fan’s voice”, which I went along with for the ride Via email (I have the receipts) and one slightly insane 30 minute conference call, I was asked about the potential of Rovers. On the call, they had a very simple mandate: They want a club they can increase the revenue of, has a link to Australia and doesn’t require “Billionaire money” to be successful. I did a sales pitch - mostly because I’m so pissed off with Rovers - and explained that having any owners that weren’t Venky’s and gave a shit would increase fan attendance, the stadium needs investment but the most expensive bits are done, we have a very good academy on some expensive land (which they’d have to buy, too), we loved Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton (I chose to omit Vince Grella) and in my opinion “success” to the customers would be something the town could be proud of, not a top 6 Premier League competing club. I’ve not heard anything in about 3 weeks now and I assume I won’t hear anymore, especially after posting this. There is of course the chance I was duped and equally, the chance they’re real but no better than our current owners. But if an Australian consortium buy an English club for less than 150M in the next few years - or are in the mix to do so - they where interested (theoretically) in buying Rovers and I’ll name them at that point, although with some semi-decent googling I’m sure you can find out who the people are just from this post.

This is because it's moved past anger to general apathy now. Where I stand in the BBE, everyone has had a ST in the same spot here for years. For a while now, everyone is just turning up, going through the motions. It's a very strange experience. As everyone gets to their seats at kickoff, they just sort of roll their eyes and give each other knowing looks, puff their cheeks out and all just generally look fed up before we kick off. It's really sad and bizarre. It's not like going to any other football ground in the country or sporting event in general. The fun (or maybe even soul) has been sucked out of the club. It shouldn't be like this. I can't speak for other areas of the ground but I know a lot of these fans are die hards who go to a lot of away games etc as well.

Where I'm from class is more associated with keeping one's legs closed.