Sorry, him saying on the one hand on a podcast what he really thinks but then on the other putting out puff pieces for the LT all the time as if everything is perfectly normal isn't helpful, in fact it's exactly the opposite. I know his employers dont want to bite the hand that feeds them and he has to put food on the table etc etc but for the sake of the welfare of the Club it's gone way beyond that. The Club's very existence is in peril, at least at a meaningful level. Anyhow credit where it's due - Im very impressed that the LT have led with the partial blackout. It seems they don't mind putting out PR nonsense on behalf of the Club, but when access to that nonsense is removed or restricted they don't like it at all!

Only watched the game live, but I said N'Zonzi at half time .

Journalist - "so Rudy any news on the right winger addition"? Rudy - "ooh isn't Lewis Travis a naughty boy" everyone look in the opposite direction

100% and I don't for a second believe we offered anyone a fair renewal deal

Yes - exactly this - if he insists on being "transparent" and in the process portraying Trav as the villain of the piece then we need to know exactly how much we're offering him and how much Derby are offering him. For example if we were only offering £8k p.w. and Derby were offering £16k p.w. all blame suddenly shifts away from Trav for wanting to leave doesn't it?

Awful

Pressure within - as mentioned by other accounts or posters waggott was their fall guy. Now there is nobody to pin blame on it’s Rudy & pasha I also see one of the Rao family in attendance recently and never has done so before. It could be wishful thinking but I’m hoping the walls are closing in on pasha and then in turn Rudy

No closer to signing that one solitary addition either. Hedges for the forseeable (and beyond).

Attacking the local journo because of the clubs behaviour is wild to me. Jackson’s hands are tied. He’s not an angry Rovers fan, he’s a journalist for a small local paper. There’s not much he can do. It’s a tricky balancing act.

I didn’t think he would but I’m impressed that he has.

What was the price we got for Wharton again?

VENKIES OUT, the rest will follow.

Ben Doak going for £25m, what a world we live in

Pressure, what pressure? Pressure from where? Pressure to do what exactly? We know the Venkies don't give a toss about success on the pitch so must just be pressure for black ink Just how do the good folks of Blackburn band together and get rid of these horrible owners. They just are not going to leave on their own.

2-0 to Rovers.

Sad but true, and a small paper like the LT can't afford to lose the minimal access they have, half of Elliots stories are passed on by the club media account anyway, so it's pure propaganda

Well we’re only adding a cm and a rw according to val so unless those positions are filled by rodri and salah I’d say it’s fair to say we are weaker

The club holds all the power unfortunately - not uncommon in football and sports journalism with this kind of behaviour. In the end the biggest question will be answered when we see what our squad looks like once the transfer window is shut.

If I remember rightly, Jackson was on a podcast a few months ago talking Rovers. I don't know if it was his own personal channel or something. Anyway, he was basically saying what many of us have been saying about the running of the club, lack of ambition, his frustration about the January windows etc, just in a calmer manner. I remember comments on here afterwards giving him credit for being spot on and for being across the issues. The only explanation for how he is when in press conferences and when interviewing these chancers, is what you have said. He's playing it safe and trying to keep his job and ensuring the LT don't lose access. It must be difficult as he knows the reality but has to remain calm. I know I couldn't do it.

Hang on, when these Indians appeared from under their stone, Armstrong would not have got a game. He didn't out grow the club, the Indians shrunk it and still are to this day! Armstrong has never been a Premier League footballer and never will be!

I'm not suggesting he resign or give up his job. Just put his foot down as a journalist and tell the club that he will ask the questions that his readers want to know about. If they are restricting the topics he can ask about then he can't do his job. I am pleased he is telling people that the club are restricting his questions rather than just playing along with it. Hopefully wakes a few more of the morons up who think this is normal.

What the local journo's should do is quite simple 'Ok Mr Ismael fair enough' then turn straight to the club and say right where is Mr Gestede he is director of these operations and these questions are for him to answer, if he doesn't we'll have to concoct our own headlines and he may not like it'. Makes me boil that just casually batting things off means that nobody is accountable, someone is always accountable for every action. Get after the root of it.

Tight news management and all awkward questions banned. Trump's Maga regime alive and well at Ewood. How did it come to this?

#7 Another archive ticket stub…Rainbow at Bingley Hall, Stafford in 1983 https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rainbow/1983/bingley-hall-stafford-england-3d87dc7.html