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What a serial demotivator. Saying we can’t compete in the championship with all the injuries. How do the youngsters learn from that. Part of it is his communication and language skills. A pretty important box to tick off at a job interview. Wrong man, wrong club, wrong time. Sadly it is becoming a habit.

I've been wondering this for a while. Back in the day I think you could legitimately class the LT as a local organisation based on the High St in Blackburn. Now their old offices are flats for asylum seekers, God knows where they're based (if anywhere at all) and they're merely part of a National organisation (Newsquest) based all over the Country whose senior management probably couldn't care less about Blackburn Rovers or indeed any other individual Club in their catchment areas. As far as the team writing for the LT is concerned, there probably isnt a Rovers fan in the place. If however they did go to war with the Club I'd have thought it would earn them a lot more clicks and attention in the short term than by simply endorsing everything that happens down at Ewood. The problem is if they are unsuccessful. They are stuffed without having the Club onside in the long term.

How many will stay around next season? wharton perhaps maybe pears if he is number 1 after we sell toth rest I can see moving on

I do indeed! If I recall correctly, signed from Grimsby for £10k and drove over to Blackburn to sign in a hire car as he didn't have his own car! He got 2 of the goals against Plymouth at Ewood and that might have even been his debut (51 years ago so having to dig deep into the memory bank for the smaller detail).

He isnt in the team to scare the opposition. He was our best player for me last night which is not saying much. He is very good at what he does and its a very specialist role. Problem is, there is a mess around him. It is pretty embarassing that we signed a new centre back and after 1 game are not playing him, considering how poor yesterdays back 3 was individually. Centre back like other positions is an area where you could write down enough names to suggest we have more than enough bodies yet quality wise its impossible to put together a competent defence. Forgetting how good or otherwise Cashin is, his profile made no sense. Our centre backs are poor in the air, so we sign a really short centre back. We badly needed someone who is right footed and who can go in the middle, Cashin doesnt tick any of those boxes. Atcheson clearly has talent but isnt ready to be playing at this level. O'Riordan looked out of his depth and when the pair are looking for a dominant partner, they get McLoughlin.

I can’t understand why, having been humiliatingly banned from his ‘workplace’, EJ and the LT aren’t at war with the regime and looking to drop any ammunition they have on behalf of real Blackburn Rovers supporters. Why let them walk all over you, when you can take the moral high ground and light the fire to stoke the fans up and the regime out.

Hmmm....... Can't agree, the problem would appear to be more he's been replaced with no-one because they thought they could get away with it and save on the cost. He did also sit there in the car crash interviews endorsing the departure of Eustace, the appointment of Ismael (who apparently in their view topped all the performance criteria) and the bat shit crazy "transition".

Enjoyed many a night doing the Mumbles mile when working down Swansea way.

I guess Picks, Wharton, Carter, Pears, Tronstad are the remaining core. Rest mercs/individuals, except the academy lads. I don't believe Val has the ability to build team morale for a second

You echo what the big majority of rovers fans think Ian. The feeling is of total despair to what the owners are doing to a club that so many have loved for their entire lives.

As regards Tronstatd, he’s tidy on the ball and passes it well. It’s hard to see anything beyond that. I wouldn’t say he’s a terrier who puts opposition players under any kind of pressure in midfield, I wouldn’t say he’s a terrier who gets close to his midfield opponents. He certainly isn’t any kind of creative player either. In short if I were in the opposition team he certainly wouldn’t scare me. He does what he does relatively well but that’s not a lot.

Fair, obvious answer is Jorgensen I guess. Low bar at the moment. I do tend to disagree with you generally on Tronstad but would agree he's been sub par recently and that as a senior player I expect far more.

Powell, Jorgensen and I thought Atcheson was generally pretty good apart from was it his header out for one of the goals? Apart from that no-one. They were all crap.

May be rose tinted spectacles but there were some very decent players in the 1975 line up. Sir Roger, Burgin as you say very classy, Waddington and Faz, Hawkins,Oates, Metcalfe, Parkes. Remember Mike "The Rock" Hickman who I think came in midway through the season? He'd scare the shit out of the current line up!. Lol

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Alan Meyers wants a bob each way I think. Clearly Venkys aligned, hence praising them as "good people", saying nothing of their ability to run a successful a football club, but also thinks they should sell rather than improve how the club is governed and financed. So theyre "good people" who aren't capable of running a professional sporting club? Why not out and say that while you've got your soapbox? And if you think theyre good owners, why should they sell? Which is it?

The almost funny thing is that should/when we go down, 90% of the squad will believe that league 1 is below their ability and try and move on, especially the imports we have taken this season despite their ability being very much league 1 - and below. We don’t have and Charlie mulgrew types in the team. Like I said at the start of the season and was met with criticism, it’s a very unlikeable and distant squad with the fans. Literally none seem to hold much affection with the club and it’s a team of individuals

Who played better than him yesterday Rev? I didn't watch the game, so I'm not trying to catch you out. I'm interested.

Im going to have a rant now and I dont care what people think. Do people just write the above before the game without even watching it? He was absolute dogshit last night, it was the 25 th minute before I even noticed him touch the ball. He then perked up a bit until half time before being useless again in the second half. People tend to say "Oh he's had enough or he's off at the end of the season or he's had enough of the manager's tactics" as if that's some sort of excuse. it isn't. Some or indeed all of the above may be true and that would be understandable in many respects but at the end of the day he's a professional footballer paid to perform. With so many young players in the side we need the senior players like Cantwell, Tronstad and Baradji to stand up and be counted. On the contrary we've had the square root of fuck all out of either of the first two in recent weeks with Baradji only performing in fits and starts seemingly when he feels like it. Yes, the manager needs to go asap. But until he does, our so called better players still need to pull their finger out and put in a genuine shift.

Think Gordon Lee used the proceeds to rebuild - his first four signings were all instrumental in our success: Graham Hawkins was the key one - stole from PNE for circa £20k Andy Burgin a class act at full back from Halifax - think his fee was less than £10k Graham Oates - so influential in midfield and chipped in with goals - circa £15k Ken Beamish - did what he needed as a number 9 for us in the Third Division - circa £25k Happy days - who will ever forget the Ewood promotion clash with Plymouth when Rovers fought back from 2-0 down to run out winners at 5-2. 1975 - promotion was our aim to crown a centenary of fame! 2025 - 150 years on, wonder what the 2025/26 epitaph will be!!!!!!!!!!

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Rovers fully deserve relegation this year, that's the only thing that will make it easier. You can't run a club this way and get away with it.

I was thinking about this earlier and it now feels like the MK Dons taking over from Wimbledon. Granted we are still playing in the same town and same stadium, but with Ismael, providing a foil for Gestede, who in turn provides a foil for Pasha, who in turn provides a foil for the owners, who in turn allow agents, players and officials to steal money from the club, we have become Money Laundering FC. MLFC rule whilst BRFC dies.

How many senior players have had their contracts renewed this season? Scott Wharton is the only one I can remember but he's a true Rover and spent the majority of his senior career on the treatment table unfortunately. Ismael is blaming injuries but the game last night was dead and gone and the two subs he made were youth players. Why isn't he letting Ohashi rest for 15-20 mins when he's highly ineffective? Toss Pratt up top, who cares... if we're waiting for everyone to come back from injury in order to be able to win games, Ismael should ensure we don't take maximum risk of suffering further injuries

Very strange player, looks like he has a lot of ability, but generally it never seems to quite come off for him and I can't quite decide whether he's putting it all in or not. I'd be surprised if he's still here next season option or no option.