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Recruitment team must have set the filters on their search as " Find another forward player with first name Ryan, surname beginning with "H" who is currently injured". On a serious note as with Baradji it's taking the Moneyball approach to new levels to sign players who are going to be unfit for the majority of the time you need them in a time sensitive situation. I thought the idea was to get value for money out of players whose careers might have stalled due to something like injury but who were now fit. Not ones currently injured.

Yeah it is definitely circumstance. Because the Walker revolution so drastically and suddenly changed the whole scale and direction of the club so much it is very easy to 'compartmentalise' our recent history into 3 distinct clear periods. Pre-Walker (everything up to 1991), Walker (1990-2010) and Venkys (since 2010). Because things have been so horrific over the last 15 years there seems to be an eagerness among some to treat the middle period as an aberration and normalise what has been going on here over recent years as merely a return to normal service. I do, unfortunately, think a part of it comes from the attitude of those who were supporting the club in the 70s and 80s when it wasn't all PL and success, and some of those people get a kick out of reminding the younger end or those who started following in the good times that the 70s and 80s version is the 'true Rovers' and they are the 'true supporters' for having experienced those times not just the good times. Quite weird in my book but I'm convinced it is there as a factor. Oddly those people don't want to talk about the decades before that. It is probably the equivalent of Spurs fans reminiscing about the days they were a non-league side in the early 1900s or perhaps more like Ipswich fans saying that they belong in the bottom division because that's all they were before Alf Ramsey turned up. But yeah, if we'd have had say a fit and proper owner buy the club in 2010, but gradually declined from the PL into the Championship over a number of years, and then they'd have sold up to Venkys in 2020 and they'd have wrecked the club a decade later than they did, I suspect less would be willing to tolerate what is happening here. But because it has been going on now for so long, and there was a straight jump from Walker Trust regime to Venky regime, they can just box off the 1991-2011 period as a blip. I'm sure the numpties on that other forum will quite happy with things as they sit in an 80% empty stadium and insist they have it right and everyone else is wrong, and presumably all of them will be renewing when we go down to League One because the club and players need their support.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/january/15/rovers-to-take-on-the-tractor-boys-in-premier-league-cup/

Club motto will be amended soon to say "Why do today, that which can be put off until tomorrow?"

Jackson has had a mare there and is rightly being called out on it. It’s like he’s been told off by the club an now he’s overcompensating to maybe try get back in their good books. No way that article or news can be displayed as positive when our need is now

To be fair I take that article as a sign that even internally they know we're fucked if we don't sign a decent striker, and we can't afford one if we also need to sign a new LWB. Probably even if we don't, but every penny counts when the club has to wash its own face I guess.

i believe the following is our current official position

More or less picks itself to a great extent. Tell Cantwell and Baradji to get up with the striker when they can.

Jimmy Reed - Shame,Shame,Shame

You get a new low with this mob every single week now. How do "hopes" someone MIGHT be back before the end of the season take pressure off us in the transfer market? Even by their reckoning on the best case scenario it's going to be "Six to eight weeks" plus " the next few weeks" then after assessment he MAY be able to return to training. So say on an extremely optimistic slant he's match fit in 3 months - that takes us to mid April. If he was match fit by 11th of April he'd only be available for the last 5 games, if by the 18th the last 4 games. We could be all but down by then. And that's assuming someone who's had his leg in a cast//immobile for months is ready to waltz straight back into action almost immediately after resuming training. Plus, he's probably leaving at the end of the season anyway. The LT should be ashamed at themselves for writing such bilge. Although Im not surprised as they're probably trying desperately to worm their way back into the Club's good books.

Funny. I was telling my kids about that very thing. I remember the collective murmur, when the "attendance" was given out! How times change

I fear that aside from the Venkys the division in fans will be the downfall.

This Hedges situation seems totally bizarre. It makes no difference if he is out for 2 or 4 months in that we are going to be without a left wing back for a significant period of time. Even for the odd game, both Pickering and Ribeiro have shown that they cannot play that position and De Neve is nowhere near it. A new left wing back has to be non negotiable. This really cryptic rumour seems to have grown legs but it seems to be chinese whispers. Nixon's shared comment seems to be a case of, I cant say no in case something is happening, but I clearly am not aware of anything. Ryan Hardie has been mentioned above. He has played 12 minutes of football in 2 months and is injured. Should make it a no go straight away.

@KidderStreetNoise Has them.

Have to ask yourself this, Say in 15 years time some of the clubs in the premier league face what we have. Would the likes of Brighton/Bournemouth and Palace fans be saying oh it was just a golden era we are back where we belong as they try and avoid a 2nd spell in the 3rd tier in 10 years or would they be saying, We had a club that was built from the ground up - we should be aiming to be in the top flight etc. etc. We have an extremely bizarre fanbase who are so split when they should be united for a single cause.

Agreed. Don't mind McLoughlin on the left side of a 3 too much, but he should never be in the middle. Unfortunately I think he will be though until Wharton gets back.

Probably right, maybe with Atcheson over O'Riordan? I would personally have Atcheson over McLoughlin, with O'Riordan moving into the middle, but cant imagine Ismael dropping McLoughlin

We have a very odd fanbase when it comes to belittling the status of Blackburn Rovers. I think it’s largely through circumstance, i.e a lot of the fans that were around in the 70s/80s see us as small time as the club was often hand to mouth, of course, those that only remember Venky’s and their downsizing also see us as small time. Ergo it’s Jack’s/the Walkers club that is the aberration, not that Jack built a club to be bigger than the 70s/80s, just like football now is across the country. Nobody else harks back to ‘well, we had crap gates in the 80s too, that’s our level’… so did fecking everybody! The game was on it’s arse.

Fats Domino - Ain’t That A Shame

Demonstrations? Live Demo’s are fairly rare across the footballing world. The fans here have been demonstrating with their feet for 15 years now. When the owners tell the fans groups that it’s only a minority that are unhappy, push that to them. If a demo can be organised then great but if not don’t give up the argument that the owners are driving the fans away because the evidence is there right in front of them.

Cash turnstiles in those days

We've seen the fluffing up of players before using a return from injury as something to be excited about. We need players through the door at this point.

I worry for the people on the other forum. Don't think they get it

Ipswich 3-0 Rovers. They are bang in form at the perfect time while Coventry are stumbling a little. Fully expect them to put Rovers to the sword unfortunately. Predicted team: Toth O'Riordan McLoughlin Cashin Miller Tronstad TGH Pickering Baradji Cantwell Ohashi

Why shouldn’t fans of a club that has spent most of the last decade *one* division below the Premier League have at least an ambition to have a go at getting into it? That’s kind of the point of professional football, no?