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Never ever going to happen unless there's a literal revolution.

That just shows how shit the rest of their ideas are.

I love how RF99 replies to your argument with logic and reasoning that completely dismantles what you're saying and the only response you can muster is "BORING!!!". Call me entertained.

You know it is. Cheaper to run a League One club than a Championship one. Indian government now got their eye on venkys overseas transfers so whatever scam they'd been running for the first 12 years or so can't be so easily pulled off anymore. Only option is to reduce costs. I see we've also deliberately reverted to the high playing staff turnover and plodding along model, albeit likely to be done in a lower division for the next foreseeable future.

Like slowing down to look at a car crash.

Not for the agents it wasn't.

You know what would guarantee it would go ahead and finish? If the owners invested some actual money into the drainage system and stopped letting Ewood Park rot.

This is such a bad idea I’m very tempted to buy a ticket to see it with my own eyes.

I'll never consider him as being a manager. Just a fucking cunt.

Into the bottom three we fall.

It's the same stuff as under Bowyer and similar to a lot of Mowbray style. Every now and then they'll press from the off and get a good win, other times some smart countering and an unexpected away win but in the main week in week out it's tepid bland bread and butter stuff. Designed to carry certain players and get plenty touches and so called development into them, in other words get the stats up, possession sitting off and try to contain the opposition football. Shite in other words and certainly not applied in other to entertain supporters or show ambition, putting value into players comes first. Thing is most of these head coaches now have done the same courses and are grounded in the same principles and under the same instructions from above.

Forshaw certainly was an absolutely pointless signing

I have struggled a bit to see how Ismael wants us to play, maybe especially what I thought was supposed to be a high press – or at least high intensity – has shown itself to a very small degree. Then we’re kind of somewhat organized at the back – until we aren’t. We’re not particularly direct, we’re not particularly physical, and the new players (apart from Alebiosu) don’t seem to have very clear basic skills or standout strengths. I really haven’t found a better description than the one a Watford fan gave to LT back when Ismael was appointed (not entirely sure on the possesion bit): "We were quite dour, not negative but we would tend to spend a lot of the first half shadow boxing to see what the other team had. They weren't playing by the same rules so often we'd be a goal down before we knew what happened. He was very safety first, massively into possession." https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24964221.blackburn-rovers-lowdown-valerien-ismael-watford-spell/ If Stoke comes out with high intensity in the first 10-15 minutes, I could easily see us going down 0-2. At that point, Ismael will need to decide whether to bring in De Neve, Kargbo, or Henrikson to turn our fortunes around.

Shouldn't have been anywhere near us once he left at the end of last season. He was at best average last season, left for free and now we're left like Baradji picking up his wages for absolutely no benefit. This kind of thing is exactly why no one trusts the team putting the squad together - literally everyone saw this coming.

A squad man who hasn't cost any wages yet, the payroll dept will love that. I'm sure his agent will have sent his invoice in though.

No loss as he isnt a Championship standard player these days. But another really shrewd bit of business. Did we know he was injured when he signed?

Forshaw subbed after 41 mins which suggests a possible injury as he was due to play 60 mins tonight

This weekends games for our loanees Saturday 12:30 O'Riordan - score/update - touch and go with an ankle injury Saturday 3pm Barrett - score/update Olson & O'Grady-Macken - score/update Edmondson - score/update Pratt - score/update Sunday 1:30am UK time Duru - score/update

Thrilled to see Henderson in the squad again 🙄

I think Stoke will smash us. Robbins knows how to set a team up. Ismael doesn't

Even by the usual standards of being contrary this is surely talking the piss. A loan signing whose only contribution so far is using our medical facilities and looks he will be doing into November at the earliest. We’ve got a self imposed 10k wage cap but are happy to pay the wages of another teams player while he undergoes treatment with seemingly no timescale on when he will actually play for us. As batshit mental signings go, and there has been a few under Venky’s this one is right up there.

They have now conceded 3 goals in 8 minutes at the start of the second half edit - finished 3-1, Powell with a consolation goal before Rovers went down to 10 when Leatherbarrow was sent off with just over 10 minutes left to play U18s are away to Leeds tomorrow at midday U21s are at home to Leyton Orient on Wednesday

Indeed. Ironic that the last two ‘senior’ renewals they have done (with more than a few months left on their existing deal) has been for two Rovers fans!

Eustace's Rams couldn't beat an egg last year until they faced Valerian's plodders. It was his first win there. What are the chances of a repeat? 😄