We are Blackburn Rovers, not a big city club, of course 13,000 is a big chunk of the fanbase. The fact the wider fansbase has no issue filling the ground for games like Burnley either shows there isn’t a vast number of folk ‘boycotting’ or morally against Venky’s.

Well this topic is going well

For fucks sake not this again. Totally embarrassing that a grown adult does not understand the most basic concept of luck. Jesus Christ.

Both. Thick as pig shit and grifters.

So you're following Bayern München that are managed by the ex dingle? Personally I have no interest in this Mickey Mouse sham competition.

You're better than that jim.

I don't have a problem with him at all. When it mattered, he gave his all and kept us up virtually single handedly. Who in their right mind would give up what might have been their only chance of Premiership football in favour of staying at this shitshow? If I did have a gripe with him it would be that after one season here I thought he was rubbish. In season 2 he proved he was a great player. If he'd performed anything like that in season 1 we'd have definitely made the play offs and could quite easily have been promoted.

Why should that have ruined him? Did a bit of a stupid thing and was harshly punished but no big deal really. Trav was sent off at Portsmouth early on his career - he seems to have recovered ok. Unfortunately Buckley hasn't kicked on after a promising start and probably best for all that he moves on. If he drops down a division or two he could well be a 'big fish' and that might help him have a better career.

Oh and we do have O'Riordan centre half only 21...

Igor Tyjon and Kirsti Montgomery along with Leo Duru should be more in to the first team coming season.

No.

With young Carter back injury free and Wharton also back for the new season...can't see us keeping Batth for more than a one year contract. We need pace in the backline and even Bath did a great job pace is still lacking.

If we end up with Argentina, no. If we end up with Croatia, yes, as it is out of England's control, and you would expect Argentina to beat them normally. (Although maybe not as we couldn't beat them either in 2018) Anyway, when did we reach the World Cup Final?

Nothing wrong with ambition (our club badly needs some) but the way Szmodics went about it to engineer a move was wrong. And his recent comments have made it worse. As mentioned above, I hope one of our players runs their studs down the back of his legs when he comes to Ewood.

Gestede

A comparison I made when he left.

There was a lot of fawning and emotionally-wrought silliness when he left from people who should know better. I kept hearing what a great guy he was. He also used to go out of his way to portray himself as a good human being, which I always find a bit suspect! Mowbray was very similar in that regard. Ultimately, Szmodics was all about Szmodics. He got a great career move to Rovers, and an even better one to Ipswich and the Prem - just another player who did well out of Rovers, but who only gave a shit about himself (like they all do). I found his interviews at the end of his last season with us very revealing. To paraphrase- he kept us up and Rovers fans shouldn’t begrudge him a move. A twatty thing to say and no better than Gestede trying to force a move. The fact he also refused to play, albeit in a pre-season, doesn’t surprise me. I hope Carter launches him into the advertising hoardings when he returns!

Speedie, Bellamy, who else are we missing?

So every fixture of the world Cup finals is either lucky or unlucky to at least one other team?

From England's perspective, yes, as they have no control over it.

It's why I keep renewing, when they do go there'll be 50000 banging the doors down and I don't want to miss out on a seat.

England are in the World Cup final and play either Argentina or Croatia in the final. Is it luck which determines who they play ?

It'll be him trying to sell another Academy graduate.

I play football with two Rovers fans who both handed back their season tickets years ago due to the Venkys (one goes away occasionally). I'm friends with another Rovers supporting couple who also no longer go due to the lack of interest from the owners. Anecdotal, yes, but that's five Rovers fans right there. As we've repeatedly seen against Burnley / any cheap ticket offer games, the fan base is still there. 13k does not represent a sizeable portion of our fan base, just the absolute worn-to-the-nub hardcore.

Figured I'd start a topic for this seeing as it starts tonight. Anyone else planning on watching this? I reckon it's gonna be a really good tournament, I think teams are going to take it seriously. I feel no affinity towards City or Chelsea so I've decided to follow Bayern for the tournament seeing as our England captain is leading the line. Looking forward to seeing Messi tonight on the world stage again.