Have you watched full games? Or just YouTube highlights or stats on paper?

JRC ain't a right back either

So you're now caveating your original statement with reference to our current owners as to the reason why '...we will never fill Ewood again'. And that with better owners we could indeed fill the stadium. Do you work for Starmer?

Support is a very loose term.

Gordon Cowan’s nickname is Sid.

From memory we were looking at a RB for cover/competition with Brittain. Should we land one, I think JRC is gone.

I didn’t disagree until you mentioned FFP. We have plenty of room with FFP. We just have billionaire owners that won’t spend. However of course we need to sell assets and re-invest the money, but the model will only work if you spend a significant portion of what you bring in on the right blend of players. You can’t fully rely on kids and the unproven. You mention Baath, but that was quality experience. That has to be part of the plan. You mention Brittain but he was a 24 year old with proven League experience who cost over a million. No problem with that. If you blend those sort of players with kids and cheap prospects then the model has a chance. You are relying on holding your players to contract and selling for peak market value, and also recruiting the correct players in the categories above. That’s where you need the right DOF and scouting team. We can get anyone tied to a contract atm, and the recruiting in January was woeful for the position we were in.

New merch Classic Blue? A sign of the anniversary shirt perhaps

Buckley on way out? Garrett too assuming. jrc needed as right back cover.. Someone who can carry ball/be more creative in cm is very needed in certain games for us, trav and tronstad can be a bit of a negative pairing. Whether this guy can do it well enough is to be seen.

Think @K-Hodpost it. I know a couple of fans who support both. Go to home games when they can.

Rovers were a very different under Jack Walker and the Walker Trust under John Williams compare to now. Fans have walked away cos of Venkys or their decision. The owners set the direction of the club. If you had a new owner with proper coherent plan, Good CEO, understanding the local area and being part of the community, meeting fans, etc.. If we Season Ticket prices at £250 or even £200 under this ownership do I think we sold many more? Possibly but no guarantee, under a new owner, I reckon we would.

You are the one who will use this signing as 'evidence' of us investing and spending on the squad and relying on the online reported fee for this. It's blatantly obvious that we aren't spending £2 million or anywhere near the that on this guy yet they've already succeeded in convincing some that we are throwing money around.

Gone supporting Stanley 😂

It was all a bit strange really. From 40 overs in the ball was swinging around, yet as you say they weren’t beating the bat. India batted superbly. I’m not sure England would find it so easy under those conditions. Our best chance is for rain, a draw and move on.

It's another unknown player to the fans but Rovers would have done their homework on him, video analysis, data analysis on him. Well be interesting to see what type of player he is, etc,.etc from pre season and Championship games

I'll repeat what YOU said...nothing to do with the owners. apart from the odd game we will never fill Ewood again At face value, that comes across as a pretty small minded comment to make. I wonder when Jack designed the stadium whether he thought we'd never fill 30k home fans.

Gestede and Owen both there meeting him at the training ground

Regarding the Trav/Tron situation, could this be the Venky/Gestede logic (I type that word whilst smiling). They have 12 months of contract left: - We have a history of letting contracts run down - Gestede promised an exciting transfer window - Val seems to have self convinced that a promotion push is on this year Decision: - keep Trav/Tron - add speedy options (DDN) to the wings and extra strength to the midfield (Sid) [hopefully Vicious] - HOPE for promotion - decide to say to Trav/Tron at that time "here's a cheap contract, you either want to play in the Prem or you don't. Sign it." - in the Prem they'd likely be squad players anyway as presumably (yes I know it's the Venkys) we'll buy higher quality in. If that's their logic then they'll need a striker signing and another (or resigned) CB. I'm leaving Brittan out of the above as I think he'll stay because of Val, plus he likes it here. If we don't get promoted then Trav/Tron will be deemed the problem and they can go. We keep the 2 new lads and buy afresh and go again. We're in Venky World so who the heck knows but there is at least SOME logic in it. If renewed contracts aren't offered and we buy/loan a strong player for the other slots then plan completed. That's what I think will happen, no sale, no new improved contracts. Personally I think that's as sensible and likely as the Underpants Gnomes strategy presented on the chalkboard as: 1. Collect underpants 2. ??? 3. Profit I can see Gestede's office wall now.

If you now ‘support’ another EFL club you were never a proper Rovers fan in the first place.

I would agree with different owners its good possibility but until the current owners it won't. People have walk away for good, found other things to do, some gone supporting Stanley, etc Small minded mentality? 😂😂😂 We have talked about the current ownership to death and we all know the issues. Under new owners who are here, understand the local area and fan base, etc. Most likely very different but until the current owners sell We will never get a full Ewood Park again regular only in certain games.

Done a fair amount of research on him, not a tackler, not got too much strength on the ball, much more an attacking player. Assume he sat deeper in Portugal due to tempo of the game. He's 23 and played next to no minutes in his career

Its hard to know much about the quality player either way so I am not sure what you are expecting people to say. He has very little senior experience to go off and that came in Portugal. And if there is an interview with any journalists over there, you will dismiss it as you "arent interested." Have you seen the player before? Seems like Leicester had him in mind as a more attacking midfielder and in Portugal he seems to have played deeper.

Nzonzi is the opposite to this bloke? What's the reason for the comparison?

More people are obsess about the fee actually is then the quality of the player. Ismael wants pace, ability to get box to box quickly and younger players can do this. Ismael spoke about profiling the right players and what they bring. Nzonzi was a great find by Rovers and his team got relegated from Ligue 2 or Samba from Hertha Berlin B team. We tried it with Telalovic but it didn't work out but pleased he is doing so well over there.

Ismael towards end of the season, stop picking Buckley and JRC even for the bench in favour of Forshaw, so from that point onwards and from the style of play Ismael wants to play that both probably/most likely not part of his plans. He wants his centre midfielders to go box to box and quickly which doesn't suit of them. Also both need to play regular first team football now and I don't see that here sadly. Fan of both.