Didn't someone from WATR say that Venky's quite literally told them they don't need or want to hear what the fans think?

The context was a club that had failed to make the final step in 1981 on goal difference and one that had faded away from promotion positions to 5th more than once afterwards, including the previous season's huge ,final stage collapse from automatic promotion position with Archibald, Ardiles et al. This was an awful, awful weekend. The weekend of Tiananmen Square massacre too. Rovers arrived with a 3-1 advantage from the first leg with the frustration of Howard Gayle's missed penalty. The Rovers fans were crammed in a tiny corner. It felt much more restricted than my previous visits to Selhurst. The Palace crowd were already wound up and their stadium managers were clever at placing speakers to blast out the way contingent, so we could hardly hear ourselves speak in the 20 minutes before kick off. The team bloody froze. Nothing went right from the first kick of the ball....and yet, we still could have done it. We only needed to score once. Courtney allowed Wright and Bright to get away with fouling over physicality from the start...Think of it, as a cross between Old Trafford and Escape to Victory! Then, the penalty that never was -in the 2nd half at 0-0. None of us knew why it had been given. Even Ian Wright agreed, albeit 25 years later. From memory, the Palace attack was actually finished and the ball was moving out of our area at the time. Finally, the last few minutes were a joke when Courtney allowed play to continue while hundreds of Palace fans, spilled onto the side of the pitch along the touchline.. The final whistle and the Dave Clark fcking Five...

When do we find out the retained list?

Isn't she Frank Fielding's mum?

Doesn't that last part justify my argument here?

Especially given their record of reasonably serviceable keepers prior to Rays, with Jake Keane and Frankie Fielding.

Actually some more...the O'Brien debacle. The Maguire debacle. The Brierley debacle. The every January transfer window debacle, even when poised for promotion. I can't imagine them not being well ahead in anybody's list no matter how they feel about this.

That's the strangest thing that's been said in here yet. There are absolutely loads. The dwindling fanbase. The fact we can protest extensively but know that nothing will likely be done. The fact managers don't get sacked here due to fan pressure like they would everywhere else. The embarrassingly long stay in this league. The total lack of ambition from the club. The lack of communication from our own owners. The fans at each others throats, with one half infected with some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome about our blatantly poisonous owners. The inability to get anybody to renew their contract for more than a snickers as a pay rise. The decaying state of Ewood. The charlatans we've let have a big say in running us. The fact Waggott is still here. Just off the top of my head. The fact some fans are still following the exploits of a local lad and fan who we built is really neither here nor there.

They aren't going to pay a younger less experienced person the same as an expert who has been doing it for 30 years it stands to reason. All depends who they recruit for that role but i'm saying they seem to run the backroom staff similar to how they run the team and if there is a chance of saving a few quid they will do.

Hi just w9ndered if anyone knew what the walk was coming from feniscowles down livesey branch road toward Ewood predominantly women in r0vers shirts has flags etc Just wonderes

You're allowed to view them, obviously. I'm just pointing out it's weird and pointless to do so if you're not interested, just to come and bitch about people who are.

Can't believe we never seem to have a capable looking keeper coming through the ranks the academy certainly isn't doing its job with this position. Can't live off Raya forever and even Pears cost about half million but modern young keepers are largely shite anyway at actual goal keeping. Can dribble around their box though and are 6'4" !

How is it tin pot to be celebrating a local lad whose career trajectory is looking like he will go down as one of the great English players? There have been other players who have left us that are doing equally well. David Raya for example. There isn’t the same interest because he isn’t a Blackburner, he doesn’t still come down and watch the Rovers I suppose if you don’t like it, you don’t have to read the thread at all. Nothing tragic about keeping an eye on one of our own

Sell Brittain for £3 or £4 million and replace him with a kid from Villa's academy sounds about right for Venky owned Rovers

Another roll of the dice on a lad that hasn't played a minute of Men's football. Be still my beating heart.

or maybe they see a young head coach who they see something in. expect Will Still to get the job there at Southampton

Supposedly,i think Pickering was having one of his off nights.

I've never seen him play so can't comment on ability but is there anything that stand out about him as keeper or just the run of mill keeper? Would you pick Michalski over him and would Michalski be the 3rd choice keeper next season for you? was Pickering not the left back with Dolan on the left wing? Stoke City - Blackburn Rovers, Mar 10, 2023 - Championship - Match sheet | Transfermarkt

Filly signed up to the tinpot, cringe club. As someone else said, my love of football goes beyond watching Rovers, and that Wharton will almost certainly be playing at the very top will only enhance my enjoyment of watching it. Sorry.

great by Adam Wharton and that's how grounded he actually is as a person

I’m fully invested in following AW’s career. He seems a very unassuming, likeable lad who also happens to be a very very good footballer. Most importantly, he’s also a Rovers fan. Cant wait to see how he gets on. Apologies if that makes me a bit ‘cringe’.

I remember in that game Tugay controlling a ball then doing a full 360 with it never losing control for a split second

After he was removed/signed by Palace, he turned up one Saturday at an Event in Wilpshire/Salesbury that my Grandsons went to. My daughter took a picture of Adam with them in their Rovers tops. She sent copies of the photos to the Senior Training Centre for Scott to get Adam to sign. I got a phone call the NEXT day to say they were signed and waiting for collection. JW Upper season ticket holders will confirm how many times Adam was at a Rovers game in the last 15 months. The Wilpshire Pirlo is one of our own.....in a long line stretching past David Dunn, Bryan Douglas all the way thru Bob Crompton to the Club Founders. In our low key(!)150th Year we should be celebrating them all much more.

Don't let them Toffees tell you Goodison was the first purpose built football ground. Our Leamington Street ground was the daddy of them all. When Rovers did win a raffle