Looks like the weather might save us from a drawn series!

Their stubbornness knows no bounds, the faultless business empire that Daddy left them which funds their life starting to crumble would be our best hope. Long may it continue.

Good that Harry's back but will have to take his word for it from that animated postage stamp.

Remember the portion of the publicly quoted company they still own is a tiny fraction of the family wealth.

I am assuming that this is from the U21 friendly v Barnsley yesterday Apparently Pears & Buckley played, Leonard scored 2 and got an assist, & Rovers won 3-0

Great news!!

That game at Old Trafford! Grrrrrr!

Totally missing the point there eh?

So still no comment from Rovers on whether this will be broadcast live, either by themselves, Nijmegen or a separate broadcaster. Despite pleading with fans not to travel to Holland or try to gain access to the game and offering the possibility of a live broadcast as a sensible alternative, all we got 10 days ago was "we will endeavour" to provide a live stream. I'll be surprised if they do. I also find it immensely disappointing that for our final pre season fixture ahead of our anniversary season Rovers are off abroad arranging fixtures that permit home fans but exclude Rovers fans. Shows how little they think of Rovers fans despite all the posturing on social media.

Come on Chaddy - at least 6 of the 8 I mentioned were reported in the LT !!! Also stated Rovers were apart on valuations - no surprise there. Again, you are trying to defend the indefensible - get your head out of the sand lad!

Sorry, fans should just accept the disdain showed to them without question. My mistake.

DeNeve is quoted as saying his salary has quadrupled, I would imagine Alebiosu will have had a similar uptake The Belgian explained why he wasn’t able to turn down a move to the Championship club.“Was I able to double my salary? In my case it went up four times, so it was an offer I couldn’t refuse on all fronts,” he added. There is a minimum rate that foreign players moving to Championship clubs expect, its currently somewhere between £5K & £8K per week, and rising year on year.. This is still less than half of what more established players would demand

A cricket analogy about batters surviving at the crease I assume . Get some sleep fella!

It might not, either it does or its some bullshit line that's been thrown Alan Nixons way because we don't want to shell out the required fee. Think about it, it's the constant blame shifting tactic used by this regime, if you're not familiar with it then not sure where you've been since the twats turned up.

They certainly wouldn't have won anything in the 2000s of they hadn't.

Was looking at what you'd written there, and trying to work out if it was some kind of acronym. But nope. I don't think it is. Then I was thinking, is it a riddle, or some kind of cryptic clue to a deeper underlying meaning? But then I thought, naahh, it's 4.12 am in Blackburn, and approaching bedtime in Allentown, so BBD has probably just been on the pop and wrote something random to see who is awake this side of the pond. I do hope you wear the Blue and White colours with pride around those East side US heathens! I used to do so, 30 years ago, when I was working for AT&T. Keep the faith. VENKYS OUT!

Yup. The once mighty Blackburn Rovers, Mighty Blackburn Rovers, Mighty Blackburn Rovers, Mighty Blackburn Rovers, Mighty Blackburn Rovers.....

400 up. Partnership withstanding rumors and speculation to build up a commanding position.

If Manure weren't bribing the refs we would have won the league in 93-94 too.

We are quite tiny aren't we. Any club that refures to bolster their promotion chances when sitting in a great position surely is small time with small time thinking

Don't let these silly facts get in the way.

Surely if we made up an injury the player would have some form of come back towards us, is this what you are hinting at? A new stint since we wore out the fax machine excuse.

Classic that was. How long was he out for us only to play for spurs 1st game after they signed him. Selling Samba after our windows closed. Kean.

I am with you on that Waggy. Been saying that for a while. Let's see if Ismael does well then leaves. These chicken and football team killers need to be gone. My thoughts are they will be ok with us holding our own in the 3rd division.

Well, I took some time and made a few calculations on this. All figures below are fetched from Transfermarkt and Capology. Dolan's wage is unknown but I assumed it was around 3 K / week as reported by others on this forum. Other assumption(s) is that all figures fetched from these sources are somewhat accurate and that we covered 100 % of the wages for all five loans we had last season: Outgoings at the start of season: Weimann 17 500 / week Batth 10 000 / week JRC 8 500 / week Dolan 3 000 / week (?) Dennis 28 000 / week Woodrow 20 000 / week Sigurdsson 15 000 / week Sanderson 10 000 / week ACD 7 000 / week Beck 3 500 / week McFadzean 3 500 / week Gilsenan 1 500 / week Markanday 2 000 / week Total: £129 500 / week 129 500 x 52 = £6 734 000 per year to be spent on salaries and transfer fees I'm discounting the transfer fee received for JRC (£750 000) since 0 % of it is going into transfer budget as per Gestede's previous comment. Ingoings so far: Tavares - reported fee: £1,72 million (2 million euros), alleged salary: £10 000 / week (based on his previous salary at Moreirense) De Neve - reported fee: £650 000 (750 000 euros), alleged salary: £5 000 / week (based on his previous salary at Kortrijk) Alebiosu- reported fee: £500 000 (576 000 euros), alleged salary: £2 500 / week (based on his previous salary at Kortrijk) McLoughlin - reported fee: £500 000 (575 000 euros), alleged salary: £10 000 / week (based on his previous salary at Hull) Total: Transfer fees: £3 370 000 Salaries (per year, assuming all four signings have the same salary as last season): 27 500 x 52 = £1 430 000 £3 370 000 (fees) + £1 430 000 (salaries) = £4 800 000 Outgoings - Ingoings = £1 934 000 left to be spent on fees and salaries. This amount is equivalent to signing a player on a free for roughly £37 000 per week OR paying £1.5 million in transfer fee and offer a salary of roughly £8 300 per week (Baradji anyone?). So, not much left in the coffers i guess? EDIT: one caveat to all this could be, of course, that we're paying the transfer fees in instalments. But I don't think the owners would like taking on more debt for relatively 'insignificant' transfers (or maybe they are 'significant' just like with Kargbo?).