The non-reversed halves in those highlights trigger me something fierce. It's just not a Rovers kit.

Do you think he has a permanent ban from the ground? even when he is part of the visiting team? 😉

Notice how it doesn't say that he's welcome back at Ewood any time like "Bucko" is.

Travis is ‘welcome back at Ewood any time’ then?

Top class message from Trav. Wish him all the best.

Derby fixtures going to be fun.

Interesting that we made a point of adding this in the statement 😆 He now links up with his former Rovers team-mates Danny Batth, Andi Weimann, Owen Beck, Dion Sanderson and fellow Rovers Academy graduate Ryan Nyambe at Derby County, managed by ex-Rovers head coach John Eustace.

All the best Lewis. 100% given, shithousery generally entertaining.

That's a nice message from Trav

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Makes me feel a bit ill seeing him in that shirt. All the best to him, but not Derby. He’s going to have the game of his life back at Ewood for the 150th celebration game isn’t he. Sad to see him go, great player who always put 100% in for the badge. Let’s hope Barajdi is just as good if not better.

That Lorient striker looks like he's off to Qarabag. Can't say I'm overly bothered. No fee for Travis, the usual undisclosed

Any fee mentioned? Best of luck to him. Great servant.

The never ending journey ........whilst managers/head coaches, agents and Senior Executives pocket a small fortune.

A bit more to add I was told that he hadn't returned to Brockhall in June for pre-season training. I have no reason to question that information given he hasn't been seen on any of the videos/photos from pre-season training. Ismael confirmed after the Accy Stanley friendly that he was 'in the process of leaving' despite not being around since May Valerien Ismael on the future of Blackburn Rovers coach | Lancashire Telegraph The clear suggestion here is that he was being removed because Ismael had decided he didn't want him and that he wanted his own coaching staff. A pretty reasonable thing to want/expect for a new manager (shame Mowbray, JDT and Eustace didn't appear to get such luxuries) but despite that nobody else has been brought in, with Dean Whitehead the only coach brought in since Eustace's gang left, and Damien Johnson/Ben Benson seemingly remain cornerstones of the operation, now onto their 4th manager in just over 3 years. Even if correct I find it odd that the club can't just confirm his departure. It certainly isn't normal for a 2-3 month process of removing a coach surplus to requirements.

Trav to Derby confirmed (by Derby)

It is lunacy on the face of it BUT we are where we are and if it were to take a couple of seasons to succeed and come to fruition then that wouldn't be unreasonable nor would it be for this year to be one of consolidation and improvement. (I dont think that will happen for the avoidance of any doubt, I think the whole thing is completely bonkers and entirely cost driven)

🙂 You know how this one goes - transition, lots of changes to bed in, building for the future.....

That story has now been removed as Nixon says there's a further update which he hasn't posted yet. Could be he's going to Qarabag who look like they are going to qualify for Champions League

How do you know this? Another non-judgement that is a judgement. You should be in PR 🙂

But that is mostly, or even entirely, of the club's own choosing, due to well discussed issues with contracts and budgets. So if it is a path we have chosen, why should people get credit or labels of it being a success to finish lower than last season off the back of it?

Equivocation is a wonderful thing. Who will put it out though -so far the club has used up all the oxygen.

I think 7th to 10th would be a relative success given all the upheaval if you could see definite signs that we were on an upwards trajectory and were improving all the time. But no, of course we shouldn't have ripped everything up and started again, we should have kept Eustace happy and built upon and made a few tweaks to what so nearly worked last season. And also once Eustace had gone, VI was completely the wrong appointment for the remainder of last season. As I said at the time they only needed someone to come in temporarily and keep the hand on the rudder and tell the players how great they were, not someone who wanted to go in a completely different direction. If we'd made the play offs but not gone up then maybe that was a better time for the completely new approach in the close season. Still wouldn't have been my choice but we're stuck with it for better or worse.

No, because finishing out of the play-offs in the second division, is not good enough for Blackburn Rovers.