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You don't fake Dolan's abilities. You coach him to produce his best consistently. Playing with and against much better players in La Liga is getting far more out of him than we did at Rovers.

Random number generator needed to forecast which Rovers show up. We have beaten better than Wrexham and lost home to Norwich and Sheffield United. Don't have the same foreboding as I had pre-QPR and at least the fans will be solidly behind the lads and not as silent as Ewood.

Agreed, I'd rather spend that money on hiring reasonable serving staff for the concourse who aren't all kids and can serve at a decent pace.

Probably closer to 14000 given we 20000 season ticket holders when they took over. There's a couple thousand casual fans that will have been driven away also. The fact that 8000 still tur up week in week out after all that's happened shows what fantastic support this club really does have.

I find myself in Brentford/Chiswick this weekend for pub crawl, just realised they are playing the Dingles. "Keith Andrews red and white army" "Chim chimeney chimeney..."

I wish we still had him.

Not sure if it counts as I don't think he had a pro contract at Rovers, let alone an appearance for the firsts, but Flavien Boyomo is racking up appearances in La Liga. He turned down a pro contract here, moved to Albacete and got a move to Valladolid and now at Osasuna. Villa and Fulham are rumoured in the online mill to be monitoring him. Though, Osasuna are struggling, so not sure how he's doing individually. Back on Tyrhys Dolan, he'll be in Turkey, Cyprus or the UK in a season, I would think, but good luck to him.

We’ve probably lost 12,000 fans in the Venkies era. No matter what we do 6,000 of them at least will never set foot in Ewood again unless it’s a prime event

At least two people have failed to vote for Dalglish and Shearer. Words fail me 🙃

Jalil Saadi was given a one-year extension and Jordan Eastham, when neither had any future at the club. There's many others - Harrison Wood, the forward who is on the books now. I think it is about numbers and maybe, in some cases, about maintaining good relationships with agents, perhaps.

We' re now only a point ahead of Oxford albeit with 2 games in hand. Temporarily.

Well that win for Oxford was not a good result for us, but it gives a glimmer of hope that maybe we will be able to get at Ipswich again.

A point closer to the trap door following Oxford’s 2-1 win over Ipswich.

The loyal supporters would return to Ewood, if we were 10pts clear.😄

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That was my first match in the Blackburn End - couldn't believe the difference in atmosphere from the JW and Walkersteel.

Point being, you predict pretty much every game as a win because you think thats what a fan has to do. If even you don't fancy us for a win then we really must be in trouble. It really is a poor team when its put down like that.

Good way to lose a friend!

The cashing in of all assets worth something, the future wage cap seemingly being administered, the all out effort to increase value by bringing in cheap punts all across the squad as well as own youth, the effort at being more self sufficient. All that would normally point to a club gearing itself up to be more attractive to go on sale. Not here though i don't think, it's more of an effort to allow these lot to hang on to it through managed decline whilst they have financial issues. On the up side we have what various other clubs purchased by big money didn't have. Own stadium that doesn't ever need expanding, proven academy system, a 15-20k average attendance potential in this league. We don't have big money generating ability obviously but neither did a lot of others and it isn't something every buyer is looking for. We have everything else even before you start on the history.

Of course it isn’t like for like, it’s just an example of how English football is the place to be, and how potential owners are falling over themselves to get involved.

6 home wins in 2025. Dire.

Wrexham was bought for around £2m and wasn't £200m in debt when they took over though. Any potential buyer of this club won't give a toss about our history or being founder members of the league, they want to know about revenues, fan base etc, and that's where we have a problem unfortunately. That's not to say there may be people out there willing to invest in the club 🤞. We can only hope We have in my opinion hope for something similar to what Ellis Short did when selling Sunderland and wipe off the debt in order to avoid going into administration. An article from that time...... Since taking over from the Drumaville consortium in 2008, Short has already written off more than £100m by capitalising a large chunk of the money that was initially loaned during the early years of his reign. Throw in the money that was paid to actually buy the club in the first place, and there is every chance that his total losses during his spell as Sunderland chairman will exceed £250m. That is quite some sum. His desire to hand over a club that is debt-free is commendable, although as previous failed takeover discussions prove, it was probably the only way for him to devise an exit strategy that did not involve placing Sunderland into the hands of the administrators. Short could have opted for administration, thereby reducing his own liabilities and negating the need to personally pay off the banks, but that would have crippled Sunderland for years and possibly decades to come. By avoiding that course of action, the outgoing owner has lived up to his pledge to be a sympathetic custodian of an institution he professes to love. He deserves credit for the course of action he has taken, although any praise for the manner of his withdrawal has to be tempered by an acknowledgement of why Sunderland are in this almighty mess in the first place. A decade of decline has occurred on Short’s watch.

Perhaps tangentially but on tinpot clubs v ‘pedigree’ clubs. I’m sure many on here have played sport of all kinds at school/local league level. And I’ve seen (from both sides) when a ‘pedigree’ club plays ‘newcomer’/’tinpot’ outfilt. So in cricket, the pedigree club playing against a ‘tinpot club’ away laughs at the crap pitch, the crap pads, the crap tea, the crap scoreboard (if there is one), the crap pavilion (no showers etc). But then the ‘tinpot’ team shows great togetherness on the pitch and roundly defeats the complacency of the ‘pedigree’ club. Or another metaphor springs to mind (sorry, pinot). Rovers are like all those poor post 1st World War 1 officers who can’t get a job but go round with a certain front retaining that aristocratic air but any discerning viewer can see the threadbare uniform, the whiff of decline and lack of capital. Good luck tomorrow lads -I'll be watching. 😉

Now imagine that Neymar transfer happened next summer!

I was in the Blackburn End for that game. The noise of the ball going in off the bar was insane.