Why Leonard? Clauses that will raise his wages if he ever plays or just not fancied by the new set up?

So if he’d sent Henriksson off in the first 15 minutes you have been happy and we would have got a point. He would have got booked for 2 of those 3 fouls in the second half. And Travis is all over Price for their goal.

If the referee had made the right decisions, we would have come away with at least a point.

If Baradji signs, what about this supposed need for him to go under the knife according to Alan Nixon...? Then Travis' replacement is immediately unavailable. Comical scenario really if that all happens. Miyoshi would be a good signing...but then a paper bag blowing in the wind would be more effective than Hedges.

Amidst talk about everything else, owners, board, signings, sales and contracts. The one variable that seems to have just been assumed as ok is Ismael himself. The way he speaks seems to have charmed many. His previous spells at this level were failure and although we ended last season well, his first 7 or 8 games were obviously a disaster. A lot of neutrals seem to cite him as the main reason why they think we will struggle. He has a hard job, and I am not sure either way yet. But I am certainly not convinced. Yet.

It's about the players that can provide and support as well. None of the starting 3 forward minded players behind him looked anywhere near capable today.

The Baggies defender catches Ohashi in a reverse scissors

Awful day of football from our end- some of these new signings look atrocious for this level(sorry chaps !) least the sun was shining and it’s not a long drive home but that wasn’t a great start. I just saw VIs comments about Trav- he will be off for sure- he may not have asked to not play but he isn’t going to be convinced by some of these new lads who are so inexperienced at this level onwards and upwards I hope

If that is it, we are in big trouble.

Rovers tik-tokker jollie oli and Jake Berry have surely never been seen together in the same room..

He might just be putting the squeeze on Rudy…

Ismael gave little away as to whether Rovers were any closer to adding the right winger they clearly need and desire. He was quizzed on Koji Miyoshi but didn't offer much. "We still have three weeks, so I can't tell you anything at the minute," he said. "We're working hard behind the scenes. I think it's obvious now which position we need. "As I say, you have your target guy. Either you stay patient until you can get him, or you try to move on to the next one. But at some point, when we think he's the right player for us, we have to do everything." "There are a lot of players that I like," he said with a smile on Miyoshi. Valerien Ismael drops hint over Blackburn Rovers transfer | Lancashire Telegraph

“What did you make of today boss?” IMG_4933.mov

Was a half chance at best. Also was looking for the penalty and went down unnaturally. Do you stand by your suggestion that we was correct to keep Hedges? What does he offer that no one else sees? And do you stand by your justification of us only signing one more attacking player? Also, would sum us up to replace Travis with someone who would be out for months through injury.

Do we need a striker, Chaddy? You’re 0 for 1 on the predictions front as well. Plenty of time, BUT, might be time to evaluate the ‘never bet against Rovers’ approach.

Some people have Yuki down to get 15 this season. Won't be anywhere near that if he's leading the line.

No point taking Neil Yardley too seriously, he’s in-house media. Asking him to critically analyse a match or ask probing questions is akin to asking Russian State Media to pull up Putin on invading Ukraine.

Miyoshi and Baradji it is then Ohashi first half and that is it

Really frustrated with today's performance. Their goal was soft and Travis not marking his man and allowing Price to score. I expected better from him. Deffo pen not given when it was clear Penalty and disappointed for it not to be given. The last 15 minutes we looked better. Ohashi had our best chance. Second Half, we huff and puff but never produced one clear cut chance which isn't good enough, few half chances but nowhere good enough. Toth made a couple of good saves but had 2 dodgy moments. On the debutants today, Alebiosu looked ok on his debut, McLoughin did well at centre back, De Neve one or two moment but nothing to note, got a nasty cut to his face first half, Hendriksson look lost at times and at times I think Mokenna was playing with his tackling Miller looks decent enough but short of fitness. Tavares didn't have enough time to make an impact. disappointed result but 45 games to go and we need to improve now.

"Not that dangerous in the last third. Same situation as when I came in." Why hasn't he/Gestede addressed it then? Already lamenting not getting players in early enough. He knows we are well short up top. Clearly we only have the money to buy 1 attacking player... unless there are outgoings. It won't take long for the blame game to start if we don't improve that front line.

Just to clarify, I was highlighting his stupidity rather than agreeing 😉

He does realise you need to shoot if you hope to draw a game when you’re 1-0 down, let alone win it. Right?

Would have to create a reasonable chance at goal surely?

The interviewer said we should possibly have come away with at least a point.

This 'transitional period' nonsense is just another dressing up of 'the journey' or the 'three/five year plan'. Never any ambitions for now, just in the distant future. The only thing we're transitioning into is a lower table Championship team - optimistically - or more realistically a League 1 team. There is absolutely zero evidence to suggest a bunch of players brought in from average to poor teams in leagues incomparable to the Championship are going to transition us into something better. At least when Mowbray and JDT were talking about it, their signings suggested the possibility was there even if reality always came along to bite us on the arse in the end. Eustace was the only manager in recent times who wanted to plan for the now, and his ambitions were swiftly wrecked by those above him. Not only that, but his desire to bring in players he believed could push us forward now as opposed to some magical time in the future was derided as "bringing in Eustace's mates" or "lacking resale value", as if we're a club who doesn't consistently allow valuable players to either leave for nothing or well below their true value. Venky's had a somewhat canny operator in Waggott who was willing and able to keep us bobbing along in the Championship. Zero ambition beyond that, but it was a target he could meet. I don't think the Pasha/Gestede combo have that same ability, and unless they get an experienced CEO in very quickly we could be looking at 2016/17 all over again.