Harry Pickering

[K-Hod]

They’re far more interested in trimming the wage budget so they look good to Venky’s, than a higher league position.

The enemy of Rovers, those tossers.

[KentExile]

24 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

Is our new arbitrary wage cap League 1 or League 2 level do we think? Might give an indicator where Suhail wants us to reach...

If it is the £10K/week mark, then its well above top end of League 1 level, which isn't much more than half of that (not including teams like Birmingham last season etc), however it is on the same sort of level as Huddersfield, Rotherham and Plymouth when they were last in the Championship - note they all went down with that level of wage budget

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Edited Tuesday at 17:38 by KentExile

[Rogerb]

19 minutes ago, KentExile said:

If it is the £10K/week mark, then its well above top end of League 1 level, which isn't much more than half of that (not including teams like Birmingham last season etc), however it is on the same sort of level as Huddersfield, Rotherham and Plymouth when they were last in the Championship - note they all went down with that level of wage budget

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Wasn't £10K/per week the ceiling when we were under embargo in Gary Bowyer's time around ten years ago. What you could get for that ten years ago vastly exceeds what you can get now.

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, KentExile said:

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Would have to go some to compensate for the loss of the Championship TV deal, plus substantial ticket money, plus loss of sponsorship etc.

[Rogerb]

46 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Well if that's a strategy keeping him out of the team, it's inordinately stupid even by our standards. Going to be a lot harder to sell someone who is on a good wage if they can't make it into our very average team during a defensive crisis.

Who do we think is going to pick up these high wages for us? We might shift him this way but it will be for a minimal fee and with us covering a chunk of his wages.

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

[bluebruce]

54 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

Maybe, it would be another strange one though as usually a new contract would reset appearances essentially...ie it would be when you make 150 appearances after signing the contract.

[47er]

Whatever the reason its poor do. Pickering should have played last  Saturday and is clearly being frozen out.

Probably because we can get a decent fee with which we can buy 2 or 3 players with it from Luxemburg and St Helena.

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, Rogerb said:

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

He's incredibly slow and probably about 5'8" - so he doesn't have a position in our new formation. 

[47er]

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's incredibly slow and probably about 5'8" - so he doesn't have a position in our new formation. 

That new formation didn't do much on Saturday. Is he better than any of them is the question.

[Ghost7]

Never rated him.

[47er]

13 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

Never rated him.

Btr are there players who played on Saturday who you'd rate worse?

[Upside Down]

8 hours ago, roverblue said:

The club is run by idiots, even more so if they are picking Hedges as a left centre back over Pickering due to wanting to get him sold.

The club is run by agents.

Has been since November 2010.

[G Somerset Rover]

There's typically never any smoke without fire under Venky's rein, so it adds up that he barely kicks a ball for us now despite being in favour under much better managers. He may not be the best LB in the league but he's dependable. And who would you prefer at LCB, Pickering or Ryan Hedges?! Yet again, penny pinching over what is best for Blackburn Rovers football club.

Edited yesterday at 09:55 by G Somerset Rover

[Crimpshrine]

The sudden lack of games for Ribeiro is odd too. Did we sign him on a free with the intention of selling at a profit in January ?

Edited yesterday at 11:22 by Crimpshrine

[RevidgeBlue]

12 hours ago, Ghost7 said:

Never rated him.

I don't either but as a stand in centre back he is a much better than option than Hedges.

I wouldnt have any objection to selling him in Jan but in the meantime we're cutting off our nose to spite our face by not playing him there.

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, Crimpshrine said:

The sudden lack of games for Ribeiro is odd too. Did we sign him on a free with the intention of selling at a profit in January ?

Even if we did, again, you don't attract bidders on the bench. Not playing someone in order to sell them only works when the player isn't willing to leave otherwise. I doubt we have any players in that category these days, probably not even Scott Wharton.

[had.e.nuff]

On 11/11/2025 at 09:01, MarkBRFC said:

Pickering on 15k a week would surprise me.

Signed from Crewe on a relative low wage I'm guessing and only had one new contract since.

just watched this and if its right he is on 13k more than scott wharton.

 

[roversfan99]

Stuff like that cant be trusted. Just guesses and likely wide of the mark.

[KentExile]

7 hours ago, had.e.nuff said:

just watched this and if its right he is on 13k more than scott wharton.

 

Yes I am sure that Scott Wharton signed a contract 2 years ago when he was a regular in the first team squad on a lower wage than Kristi Montgomery, who at the time he signed his last contract had never made a senior appearance at any level

And that is assuming that this video (which looks as AI made as I have ever seen) was made before Whartons more recent contract last month