2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

I wouldn’t say c13,000 people as regular match goers is a small minority of the fanbase. Obviously plenty down on what we had in 2010, but it’s still a sizeable sample of people for a club of our size.

We need to face facts, away from brfcs the majority of the fanbase just shrug their collective shoulders when it comes to the regime.

I play football with two Rovers fans who both handed back their season tickets years ago due to the Venkys (one goes away occasionally). I'm friends with another Rovers supporting couple who also no longer go due to the lack of interest from the owners. 

Anecdotal, yes, but that's five Rovers fans right there.

As we've repeatedly seen against Burnley / any cheap ticket offer games, the fan base is still there. 13k does not represent a sizeable portion of our fan base, just the absolute worn-to-the-nub hardcore.

[Exiled_Rover]

49 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i can exclusively reveal  the info is that the ground staff have received new mowers,well not brand new,that would be frivolous for a club our size🙂

It'll be him trying to sell another Academy graduate. 

[M_B]

18 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I play football with two Rovers fans who both handed back their season tickets years ago due to the Venkys (one goes away occasionally). I'm friends with another Rovers supporting couple who also no longer go due to the lack of interest from the owners. 

Anecdotal, yes, but that's five Rovers fans right there.

As we've repeatedly seen against Burnley / any cheap ticket offer games, the fan base is still there. 13k does not represent a sizeable portion of our fan base, just the absolute worn-to-the-nub hardcore.

It's why I keep renewing, when they do go there'll be 50000 banging the doors down and I don't want to miss out on a seat. 

[neophox]

With young Carter back injury free and Wharton also back for the new season...can't see us keeping Batth for more than a one year contract. We need pace in the backline and even Bath did a great job pace is still lacking.

[neophox]

Igor Tyjon and Kirsti Montgomery along with Leo Duru should be more in to the first team coming season.

[neophox]

Oh and we do have O'Riordan centre half only 21...

[oneandycrawford]

13 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Middlesbrough red card ruined him...He looked on good form in games before and even in that game alone.

He's not done anything since.

Why should that have ruined him? Did a bit of a stupid thing and was harshly punished but no big deal really. 

Trav was sent off at Portsmouth early on his career - he seems to have recovered ok.

Unfortunately Buckley hasn't kicked on after a promising start and probably best for all that he moves on. If he drops down a division or two he could well be a 'big fish' and that might help him have a better career.

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[Mattyblue]

We are Blackburn Rovers, not a big city club, of course 13,000 is a big chunk of the fanbase.

The fact the wider fansbase has no issue filling the ground for games like Burnley either shows there isn’t a vast number of folk ‘boycotting’ or morally against Venky’s.

Edited 3 hours ago by Mattyblue

[chaddyrovers]

 

 

 

[chaddyrovers]

We have 2 ESC slots available for any players who doesn't reach 15 points

[MarkBRFC]

51 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

We have 2 ESC slots available for any players who doesn't reach 15 points

Have they missed out Mafoumbi?

[MarkBRFC]

To the surprise of nobody Nixon saying we're "struggling" to do the Travis and Brittain deals 😂

[roversfan99]

What a sham of a club.

Talk of Brittain negotiations progressing well and making us confident, weve heard it all before.

[MarkBRFC]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

What a sham of a club.

Talk of Brittain negotiations progressing well and making us confident, weve heard it all before.

Anyone sensible has seen it all before.

Rovers dont want these players anymore when they can be replaced by cheap foreign imports on less than half there wages.

[Ricceh]

23 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

To the surprise of nobody Nixon saying we're "struggling" to do the Travis and Brittain deals 😂

Isn't that just speculation though? I could also say we are struggling to do the deals without any insight into proceedings. Imo he's laying the groundwork for a summer of "CONTRACT SITUATION UPDATE" stories to get his £2.

[Forever Blue]

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

What a sham of a club.

Talk of Brittain negotiations progressing well and making us confident, weve heard it all before.

 Aren’t you one of those that says Nixon talks shite? 

[Forever Blue]

Just now, Ricceh said:

Isn't that just speculation though? I could also say we are struggling to do the deals without any insight into proceedings. Imo he's laying the groundwork for a summer of "CONTRACT SITUATION UPDATE" stories to get his £2.

Quite a few on here will believe Nixon when it suits. The rest of the time they slag him off saying he hasn’t got a clue. 
 

It’s very odd.

[chaddyrovers]

35 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Have they missed out Mafoumbi?

I would think Andy Watson knows his stuff on these issues

17 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

What a sham of a club.

Talk of Brittain negotiations progressing well and making us confident, weve heard it all before.

so now you believe Nixon when it suits your opinion but when it doesn't he is WUM. You need to make your mind up

[davulsukur]

28 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

To the surprise of nobody Nixon saying we're "struggling" to do the Travis and Brittain deals 😂

No surprise whatsoever and just further evidence that we will never go anywhere but down with this ownership.

2 of our best players are now likely to be sold for a fraction of their value and replaced with inferior quality. 

Get these scumbags out of our club.

[BankEnd Rover]

4 minutes ago, Ricceh said:

Isn't that just speculation though? I could also say we are struggling to do the deals without any insight into proceedings. Imo he's laying the groundwork for a summer of "CONTRACT SITUATION UPDATE" stories to get his £2.

Or Nixon knows and our Club reporter is getting fed a pack of lies...Just like the Sagnan story...

[oneandycrawford]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

We are Blackburn Rovers, not a big city club, of course 13,000 is a big chunk of the fanbase.

The fact the wider fansbase has no issue filling the ground for games like Burnley either shows there isn’t a vast number of folk ‘boycotting’ or morally against Venky’s.

Even when we were the best team in the country we couldn't fill a 31k stadium.

With the overall rise in crowds over the last 30 years we could well have got to filling the stadium regularly had we stayed as a leading Premier League club. 

I guess it depends on how you define a fan base. Does it include those who will turn up for the occasional big match and take a casual interest in what is going on? If that is the case then 13k is a minority of that total.

If you only include those who would ever go regularly to games (depending on the success of the team and other factors relating to the club, such as it's ownership) and/or take a more detailed interest in the club then 13k is a significant proportion.

I respect those who have deliberately boycotted - that must be a painful thing to do. But surely the reality is that the managed decline of the club and the lack of success on the field is the key factor in the hollowing out of the support. The season in League One showed that supporters will return if there is a genuine prospect of success.

 

 

[MarkBRFC]

6 minutes ago, Ricceh said:

Isn't that just speculation though? I could also say we are struggling to do the deals without any insight into proceedings. Imo he's laying the groundwork for a summer of "CONTRACT SITUATION UPDATE" stories to get his £2.

Given our history with contract negotiations over the past 18 months, this one probably looks more true than his other stories, no?

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I would think Andy Watson knows his stuff on these issues

That doesnt answer the question.

[roversfan99]

6 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

 Aren’t you one of those that says Nixon talks shite? 

 

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I would think Andy Watson knows his stuff on these issues

so now you believe Nixon when it suits your opinion but when it doesn't he is WUM. You need to make your mind up

Its more based on the fact that they havent signed new deals yet. We have seen it all before.

[Forever Blue]

So this is the Nixon story via Rovers Xtra, not sure if there were specifics given about Brittain in the original story?

Edited 1 hour ago by Forever Blue

[Tugayisgod]

36 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

To the surprise of nobody Nixon saying we're "struggling" to do the Travis and Brittain deals 😂

But I thought everyone on here said he talks shit anyway?