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Bloody hell, it was only a youth game!

We have an honest workmanlike team with potential youngsters to fit into it, one flair player of note and one reliable but aging goal poacher couple with one and only one solid developing centre half. We don't need anymore workmanlike players particularly not for back up what we now need bolting onto this squad is a bit of steel, some pace wide Chapman or no Chapman and some much needed height and presence in the middle of defence. I cringe when I see names of grafters just because they are grafters. Time to think outside the box a bit, specialists in defence or midfield instead of multi-positionalists and a few more artists before the soldiers.

This is mental. I've never experienced two days of football like it. Even I felt emotional watching pochettino and I dont support spurs. Amazing. Brilliant competition this year. Amazing advert for football and the premier league

Don't want to turn this into a pile on, but this argument is such a non-starter. We have the youngest Rovers squad in aeons. Mowbray has given debuts to at least half a dozen academy graduates over the last 2 years. Others have been given key roles when they were on the periphery. Almost all of his signings have been 24 or under, several significantly under. How many other managers have we had who have got anywhere near these sorts of stats? Some of the youngsters don't play every week, but that happens with almost all players who get near the first team at 18, 19, 20. Saying Mowbray isn't prioritising youth is absolutely bizarre. The evidence almost entirely points in the opposite direction.

I'd much rather Liverpool win it than a club like City (the PL that is). They can win the Champs League too as far as I'm concerned. Their manager is great, they play exciting football and never disappoint on the big stages. Ultimately they are a proper club, with which we've had many a good game against as I was growing up. City are the epitome of what I hate about modern football.

It was nice to see a Rovers team lifting a trophy particularly by beating them. Rovers didn't play too well on the night and at times overplayed in the wrong areas but it was a game I always felt we would win. Burnley to be fair pressed high up the pitch and frustrated us for long periods (much like their first team) but the extra quality was there to be seen. Well done to Damien Johnson on a successful season. Four of his players made their first team debuts and ultimately that is what he is judged on.

My Video if anyone wants the goals x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ftce-s4x1w

How great is it, by the way, to have four teams in the semis who all want to play football? Not a Mourinho-esque anti-football team in sight.

So Anderson saying he's no choice but to put them into Admin. Sky Sports saying they have gone into admin. High Court have given them a 2 week adjournment. I wouldn't want to see them liquidated but this has gone on long enough. Ultimately it's the tax man owed money and public services missing out on millions of pounds of tax here. Once again administration will clear the decks to a certain extent but those who suffer will be the small fry businesses and local people. Meanwhile the millionaires will be ok.

I know it's obvious and been said by numerous people on numerous threads, but Damien Johnson is doing an absolutely sterling job.

Did @AllRoverAsia really go to bed?!

Great listen thanks!

I wish Bolton well in resolving their off the pitch situation (there but for the grace of God etc.) but once they go into administration, is there anything stopping someone buying the presumably profit-making hotel once they're administration? Having a Rovers themed hotel permanently attached to their ground is making me smile for some reason.

Both legs a bit strange. No way should Liverpool have lost 3-0, should have had at least 2. Same goes for Barcelona last night. Sanchez alone should have had 2 but shot weakly and Messi needs his sights adjusted. One goal and Liverpool would probably have been out of it. However that was as brave an effort from an English team as I ever remember. The pure joy that flowed down from the stands gave me goosebumps.

Im not quite sure why so many neutrals dislike Liverpool. I agree many of their fans are painful at times but no more than Man U fans (who I find even worse and are more concerned at what Liverpool are doing than Man U), Arsenal, Chelsea Etc. They are a team who play together, fight together, have a decent quota of English players with an entertaining manager who unites the whole club. I find the style of football they play brilliant to watch. I think the season they have had they deserve a trophy. They would have won the league at a canter weeks ago if it wasnt for one of the best sides the prem has ever seen also being in the running. Amazing game. I half expected them to give up and focus on the weekend given their injuries up front and a 3-0 defecit.

Think Dack will stay because we value him higher than what any club is willing to pay.

Unreal. I love football.

Trippier, useless. Feck this, I'm off to bed

I think he was far better a couple of years ago and has gone downhill. He was an exceptional teenager. Mowbray got our job a couple of years ago - coincidence?

My two penneth Firstly well done to the BRFCS Podcast group, good listen, well balanced and very entertaining. Would love to be a part of an episode in the future! To put the seasons conclusions into a succinct word it would be ''progress''. Particularly from our ill fated last Championship campaign and literally as we've held our own after being promoted in the 17/18 season. If Blackburn Rovers continue to progress, I will be very happy going forward. Without wanting to go over things already said, in my opinion, there is more to be encouraged by than there has been in a long time. Stability on and off the field, a youthful side, who have gained invaluable experience and the team spirit seems to have remained as strong as last season. Obvious failings at the back need addressing, the team has been crying out for a dominant centre half since Hanley left, a new left back would also be welcomed. With Cardiff, Huddersfield, Fulham, Luton and Barnsley added to the league, I really do see next season as being as wide open as this season. A dozen or so clubs will fancy their chances, I don't see why we can't be one of those teams mounting a playoff challenge. As the players did their lap of honour at the weekend (ironically I stayed this year - as the pitch was not invaded) the song blasting over the PA system was 'Sit Down by James' a great track from the early 90s. The song has one particular lyric that really resonates with being a Rovers fan, at the end of the second verse. ''If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor...'' As a fan of nearly 30 years, days out at Wembley and Cardiff, the European nights at Ewood, the ruffling of the feathers of the big boys, the team full of internationals, Tugay, Roque, MGP, Nelsen, Big Brad, Flowers, Hendry, Sutton and Shearer..... I think as a fan base have such high expectations and we can be a bit too eager to point the finger and have knee jerk reactions to poor runs of form. (see Mowbray out thread) We're all so desperate to see these days again.... its easy to overlook the baby steps we've taken this season. The fact we finished higher than Wigan and Rotherham and were never in any serious trouble in regards to relegation. The development of Travis, Buckley, Magloire, Butterworth, Raya, the return of Armstrong and Chapman, keeping Dack and Lenihan and the late season emergence of Joe Rothwell. Perhaps the right lyric that befits my overall theme is from the Take That song 'The Flood' which simply says ''There's progress now, where there once was none..."

But he did bring Buckley, Magloire and Butterworth in for their debuts. Nyambe played plenty under Mowbray and he plays Armstrong regularly who is 21. He made Raya our number 1 at 23, which was brave. In fact many on here have critisized that and are looking for a new number 1. On Travis, you say forced circumstances, but ignore the fact he played last season and has kept his place this year. I don't get your point on Reed, in his favored position or not, he played in almost every game this season. If he actually thinks he is a "kid"in some derogatory way, then why did he play Dack, Bell and others at 23?

If there's one crumb of comfort for Bolton fans... it's that Jason Lowe is still under contract and probably not going anywhere.

Gets my vote for "Rover of the Season". How long is his contract?

HITC is a very questionable source...very, very questionable

They didn't need all season to prove that they couldn't, to be fair. Once it was apparent they couldn't, they should have been dropped.

The Clash - Last Gang in Town

In those days I recall senior squads playing these games and decent crowds, the use of Youth teams in this format a later development. Rovers have now won the Lancashire County Football Association Cup aka the Lancashire Senior Cup a total of 19 times, it's a very old Competition.

See there is a few keepers out of contract from champ, wonder if it’s worth bringing in any of Westwood, archer or Amos who all seem like fairly competent keepers to me and more reliable than raya

Well think ToMo can cross Barcelona off his European scouting trips, if they struggle at Anfield they are going to struggle on a cold rainy night at Barnsley

That’s me off social media for a while... well until 5pm on Sunday.

That fourth was stunning from Alexander Arnold

2-0 to the BLACKBURN ACES!

Wuh? So we are NOT a division higher? I'm confused.

Look at Kane running, nowt wrong with him!

As good as Ajax are, Spurs have been bobbins

Get the snowflakes to put the laugh notification back. ???

Is this actually true? Am I missing something? Thats a farce if so!

A lot of people must have left before the end. It’s a cramped stand and empty seats easy to miss. I could well believe there were less than 500 in there. 100 more Burnley in the Brian Pilkington? Are you a Burnley fan? ? It was poorly priced, poorly organised (no need for all of the restrictions) and in the back of beyond. Not sure the need to exaggerate.

We had a pretty bad November and December. We got smashed by Preston and Wigan remember. It briefly picked up in January with an excellent win against WBA, a really good 3-0 win against Hull and expected wins against Ipswich & Millwall, but 4 of the 5 months between November - March were very poor. Not sure why we suddenly picked up form in January but thank goodness we did, because it meant we were never really in any danger of getting sucked into the relegation fight.

Yes I am sure that that the only reason TAA is so good is because Klopp threw him on in the Champions league final

This is the rumour list made up by fans and journalists. It's neither an A or B list

I hope they don't. Then they have no chance of winning the cup, and they'll still be a smaller, less successful club than Blackburn Rovers in terms of trophies. We've won the league more times, but a CL win would top that.

Worth remembering that the Dingles developed a string of Prem class centre forwards and sold every one of them- Austin, Vokes, Ings. Woods who they have now probably the least dangerous. More than one way of pushing through but I'd like to keep Dack. At the very least as Mowbray pointed out, he is an insurance against FFP problems because we will be forced to sell in the summer of 2020.

But isn't half the squad full of that already, Butterworth, Rankin-Costello, Rothwell, Raya, Nyambe, Lenihan, Dack, Brereton, Chapman and a few other, all fall within that category, we needed experienced pros now, ones that are good enough, the experienced pros we currently have are TURD, smallwood, bennett, mulgrew, evans, conway, williams, graham, all of whom played a big chunk of last season, of who aren't good enough, graham granted been good, but he's one hard summer training away from being past it. It's the experienced players that bring this squad down more than anything else.

I don't think Fielding would push Raya anymore than the guy already here, waste of a wage at this stage of his career for us.

A bit of debate about what constitutes a young player. Of players given squad numbers this season, as at today: 16 are 25 or under 8 are 21 or under. Looking encouraging for the future. Plus the likes of Rankin-Costello for whom many are making the case for being good enough now.

I'm very much in the "very satisfied" camp, if there is one on here! Yes there have been dark times; 2 runs where it seemed hard to see where the next win was coming from; too much loyalty to below-par players; some very inept defending & lack of intensity offensively; a failure to kick on after January. But I'm extremely heartened by the young, creative, pacey forward options we have, and TM's acknowledgement that we need new 1st 11 defenders. We've a number of forward-thinking players who will cause defences huge problems next season, and our style of play is definitely showing signs of evolving into something less direct. What the manager now needs to do is find a proper team identity that is founded on hard work & team spirit but is more than that, which finds the right balance between being solid & competitive whilst also being dynamic & pleasing on the eye. It's not an easy task but were it not for several poor late goals earlier in the season & some eyewatering individual errors scattered across the season, we could quite easily have finished on 70 points. If we can cut half of those out, I don't think it would take as much change / overhaul of what we have as others have suggested to enable us to hit 75 points plus next season. 75 points qualified for the playoffs in all but 2 of the last 10 seasons.

We had one in the DARWEN END but got kicked out and split up.