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The goalkeeping situation really is farcical. Mowbray has previously talked about sides not selling until they have a replacement sorted, yet he has gone and sold his goalkeeper without a replacement being even remotely close to being brought in.

While I don’t think Mowbray is either dodgy or incompetent, those are two words that Venky’s are going to have to go a long way to shake off.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17776802.netflix-football-drama-english-game-due-filmed-stoneclough/ The series draws on the formation of Blackburn Rovers FC, a founding member of The Football League, and Darwen FC

Why is it a conspiracy ? There's no need for you to jump on every post you might not agree with and come out with Anti conspiracy theories either is there. Agents work in football, more or less run the transfer side that's a fact it so it's is in no way a conspiracy to say perhaps an agent working on behalf of Derby has offered us a few players they want rid of and Mowbray is having a look rather than a scouting report suddenly recommending 3 different players in different positions from one club. Grow up !

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It just came over me how close we are to the new season... I'm not the type to get worked up about transfers really but leaving the goalkeeper situation unsolved with only 2 weeks till kick off is pretty amateur. Nevermind not sorting out the centre half situation too. If pre season is all about getting these new players to buy into a new style of play it leaves little to no time for them to come and settle into it. If we suppose we make our signings next week, by the time they actually sort everything out and get on the training pitch it will leave us with merely a week. After all the goals we conceded last season this should have been key for the manager this summer to iron out those creases but instead he's neglected his duty of what his priority should of been... Improving our weaknesses (defence). It's clear that after Bauer there was no plan B, which again is highly amateur. I get it, we don't have the budget to do our business early but surely at least the goalkeeper situation could have been sorted? At this late stage of the window I don't think it will do any good just signing some kid, we need a been there and done it type centre half that can come in and be leader straight from the off, a James Collins type player (not necessarily him). I just fear this messing about is going to cut into our season and effect in a negative way, especially as we have a tough start. Manager and his recruitment team need to liven up sharpish because a bad start could dictate what sort of season we want to have.

Superb. Best away kit for years other than the red and black halves. I have mentioned elsewhere that not enough clubs utilise green for some reason. A bit of green to debut the kit at Ibrox. Couldn’t be better.

Are you on Love Island??? This would explain a few things ?

Listen to our fans and all our players are not competent Lets see if he signs, then give him a chance

Indeed - this is still one of my favourite ever Rovers shirts. How hard can it be!!??

This is fantastic! Really stoked for this! I wonder if the footballer they're following is Fergus Suter, the first professional, given the mention of moving towns and a focus on Darwen FC too. Unofficially he was probably the first professional when he was at Darwen, though it was illegal at the time and he claimed to be a stonemason. He then moved to Rovers and officially became the first professional when it was allowed. I've always been fascinated by the early history of both clubs. As a would-be writer, I've considered whether there was a good story to be told about Darwen's early history, particularly the incredible comeback against Old Etonians in the FA Cup (semi final I think it was) where they came from 5-0 down to draw 5-5 and earn a replay. If I remember rightly they didn't score til about 15 minutes from time! Has to be the greatest comeback ever, against the team who were the top dogs at the time. Back then the replays had to take place at the same ground, so Darwen had to travel down to London for it. At the time that cost a hell of a lot for a football club, and it nearly bankrupted them. Locals gathered funds for them, only for them to draw the replay and have to do it again! No extra time or penalties back then. Think the replay was 0-0. Another whip round was done, they went down and got pasted this time. Excuse my memory if it errs, but I believe it was a big factor in replays taking place at the other ground. Not sure when extra time etc came in. Lot of football's early history at Darwen, it was a shame they got wound up over such a small bill (a few grand I think it was?) and weren't saved by Rovers or local fundraising. Rovers have helped save other clubs in the region before, like Accy. In the AFC format it's basically the same, but technically that history isn't theirs now.

'You having a good night, mate?'

Therein lies the problem

So have I.

The defence is just as concerning. Some decent players have already moved to Champ clubs - Flint, Elphick, Lindsay, Jansson, Kalas. Ajayi close to WBA. We don’t seem to have been remotely close to any of them.

Clock is ticking. Soon enough time will be up. Positions like GK and CB are not ones that can be neglected or 'put off' to a later date as we've tried doing before. Especially not with our record of goals against. A dangerous game to sell Raya without someone already here to replace him. 2 weeks on and no arrival is alarming to say the least. 2 weeks to go. Leutwiler or Fisher v Charlton will be completely unacceptable.

Unpopular Opinion - I quite like the kit.

The story of the away kit by Umbro (probably) The base colours taking inspiration from Blackburn's part in the industrial revolution which saw lush green fields replaced with the grey smoke from the hundreds of mill chimneys springing up . The accent grey pattern represents the progression of the industrial revolution, motor vehicles replacing trains and carts and leaving tyre marks on the cobble streets

This is nothing like Madon said, he said it was grey with a pattern on one half and a yellow collar! This isn’t even close to yellow! Madon Out!!!!

Why on earth do you think we need another central midfielder? We need that like we need a bigger stadium.

I’ve always thought the club doesn’t make enough of its fantastic heritage. And anything that shows old Lancashire as THE heartland of the game and not the ridiculous notion that it is the north east with its 3 League clubs is fine with me.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to everyone in this forum, I am a 40 year old father of 3 and not the type man to swear every other word, so sorry but I'm was also under the impression it was a football forum and a group of friends so it was in context. ANYWAY ....... back to the transfers.... hope for a go 2 new defenders and an amazing season for myself the wife and two of my children to watch in our season ticket seats ....... we believe.... in tony we trust

Yeah and that’s in spite of the obvious differences in opinion. The forum is very good imo.

All I can say is that if we dont have a GK at least AS good as Raya or ideally better and a commanding CB - this place will erupt and understandably. That is the bare minimum btw, we need a couple of loans as well to shore things up and not a couple of untested kids - we have plenty of those in our own academy.

Bit of a joke how much of a deal we made out of publicising our involvement in the European Market and thus far haven't even been linked with hardly anyone, never mind even bidding for someone. There are definately goalkeepers out there we could be looking at.

Post of the year right here

Understandable as they need locations that have not really been developed for well over 100 years

It’s just that they haven’t set up the shortcuts yet. I think you are still in the denial stage of the grief curve.

On a positive note grown men look ridiculous in replica shirts anyway so it should discourage a few from buying it ??

Haha I said grey halves with a pattern in one half about 3 months ago what more can I do!?

If we sign Carson and Whelan and announce that away kit ...... give me strength

Close second but the winner is this one... And guess what. The club never put it on sale...

Yet Sterling looking after his mother is ignored in favour of 'being ostentatious and obscene' without evidence. Funny that. Look at the state of this 'journalism' ffs: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/sport/2018/12/all-times-newspaper-coverage-raheem-sterling-helped-fuel-racism

Also some information regarding the club shop at Ibrox. any Rovers fan looking to buy anything Rangers fans would like to ask you not to buy it at the megastore at Ibrox. Reasons in simple our 'megastore', I.E. Club shop at the stadium is currently a no-go. We're still in a bitter legal dispute with Mike Ashley over our retail side of things, so the shop at the stadium is currently a Sports Direct that hasn't been restocked for at least two years - would respectfully ask that any Rovers fans who are looking to buy a souveneirs or anything. We would guide them away from there and towards the Rangers Store in the city centre, right beside St Enoch subway.

The Tower is as yet an unused nuclear missile. Any more of that and we’ll press the red button.

To be fair they could have launched a bin bag with arm holes and it would’ve been 50/50 on that group.

It reminds me of when they paint warships to disguise their size and shape

I have to agree. They took the decision to let Raya go without anything else agreed and they will live and die by those decisions.

other clubs take loans from the premier league aswell.Derby and Villa made the play offs last season with quite a few loans between them. No problem with loaning players if they are of a decent pedigree which this City player looks to have. He played 36 times for a play off team last season if City are heavily subsidising his wages then good move on our part. Downing and Johnson wouldn't have signed for peanuts either, not disputing venkys are crap owners but we spent money last season and are spending money this summer aswell

Just spoken to head of Umbro kit design,a Mr D.Ingle......

Alright, that's it!!! First, we need somebody in East Lancs who knows how to silk screen to carve out 2 10Bet logos. (make sure they're perfect) Everybody who prefers the red/black halves buy one from Umbro. (You can get their generic blue/white too if for some reason you dislike this year's traditional (home) kit.) Now we'll need a good supply of embroidered club badges. (Does the club sell them in the store?) Someone will need to offer at cost to screen the 10Bet logo onto the kits (white onto red/black, RED onto blue/white) & affix the badges. (DO NOT TRY TO PROFIT FROM THIS; THE CLUB &/OR UMBRO WILL SUE.) Voila: The kits I believe most of us prefer exactly as we want them, complete with the current sponsor's logo in the color it should be. If enough of us keep doing this they will eventually capitulate; it's simple commercial math. It will take a concerted effort, but we can do this.

They must have easily had > £500k of press, tv & radio coverage already...as a business proposition that is a return. I am no fan of gambling at all & PP even less but I have to doff my cap to their marketing team who have played a blinder.

Not to pick on you, Matty, this just seemed the best post to quote.... Josh can probably put more meat on the bones with this, but re the swearing: We are saying that unless it's an insult directed towards a person, then it's pretty much fine, as long as people don't overdo it. We know that this sort of thing is very subjective, so nobody should feel like they have to! Also, a couple of more points: I've noticed a bit of text speak creeping into posts. Can we stop this, please? (i.e.- you being dropped for the letter 'u'). We know what the correct spelling is, so let's do that, eh? Can we keep threads on topic as well? Quite a number of posts unrelated to transfers or this thread have been creeping in that always escalate. Thanks again everyone, happy Friday!

So the Paddy Power prank is confirmed HOWEVER there is a pay off I wasn’t expecting, Paddy Power are indeed their sponsors but won’t have a logo at all on their shirt So the publicity was packed in up front and the kits now remain gloriously sponsor free. Fair play https://twitter.com/htafc/status/1152126447345123329?s=21

What stood out for me was that when the rules were relaxed the site didn’t automatically turn into a Facebook style site. There are a lot of great people on here who just don’t need to be censored.

Why did we not let Leutwiler go at the end of last season if we're essentially bringing in Foderingham to fill his position anyway?