Elliott always maintained strict social distancing anyway when it came to marking opposition forward so his absence shouldn't make too much difference if / when Rovers start playing again. Hope he's OK BTW.

These days I get very aggravated with journalism on both BBC and Sky - crazy days - so I'd never thought I'd say this but well done Sky.

I'm talking about non playing staff who have been furloughed. Why should the taxpayers fund a furlough scheme and then clubs spend on transfer fees (and all the associated costs) for new players. Players taking ways deferrals is is different as they will get the difference paid eventually. That is funded by the club.

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Which begs the question when they are going to play/show Championship games. From that schedule it seems that every available slot is taken up.

Elliott is now self isolating at home for seven days. The other players have been tested and their tests were negative. Training can continue at Brockhall under the strict guidelines as before. Bennett will be tested next week and hopefully return to training on June 5th. So far his was the only positive test at the club. This is information from Rovers official site.

Sick of it tbh. I bet that 'for the want of a better word' moron was not posting here, there would be a hell of a lot more people that do. This site is like the 'Chaddy Show'. Half of the posts are around his warped mind and opinions. Tiresome, if i'm not banned, i'm out anyway.

First few posts are a little off and nobody has wished him well. I know its not a death sentence and he has been a liability when played out of position but this is not good news for him, his family or the club.\ Best wishes Benno.

For gods sake why don’t they just say we’re gonna try and play in September and new season starts 1st Dec ?? Theyll have to get over the contract issues like every other business and employer is having to . frankly sick of hearing about this special case called football . They aren’t and by the end of all this covid stuff they’ll realise they aren’t . far bigger issues to deal with than a load of highly paid marred arses. I wish none of them any Ill whatsoever but there’s millions of folk devastated by all this . Football just doesn’t get in the top 50 real issues .

how will mowbray cope with this tumultuous news,without his leader,who will vacuum the living room and mow the garden in chez mowbray,can the club survive this devasting setback

I think that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said about him!

I'm lucky, I live right by a 19 mile flat off road route, I can do a quick 6 mile ride with the dogs running alongside in under an hour, have raced off road when I was younger also but cycling on the road (especially nowadays) is pretty much a leap of faith everytime.? As far as good news goes, Mrs just had a phone call saying she could be back at work next week which means I might lose a bit of the timber that 3 square meals a day and regular baking has given me.

I didn’t say the clubs were after ‘lining their pockets’, it is about survival, crazy really considering just much cash they’ve had every year, but when you see bang average footballers driving Bentley’s and living in mansions, it doesn’t take a genius to see why the club’s are in such a mess. It is the disingenuous utterances coming out of the authorities about ‘fairness’ and ‘integrity’ that riles, it’s about the money, pure and simple (otherwise they’d have followed the approach of League 2), and that’s fine, because the alternative isn’t worth thinking about, but don’t insult fans’ intelligence.

I really don't understand the argument against football coming back, it's an absolute no brainer. 1) There's no doubt that the primary reason Clubs are coming back is money but they aren't coming back purely to line their own pockets, in the vast majority of cases they're coming back to try and ensure their very survival. 2) On the sporting integrity issue, if you take the view that crowds can't be allowed back into grounds yet, there is no perfect solution which is as fair as it was pre lockdown. Playing the fixtures out in full behind closed doors if finances allow is the least worst option. Finishing the season now, extrapolating the final positions out on a points pet game basis, then holding play offs as normal to decide on promotion and relegation is the next least worst option for me followed by doing the same only without the play offs. The least desirable and most unfair option is imo just scrapping the season and declaring all results null and void. That means if you've had a belting season all your effort has been for nothing and if you've stuck the place out, you've got away with it Scott free. Other non-essential businesses are now being expected to return on the 15th of June and the employees there don't have the luxury of being fully screened for any underlying health conditions and regularly tested that top footballers have. The only possible argument against football returning is that it diverts resources away from other areas and I can't see that there's any problem now with the availability of tests, if there is one, more the mechanics of getting the tests to people and processing the results.

100%. Youve either completed a season or you havent.

Speedie was absolutely fantastic, we're comparing 2 of the best players in recent Rovers history here, but Bellamy brought the Shearer years back for me. You walked down to Ewood wondering how many he'd score or how many he'd put on a plate for Kuqi to miss, but he was on another level. Tremendous players, we've been blessed, they can't take away our memories chaps

Fair play to you ‘99, indefatigable.

In my opinion, you have made 2 huge errors in understanding my points, either accidentally or purposely which are clouding your judgement. Number 1, you have misunderstood my suggestion. It is a simple rule, if leagues are completed, then promotions and relegations go ahead. Moving down the leagues, once you get to the point that a division CANNOT be completed, then at that point as a complete rule going downwards, there are no promotions/relegations. You cannot relegate and promote teams on incomplete seasons. I have repeatedly said that my suggestion, accepting that as a minimum the top 2 divisions are going to be completed, Premier League and promotion chasing Championship clubs will NOT be affected as you seem to have misunderstood. Promotions and relegations between those divisions CAN be allowed because both divisions will have completed the full set of fixtures, including play offs, therefore it is then as fair as it is going to be to promote and relegate 3 clubs between these as normal. It is unfair to promote and relegate teams based on an unfinished season, that is my point, and extrapolating results is not a fair way of doing so, it is not the best remaining way to do so, it would make a mockery of the integrity of the football league. This would be typically prevalent where the lowest complete league meets the highest incomplete league, and you throw inconsistency into the mix, replacing teams that have played 46 teams from one league with games who have played 30 odd games. Number 2, you have failed to grasp that there is NO 100% fair way in the current situation, and there will be winners and losers to all suggestions, so you cant sympathise and empathise with individual clubs and pander to them, you have to look at the overall picture. For every Coventry, there is a Peterborough, for every Wycombe, there is an Accrington Stanley, for every Charlton there is a Sunderland. Theres also a touch of personal bias mentioning Rovers but see point number 1 as to how we wont be affected anyway) All you can do is come up with the fairest way. Assuming that some divisions will be completed, how I have outlined in Point 1 is not perfect, no way is, but IMO the most consistent, fair and common sense approach to a very difficult situation. If they need to vote to determine if League 1 can be completed, then fine, and if it can, it still all falls under my proposal above.

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They have but I they didn't at the time announce whether they paid a fee. If it transpires that they did they should have to pay the furlough money back in my view. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52249423

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They will also make a swift and full recovery? How on earth can you know that? And what if any of those people do have underlying health issues? Unlucky? I didn’t expect such a flippant response about this. Football at all costs, eh?

Exactly right. If it were the same rules for everyone it wouldn’t be completed for this exact reason. Unless any of them are related to Dominic Cummings of course. Elliott Bennett has coronavirus and has been in contact with other players this week. Just forget about football for a second and think about the implications of that.

That does not even come close to answering my question. You are also telling us as FACT that the other 3 players will not test positive. Damn Chadster, very medically experienced guy for a forklift driver. L Lets say we have 5 first team players out due to COVID - is that fair? What does EB fitness levels have to do with anything?

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Any non-essential activity creates added risk which can be avoided if the activity does not take place. Football is non essential. It should not take place. Wait for a vaccine.

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We dont usually have a massive kitty, and surely that will have been swallowed up by reduction in income both past and ongoing, cost of testing etc. I just personally think it would be a bit questionable if following the steps taken to complete the top couple of divisions, if the summer saw the usual spending spree splashing big money on players across the world ahead of another behind closed doors season, it wouldnt sit right. Whatever my own personal feelings are on it, I suspect and would guess that we wont be splashing out on new signings, surely we have to cut our cloth accordingly. Naive to expect the window to pass as normal really. Not sure it is wise to be sniffing around gooch.

are we talking staff in non playing or playing staff? I have no problem with owners investing their own money into clubs.

Tranmere have won their last 3 games, and are now only 3 points from safety with a game in hand. Nothing about them being relegated on a PPG basis would be fair, just because Accy Stanley and a lot of other clubs with nothing to play for want to save money. The should have asked the league one and league two clubs to vote on should the season continue, or should it end and be void now. Most clubs would have chosen to void, so that would also have been the majority of the clubs wishes. That would have allowed the clubs to save money and no-one would have been penalised. @roversfan99 is right that the only way you should have promotion and relegation is when the season is finished. Therefore if PL and Championship play it out then you can have promotion / relegation between those leagues, but no-one goes down from the Championship.

Speedie certainly does mate - I once spoke to him at a function at Hampden Park about it and he loved his time with us as well (not surprisingly really). He said he still gets a lot of Rovers fans saying nice things about his time at Ewood,

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Which, again, is what I said. However, if L1 and the Championship end the season differently then there should be no movement of teams between the two. The integrity is lost.

I think you’ve picked a bad example with Coventry. Rotherham and Oxford could both overtake them with 9 games to play. The bookies might say different but it certainly isn’t impossible for them not to go up. The only team who deserve to go up - much as it sticks in the craw - is Liverpool. But even so, a PPG finish is completely unfair. A vote by teams doesn’t make it more fair, it just makes it agreed. But even then - 16 teams would happily vote because it would keep the status quo. The relegated teams plus maybe Wolves who might feel they can nick 5th from Man Utd and Champions League at City’s expense (assuming it happens in 2020/21). Does that make it fair on Bournemouth who would lose millions based on goal difference and who will feel they can more than stay up. Null and void is the only fair way. Give Liverpool the league title but no promotions or relegations. No team has got there. It’s not going to happen of course, BCD will happen at all costs - even at the risk of players and their families’ health.

Speedie - a true Rovers cult hero, only here a short time but what an impact. Everything about him screamed 'winner', my type of player get stuck in first ask questions later.

Our 25 year old Daughter has today informed us that she intends moving out and getting a place with 2 mates in Preston ASAP after the lockdown. Halle fuckin lujah.

I always think of Bellamy too when thinking of Speedie and his one season. Speedie was fantastic in that year, and was probably my first ever footballing "hero", but hell, Bellamy was incredible, and was probably the main reason we went from a bottom six top flight side to a top six side top flight side within a year..

It has. But the football authorities continue to bang on about ‘sporting integrity’ It’s a load of bollocks, any chance of that has long gone whatever method they use. The top two divisions will re-start to ensure the cash keeps rolling in - which is a perfectly legitimate reason to get back on the pitch, considering what could happen to clubs if we don’t - but just stop with the pretence it’s for any other reason than cold hard cash.

Mowbray has been the most staunchly supported manager we’ve had for a long time. Rarely been a murmur against him in 3 years at Ewood, and we’ve seen some horrendous runs of form. He’d have been hounded at many other Championship clubs. Ewood Park as a place that is ’Very fickle’, a ‘tough environment’ that ‘quickly turns’ is just not true in the slightest.

Just to pick out his part. Not sure TM is a good example to use when suggesting our fans are fickle. This is a manager that goes on huge losing runs and then some good winning runs. Fans of any club in the country would be calling for his sacking after the sort of runs we have suffered. Many would then turn to support him once he turns those around and then the team goes on to show some good form for an extended amount of time. Lets be honest, he would have been sacked elsewhere after some of the losing runs we have had.

Rovers under 18's player Luke Brennan linked with Liverpool. source is football365. I would be disappoint if we lost him as I think he is going to be very talent player for us in the future

Wes foderingham released by Rangers. Sure we were linked with him in the past. Know little about him, but would he be a better bet than mclaughlin. Made nearly 150 apps for Rangers, but not convinced the opposition he faced is any better than league 1

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