Just now, broadsword said:

Could we not pen a letter to the Indian judiciary, let them know what a spunk spaffing gormless bunch of ham shanking doss bags Venkys really are?

I do wonder if someone could get the ear of the Indian Journo who penned the article about the illegal payments and maybe give him the fans version of events that are taking place at the club.

I am hoping that the funding will not be approved by the Indian courts this time. From what I was told, we have enough to keep us going until February, so unless we sell a couple of players (Szmodics and Adam Wharton) in January, for decent money, then this would mean we can't pay the bills and administration is likely to follow.

It is hard to believe that I and many others are wishing administration on our own club, but this is getting desperate.

It’s pretty obvious that they have sussed our keeper out. Three corners all right under the bar. It’s going to cost us again in this match as they will pump another one in, even if it’s a long throw. It’s got to stop, as we do have other options that surely cannot be worse.

I have had to watch most games this season on Rovers TV due to living abroad,?so can’t really tell if it was a one off or not, but I saw the Stoke away game at their stadium. That day Tronstad was outstanding and sat in front of the back 4 protecting right the way across. Was that a one off and the clean sheet we got that day as a result? On TV it isn’t as easy to see, but he doesn’t seem to have been covering like he did that day, in any game since. 

34 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Is the game on the red button/Rovers TV?

It’s on Rovers TV for those watching from overseas. 

I would hope that there is something in the TK transfer to give us a bonus if Luton stay up. Does anyone know?

Some good points made on JDT today and although varied are all perfectly valid. I am in the JDT fan club, but can fully accept some of the criticism about him from some posters today. 

9 minutes ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

I'd say of the 3 people who have to take blame for the current situation JDT is still at the bottom of the list. We are on a bad run and he's not done much to address it. But the hand venkys have given him is exceptionally poor and ultimately some of the players he's been given by broughton aren't up to the standard.

There's no quality in that front 3 at all, there's no quality on the bench to mix it up at that end of the pitch either. Too many kids and those finding their way who aren't there yet. A squad with holes and no depth. No striker with a nose for a goal. A keeper who makes regular mistakes. A severe lack of athleticism in the side, no pace, no power and no strength.

I'd say JDT deserves stick but I look at that today and you have to hold your hands up and say a different lineup would be just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, ultimately it wouldn't make too much difference.

Where we go from here I don't know. We need bodies in, and that'll have to be injuries returning because there doesn't appear to be a pot to piss in. Pears, Hedges, Dolan, JRC and Gally make us a marginally better side so I hope that's enough to arrest the worrying slide.

I fully agree. There is no manager getting g a tune out of 3 of the starting lineup today. The keeper and right back were more of a hindrance than a help. If that was a one off fine, but that’s more often than not. Ennis is not a championship standard striker and his German replacement may as well bid auf wiedersehen to us all now.

Yes JDT has his faults, but how is he supposed to make a silk purse out of some of these?

3 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

So the debacle today and many others have nothing to do with Tomasson? 

I didn’t say that. I am sure it did, but the guy is working with a hand tied behind his back. I’m sure you can see that too. 

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

Was wondering what would happen IF one of the requests to transfer funds was denied. Presumably, as you say, that would bring a rapid close to their ownership.

I actually do see that happening. 

Just now, tomphil said:

He's on fools errand then because he will never get sacked Waggot hasn't the authority nor interest to bother. And the club just hasn't the money to pay him off so he'll have to walk.

All he is doing is making himself look clueless although it would do no harm to stand up and publically call out the ownership.

However today isn't down to that there were justified calls after Watford but today is all round bad tactics effort and attitude that is down to him no getting away from it, hapless child in the nets aside.

If I was him tonight I would give the owners and Waggott a piece of my mind. He was not brought in to make do with what he has been dealt.

When you look at the first goal today, you have to wonder how far we have sunk, when our previous keeper goes for peanuts to a team who were playing in the conference not that long ago.

Today was embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as the shell of a club we now are and so far removed from  the club that this famous town was once so proud of.

Ruined by chancers and I see no way back anytime soon. 

That’s as poor a half as I’ve seen this season. Very insipid totally lacking in energy. 

21 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

just about to say Garrett is having a good game so far but then..ouch! def a yellow!

I’m watching on TV and seen 3 replays. Never a yellow. Commentary team said we are giving up tackling if that’s a foul. 

11 minutes ago, sympatheticclaret said:

Yes, very well .... lovely man, he was my first Coach at u16's at Blackburn, together with John Whitney, who went on to work for Rovers for years, after retiring from the police. John passed away in July of last year ...

He was my teacher in the eighties was Ted. Rugby mad too and I know he played at Blackburn RUFC.

Very brave too, as I know he carried on working after his MND diagnosis.

1 hour ago, sympatheticclaret said:

I may have mentioned this before, in late 2017, I organised a re-union of Blackburn Rugby Club's u19's teams from 1980-83. I traced 51 lads who'd played for us in that time, through personal contacts, Facebook, Linkedin etc. ..... only 4 ( FOUR ) actually still lived in the Borough of Blackburn and Darwen !! They were spread far and wide, including Italy, Sweden and 2 in France, but by far the most common residence was the Ribble Valley ...

I also do some supply teaching, and have worked at 3 Blackburn & Darwen schools. Speaking to some of the lads there, there were some Rovers fans, but what was noticeable was the support for Liverpool among the Asian heritage students, really because of Mo Salah, who's a Muslim. Food for thought ...

 

I bet you know the late Ted Cooper mate.

1 hour ago, Mike Graham said:

There are only about 150 tickets left in the whole of the JW which equates to 10,650 sold in that stand when taking into account the netted off area which surely should be removed today.  I cannot recall it being that full for 15+ years.

Good luck today guys.

I can't be there myself, but will be watching on Rovers TV with my son, daughter in law and a couple of his mates are going.

I know you have put a lot of work into this, so hope is proves to be the success it is looking to be right now.

Would anyone be prepared to sign a vote of no confidence in Waggott.

Given the fans takeover on Saturday, perhaps something can be drawn up and made available somewhere on one of the stalls.

We the undersigned, as supporters and by default custodians of BRFC declare that we have no confidence in the current CEO and would therefore like the owners to remove him form his position.

Below are a number of his failings that we consider to be harmful to the club and furthermore have put the very future of the club in grave danger.

1. Over pricing of the season tickets for several years.

2. Over pricing of match day tickets and made them difficult to purchase.

3. Overseen a huge drop of in both season tickets and tickets for the casual supporter.

4. Been unable to provide merchandise in the club shop, including replica shirts for the supporters to purchase

5. Allowed the general maintenance of the ground and pitch to decline to unacceptable levels.

6. Seen the club get involved in a very public and embarrassing failed transfer, due to incompetence that could well have cost a premier league place and the riches that entails.

7. Allowed the contract of players to expire and therefore see potentially millions of pounds in transfer fees leave the club.

7 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

We are a bottom 6 team , the players are not good enough...

We are definitely a bottom 6 team, so full credit to the manager for him getting us much higher so far.

We will not finish in the bottom 6 either, despite him having a hand tied behind his back.

The blame for the state of things lies squarely elsewhere, so hopefully the negative comments made in here about JDT are born out of frustration, in particular after the drubbing we received.

If the manager moves on to a normal club, he will succeed there in my opinion and I think he is the real deal. 

25 minutes ago, booth said:

And they can't sell the club due to the amount of debt they created, and aren't willing to write off. So we're stuck with them as no one  else will take on the £150m plus debt. They've manufactured an impossible situation all round.

I don’t think they will have any other option than to write the debt off, whether they like it or not.

I sense the authorities in India are going to come down on them like a ton of bricks and force their hand.

It will either be sell it or administration and I don’t think it’s far off.

2 minutes ago, JHRover said:

No shame in losing at Southampton. They have a better team and squad than us, for a number of reasons, and they have dealt with pretty much everyone who has gone there this season, apart from Leicester and Ipswich. 

What is really annoying me is the number of goals we are shipping. People will make out that Southampton are dismantling all they come up against but in reality their wins at home have usually been tight affairs decided by a goal or two.

2-1 v QPR, 3-1 v Leeds, 1-1 v Rotherham, 3-1 v Birmingham, 2-1 v WBA, 1-0 v Bristol, 2-0 v Cardiff

We break new ground by shipping 4.

I don't believe this is all down to Dominic Hyam being injured, and if it is I think that is arguably more worrying that we are so reliant on his presence to stop the flow of goals. 

38 goals conceded in 22 games. Only Rotherham and Norwich have let more in. 11 defeats in 22 games, only the bottom 3 have lost more. These are deeply alarming statistics for me, they suggest a big problem somewhere.

You are right. There is a big problem, in fact there are two very big problems, the owners and the CEO are strangling the club and knocking the stuffing out of the fans. 

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Hirst is interesting. He was scoring at Portsmouth before we got him and he's scoring regularly for Ipswich at the top of the League. For us he was utterly useless and didn't score a goal.

There has to be some story or other there!

So was he a bad signing or a good signing but one that didn't work for us for some reason?

It happens both ways this.

The two that immediately spring to mind are Gestede and Santa Cruz. Great for us, but so far as I remember poor elsewhere.

If I was a director or decision maker and saw the Rovers 0-3 win there, I would be straight on the phone to his agents.

We played a perfect tactical game that day and given the shackles on him, he is performing way above the level he should be right now. 

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

"Holding everything together since 1875..."

I was going to change it, but think I will leave it now. I am a little rusty with the spelling anyway. 

36 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Just to confirm the detail in our article regarding what the Commnunity Trust will do with funds raised…

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/fan-takeover-2-a-mega-deal-for-the-watford-game/467

 

https://online.fliphtml5.com/lcgr/rwzo/

That’s absolutely brilliant and why Rivets fans are the best in the land. 

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

Dark forces still at work ?

Almost certainly and they never went away.

Put yourself in the owners position. The have thrown over £250 million away as we speak and now they are prepared to go to court to get permission to thrown another £11 million away.

If we believe what we are told, then they are still prepared to go back to go to court to get further permission, to throw even more away, because they are honourable people.

What a total load of shite and if you wrote that in a fictional novel, it would be rejected, for being too far fetched.

These people must think we are all morons.