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You can’t plan football success “long term”, that’s a ridiculous idea. You can plan club development over the long term but that’s completely different. Football wise you just have to go for it every season, every game. Players won’t hang around while the Gestedes’ of this world piss about thinking of tomorrow. It’s the here and now that counts, it’s all that counts in honesty. Planning long term for success on the field is for the hideaways, the cowards.

Even the thought of Venkys leading the search for new owners fills me with dread.

I’ll stick my neck out here. Others might have said what I’m going to do but I don’t remember it, While I hate what Venkys have done - and what they’re still doing, I’m certainly not convinced that there are buyers out there with the funds to improve the situation as it stands. Could things be worse than they are now? Yes they could but please don’t think for one minute that I’m saying they should stay as our owners. I don’t want them here any more than anyone else. It’s difficult to relish a future under owners who can commit no funds whatsoever though.

Would be nice to think we were developing these lads for us to promote to and strengthen the first team, rather than with the only intention of selling them at the first opportunity. Not to reinvest the fees and build the squad in that way but simply to pay the bills. It can’t continue forever.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24725037.venkys-court-case-latest-means-blackburn/ Blackburn Rovers officials have always reiterated there is no barriers preventing Venky from funding the club. There is an agreement in place that the owners can continue their spending as long as they match each pound with a personal guarantee. …………….. There might not be anything to stop them from funding the club, but they might not want to fund them to any great extent at all given they have to match every pound. That could go on for years and tie up many millions for a long time with no guarantee they’ll see that money again.

Thank you 🙂 It is true though. Without the quality of players you have no chance. The base line is that’s its really down to them.

Me too but keepers now have to be playmakers and that won’t change. It’s a big part of their game and will have an effect on their saleability.

Body language suggests we’re beaten already.

Surely not.

Our problem isn’t the manager or onfield tactics. Changing either of those won’t make any difference IMO. Relegation can usually be put down to a number of factors but not in this case. The squad is one of the worst, if not THE worst Rovers squads I’ve seen in 60+ years.

Just my attempt at humour Arbitro. More than anything I’m baffled how any scout could see anything at all in the lad that made them think he could be effective at this level.

I can’t see him improving that much Arbitro.

No Jim, I can’t.

0-2 against one of the worst sides ever.

If you don’t score, the other team will.

I don’t think it helps in judging whether any particular player is a good header though. I don’t think for one minute that he is. He’ll win some headers for sure but every player does.

To be a good header of a ball you need timing. Timing of the leap to meet the ball at at your highest point - and timing of the forehead on the ball to give you the power. You don’t need crosses coming into the box to see if a player has that. Being tall has nothing to do with it either.

Not a striker of name to be seen anywhere at the club. Not a front runner anywhere in the club either, who can effectively hold the ball up then bring others into play. We have nothing up front, absolutely nothing. Cantwell is the only player of above average technique to be seen. There’s little to no creativity outside Cantwell. The squad also lacks pace throughout. All the result of selling anyone worth anything and not financing replacements. I can’t see where we go from here. If we were suffering injuries to our best players, or if we were just suffering a temporary loss of form there’s something you can take forward - but what is there to take forward? Won’t be long - if this carries on - before the crowd will turn on players and manager. Who at the club has the ability, means or desire to arrest all of this. That’s something else I don’t hold out much hope for.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on him then. No problem.

It’s not true that we haven’t been crossing the ball into the box. Of course we have. He’s not a good header of the ball and never looks like scoring off those crosses.

I haven’t seen any attributes.

Yes, they do to an extent. All the good strikers I’ve ever watched create most of their own chances though. They can burst through the middle with pace, or create chances by movement in the box, they can time a leap for the ball and get power and accuracy into their headers. Some of them aren’t prolific goalscorers but their technique creates chances for others. Sometimes they are just penalty box predators and little else. I don’t see any of that.

Gueyes’ abilities or otherwise are really nothing to do with our wingers or anyone else’s weaknesses. If you’re a good player, you’re a good player no matter who else is in the team.

He doesn’t look better than anyone we’ve ever had IMO. Dont forget that Brereton was 19 when he signed.