We’re in agreement about all of this Rev. I would just add this. The lower down the leagues we fall, the more the academy will produce for the first team. It’s not just down to improvements - or otherwise - in the academies performance.

Changed it for you Matt. - and even then, for many lapsed fans it won’t rekindle their interest.

Correct.

For goodness sake leave the argument about who caused Ducks injury alone. Nobody caused his injury. If anyone had thought his left ACL was in danger, I’m certain he wouldn’t have played. It’s not doing any good going on about it on here. Everybody feels absolutely gutted for the lad. I’ve not really got the heart to discuss the game after Dacky’s injury, suffice to say the penalty incidents can be talked about for ever, but the truth is we weren’t good enough to score ourselves and we were second best all over the park AGAIN. Alter that, become the better team on a more consistent level and we can start complaining about the referees with a bit more justification.

This is a superb England side without any perceivable weakness. Enjoy it while we have it. It won’t get any better than this.

Is that the same one? (Same knee)?

Don’t have any problem with work rate, but the team has no shape, no obvious pattern of play. Again, we haven’t got a sharp end to the team, we don’t have a centre forward. We are blunt up top. Best team won for sure.

Second best everywhere I’m afraid.

Nobody is saying we shouldn’t bring youth through. They should supplement the first team, not totally replace it. Venkys sold an entire Premier League squad in order to replace it with our own youngsters to sell on and invest the proceeds in the first team - 11 years ago.

Mowbray has been downplaying the status of Blackburn Rovers since he’s been here @1864roverite Hes regularly saying the fans shouldn’t be expecting rovers to be competing with giants like - PNE for instance.

Personally I’ve never heard a rovers manager so negative about the ability of his own squad, so regularly downgrading the stature of his own club or the constant positivity towards every opponent we play. Why should fans have to listen to this claptrap?

Anyone remember the ground capacity at that time? There were over 40,000 on for that game.

Of its time? Wonders what boys from the black stuff would be like now?

its not all about player development though, is it. You don’t need to build 170 houses on the academy land, to further develop players. You just don’t. The bottom line to youth recruitment at any club is to attract the best young talent there in the first place. Having great academy facilities is a big part of that, especially for Rovers who are at a disadvantage to the bigger NW clubs in the first place. The idea of bringing everyone under the same roof will make no difference to developing young players. were told it’s not about Venkys or money. The best plan then is keep a current category 1 academy and build on the existing infrastructure that Jack Walker left them.

My questions would be about the fundamental need to do this. Firstly, the only real reason I can see is to get everybody “under one roof”. secondly, Venkys haven’t asked for this according to Waggott. “The club” has asked for it. Well, sorry but “the club” doesn’t have a voice, this has to have come from someone with a name. Seeing that Venkys haven’t asked for it - according to Waggott - then the only person who could have asked Venkys to sell off this land is the CEO himself. Why won’t he say that? These answers don’t give us the truth in my opinion. Either Venkys HAVE asked for Waggott to sell off the land in order to simply cash in on the rewards of a 170 house development and Waggott is protecting them, - or this housing development is going ahead simply because it seems a good idea for “Tony”. I think the second one is highly unlikely. Does selling off such an amount of the academy for the current whim of a manager who certainly won’t be here much longer make any sense? Absolutely not. I suggest Waggott isn’t telling the trust the whole story here and I am very sceptical of what this crew are up to. Someone as yet unknown is behind all this. I hate to think this lot down at Ewood are going to do irreversible damage then clear off.

Got you now!

I’m confused. That article was posted on 20/02/21? I also thought that OZ said earlier there was no covenant? Okay... I guess the trust still has to post the clubs response to those questions.

Different day, different bollocks. Hes not talking to the fans, he’s talking to the owners. For some reason they’ve always accepted this tripe and apparently still do.

It’s a relief to get that over. I guess England think so too. Bottom line is that we just didn’t have the batting technique for those wickets. It always been that way and I can’t see any way we can change that.

This series hasn’t been boring has it 😊. England have consistently got team selection wrong. The Bowlers given far too much work to do in 40 degrees heat in this test. Bess has played himself out of test cricket for quite some time as well. All in all, truly hammered by a far better team in this series. Yet we still have a (tiny) chance of drawing it. Work that one out.

@RevidgeBlue - all that land and they’re talking about squeezing a two storey building on there. Second thoughts, absolutely no doubt.

Then we get 400 in our second innings and bowl India out for 204 on a fiercely turning wicket on day 5, to draw the series 2-2. Easy Gav.

Yep. Also this... The week-long public consultation period for the proposals is set to start on March 11, with planning permission anticipated to be submitted later this month. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19134934.public-consultation-details-rovers-brockhall-plans-revealed/ so... does that mean the planning application will go ahead with no certainty of Cat 1 status? Also, what does it mean for Waggotts claim that nothings going to happen for years?

Planning application going in for the houses whatever happens to the Academy or it’s status. These plans have been in the pipeline for quite some time, but Waggott decided to keep the fans in the dark. I can’t put into words how I feel about the whole scenario. Jack Walkers money paid for everything down at Brockhall and this crew are cashing in on it. Disgusting.

I’m surprised it’s taken the sickness so long to kick in. I lost a stone and a half in weight in 4 weeks when I worked there.