I’ve not read any comments beyond what is on this one page. That was relegation football.

Closing the BBE and totally pissing fans off will do what to attendances?

I blame Jimmy Hill. He started all this.

That’s a very cold, business like reply. It just emphasises that he doesn’t understand Rovers fans - or probably fans of any club. He might as well just have said “it saves money, tough”. I don’t think Waggott or Blackburn Rovers and the fans have anything in common at all.

I never, ever thought I’d see a rovers first team playing in front of a closed BBE. Jeez, if it’s not worth opening the BBE it’s not worth playing in the first place.

I wonder how Greg Broughtons feeling now?

A lot of good but so much fundamentally wrong with this squad.

Unbelievable

We have no one with a goal scorers instinct

Sunderland will get a third here.

When we lose the ball in midfield we’re vulnerable. Too many midfielders square or ahead of the ball. Works well when we have possession, but not good enough when we lose it.

Polio vaccine 1965. Some of our posters will have memories of the polio outbreak in Blackburn and how it affected the town and the team. I seem to remember the town was shut off to outsiders (or the advice was to stay away).My mum and Dad wouldn’t let me go to the rovers games at that point. I also remember that because of that outbreak, rovers didn’t start their season on time meaning they were rooted to the bottom of the table and never recovered. Relegated just 3 seasons after the great team of 63/64.

A truly ambitious and well run club with mega rich owners would look to build on their assets, not sell them.

The most important part of that Broughton interview for me was the enforced cut in the wage bill of 15% on top of the club having to finance any buys itself. That is the owners cutting their financial input significantly with no guarantees of future commitment. That’s a huge backward step and must leave everyone at Ewood in the dark and quite worried. How can any kind of plans be laid under those circumstances? Very difficult and hard to see how any kind of progress can be made. Indeed the opposite is far more likely I.M.O.

Maybe he’s been appointed to oversee the sale of the club.

It is.

1969.

Fabulous article from Fred Cumpstey. Thanks for posting this. I remember all of that but wasn’t fortunate enough to be at Villa Park on that day. Fergie was a magician. His close ball control, the way he just waltzed past opponents with the greatest of ease made him the perfect man to replace Duggie at inside left. He did that with such success. I’ll never forget him as I doubt anyone who saw him will. just reinforces my belief that that forward line, indeed that team was the best I ever saw.

Well to be fair, it shouldn’t be happening. At a club where everyone was pulling in the same direction it wouldn’t be happening. It’s up to Waggott to sort it out.

Hmmm. There was a sudden, drastic cut to rovers budget Philip. You’re talking about a change to process. That hasn’t happened overnight.

It means absolutely nothing. Its a bit pathetic really.

Just to clarify on the money being quoted in the first article. It gives this figure £73,96,069 It’s written using the Indian method of quoting money. If you look closely, it says £7,396,069. That’s how we would write it. It isn’t £73m.

I’ll have a go. 1 crore is ten million. Ten million rupees is £95000 therefore 65 crore is £6,175,000

I don’t think anyone at Ewood or in India, has the will to do anything - about anything - any Rovers manager says. They're all just going through the motions. Sticking to their job and not going beyond it. In industry fine. Not in football though.

Yes it does matter at this point. It gives everyone - players, manager, fans - a sense of hope. It’s a hell of a lot better than being clueless from K.O. I/we’ve seen this before though. You can play some really good football but eventually if you’re not winning confidence suffers and performances fall away. This is where the transfer window was so very important. There has to be enough quality throughout the squad to win games. The backing to ensure that isn’t there. That’s the gamble that the owners have taken. They have decided we don’t want, or can’t afford a recognised championship goal scorer. I’ve no doubt that they either don’t understand the importance of that or they just don’t care anymore. JDT will know that as do pretty much all of us. Don’t know why I bothered posting this really. It’s so bloody obvious.