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9 minutes ago, USABlue said:
Unless Mowbary is in charge. I really hope they want it.Hooe they knock in a few too to help goal dif. Then we just have to hooe Dingles don't hate us as much as we think, I wiuld certainley not look for favours but I bet they don't fancy ending on a losing note. Wonder what clarrot fans want.
I suppose I am just thankful and blown away that we have something to play for in the last match. Good stuff could we just sneak in there, will the football gods shine in us. Will Gavin Ward not be the ref. Olus a handful of others who seem anti Rovers can't quite pull their names from me fading memory but Ward's sticks
I honestly don't believe for one minute that the players and manager, care like the supporters do, about getting one over on our local rivals. Does anyone really think, that Scot Parker wouldn't prefer to have a Championship winners CV above, handing Millwall 3 points to spit us?
Yes, there is the odd exception in both camps, buy by and large the players and manager will remain professional and will be trying to win on Saturday, I am pretty much certain, of that.
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35 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:
Even in our glory days we had that stinker of a Wilcox penalty in another FA Cup quarter final over there.
To make matters worse, a mate of mine converted his penalty for the Blafes, who then played their rivals at Wembley in the semis.
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40 minutes ago, levi said:
Bc on 67,rovers on 65
I know. So the lose to Leeds then draw V PNE and we can finish above them
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1 hour ago, levi said:
Hopefully leeds beat bristol city tomorrow night and then there's 2 play off places maybe up for grabs if rovers can do their bit
There needs to be a 4 goal swing potentially, so we need Leeds to win handsomely
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1 hour ago, Moptop1 said:
Simply put, Burnley will not care a jot about us when they play Millwall. You know they will let Millwall win.
As for Bristol City, if they lose tomorrow, they’ll need to beat Knob End to stay in Play Offs. If they win at Leeds, do you think they’ll care about the Preston game either?
Sadly, I think it’s all too late (again)!
No way will they do that, when the title is at stake.
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8 minutes ago, arbitro said:
And he nearly scored again yesterday with a good effort from twenty yards which narrowly missed.
One general observation I have made is that we do seem to be shooting more often. Perhaps not enough at times but it seems to be moving in the right direction.
I thought it was in, he hit the ball sweetly and was unlucky to see it go narrowly wide.
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He is for me, quite rightly the player of the season. It is no coincidence, how much we struggled, when he was either out injured or not 100% fit. His two goals V Millwall were a bonus, as for me, it’s his covering qualities and protection he offers the back 4 that are his real strengths. I can’t think of a better player in the Championship, who does that, although I do concede, my Rovers bias.
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1 minute ago, ... said:
This is it! Need other results to go our way but a must win in order to keep our end of the bargain.
Coventry go into their next game without experienced LB Dasilva, deflated under their loss yesterday to Luton, we could see them give it everything against Boro as match ups go we could see these two teams cancel each other out taking away a point that's no good for us should we beat the blades.
A Coventry loss, a Rovers win, a Burnley win at home to Millwall.
Let's av it!
A draw is fine in the Boro game, so long as we win and our local neighbours don’t let us down.
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We have to just go to Bramhall Lane and win. It’s quite incredible that we are still in with a chance, going into the last game, despite the shenanigans. I would much rather have this tingling of excitement about the game, than have nothing riding on it and us just playing the season out.
I will be in Spain, watching on Rovers TV as usual and definitely have my lucky underpants on.
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43 minutes ago, Mercer said:
The most likely scenario especially as SU will fancy their chances more against Rovers in play offs than against another opponent.
They won’t lose to us on purpose, to try and get us in the play offs and there is a chance we could finish fifth. I am pretty sure they will rest a few, but will definitely not roll over.
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1 hour ago, Forever Blue said:
If we beat Sheff U there’s every chance we’d play them again a couple of weeks later in the playoff semis
It’s a lot more likely we finish 6th than 5th if we do beat them, so that’s correct.
I do think they will rest a few like they did yesterday, but still a tough game.
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8 minutes ago, oozy said:
Coventry drawing or losing today doesn't make any difference to us, does it?
If they draw with Boro, we'll be above them on goal difference anyway.
All hypothetical of course, as we'll no doubt lose today now that the dying embers of our hopes are somehow being rekindled.
Thats right. We have to win both and hope Coventry don’t win today or V Boro next week. A draw for them or a defeat, makes no difference
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6 hours ago, Upside Down said:
I'm genuinely curious as to why folk wouldn't back the coalition.
If not, what do you think we should be doing?
Surely nobody who actually supports the club can think the current situation is in any way acceptable?
It seems 8 people on here out of 334 who voted, don’t back it, so a minute, number, but some, none the less.
Not everyone is up for a confrontation, I guess, but no one can back this regime for certain, who cares about the club.
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Plenty of rope given to him here, so well done.
We seem to be nothing but a laughing stock and the latest podcast, hammers that home loud and clear.
Inspector Clouseau is our CEO in waiting, ready willing and able to replace the current incumbent, Basil fawlty. With the head of stadium maintenance one Rupert Rigsby, it’s turning into a right carry on.
It ain’t half hot mum at the club right now, so what could go wrong.
Nurse please help!!!!
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4 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:
Rory is in the coalition has been from week 1
I did hear that, but was a bit worried about posting anything, after a cock up I posted earlier this week.
Its great that he is, as I think he is a real gem of a contributor to the fight back that we are seeing with you and the coalition.
I E Mailed him the anonymous booklet printed a few years ago, as some of the material he has quoted was also in there. No one still seems to know, who authored that. It is a quality publication and it has crossed my mind, that Rory could be the author, but apparently not.
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34 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:
Rory’s back…
This guy is dynamite
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1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:
Should be something whenever the FF minutes go live.
Can't imagine many at all have been sold.
Couple of thousand at best?
I believe the minutes are due out this week and the answer was given to numbers sold, in that meeting.
I think 1,000 at best at that point, but maybe some have been sold since and before Gestede out his size 9 in.
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42 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:
Harry Berry nails it…again…
Not to mention the record home defeat to Fulham.
Its all the fans fault.
BOLLOCKS
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1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:
What still puzzles me and many others. Is after 15 years of gross mismanagement and basically no interest in the club.
Why are the Venkys still the owners???
Sell the club and cut your ' so called losses' ??
That is the question, that really needs answering.
I have always thought, that there is something buried deep that would cause huge issues if it came out and therefore, the owners and the people involved in the takeover, did not want any deep dive or scrutiny. It is the only thing that makes sense and I have spent hours trying to think of another reason, but never can.
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I guess the Gestede interview, probably put a few more off buying a season ticket. Can there have been a bigger own goal, since Shane Duffy was at the club?
I know the question about the numbers sold, was asked at the fans forum and from a post on here, the answer to that question, will be made public in the minutes, due to be published this week.
Assuming those figures are as embarrassing, as already stated and not much improvement is made, before the early bird discount, at the end of next week, someone could have a lot of explaining to do.
Now that we know the club have no intention, of investing, to push for a return to the top flight, maybe another announcement, like the one made prior to the 23/24 season will be made, stating once again, that avoiding relegation, is the seasons ambition. How truly dire this situation, especially given the 150th anniversary of the forming of the club, is looming large.
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41 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:Said I'd do a summary for those who don't want to watch it but might be interested in knowing, so here goes:
10:15 - Rudy is asked why Eustace left. He said he doesn't know the exact reason why, but was told it was for personal reasons, to be closer to home. He then says he heard it was for some other reason, but that he believes it was for personal reasons.
He doesn't seem to be in the loop, does he?
27:25 - Natalie asks him where the money is from Wharton and Szmodics and how was it reinvested into the squad. He says we spent around £5m across the summer and January and that was our budget almost done.
He says the club could have communicated better their plans for next season with the fans, and that the fans may have then understood that the club did not plan to spend in January to push for a play off place.
He states that the plan was to build step by step, to lay the foundations for next season. If we made the play offs this season, he said this would be fantastic but that it was not the main aim at the start of the season.
Jam tomorrow? Just think...there we all are getting excited about us sitting 5th place in January. Eustace appears reasonably excited, the players reasonably excited. Eustace publicly states that he and the players want quality to come in. Plenty of us are thinking 'maybe, just maybe this time'. Yet this lot upstairs appear to have had no thought about promotion. An insult to all of us.
They let Eustace go and brought in a manager with NEXT season's championship 'rebuild' in mind, whilst sitting 5th!
Next season, folks. Don't worry. Actually, make it two seasons. We're building. Foundations, guys. Foundations. Bollocks.
Mowbray was also building seven years ago. That's not on Gestede, but we have heard this for many years. This is going to be some mega project when it's complete. A project to rival all projects. Tossers.
31:50 - Natalie states that there is a disconnect between the £30m bought in and the £5m spent on new signings. The fans want that money reinvested, but you're (Rudy) saying Blackburn need that money to sustain:
Rudy:
It's not the plan at the start of the season that we are going to reinvest the money coming in straight into transfers. That's not the plan. We want to develop our own players, to buy cheaper players that have resale value, like we did with Szmodics.
That's the model of the club. The plan of the club is not to spend money to go back to the Premier League and to win the Premier League again. Step by step we're developing the club again. We've got good foundations. We need the fans onboard".
Firstly, if somebody has told you that we are unhappy because we want Venky's to win us a second Premier League title, Rudy, know that they are lying and have an agenda. No Rovers fan is asking for that.
That aside, the ambition of this hierarchy is clear to see. Sell players, stay in the Division. What else can be said? Nobody mention the Brighton or Brentford model again. There appears to be no intent to do what those clubs have done here.
The Academy route, IMO, is nothing but a cheap, money saving exercise, as Big Sam subtly suggests at one stage of this interview.
32:43 - Rudy reiterates the need to better communicate plans for the club with the fans so that we can understand:
"If we are in the play offs next season, or even this season, that is fantastic. But that's not the first aim. We want to develop the club and make sure when we bring in a player that he's got resale value. That's how we're going to operate going forward.
Then, when we've got more money coming in the business and we break even with the revenue and everything, then we can start to go higher and higher".
Ah. A few more years, folks. I'm sorry, but everybody needs to relax and be patient.
40:38 - Rudy on minutes for Academy players:
"Last season we only gave 142 minutes to Academy players under John Eustace. The plan for our squad is to give as much as we can. The year before that it was 2,000 minutes for our Academy players and almost 3,000 minutes the year before that. So, now we want to go back to those numbers".
Seriously? Who gives a toss about that? It means nothing. The cream will always make it. Win us football matches. Win us promotion. Again, Big Sam says something like the Academy players should be a supplementary element, not the main focus of building a team. Sam knows the score and he knows you don't get anywhere by just focusing on kids.
47:00 - Fantastic point from Natalie. She says, Venky's bought a club in the Premier League with incredible history and during their tenure the club has just gone down and down.
"What is down?" Rudy asks sharply. "Because we are in Championship fighting for play offs. I'm not sure it's that 'down'."
Tell me you know nothing about the the last 15 years, or the stature and standards of Blackburn Rovers, without telling me you don't know about the last 15 years, or the stature and standards of Blackburn Rovers.
Finally, Big Sam makes an important point to him:
47:45 - "if you get in the play offs this year or next, you have to win it. If you don't do that, you won't get there again".
If this lot think they can wing a promotion somehow whilst just being bothered with player development and saving the owners money, then they have to be the most deluded set of individuals in European football.
Despite everything Rudy has said here, my issue isn't really with him. He's the one facing the flak, when it should be Pasha out there answering questions.
There are similarities here between Gestede and Broughton for me. The issues back then with Broughton and now with Gestede are the same, in my view. Those further up the chain.
Thanks for posting this, as I can’t watch it, as I love the club far too much, to listen to someone talk about us, in this way. It has been hard enough finding out what he said, by reading the posts on here.
From what I have read, the bit about without Venkys there would be no football at Ewood, is frankly insulting. I have been a supporter of the club for 53 years and now some chancer tells us, that we somehow survived and prospered for all these years without them. The one and only reason our beloved club is in so much danger of not existing anymore, is due to the owners miss management, appointing greedy bastards like Kean, Anderson, Waggott and Gestede himself and just neglecting the whole core of the club.
Pay day loans, selling our most prized young academy player and Rovers fan, Adam Wharton and other players, like Raya, Armstrong, Szmodics etc, to keep us afloat, is quite frankly disgusting and the sooner we rid ourselves of this vermin the better.-
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1 minute ago, Groundhog said:
He doesn't give a fuck about the fans - never credits the fanbase at once, not even as a throwaway remark to placate listeners.
When the presenter pressed him on the fact the Venky's have took a Premier League team down he interrupted with "what is down".
He's incredibly obtuse and fronts up too quickly.
Very, very uncomfortable watch.
I daren't watch it, for fear of it upsetting me too much.
Perhaps someone needs to send the 3 Rory videos to Rudy and ask him for some feedback.
Muppet.
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1 hour ago, ... said:
I'll be on another island for both of those I'm sure the wife wouldn't mind me hopping on another plane...
I think my wife is going to attend the match with me.
Let me know if you can make it and perhaps we can have a cerveza.
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Spot on.