25 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Well there you go..... should have put money on it

A depressing day

Rovers were depressing

Kenilworth Road was depressing

Luton the town they forgot to bomb (come Armageddon) is depressing

Today was as bad as anything under Mowbray

More thougths later

The Germans bombed Luton in WWII.  

I would look at Matt Clarke from Brighton. 

There are no links or rumours. Only they are prepared to loan him out every year.

He is a very competent Championship centre back. For the last 4 years where ever he has played he has been player of the year.

We've done business with Brighton before, so possibly a loan.

Butterworth and Burns didn't play at Lancaster City on Friday.

Has David Wagner been suggested? He has done well at this level.

I'm not watching this. So can someone please post the system as I can't work it out from the line up.

Thanks

What happened to the player who was flying in last week with his parents?

Is he lost?

Does anyone know who he was?

Recycle the ball - Soccer Coach Weekly

I hope this link works.

I always thought ball recycling was an old rugby term.

Simply win the ball back and pass it along the back line. Lose it win it back and repeat.

Here we have soccer coaching with 'servers'

24 minutes ago, Stuart said:

I can empathise with our overseas fans not being able to watch. This is what every away game is like for many of us UK, nay Blackburn, -based supporters.

Overseas fans watching live TV coverage for peanuts while I have to dig out an old wireless and hope Radio Lancashire aren’t covering Burnley just so I can hear it - because copyright doesn’t even allow me to listen on internet radio!

Even today I’ve had to pay as much as a match ticket to watch a League Cup game online.

Your turn to be treated like shite. Don’t worry normal service will resume soon.

I've paid and can't get the video

I have paid but when I click watch match the subscribe page appears

My opinion of the links with Stoke are, that it is all conjecture.

A journalist will have heard of a connection but doesn't know what.

The link is made with Michael O'Neil and Corry Evans, but nothing develops. 

Rovers need a centre back, Harry Souter is available so this is the next name.

Due to Stokes bloated squad they are getting rid of players so Liam Lyndsay's name crops up. Even though they want their £2 million back and Rovers don't have any cash.

I am surprised  that Rovers haven't been linked with Adam Davies, the goalkeeper. He went to Stoke and hasn't had any game time due to Jack Butland not being sold.

All guesswork.....In my opinion.

12 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Except we added to our debt by getting in a manager and several players who were almost guaranteed to rubber stamp relegation.

Doubt Barnsley would have gone anywhere near Wes Brown let alone given him 10 grand per week.

Rovers signed Duffy for less than £1 miilion and Hanley through the youth system.

They were sold for £9 million plus

Rovers signed Gordon Greer, Derrick William, Charlie Mulgrew and Wes Brown.

And were relegated.

Just now, tomphil said:

Not a bad system if you can churn out enough talent but it's not good if it comes at the price of hindering the first team.  The whole idea should be to build a side for promotion but i fear water treading and that kind of system suits some people better.

I'd much prefer to harness the talent as long as possible to try and push us forwards then try and keep the sales to one big one every 2 or 3 years. As you say though with Barnsley i think we will be similar now more of a feeder club.

Not sure if they are backed by billionaires though ?

With Barnsley they don't have much debt but the owners won't spend. 

Last season they sold both centre backs and were nearly relegated.

Liam Lindsey to Stoke for £2 miilion plus and Ethan Pinnock to Brentford who cost £500k for £3 million.

Similar in a way to when Rovers sold Duffy and Hanley in the same closed season.

12 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Something i touched on before this kind of thing could become the norm here now. Sell academy graduate's for a couple of million after they've established themselves in the first team because you need that regular cash injection. Then hope to benefit down the line from another transfer after another club has paid them better wages for more games at a better standard.

Crafty way of dealing with a conveyor belt of young talent whilst you prop your own squad up with cheapo's and freebies. And of course in the middle are the % men.

A work colleague of mine supports Barnsley and this is what they do.

He states that no one will pay mega bucks for a Barnsley player, so they sell with add ons.

John Stones went to Everton for £3 million then was sold to Man City, the add on payments to Barnsley were over double what they sold him for.

Enjoyed that.

Another first timer on ifollow

Who were the commentary team?

I didn't need to re log in clicked on latest match then view match

Ifollow up and running

I feared the worst after a week where technology seemed to fail continuosly

9 minutes ago, windymiller7 said:

Nope. Can't log in either. Was on. It froze. Went to go back on  'sorry there is a problem signing you in' . Bastards!

Exactly the same for me.  Do we get refunds if they can't sort it out?

14 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It was more a case of I didn't know if I automatically had some sort of my Rovers account as a ST holder and didn't know where to look.

I assume that if like me you had never had any need to make any online purchases you won't have one.  I managed to check this by putting in my e-mail address and usual password into the log in section and it said the e-mail address wasn't recognised.

Go to Rovers.co.uk and click on the drop down menu options square in the top right hand corner of the screen. Select "My account" at the bottom of the drop down options and register for a new account giving all your personal details. (I kept having to redo this as my computer was selecting autofill options and putting the wrong things in the wrong boxes.)

When you've put your e - mail address in and completed the registration Rovers will send you an e-mail with a link which you have to click on to activate your account. You then have to update your account preferences and the final step is to click on a '"link account" tab to connect the new account you've just created to your season ticket. If you've done it right your ST number should come up on screen.

I did all this on Wednesday afternoon but haven't received a code as yet.

Apologies for boring all the techies.

Cheers Rev

Done all this. My fault I expect. This site doesn't link my account with my Email. They must have my old Email details.

No answer on the phone lines, so I clicked FAQ which has an Email address to the club. I briefly outlined what I thought was wrong and sent off the Email.

I would expect they are very busy.

Just now, den9112 said:

I have this when i go to my account it pops up when i hit season ticket holders tab ..Still not had a email with code

I get the same as a season ticket holder. 

No Emails though with a code. I will phone tomorrow. I have been reluctant to contact Rovers as often they're not much help.

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I've not had my code yet, I'm in the category of "think I have successfully set up my account but missed the Tuesday deadline".

The steps you gave earlier, are they better than the Rovers site one?

I've obviously missed the deadline as well. I may buy the match and sort out the rest later.

I have had a very busy few months so have not paid too much attention to this.

I thought it would be a case of type in your season ticket details. Or is this too simple.

Anyway, Thanks Rev.

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

You will a get a code tomorrow

I don't think I will. I am not on Myrovers.

I do all my business up front, pay straight for the season ticket etc. 

The site isn't helpful, there should be a simple what to do page. 

OK I've probably missed something.

But I have tried to register as a season ticket holder on Ifollow to watch the game. But the site requests a promo code 

What is it? And how do I get one?

This is blindingly obvious to many but......…...

On 21/04/2020 at 21:41, Neil Weaver said:

 

Excellent Neil

Do you have David Thompsons goal at Old Trafford in the semi final of the League Cup

We lost over 2 legs but there were 9000 Rovers fans there and we were deafening when that goal went in.

We've been lucky.

Rovers have scored some unbelievable goals and we've had magnificent memories for a club from Blackburn.

Tony Finnegan against the dingles. The Lancs manx cup at t'turf. Belted the ball in from miles out.

It didn't matter that it was a pre season competition, there was a bloke next to me shouting, "we've signed a world beater".

I think Tugay v Birmingham was up there.

Also the game v Liverpool... Tugay master class.

Tugay went past a midfielder, drew a centre half, passed to Pedersen who crossed to McCarthy who put in in the net.

The midfielder Gerrard, The centre half Carragher.

Brian Kidd,  Hodgsons successor signed

Gillespie, Ward, Matt Jansen, McAteer, O'Brien, McNamee, Carsley, Grayson, Kelly, Short.

Rovers ended up with Ostendstad, Harkness and Frandsen who I think that Kidd also signed