TugaysMarlboro

A poor decision that hasn’t been thought through by those running the club. It reinforces the view that they’re every bit as incompetent as they’ve been labelled, rookies and amateurs with zero prior experience in the roles they’re undertaking. There’ve been rumours all summer about how they treat individuals and groups who don’t toe the line, nothing proven, but plenty of noise. Then they pull a stunt like this, in full view of the public. Anyone with half a brain cell could see this risks the mask slipping, but not them. As a fan or a neutral, it’s now hard not to believe every single rumour that’s been doing the rounds.

Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Moistés Caicedo the midfielder enforcer / swimming coach.

Have to disagree with you here. Regardless of what minute it was, the pitch was preventing football being played. I've watched that video you posted and although there's clearly water on the pitch, the ball was still rolling, even when being carried by whoever it was who scored our 3rd. Multiple times today, that wasn't the case. I'm as frustrated as you are that we were close to taking a win from a probable promotion contender, but taking away any bias, it was (sadly) the right decision.

I know you two have your own back and forths, but I genuinely don't understand your point of view here Chaddy.

Hasn't this been a known issue for some time and something that our current owners have been aware of? Haven't they also been told a way it can be addressed? Maybe the cheque they signed for it went sailing down the River Darwen.

Just to let anyone in the ground know. The games off. Apparently the waters fucked the tannoy system, but not our X page.

What's happened to Henriksson? Injured or just not fancied?

Will you please stop being so logical.

I don't live in the town, but I worked in Blackburn as a youngster during my college years, went to Blackburn college and went out around Blackburn almost twice a week for drinks (do I ever miss Barzooka). I've visited twice in the past 12 months to see a contractor and left immediately afterwards. Sadly the town is a mirror of the club as it stands.

You've seen one image and not verified anything in there. If you went onto transfermarkt you would note that the fees besides Dom Hyam, Lewis Travis, Harry Leonard and Callum Brittain are all followed with a ? - so they are not included in any calculation for money received. The only two confirmed fees are John Buckley and JRC who combined are 2.03 million euros.

Understand your point and can see why you think that. On the flip side, shortly after that game you mentioned, their manager was sacked and replaced by Pereira (very end of December) who then clearly made a very quick decision that he wasn't in his plans.

Dave probably wasn't a supporter pre takeover either.

So to recap in numbers, based off last season. 19,863 minutes of experience have left this summer 232 Championship starts between them 3 of our top 5 appearance-makers have departed permanently 2 stooges 1 inexperienced pariah playing “real-life Football Manager” 0 contract renewals

Then you might as well stick to posting exclusively on matchday threads if that's your view.

To add to this because it's a crazy percentage, If Hyam does leave as expected, that's 43% of all potential minutes from last season eradicated in the form of permanent transfers out. Over 50% if Pears doesn't play another minute for us (although I do far prefer Toth).

Here's a protest idea. See if we can get more people to turn up to the next fans forum than would normally attend Ewood for a game.

I know numbers don't always tell the whole story, but if Hyam does go, here's some stats. Of the 8 players that will have been moved on, between them they made 223 starts last season, 219 of those were full 90 minute appearances (meaning those 8 averaged 28 full games each). 3 of our top 5 appearance makers are gone, It also leaves out Aynsley Pears, who sits second for minutes and appearances; include him in the exiled list and that becomes 4 of our top 5. I've excluded all loanees from the list too. That is nothing short of a catastrophic loss of experience and continuity. No amount of lipstick can hide that.

Maybe he's fed up like the rest of us.

He refused to play (table tennis with the new lads at the STC) so we've had no choice but to sell him.

I really, truly hope this is sarcasm. Or nuance is becoming a lost art.

Absolutely drowning in contract extensions.

Or give Hyam a pay rise rather than expecting him to sign on the same terms?

I don't imagine the club would divulge information like that in a public domain. But that being said, I don't think I've ever seen an official club photo where a cap is being worn by a player on every available image.

How long before we get an under/over market on "here we go" social posts?