Good result after going 1-0 down. With their excellent travelling support it was quite a testing atmosphere but we showed fortitude to come back and dominate after a shaky start. Szmodics, Gallagher and JRC excellent. Moran anonymous, he needs dropped. Like others have said I’d like to see Markanday or Gilsenan in for him. Loving these cup runs under JDT, and I am relishing testing ourselves against Newcastle. I just hope we aren’t humiliated but in the cup you never know what could happen.

7200 just confirmed 🙄

At least Sigurdsson is getting involved even if not everything is coming off. I can’t remember Moran doing anything in this match. Heard so many good things about him but I can’t see what all the fuss is about.

I had guys at work who never watch rovers remark on how good Gallagher is after watching us vs Celtic in a friendly. The odd time he is unplayable and he certainly has all the attributes as you say. Just no killer instinct. If he had Jordan Rhodes’s brain he’d be premiership quality. All that said I’m glad he’s back and he’s been impressive tonight (the championship Harry Kane 😂).

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/25/crystal-palace-weigh-up-new-offer-for-blackburns-adam-wharton-after-185-bid-rejected It’s starting to seem real now. I reckon we’ll get the £25m plus add-ons with no loan back as Palace are desperate for some good players. I’ll be sad to see him go but proud that he came through our system. I hope he goes on to fulfill his potential and play for the top clubs and England. And I hope he behaves more graciously than Phil Jones who forgot us very quickly after he’d signed for Utd. Here’s hoping we finally get some funds to build a squad. We’ve been waiting a long, long time for this, finally a validation of Jack Walker’s investment in our academy.

Fair play to the Rovers twitter account for taking him on. His views are popular with a lot of fans but he never impressed me as a player, even less as a half-baked philosopher, and not at all as a pound shop Tommy Robinson. He was a bully when he was a player and he’s still a bully now.

If we’re in League 1 then any decent player will be off. We can set our own price on players but if Wharton sees someone like Hayden Carter going for market value in L1 then I’d imagine he would be very upset if we refuse to sell for the perceived value of a talented youngster in the third tier.

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Yeah he probably has some say but I’m beginning to think it’s minimal. He’s practically begging “the club” to not sell Gallagher which implies that the decision won’t be his to make. It’s all conjecture on our behalf although one thing I am sure of is that managers never get bored of repeating the same old comments week after week!

100% He's definitely the best manager we’ve had under the Venkys and I hope we don’t lose him for non-football reasons. Results need to improve but I don’t lay much blame with him. Nobody else could succeed at our club with players not being replaced and no investment.

Whether Guardiola could win the league with a smaller club is an interesting question, and ultimately a question we will never have answered as I doubt he’d be interested in taking on a club without massive resources. Is it more impressive to win consistently at the top level or to win when the odds are overwhelmingly against you? Claudio Ranieri or Pep Guardiola? I don’t think Pep has anything to prove by taking on a smaller team. He won the treble in two different leagues and the top league in three different countries. His list of achievements is incredible and will probably lead to him being remembered as City’s greatest ever manager and a legend to Barcelona fans.

I don’t think he has much input into signings and I got a real sense of frustration on his behalf when reading his comments on transfers up until now. In his latest interview he won’t discuss transfers which indicates to me that he has been told to toe the line. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24061770.truth-behind-jutkiewicz-links-tomasson-stays-tight-lipped/ He seems pissed off (again) in this interview and I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t in charge at the end of the season for one reason or another.

Waggott out! Bbrovers2288 in!

It was a brilliant finale to s2. I got straight on to google after it finished and apparently s3 has been filmed with a hopeful release date of September. S4 has been approved as well 😀

Kin is excellent. It only improves for S2 when Bren is released from prison. He’s a brilliant character in the mold of those evil gits you love to hate in Game of Thrones.

If you want to know what the future of Rovers is under Venkys, picture a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Might work. But then where would width come from?

So then where do you play Wharton? He’s been the one bright spark of this season. He was excellent today with his work rate, first touch and passing range making him really stand out. He’s top quality in that position as he breaks play up well and gets us chances time and again. I wasn’t 100% sure before but he is a class act and will be a premiership player by next season.

Too many players in that team who are not championship standard. Wahlstedt, Moran, Markanday, Ennis, Leonard, Hill, might all be good one day but they’re not what we need right now. The squad is just not good enough. We’re in an awful run and showing relegation form now but it’s down to missing so many first teamers and having to rely on loans, free transfers and cast offs to bolster our squad. It all comes back to having no resources to replace the players we’ve lost and build a squad to challenge for promotion. Not the fault of JDT or Broughton IMO, the blame lies with Venkys. Sad times.

Feels strange typing this but I can’t wait for Gallagher to get back into the side, and I’d put him down the right wing. Moran and Markanday have offered nothing in all the matches I’ve seen.

What the hell was that from Markanday?

What a strange game. We look like the players have only just met each other. Defensively all over the place. Keep giving the ball away. But two great goals, especially the first from Szmodics have me feeling glad that I didn’t turn off in disgust at 2-0 (it was very, very close). Turned out to be an exciting match, a real advert for the championship.

Chaddy called it

Garrett has been very good. Travis good at LB too surprisingly. Ennis is getting almost in the right places lol just looks like he’s not 100% on the same page as his teammates. Entertaining first half, we’ve been the better team and the score line is about right. Great goal from Wharton who has been excellent. What a good young squad we have. Great when it all comes together like this.