Hasta

They won’t engage properly. They don’t want to. Fans opinions are a hinderance to their aim of cutting costs and cutting ambition. Mike Graham spent years telling us we needed to keep engaging, and look at his speech as the outgoing chairman at the last Rovers trust meeting.

GET BEHIND THE LADS FFS ( And the boardroom. And Sky. Don’t forget Sky. )

On what planet is Danny Batth injury prone? He was out for 6 games last season. 3 the season before. Going back through his career he hardly misses any games every season.

I think Stanley are in for a tough season.Be surprised if they aren’t in the bottom 4 or 5.

From LT:- Aynsley Pears and John Buckley’s time at Blackburn Rovers could be coming to an end after the pair were left out of the squad to face NEC Nijmegen. Pears has not featured in pre-season yet due to a hip injury but did play 90 minutes for the Under-21s in midweek. He kept a clean sheet as they beat Barnsley in a behind-closed-doors match. “It was a decision that we made,” Ismael told The Lancashire Telegraph on their absence. “I don’t know what the situation is for them and the future. We took a decision for the squad today and that’s who we picked, that’s it.” It’s understood that both Pears and Buckley asked to play in the midweek match for gametime but that has done little to change the pecking order. Rovers will surely entertain any offers forthcoming with neither play likely to be content with sitting out.

Buckley will get a club, prob league one, but no one will buy him for any noticeable modest fee. A good move for him now would be somewhere like Wigan.

Pears will get a buyer somehow. Bucko will be given away.

Travis and Tronstadt looked today like they had no intention of competing for anything close to a 50/50, which to be fair doesn’t bother me in the last pre-season game before we start proper. However for their third goal Travis just looks like he can’t be arsed sprinting, is so slow to get across and just lunges to bring him down and misses.

And yet Barry Bannan signs a new contract this afternoon 🤷‍♂️

How else are we going to hit Gestede’s target of 3000 academy minutes this season.

You post this like you’re proving or showing how strong our squad is, but to most of us it just looks weak. Saying players who “suit Ismael’s style of play” means nothing. Telalovic might have suited JDT’s style of play more than Keifer Moore, but if they aren’t very good it doesn’t matter. And if our style of play is “closing down and pressing” you need to make sure they still have ability and aren’t just headless chickens. No good getting the ball and wasting good opportunities and positions like today.

Have I gone to bed and woke up and suddenly every thinks Gueye is Zlatan ! I wouldn’t sell him due to the lack of options and he’s a handy plan B, but talk of £4mill to £6million is bonkers. Ismael didn’t fancy him at all at the end of last season, and he didn’t start a game after mid-March.

1. Winners of the Championship Ipswich 2. Automatic promotion (runners-up) in the Championship Coventry 3. Four Play off semi-finalists in the Championship Leicester, Sheff U, Boro, Southampton 4. Three relegated sides from the Championship Wednesday, Hull, Charlton 5. Where will Rovers finish in the Championship? 16th 6. First Championship club to change manager (after the season starts) Swansea 7. Winners of the Premier League Liverpool 8. A notable wild card prediction of something that will happen in the Rovers universe during the season (e.g. Donald Trump visits Ewood Park) The stands or the whole ground become sponsored. The Venkys Xpress Stadium. The Number 39 Kebab and Pizza Blackburn End. The Vape-orama Nuttall Street Grandstand.

I stand corrected. He seemed quite safe when he first started playing for us but was one he really seemed to get forward when JDT-ball was working. For some reason I thought he arrived a year earlier.

Mowbray bought a raw Brittain. JDT got him playing one-two’s, first time passes, running off the ball and getting into the box. Eustace got him defending better. Its a good example of a player absorbing the best bits from each coach he’s worked under.

Bizarre competition. You'll be telling me next we don't get than much-desired trip to Wembley if we got to the final.

And Burnley. Probably scheduled for 8am on a Monday behind closed doors.

I may be wrong, but I really don’t see the owners being interested in the slightest in watching the highlights of a pre-season friendly in Spain.

Balaji and Co. are currently on the phone to Suhail asking why we could have sold our women’s team to Everton’s parents company.

As Stanley are really struggling, you'd think the very best players from their academy would have moved into the first team squad when they shut the academy. They regularly feature 18 year olds each season to some degree.

As far as I can tell, Sheff Weds hasnt actually moved. Just been selected for TV over Christmas. Preston away will be annyong for many, although we will probaly "make an afternoon of it"

He was hardly injured last season and was in the team or on the bench for Plymouth most of the time so no reason why he wouldn't be fit. The run up to him signing for Rovers is listed below. The longest spell he had last season without making any first team appearances was the 4 game run in March / April whilst he was at Ewood. He was hardly like Dennis who hadn't kicked a ball in a first team for almost a year. Nor had he missed loads of training through injury last season. Therefore I'm not sure how you can say he wasn't fit. He appeared better as the season went on because he wasn't starting. He was generally coming on when we were shutting up shop and had less ground to cover.

If he’d been available and played most of the season for Plymouth, why was he unfit when he came?

The GK is the same then surely? Other than that, I don't disagree much. If we don't lose anyone we will be in a reasonably decent shape for the start of the season. You explanation for AM and CF being stronger is a bit of a stretch.

Are you talking the squad on the 1/9/24 compared to today ? Or the squad on the 28/7/24 compared to 28/7/25 ?