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At least they have seen the obvious in Vale. Not good enough by a long way.

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I suspect Weimann’s new contract will be a reduced-wage token gesture.

A reminder that, forgotten amongst the comedic failure to press send on McGuire, was another sign that Venkys had pulled the plug.

Hope that they’ve offered Batth a proper contract and they’ve not tried to lowball him. Slightly worrying they’ve not announced him as signing on if they’ve offered a contract already.

Maybe they don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

As they love AI so much to generate their statements:-

How do you know JDT had the final say, other than some other failures at Ewood told you this in an interview when they were probably trying to save their own neck. If you can find a quote from JDT I’ll admit I gladly admit I was wrong. Something you haven’t done on the 3000 minutes target quote from Rudy.

So we don't know that JDT signed off on Telalovic over La Liga man. And we certainly don't know (the main point) that JDT was happy with either.

The likes of Vale and Markanday will be 24 at the start of next season. To put that into context, Shearer was 24 when we started the 94/95 season. Jansen was 24 at when we got promoted and started the Worthy cup winning season. They aren't teenagers anymore. They should be almost at their peak now.

How do you know this, but more importantly, how do you know JDT was actually happy with either? I doubt JDT will have come out and said it, unlike Rudy actually saying on camera that the target for academy players is to get back to 3000 minutes in the first team.

JDT wanted another striker all summer. On deadline day they probably said "It's Telalovic or nothing". He could have said no, but when you are in the last 12 hours of the window there will be an element in desperation as to whether they are 'wanted' or not.

Stanley fan at work said Batty looked decent when he played. Would love him back but knows it’s highly unlikely.

Gestede actually said:- "The plan for our squad is to give as much (acadamy minutes) as we can. The year before was 2000 minutes for our academy players, almost 3000 minutes the year before, so now we want to go back to those numbers." That, as @roversfan99 says, implies that we do have an objective of getting back to 3000 minutes.

I’d rather Stockport, just for another local away game next season.

They’ll probably sell Pickering and promote Batty. And before someone says is he ready / good enough, they don’t give a shit. It cuts costs and hits their targets. As Rudy said, exciting times.

You watch him come on for West Ham this season and he looks a shadow of the player of just 2 years ago. Even without the bastard baggage, I’m not sure how much is left to justify the huge wage it would take.

Baath and Weimann being replaced with kids or cheapies. Not beating any of the promoted sides away. Making a mess of Preston away.

Trav getting injured at Millwall. The start of the rot. Baker leaving a few games later and then Tronstadt getting injured compounded the lack of depth in that position. Plus Baath getting injured. If either of those two didn’t happen we’d have done it comfortably.

In general, Blackburn with Darwen had the lowest gross disposable income per head of all Lancashire in 2021. It was one of the lowest in the whole country. So of course people in all areas of the UK feel financial pressures, but on average there is less spare money to go around per person in this area than other parts of the country.

I imagine CB number 5 will be O’Riordan or one of the academy lads.

It won’t have been my first game as Dad will have taken us to many games before this one and I would have just played down the front, but my first game I can recall being at is the Man U cup tie in 85.

Is it based on average rating across all games? Or most POTM won throughout the season?