But his handling and positioning is probably still better than the two incumbents at 60 years of age.

Lets hope the Indian Judge isn't a secret Nicko-teen

I'm only going around in cicles because I pointed out that the same people who couldn't get the O'Brien and Undav deal done are the same people we are relying on this year to try and get deals done. Clearly not pointless for the thread. Pointless for you because it implies Greg doesn't walk on water.

Considered coming to Ewood. Agreed to the move. Met Greg and Swag. Changed his mind. Of course he is going to say "fight for my place" rather than "Wasn't impressed. One was out of his depth and the other was a used-car salesman"

Yes you can. I've done this to death regarding Undav, including yesterday. I'm not prepared to go through it again.

He didn't. He just went back to being Brereton, which is exactly what continued in Spain. For the last six months his work-rate and tracking back when he was on the wing was still twice what Moran and Siggurdson are achieving now.

Unfortunately the same clowns who couldn't get those deals done are still in situ.

Considering he was out of position, I thought Travis did OK at left back against Watford so maybe he can cover. Oh wait....

Of course you can. The fact Undav travelled up to meet Rovers suggests he was seriously considering joining. After he met us, he decided to stop and fight for his place. We clearly didn’t ’sell the club’.

I see Undav has hit 9 goals in 15 Bundesliga games this season. That was a huge turning point in our fortunes this time last year when he met Broughton and GB failed to convince him to come. He’d have got a bagful in our league.

Also expect the strongest team because if we win we get an extra £120k, and that could pay for opening the Blackburn End for the next 20 league cup games.

BBD has one job to do for us this season, and that’s in late April.

Proper Wales 1 Scouse Wales 0

Ok until they equalised, and then we shrank. Following their equaliser we should really have lost based on Huddersfield having the best 3 chances. Important point, but worrying.

I’ve always loved it. At the moment, because there is no dominant force, it’s especially engaging. The Premier League will knock the enthusiasm out of you though. The same 8 players playing each other every week for 4 months with little decided until the last couple of weeks. 😴😴😴

I’m only pointing out that your statement about “Once upon a time when the football authorities had balls, players caught gambling were given life time bans” is very misleading and inaccurate. I fully get why footballers gambling isn’t allowed and get the points you make above. He’s broke the rules and served a ban. The ban could potentially have been longer to be fair. But a lifetime ban would have been way OTT.

As above, as in as my reply above yours. They were all banned for match fixing, not for simply gambling on games. Some of them admitted ensuring that their teams lost the game to ensure the outcome. There’s no evidence that’s anything like what Toney was doing.

As above.

Was banned and jailed for match fixing of games he was involved in, which is different than betting on your team to lose games which you are not playing in.

I’d start Gallagher and JRC for Leonard and Moran. And then replace Adam Wharton with Garrett to see if we get more protection for the defence.

Who was ever banned for life for gambling on football games?

He's been told by Waggot and Broughton "Stop complaining else we will sell Pears".

Szmodics only got 7 goals that season in the same side.

Moran, McKenzie, Hughes, Cowans etc.. were players who had played at the peak level of English football. They may have not been quite what they were when they arrived at Ewood, but as their ability levels had been so high they were still good enough for the second tier. That's different than signing very old players who generally have been second tier journeymen for most of their career. They are now are not quite what they were, so they are probably league one standard.