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We're at home and creating chances. We should play our own game and let them worry about us. I can understand changing things to deal with the opposition away from home...but not at Ewood.

I get we're a town club and it's always going to be difficult to get big crowds (Birmingham doing poorly considering the size of the city) - but this paints a depressing picture. We're a similar sized town to Huddersfield/Preston - but they've obviously got their ticket pricing right.

Completely agree with this. Szmodics would do a better job in the false 9 role than Dack did - but I'd still rather have him playing at 10 behind an out and out striker.

Lewandowski 😂

Which is also annoyingly off centre.

It's probably worth noting that the Euro 96 team only had one player that played outside of the UK - Paul Ince. The English league wasn't the strongest in Europe at that stage - having not produced a Champions League/European Cup winners since 1984. We probably overstate how good some of those individuals in the 1996 squad actually were. 3 of the last 5 Champions League finals have now been won by an English club which to me suggests the Premier League is the strongest league in the world these days. Add the fact that the likes of Kane, Bellingham, Tomori, Trippier etc. are prepared to move abroad and gain continental experience stands us in very good stead. I think it was Graeme Souness last night who said England shouldn't even have to go defensive against the likes of France. We should play our own game and go at them.

Southgate is my concern. If we don't win anything, the blame falls at his feet.

England have such a vast array of options going forward. They need to win something with this squad.

Southgate must have been inspiring at half time. Like the Italy away game. Dominated the first half and then look awful after he's had 15 minutes with them.

"I would've played for free. I'd have paid to play," he insists. "To have that amount of time playing for them in that era with those players and the fans. So many good people there, a great family club. It was incredible" Makes me even more angry at what Venky's have done to this great club. To have a brilliant servant like that and treat him which such disdain is disgusting.

I used to work there - sad to see. The majority of what they sell goes directly from China to countries overseas - so hopefully this won't have too much impact.

From Saturday we've got 7 games in 22 days. We could do with them being ready sooner rather than later - even if they're not available for Saturday.

Top player. I remember watching him playing for Basel against an English side in Europe about 10 years ago and he took them apart. Criminally underused by Chelsea whilst he was there. I can see why an Egyptian would want to move his family from Liverpool to Dubai for a few years though and line his pockets at the same time. I wouldn't blame him for wanting to go.

You're only showing the bit of the graph that supports your narrative.

He's a Stoke fan isn't he?

1 x Europa League, 1 x FA Cup, 2 x League Cup wins But I get your point, not much return for the investment.

Well if anyone wants to PM me some contact details I will pass them on to him. He seemed quite keen to pursue a story.

I've been in touch with the editor of the India Today article. He would be interested in doing a fresh story regarding their investment in Blackburn Rovers. He wants accurate details and numbers. Would any of the people with more knowledge on the specifics of their investment (in numbers) being interested in getting in touch with him?

Danny Rose is a terrible idea. Don't think he's played a game in almost 2 years - and he was woeful at Watford. Think he's had mental health problems hasn't he?

When I did Google 'Venky's Under Investigation' I also found a link from 2018 which contained the following: A subsidiary of the Venky's VH group (one of the biggest chicken producers in the country which supplies food outlets including McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut) bought a front page advert in the Times of India in February 2018. It did so in response to an investigation by the Bureau, showing that Venky’s sold antibiotics to farmers to make chickens fatter.

Reports suggested Henderson was being paid £700,000-per-week - four times what he was earning at Liverpool - but he denied those claims. "People can believe me or not, but in my life and my career, money has never been a motivation. Ever," he said. There's me thinking he'd gone for the money.

With a goal scored several minutes after the full-time whistle should have gone to rub it in.

I always find it worse when you head into these bloody international breaks with a defeat. 3-0 win and we enter the break in the play off places with three back-to-back wins without conceding. 3-0 defeat and it's a long time until we next play and have the opportunity to make up for it.

Speaking of this, who is responsible for our squad listing on this website?

Thanks - hadn't previously seen the quote from Semir. Certainly seems confident in his own ability. As for Hill - there are plenty of players who have U20/U21 caps that have amounted to nothing. Harry Chapman for one. I'm not overly concerned by the Hill signing as I don't think he'll play many games at all. I'm more worried at the fact that unless Sigurdsson is top drawer - we've gone backwards from last season.