Absolutely. It was just in response to the posters who feel like it was a nailed on offside. It wasn't. The wall plays him on. Use the 6 yard box lines as a guide. I'm quite happy the referee gave those decisions our way. Plenty go against you over the course of a season. That's football, and why the Championship is easily more watchable and exciting than the stale Premier League As a note I would be wary to say the penalty was a nailed on spot kick too but that's just me

I personally believe the player closest to the byline and in the wall played Scott Wharton onside

I think Bradley Dack is one of the best "ballers" (to steal a cringey footballism) I have seen at Ewood since this lot came. Yet you can't help but feel this was inevitable. I have to admit that when I read Mowbray's comments after the game my initial thoughts were that Dack had spoke out of place to him. And why did Mowbray say that in public? It was a bit of a low blow from Mowbray, to publicly out Dack for speaking to him about a matter that is clearly contentious. I think Mowbray is a wily figure and he knew exactly what he was doing. This is not me blaming Mowbray at all but the comments now make a lot more sense. Dack busts up with JDT, his old coach comes in, and conversations are had. It is a tentative link but maybe there is something in it. I would be gutted to see Dack go as he has gave us many happy memories but this is football. A new coach inevitably brings new ideas and if Dack doesn't fit into them then his wage is a waste. We need to get a good deal for him and move on if this is the case. He's had two terrible injuries and I hope he comes back the player he was, yet I don't want that hope to disrupt a squad that is doing well. In an ideal world we could bring Dack in to score another 15 goals this year and shoot us to promotion but I haven't believed this will be the case for the last few weeks now. He isn't in the frame at all when you have Vale and Dolan trusted to come on over him. If Dack goes I'd miss him terribly, always felt we can score when he's on the pitch. Been a t'riffic player for us and whoever does sign him is getting a fantastic goal scoring number 10 - not an easy feat in this league if you ask me.

Dunno why you care what they think Rev You are replying to a guy who puts “seemingly” in front of everything he posts. Presumably (😃) to give himself plausible deniability when it doesn’t happen or isn’t true Keep posting, the more rumours the better, it’s not like the press bother much with us!

Lewis Grabban is still available on a free. Think we could do a lot worse up front.

The results yesterday were a madness This is definitely a banana skin You have to think bringing in the likes of Morton and Dack as a second string team means we have enough quality, despite the talk of lack of depth Pears will be the big downfall here. He can drop clangers that just suck the morale out of the team I would go with Kaminski JRC Phillips Wharton Edun Morton Wharton (say that again) Markanday Dack Dolan Vale That should have enough quality to see off this team

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Vale should have started over Gallagher The rest is ok

I never got this horse thing either. Where did that come from?

Bloody awful game Fancy myself a bit of a pro at Warzone though. Used to be anyway, before I had to get a life again after Covid ended, now when I fancy playing I get shit on from great heights by younger lads who can play 6 hours a night Really does ruin my Sunday mornings

Getting the business done Let’s get Van Hecke in now. We need a centre half given Phillips head seems to be at Spurs Someone needs to tell him just how many careers they’ve ruined 😂

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JDT is right - you don’t get chosen by managers like Klopp unless there’s something about you Looking forward to seeing Morton to be honest, he’s highly rated Teams in the Championship have always relied on loans. It’s a sad fact of life here. Let’s not get worked up

It was daft to say no, but tbh he did sign Markanday who was bagging in goals at the same level Delap had played at It wasn’t Mowbrays fault his hamstring went

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That’s not common sense, no In managerial terms it is a constant on the sporting side. Head coaches come and go, the sporting director tends to remain over large periods of time A constant in any senior management role is not a complexity or a potential conflict It is the job of the sporting director to implement the club vision and sign head coaches that are best suited for it. Otherwise you end up in a situation where the next gaffer decides he wants a total change and you are back at the beginning of a journey Our experience over the past 10 years operating without a constant sporting director shows you that. In comparison to clubs like Brentford, who have seen the rise of the club progress even as head coaches have changed If what you are saying was common sense then it would suggest that almost every elite club in the world is operating with ‘an added layer of complexity’, usually accompanied by a very high salary, for a nonsensical reason

Oh of course. This hyper successful model of operating, that has now been adopted by almost every top level club in the world, has no real reason to be doubted And it goes to show that a Director of Football being added to the mix may, seemingly, could (or whatever) cause potential conflict and delays is a nonsense

Yep That many issues that the following clubs have Directors of Football Man City, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, PSG, Chelsea, Barcelona, Dortmund…. do you need me to go on? Obviously though your finger is more on the pulse than them clubs, with their layers of complexity and conflicts 😃

How many other boards within the football pyramid do you see come out and squash every rumour the media publish in public? I challenge you to find me one

It was in the paper today according to Twitter. Can't get too excited yet, it's just our luck someone will trump his wages and he will go there. Highly rated, young, British and cheap. Perfect recipe for championship clubs.

In the last two years we’ve played Sri Lanka, India twice and Pakistan in odi. Obviously not counting Netherlands in that Roy and Ali played well against Sri Lanka, especially Roy, and the first Indian series. They didn’t play against Pakistan which I think was due to Covid ? It’s only in the latest series vs india they haven’t performed It’s just been said that Roy and Bairstow reach 50 runs as an opening partnership over 50% of the time. Why would you disrupt that?

Well we haven’t played a lot of ODI lately. Roy was brilliant against Sri Lanka last year. And Moeen Ali had a fantastic knock against India at Lords and that 70 in 20 odd balls against Windies in the t20, from recent memory Roy is a great white ball cricketer. I don’t get the rush to drop either. Both of them bring a lot to the team and have been part of a set up that has seen us win the World Cup. In fact, I’d say Roy getting injured in the t20 World Cup really put us on the back foot against New Zealand. Cricket is a game of opinions but I wouldn’t be dropping two of our better players just yet.

Replace Rashid? Rashid is a fantastic spin bowler. Can’t say I’ve been overly impressed with Parkinson for England Chaddy both Roy and Ali are match winners at white ball cricket. Why would you replace them?

True but I don't think that is the case at all When you look at the squad I'm honestly struggling to see where we are plugging all these young players in to fill gaps. In my eyes, they are the substitute bench, and the likelihood of us fielding them all at once is slim We are being linked with centre halves so the position of worry looks like it's being addressed. We will miss out on players but unfortunately that's the position we are in thanks to the owners. In reality I think whilst we are likely to see a bt more of Wharton, Vale and Carter this year, I don't think they are going to be considered starting 11 But, I will say this, if JDT does consider them starting 11 then that is on him. He would clearly think they are good enough and that's his decision. There are a lot of freebies out there who we could sign within the wage bill if he thought otherwise, to say not is silly, but JDT and Broughton have a clear directive of signing good players with the youth as complimentary to that. They've made that clear themselves, or at least GB has

You are still making out like it's "a number", assuming large Truth is if you have watched Wharton you'll know you'd rather him in the middle than Johnson. If Garrett is replacing Davenport then it probably is a downgrade currently, but Davenport was never fit anyway. Rothwell's replacement will have to be someone, but I suspect Buckley will be dropping deeper with Dack back fit. In defence Carter is good enough for this league, as is Wharton and Ayala. The only players we have been linked with really are centre halves so it's obvious the management see a need for an extra body in there. I don't think anybody is suggesting Phillips is going to replace Lenihan - just you - but in requiring 2 or 3 centre backs I'd say is far off the mark. You need one more in there with Phillips and Carter as back up. Up front you still have Dack, Markanday, BBD (hopefully), Gallagher and Dolan. Vale would be back up to them. So where is this "large number" coming from? All a melodrama really. And why is it totally impossible to compare Zouma and Jones to Phillips.......they were 17 at one point in time as well you know. They all seem to be having similar trajectories: decorated youth careers with early forays into professional football. Highly rated by the top clubs. Why's it impossible? Because you say so? The lad is 17 and if he is as good as people say he is then I'm all for giving him a go. But as said he probably isn't going to be this first teamer people are trying to make him out to be because we have options already and are looking likely to sign another CB, whoever and whenever that may be