Dreams of 1995

This could be down to the club not operating on a proper level anymore. A board is usually made up of a handful of directors, each with their own staff, whereas ours is made up of two and only one of them really has any idea about the goings on of the club (Waggot). A lot less people to have information passed through and eventually leaked. Plus it seems to take us 4 weeks to get information through to our owners so let alone letting the local reporters know. A terrible state of affairs.

I think the only information you can gleam from that is that nobody actually knows anything.

Tell him to shake Brereton upside down and we might get some loose change. Either that or a goal...don't know which one I'd prefer. Find the £2.5m for a guy that has accumulated over 30 assists in 3 seasons. Why sign Gallagher to play on the wing when there's literally a winger there for HALF THE PRICE

This is just fucking nonsense man and part of the reason I'm absolutely at my limit with this club. Other clubs have directors for this. Loan managers/analysts who scout and chose a good fit for them. We leave it onto the lads agent who no doubt only cares which deal is sweetest for him. I don't particularly think Brereton will improve but going to ADO Den Haag and being coached by Pardew can't be much good for the lad. They are in a terrible position and I'd imagine a relegation artist like Pardew isn't going to save them.

January is a bad month to try and address problems. The best we could probably hope for is a Premier League loan to give someone who isn't playing much some game time. Our only downside is that the PL suffered unprecedented injuries over the winter months so it's unlikely there's many good players available. However, if we can't beat Charlton to Maddison and we lose out on him ala Bauer then a few people in the Rovers engine room need to give their heads a wobble.

We have Crimpshine. They won't go and don't care how little we think of them. They are horrid people. I think this topic should be locked after the below response. Q: Are Venkys welcome? A: NO

Walton had a good start but has made so many mistakes. It's remarkable how he is in the top 5 keepers for clean sheets this season but you can imagine he'd be head and shoulders above every other keeper if he can cut them mistakes out. Sadly, we won't ever see if he will. I thought Walton was an upgrade on Raya but he isn't. Raya was always going to be a good goalkeeper and we've dropped an absolute clanger letting him go. A shocking piece of business.

This is a problem in football. The fans see the players detached from themselves. I’ve no doubt if roversfan99 brother injured his back severely at work and his employers just cut his contract down and released him he’d be citing unfair dismissal. Gladwin was allowed to be rehabilitated and then he got shipped off. Quite what was wrong with that is beyond me, we did what we could by the man and I’m glad we aren’t a club to throw him aside and leave him to his own devices. I don’t want us to be a club associated with that type of ethic. Talk of not paying him is ridiculous. This is the mans employment at the end of the day and he injured himself whilst working for us. Just to point out too that I consider Gladwin the worst footballer to have played for us. That doesn’t detract from the clubs duty of care to him. I’ll never forgive him for not winning a single header against Beardsley vs Burnley. He had about 6 inches on him ffs

I thought Pedersen was a good player, not a great one. Hence why his form declined. Players found him out and knew how to defend against him. This happens to players in the PL and it is why it is the best in the world. The players around him also gradually got worse and he spent a lot of his later years as a defensive winger. That said, amazing with set pieces and I still reckon at 38 he could teach a few of our lads how to play the game.

I’d be going for Emre Mor myself. This man was tipped as something great and we have (past albeit) history of taking strikers with suspect attitude problems and watching as they set games on fire. Although we have had our fair share of bad ens to....Goodwillie. I just think Mor screams Rovers. Turkish and brilliant with the ball. Knowing the history of the club like any fan would I’d have tried to land this bloke in the summer. Sadly though we don’t have that pulling power and the likes of Leeds and Brentford are now above us in that regard. It would have been a (Turkish) delight seeing one of theirs playing on Ewood again

I don’t even see PNE as a rival in truth. More of an irrelevance. I have some respect for them as their history goes back as far as us but that’s where it ends. Us playing them so often now is just another symptom of having the owners that we do. I get excited for Burnley and Utd, other than that it’s just another fixture against another club.

Neil Warnock would get a club promoted even now. He knows what it takes to get out of this league. He's retiring because he is 71 not because his time in football has come.

He literally got Cardiff to the PL two seasons ago....

The English language is amazing. By your use of “play off chasing Preston” one would assume they’re light years ahead of us. Yet the truth is they are 3 points ahead. It is a matter of a single win out of a remaining 20 This is a winnable game

Undoubtedly my favourite season in a long time as a Rovers fan. Not just because we were winning, which of course helps, but because we saw some proper footballing grounds and places I'll probably (hopefully) see again unless they come up. Our travelling support was excellent that season. The Championship feels rather numb in comparison - too many stadiums on retail parks, not enough character.

Putting Downing at LB has been a revelation though. His cross field balls are actually spot on every single time. I think we've found our temp fix to that problem for this season.

No, that's the whole point about the Championship. This is a very tough league and anyone can beat anyone on any given day.

Yep. Birmingham city centre is alive and kicking and has 4 / 5 “districts” if you will all catering to different markets. Chinatown, Brindley Place, Digbeth, Broad St, Digbeth and for the artsy amongst us Moseley although that’s a tad out of the way still well worth a visit. The market has been taking money out of my pocket at an alarming rate this year. Living in it means it’s almost impossible to get home without a stein, coupled with the fact most pubs are serving German pints at £3, means it’s been a week of ever-so-slight hangovers. Obviously this fixture is after Christmas and unfortunately the festivities will have ended but no doubt still a city well worth visiting

Even if the latter is true tomphil from a business p.o.v it doesn't make any sense in shutting the bar permanently. If it isn't making enough revenue simply redevelop it. I am sorry but we have been told that we now have money at the club, take approx. 200k from that and gut the place, turn it into somewhere that people want to go, and as JHRover said serve some real beer at local prices. A lot of the pubs in that area are charging extortionate amounts (The Station at Cherry Tree, Beehive) but they are remaining open and in some cases thriving. The work done at Cherry Tree cricket club shows that with some imagination and investment people will come- there's a waiting list for members there now, or at least was as of 6 months ago. There is a lot of room at Ewood and we could easily accommodate a good pub / evening restaurant. At Aston Villa you can eat in the directors lounge midweek for anything between £20 - £50 per head, depending on the option selected, as it allows the trainee / junior chefs to prepare your meal. On more than one occasion I've took the mrs there and every single night it's been like eating in a fine dining establishment for an affordable price - never a bad word to say about it.

Brentford are purring right now. This will be a very tough game where we concede a lot of possession, which are also the games we win. God knows.

I suspect a bad reaction after a loss vs Brentford may be enough to see him walk. The fear then is who is brought in to replace him. We currently have Dack and Holtby which surely is an attractive proposition to some managers. More likely DJ takes over until the end of the season with a view to either continue or replace. Decisions aren't taken quickly at Rovers for better or worse.

I don't particularly relish the thought of losing Mowbray but I think it would be best for all parties if he walked now. Clearly the link is broken with the fans and once that has gone managers don't usually stand a chance.

Gareth Ainsworth currently has Wycombe top of league 1. He would still leave that position to come here? With the basket case that is Rovers?

Indeed. Many of which will be "payable upon departure", so in effect the purchase cost of the club will be £175m + the actual value of club. Unless of course they write off their debts.

I'd call repeatedly claiming he "he wanted a draw" despite you having 0 knowledge of what was said on the sideline, whilst refusing to give a jot of credit to a manager who you're the first to discredit, is more "foaming at the mouth" than Chaddy telling you otherwise. Then again when both sides of the "Mowbray Out" debate are telling you that you are wrong, you are very often wrong.