Normally I would agree with you but he played for Crewe today, which seems to question how close the deal is. If he does come in you would imagine that bell is leaving, especially with him not in the squad today. One possibility could be that we loan him back to Crewe until the end of the season.

Whose the 3rd commentator?

Have to agree with this. Rothwell is a central player.

No doubt this we’ll be a physical game. Luton will come here to try and break up our play and keep it scrappy, with our pitch working to their advantage. As a result of this I personally would want to see us play abit more direct. Get Gally and Brereton on the wings as an out ball and to bring down the ball and feed Arma and Dack, similar to how we finished against Boro. Give Rothwell and Elliot a rest and bring them on if needed. Kaminski Nymabe Lenihan Brainthwaith Douglas Travis Davenport Gally Dack BB Arma formation: 4 2 3 1

Honestly I just can’t believe Mowbray is still in a job. He is completely out of his depth at this level. It’s getting to a point where I think us fans need to make some sort of statement about it, but with no fans in stadiums I’m not sure how we can do that. At any other club, with these players, he would be gone.

Harry pickering sounds like excellent buisness. No complaints from me. Let’s just hope we can get it over the line. And oh yeah hope that TM actually plays him.

I think it is clear that this is a crucial season in the future of Blackburn Rovers. There are no doubts that the squad we currently have is the best we have had in many years, since relegation from the premier league I would say. With players such as nymabe, Kaminski, ayala, travis, Rothwell, dack, Armstrong and Elliot we should be pushing for the top 2, yet we find ourselves as an outside bets for the playoffs, and I think we can all agree that that just isn’t good enough. We can all respect the job TM has done here, he has been really good for the club and has got us through some dark times, however it is clear as day that he has taken us as far as he can. We have been a mid table championship team for 3 seasons running now, with no real improvement to the issues that seem to plague us. This season imo has been the most frustrating I’ve experienced for a long time, as I know we should be doing better. It really does seem like that all teams need to do against us is sit back and hit us on the counter, because throughout the season we have been incapable of breaking teams down. TM has had his chance to fix things and he hasn’t, and now for the sake of the season and sake of the club, he has to go. The worrying thing for me is that there doesn’t even seem to be any pressure on him. Not from the owners, not from the board and not even from the media. He just seems to be in a unsackable position. He’s a trusted person with in the club who many have respect for, and unfortunately they don’t seem to able to see past that. What we need is Waggot to be ballsy and go for a change, I think even if they messed up the appointment then fans would still respect that the change was needed. Annoyingly there seems to be no way that us fans can let our voices be heard. In terms of who I would bring in to replace him if he were to go, I think it would be important to keep in with the style of play we have developed. So I’d be looking at Eddie Howe of preferably jokanvic who did an exceptional job at fulham. I think with the players we have rovers would be an attractive proposition to any manager who is open to managing in the championship.

Apparently we have an option to extent nyambe’s contract for a further year, so we won’t be losing him on a free this season.

Kipre on loan with a view to a perm is the move imo. Seems like he is one who is under consideration but I feel we may have to wait for westbrom to recruit one or two defenders first.

He’s got to go. It’s as simple as that. Only issue is that there is no one at the club with the balls to make that decision.

For me, this is the best squad we’ve had since relegation from the prem, and might possibly be our strongest for quite a while when considering loans and contract situations. To me it feels similar to the last full season which Bowyer was in charge for, where we failed to to get promoted with a really strong squad, and hence that squad got broken up with players such as Gestede, Rhodes, king, cairney etc etc. That team reached the end of its cycle and eventually outgrew our league position and it does feel if we don’t go up this season, we may be in a similar situation. Obviously we’ve had a lot of injuries this year, especially to key players, but with eveyone fit I’m curious to see how people would interpret our strongest line up for me it’s Kaminski nymabe lenihan ayala Douglas Dack travis Rothwell elliot Arma BenB Was very tempted to put Wharton in this line up over Ayala, as I feel he was very impressive when he came into the team and was improving with every game, however I don’t think we’ve seen enough of him to judge whether or not he is better than ayala. For me Douglas has been hit and miss, either way I still see left back as our weakest position, I was half tempted to go with JRC there. In terms of midfield I believe travis has been a massive miss for us this season, he’s twice the player the Johnson is and gives us so much energy. Holtby was hard to leave out but I think the threat of dack and Rothwell is too obvious to miss out. The front 3 speak for themselves imo. I honestly believe that line up would see up push for top 2 (assuming we can actually break our glass ceiling). Curious to see what other people see as our strongest line up?

Wharton been the best player on the pitch imo, gutted that’s he’s had to come off. Hopefully he’ll be back for Millwall.

Yes, think he scored against us at ewood last season

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I would of liked to have done this but I had concerns about making my results too broad. As much as the effect of Covid on fans is an interesting topic it kind of veers away from the ideal of place and more to covid19, rather than looking at how Covid19 has effected place and in turn affected football fans. If that makes sense. Either way many thanks for your participation!

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Kaminski injured?

Great line up. Feel like we could go on a run from here.

Agreed it’s defo doable

Thought that one was dead?

Bolasie would be incredible! Think he wants to join up with warnock though.

Personally I’ll be disappointed if we sign pears, I don’t see the point, when we have stergikias. Seems like a waste of wages if you ask me. In terms of Douglas, will be happy to get that over the line and finally have another left back on the books. Will be interesting to see how it turns out with him, will either be a big success or his age/injury issues might catch up with him leaving him unable to make much of an impact. On paper though a really good signing and he’ll have my full backing. I don’t believe the Harry Wilson rumours for one second. Surely he is well out of our budget. Though, if somehow true, what a signing that would be. Premier league quality. I’m struggling to work out where this money has come from because I swear TM said we only had enough for a couple of loans or one perm not too long ago? And that was before stergiakas came in. Let’s see how the day turns out

The signing of Douglas has its pros and cons imo. There is no doubt that he bringing some crucial promotion experience to our young side, and at the age of 31 you would like to think that he isn’t quite past it. In terms of his quality on the ball there is little to question, his delivery is fantastic and he offers us a reliable set piece option. I’d go as far as to say that when it comes to final delivery I believe he would be our best option from fullback. On the flip side I question if he suits our style of play. I look at Leeds from last season, whose style has significant similarities to the one we have now adopted, where he actually struggled to fit in. While he played a significant part in wolves promotion a couple of years back, I don’t think the same can be said for his role in leed’s one. I am not quite sure if he has the pace or the legs to play in our current system, which needs both attributes for the press and our play in transition. In terms of his defending, I don’t really have a clue, though I do worry that his best form has come from the wingback position where defensive qualities are less important than at full back. Nevertheless I wouldn’t be against this signing and he’ll have my full backing if he joins, I don’t doubt that he’ll be an improvement on the bell of last season.

Rumours on twitter from the Man City side saying that the tosin deal is up to 2 million with 20% sell on clause...