All good exposure for the club and academy. Who knows, we might be getting interviews about the England men’s team in a few years!

Yeah I believe that's how it went down. Man Utd decided to finally join the gravy train and got plopped in there straight away. Scandalous to be honest, but they didn't half arse it - threw a lot of money at it and put together a top side. Agree on involving them in the signing sessions, great inspiration for the young girls.

Apologies for the Mail link, but this is nice to see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11044333/How-Blackburns-academy-shaped-future-England-stars-Georgia-Stanway-Keira-Walsh-Ella-Toone.html Been to a few of the games down at Bramall Lane, and got a ticket for the semi tonight. Most exciting, been a good tournament. Women's football has come on leaps and bounds in the last 10-20 years with more professionals, more training, better coaching and competitions all playing a part. Excited to see what the next 10-20 years brings and what this version of the game will look like then.

1. Where will Rovers finish ? 11th - Periods of excitement, periods of frustration, ultimately with a solid showing for a side in rebuild 2. Who will be the Rovers (official) Player Of The Season ? Sam Gallagher 3. Who do you think will be the breakout/breakthrough academy player this season ? (Let’s say under 23 at season start & fewer than 10 1st team appearances to be eligible) Ash Phillips 4. Who will win the Championship ? Norwich(?) 5. Where will Burnley finish ? Top six then crash and burn in the semis

What’s the goss? I always suspected he was a bellend, especially when he got you into Europe.

Agree on all of them Chaddy I think

To be honest, and it pains me to say it, but I do expect you to make the top 6 quite easily. Anything less would be a massive underachievement imo

What a beautiful assist by Brittain Dack being Dack

Not signing Ash Phillips to a pro contract would be one of the biggest personnel tragedies in Rovers history.

Top bloke though I hear

Whereas we are going off a raised eyebrow from someone’s recounting of a meeting with the ceo

Really? Yeah he was great here but has he really made an impact on the thinking of other currently more successful clubs? Hasn’t at Brighton… One year left… Not a huge salary… Loves it here… I’m setting myself up for disappointment I know, but I don’t think we should think of him as unobtainable.

Spat out my brew 🤣

Appreciate that considered response Glen, looking forward to hearing about the next meeting. To be honest I just really don’t know what to make of Waggott at all. He’s an enigma, done some good work and gets good personal reviews but seems so very lacking in other respects.

That news has certainly quietened down some of the discontent on here. Lets hope we haven’t missed any targets like that by the end of the window.

The detail is certainly remarkable. Please don’t take this as a personal slight @glen9mullan, but I’d like to inject a little balanced cynicism into this as a relative outsider looking in; not really knowing you or your story much at all (although others seem to vouch for you glowingly) From the removed cynics perspective - A lot of this is very positive, you come out of this looking very good (the addition of the Lyndsey zinger for example), and it’s frankly the kind of PR that Waggott’s money just couldn’t buy. I want to believe all of the positive stuff, but I’m having to take it with a tiny grain of salt while we have the bloke flogging training grounds, running down the value of our assets, and being completely out of touch with his paying public. I hope you’re correct with all of your info, and the effort is commendable. I look forward to more instalments, and I want to believe. But with such nuanced conversations where exact wording makes the entire difference - I wish you had told me you’d used a bloody notepad! 🤣

There's no Cat 1 academies in Wales. I assume he's been involved at all levels within the Welsh FA. Hopefully a good appointment, it's starting to feel like there might be a hint of a semblance of a sniff of a possible plan.

Get a notepad.

He would be a class signing. I’m trying to not get my hopes up, you only get a bucketful.

2-2-5-1? Sounds bloody exciting I’ll give him that

Start the car

It is a bit. We had Danny Graham, Charlie Mulgrew, Craig Conway, Lenihan, Raya, Nyambe, Sam Gallagher and Lucas Joao et al in our squad when we went down. All very decent.

Feel sorry for the lad tbh. Needs a new agent.

Whereas mine has said “He’s very good, not great around the box, couldn’t hit a barn door but confident on the ball and sharp as fuck. Bastards!” Only one way to find out!

I think Macron will produce as many as we order, as soon as they can, when we decide to order them. I'm not 100% sure this would be their fault.