The 7-0 disaster has led to...

Seven points in nine games. Fair enough, good response.

Stoke away will be tougher as they're shithouses, but they aren't anything to be afraid of, that's for sure. 

Just now, RoverDom said:

Good results so far in other games. As it stands we're in the play offs and losing at the weekend. 

Quite so! It'd be fantastic if we could be in 6th before shitting ourselves at the weekend rather than in 7th before shitting ourselves at the weekend...

3 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Any chance BBD could get another 4 this game. My car needs a new bumper

Not a lot of chance of that, he'll be in the shower by now...

Right call by Mowbray. In fact, Mowbray has got his calls right today, credit where it's due. Johnson swapping in for Ayala has proven seamless, no disturbance. Keep him fresh for Stoke on Saturday, plus he was on a yellow...

Butterworth on for Buckley. Him and Brereton I think have been our standout attacking players. Save him for Stoke, too. 

We are in 6th now on goals scored. 

16 for the season for Brereton Diaz!

That was brainless from Ben. If he'd left it at moving the ball once, he'd have got away with it, but nudging it twice was taking the p....

Needless and worthless yellow card to pick up. Hope they don't build and he gets another suspension (like cost Chile). 

Lenihan...3-0.

Surely game over.

Big Ben...2-0!

Not good news. Ayala off, replaced by Johnson.

3 minutes ago, Silas said:

Shearer would have been proud of that. 

As would Super Stuart Ripley, excellent assist from Buckley. 

Pickering!!!! Excellent header!

Fantastic cross by Buckley, perfectly weighted. Well-worked goal. 

1-0!

Come on lads!

20 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

The state of some of the replies to this. 

Proof that Rovers fans have the BRFC they deserve...also shows that those who think Ewood will ever turn on Mowbray are deluded. Most are happy with Mowbray and happy with Venky's.

No, I don't get it either, but ah...what you gonna do?!?

Here's a question for the "they're just misadvised" brigade...

If they're pumping in £20m a year of their own money...then why do we have £200 million debt? Hence why we don't want them to leave?!?

Surely it's coming from their own funds? So we should have no debt? 

So which is it? It can't be both?

14 hours ago, Mike E said:

Ultimately my suspicion too, but makes it even more baffling that they don't seek the PL (or even just well-run-club) profits that would make it so much easier.

There'd be far more scrutiny in the PL. Nothing whatsoever baffling about it...

On 09/11/2021 at 21:45, roversfan99 said:

There is also a growing fascination with style of play based on patronising and flawed principles of what is boring and what isnt.

It's nothing new under the sun. We had it under Sam when many wanted him gone despite digging us out of a relegation dogfight and guiding us to tenth in his one full season here.

Many were happy when he was sacked. Many were happy with Kean initially, especially after we beat Liverpool. More entertaining football tended to be cited as the reason. 

Some excellent posts over the past few pages which highlight the most logical reasons why we have the owners we do, plus also who makes the decisions.

We've gone from a mostly-solvent club in the top flight to a club a division down losing £20million a year (unlike most clubs in the division) yet we have ever depreciating assets and ever-stripped-down resources. Isn't downsizing supposed to save money? Where exactly is all the cash going to? How much ends up in the hands of a certain agency? What fees do we pay? And so on...

Venky's had never heard of us before and never shown since that they either give a crap or they are necessarily the ones making most of the decisions. What fun do they get in a club they've barely ever visited? Why always go through the same agency for managers? Why reject any attempts to buy them out? 

All we get is cod philosophy about the way things are done in India about losing face meaning they're happy to lose £20 million a year forever (codswallop), how some imaginary pals of theirs in Pune might laugh at them (as if they've even heard of Rovers, ffs!) and, the classic, how the poor little noble Venkys're just being badly advised (for 11 years and counting now)...

The clearest reason Venky's own Rovers is because it's working for them, perhaps also to their purpose for buying and why they did so in the first place. They were introduced to Rovers by Jerome Anderson. Why has the rationale changed since? Hardly a conspiracy theory; those are when more plausible alternatives are rejected. It's the most plausible reason we have. 

Mowbray Out? I agree of course, but...ultimately what for? To rinse and repeat with next Kean/Coyle/Mowbray? Hardly likely to be a Brave New World for us to contemplate, is it?!?!

Expect his rants and agitations to end in a far more likely new contract than a sacking in the months to come...

"Fit and proper" basically means; can they pay the bills? It's not some ethical test or anything, just financial. They're not getting the private detectives in or anything. Bit of a misnomer of a term, perhaps. "Financially sound as far as we know" might be a more realistic term!

5 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I suspect that it makes no odds as he won't be a Rovers player then anyway, but if he had have been, surely Chile not qualifying for the World Cup would be ideal from a Rovers perspective. 

I reckon the only way BB is still at Rovers next season is if we're in the premier league by then. Decide for yourself the likelihood of that...

Is there still no confirmation from the club of this one-year extension?

2 hours ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

Keep reading about him having a resell clause. We paid well over the odds for him when we bought him - whoever negotiated the transfer from Rovers really need to be brought to account if it is anything more than 10%

If it's 0% they need running out of town.

Forest pulled our pants down over that fee...£7million for an 18-year old. Why would we also allow them a sell-on clause when we're paying that kind of money?

More likely it's just gossip being spread. Armstrong came to us for £1.7 million which means that the sell-on fee made sense. But for Brereton? 

You hope it's fake news, but then you're remember that we're owned by the Venkys...

59 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

BBD can only deal with whats in front, his job was to get a decent shot on target and he did that well.

I do not think much of a lot of the South American keepers.

As in...Alisson? Ederson? Martinez?

Some of the best keepers in the world are from South America. 

Chile 3 Venezuela 0

Cracking finish by BBD for the third. Enjoy him at Rovers while you can, folks...lad's a phenomenon!

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

At the end of the day the object of the exercise in signing players is to get us out of this division. Anything else is a waste of time and money. Both of those things are now in short supply. We’re no longer  a club that can invest big money in “ project “ signings.

Not sure that's what the object of the exercise is under this lot. 

4 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

In his first 18/24 months, he showed minimal if any signs of even being a promising talent, he looked hopeless, and I felt that Ewood was very supportive of him, I recall the happiness/relief for him after his goal v Bolton. This nasty supporter narrative that some seem keen to thrust forward at every opportunity really does confuse me.

Mowbray dropped him the next game...we've seen what a confidence player he is since, just highlights his mismanagement during his time here. 

He plays under a new manager and suddenly he's Diazman!

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

He's has 18 months left on his contract technically..

Would anyone have give him a new contract 6 months ago? Very few of us I guess

Disagree with your second sentence. He's been one of our best players since the first lockdown and 6 months ago he was still 21.

However, IF we have the 12-month extension option then it's not a big deal. He's unlikely to be here next season, whatever!