Ghost7

Szmodics on loan? Now 30 and wants out of Ipswich. No goals this season. He's had his moment and isn't going back to the PL again.

Pretty annoying situation with Alebiosu!

The drop zone is starting to take shape as expected, I'm predicting the bottom 3 come the end of the season to be: Oxford United Blackburn Rovers Sheffield Wednesday Largely thanks to completely arrogant, amateur transfer business by Rudy Gestede and negligent ownership allowing it to happen.

Fully agree.

On the manager, sadly nothing will change until Venky's and Pasha are out. They've treated the fans with contempt for 15 years and it feels like they're on the brink of causing more damage than ever before by being completely awol (as usual) during a crisis, off the pitch, on the pitch, beneath the pitch and in the stands. Nearly everyone I speak to, including myself does not want to attend games and the reality is the board couldn't care less, and the owners probably aren't even aware. I'm sick of seeing in person what they've done to this club. I've no doubt "the board's" day to day at the moment is largely made up of making sure word doesn't get out about the horrific job they're doing. There are people in roles they shouldn't be anywhere near. You can argue we need to go down, perhaps multiple times to start over so Rudy Gestede is doing a great job with that. 👏 There's the occasional smart-arse out there that pretends the owners have their use, "who else would put in what they do", "we're a small town". The fact of the matter is no matter how smart you think you are and no matter how small you think the town is, there are around 7,000 fans missing, as a direct result of disengaged ownership whether or not it has been funded, and around a further 4,000 missing that would return if the club became a success again – Venky's ownership gives no hope of that, absolutely none, and that's a lot of missed revenue as a result of their performance.

He keeps asking someone who was signed as a "winger" per the club's site in summer to play LWB and defend in key areas against Championship opposition. De Neve's made it very, very clear now multiple times that he can't defend and also probably isn't good enough for this level attack wise. A shocking signing. I'm not sure they knew what they were signing.

Irrelevant, any keeper worth their salt picks the ball up without hesitation, since there was clearly no intentional pass back.

We look like one of the bottom 3 teams in the league. Amateur recruitment, poor squad planning and absent owners.

The issue is you only need one shot with defensive headers like that - it was routine. As I say he's cost us plenty of goals and the entire Norwich game at home but he's our go to number 1 starter at centre back. Got his feet muddled on the line for the calamitous equaliser at Deepdale too, he isn't that good but he's the best we've been left with and is a guaranteed starter. I'm certain we'd have seen some of these recent games out too at 1-0 had the club spent some money on a proper centre back that can attack a cross and command the air.

Cost us a good few goals this season has McLoughlin. He must be stunned he's starting every game at the club given he was in and out the side for most of his Hull career at the same level and for the most finished below us. We've been downgraded majorly in the air at the back and unsurprisingly it's costing us against even the poorest teams... The neglected facilities and a defence that looks worse than Oxford's is all on the owners, Suhail Pasha and Rudy Gestede. We are fumbling our way to the January transfer window just about, a window in which you could sell half their summer recruits. Not good enough, and we can't even criticise the manager for poor results since he hasn't been given the basic tools to do his job. The season's been a farce and has scared away another 2,000 or 3,000 more fans. As I said after the Wednesday game, they don't deserve any fans in the ground, not at the prices they're charging to watch a mess of a team that hasn't received enough investment. It's sad to see. QPR, Sheffield Wednesday and Oxford at home have been truly horrendous to attend. Shame on the club. I'm not enjoying going to games and expect this to be my last season.

Generally Rovers fans do underestimate the wealth of our owners and what they could do, if they wanted. Sadly they have no interest in improving the club and that is largely the main reason they need to go.

Please understand (as should the entire fanbase) £1 - 2m is chump change for our owners and does not impact FFP. To put it into perspective they would spend that amount on one, of many watches and forget they own it. They are free to spend as much as they want on facilities without sanction but have no real interest in Blackburn Rovers.

It certainly got stuck.

Lost for words. The club doesn't deserve any customers.

It IS denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity. Which is clearly was. Not an obvious goal. You can't interpret rules differently based on a players ability and what they might do next attacker or defender in the phase of play that was denied. If he's in the box it's a penalty and arguably a yellow card if he tried to play the ball. Outside the box the rules are clear that this is a red card. It's possibly the worst decision I've ever seen at Ewood. As I say I'm certain it was club bias, I'm confident Pratt, McLoughlin or Miller walk if the roles are reversed.