Ghost7

REST EVERYONE.

Some fans are not as smart as they think. There aren't many people who can afford to buy Blackburn Rovers and run it as badly as Venky's have, however, there are many that can afford to buy it and run it well. A key fact people overlook.

Nail on the head. Selling Hyam without a replacement that was even close to him undid everything. There are managers that would have resigned because of it.

Just send him home!!

I said it in summer McLoughlin wasn't good enough as a regular starter when we signed him and he hasn't done anything to make me think differently. We downgraded recklessly on deadline day at centre back and it's predictably disrupted the entire season (along with a lack of investment years prior in attack and the pitch). McLoughlin was brought in because we wouldn't spend the money needed in that position - however, originally alongside Hyam which softened the blow. The lack of quote "significant investment" is hindering everything, including formation and flexibility during games. I'm not a fan of playing 3 centre backs at home (not without good attacking wingbacks on each side)... but I'm probably only comfortable with 3 centre backs if McLoughlin is 1 of them since he isn't commanding enough aerially in a back 2. I expected Rovers to spend a good chunk of the Hyam fee on a longterm replacement as soon as this window opened, since that was the only way to justify their idiocy. It doesn't look like they'll be doing so and instead are spending some of the profit on a 6 month loan in his position! "The board" and Gestede absolutely deserve relegation this season. They've worked hard on all the ingredients.

I bet Sidnei Tavares is doing everything he possibly can to get back fit as quickly as possible for the second half of the season......... right? Some signing. Sack the lot.

I'm fairly certain Henriksson wouldn't have got in our academy. He looks way off in every department.

McLoughlin isn't good enough but we're desperate for him to start every game. Wrexham had so many options at the back today. Our summer business was careless, amateur... ego led and it's been found out big time.

Predictably Aynsley Pears is back to costing us point. But there were plenty of other shameful performances today, one of the worst Rovers sides I've seen in my lifetime with plenty of new signings available and involved. Gestede has got to be moved far lower down the chain of command that barely even exists at Ewood. We're going down this season and he's largely to blame, for decimating an experienced first team.

We'd be on 32 points had the owners paid attention to or spent any money on the facilities they own. Inexcusable.

Ohashi is bad but I'd expect a far better quality of pass at this level. They're both average players and wouldn't get in most sides.

Or the ownership for refusing to fund any department?

The pass was horrible because he has no technique on his stronger foot, never mind his weak one. The majority of the cheap signings haven't worked out and can't even be called upon in a game like this, rather unsurprisingly.

Two clubs in a mess has made for a football game not worth watching.

at the moment it's largely a waste of time passing to our strikers.

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.