Wheelton Blue

If the owners are unable/unwilling to put money into the club, then we're basically left to live hand to mouth from the proceeds from player sales. In that scenario, not a penny will be spent unless absolutely necessary. Any more player incomings will be zero or very low cost.

Norwich will be smarting after two poor opening displays. I'd be happy with a point from this, but I think we'll struggle especially with no talisman. 2-0 Norwich.

I certainly don't look forward to it, in fact I pay it no attention. It's the dullest league going.

I'd be surprised if Nob End could afford him either.

Simple as.

The point still stands whether it was under Waggot's tenure or not. The common demoninator is the owners, who continue to employ idiots to run the club on their behalf, and who in turn don't give a shiny one.

Hypothetically then, in Chaddy's world, if say Klopp the German had an English grandparent, and therefore in turn he qualified for UK citizenship, that would then be OK to have him as England manager.

Nothing surprises me with this lot any more. I caught up with someone I hadn't seen for years at a funeral the other day. Season ticket holder for decades, he had a seat in the JW Lower BBE side for 25 years+ since Ewood's redevelopment. When the family section was moved into there, him and his mates were basically thrown out and told to find new seats. No "we're sorry about this, we've found you some new seats at a discount", no sweetener or recognition of their loyalty. So you guessed it. They just jacked it in. Those that run/own the club, they just don't care.

This was my take on it also. It was all so easy for the cross to be made. We've been poor at stopping crosses for quite a while; Brittain is particularly susceptible to this.

Sigursson offers leadership? Hmmm, I'm not sure about that one.

Chuffin' well said.

1. Winners of the Championship Leeds 2. Runners-up in the Championship Luton 3. Championship Play-off final winners B*rnley 4. Where will Rovers finish the season? 22nd 5. Which 3 clubs will be relegated from the Championship? Rovers, Oxford, Plymouth 6. Who will be the first club in the Championship to change manager? (For whatever reason) Oxford 7. Who will be the BRFCS Player of the Season? (As voted for in the Match Centre on BRFCS) Tronstad 8. A wildcard prediction for something (possibly quite mad) that will happen to or at Rovers during this coming season Chaddy misses a home game, but doesn't tell anyone

I love watching Blackburn Rovers, playing at Ewood Park, at 3pm on a Saturday. Just as it should be.

I wasn't sure where to post this, but this nostalgia thread seems as good as any. I spent a few days in northern Spain over the past week, and managed to visit the Athletic Bilbao stadium and had a look around the museum. What a place that is. I knew of the historical links between Athletic and the Rovers, and managed to grab a few photos from the museum of original shirts which were somehow given to them by people associated with the Rovers. It makes you realise what a fabulous, historic club it is which we all support. And how disgusting it is who we are owned and managed by.

Let's hope this comes to fruition eh and we get some good news for a change? It may just cheer up the 'most miserable people in the fanbase' and 'conspiracy theorists' on here.

Exactly this. It's just so obvious.

We can barely put a starting 11 together as it stands; the squad as-is beggars belief. Losing any more players would be insanity. Either that, or something more nefarious. Or both.

Chaddy - Nixon is a football reporter, it's his job to manufacture headlines in order to grab attention. Occasionally he will get some things right; if he didn't, he'd be out of a job. Not everything he says will come true, you know. I'd also ask yourself where you think Nixon gets these snippets from. Think about it for once and try to put 2 and 2 together.

I went down to the Wigan game yesterday. Plenty of effort and a good fitness exercise, on the face of it. That starting side and bench, though. Crikey, we need half a team at least to just about compete. I posted a few days ago that I believe we're favourites for relegation with Sammie, and nailed on without him. I stand by that; these morons have royally screwed us all over.

In that scenario, I imagine that they could carry on selling off assets (players, academy, land, stadium?) to pay bills, until there is nothing left to sell. Whether they'd do that, or swallow their pride finally and flog the club off, who knows. That's the doomsday case I think. ie the club as we know it is literally no more.

@tomphil has it right in his post above I reckon. I sincerely hope that their hand is forced, but August will come and go with no material change. We've probably got enough money in the bank now from player sales to see us through the next few months. As such, there is no urgent need for the owners to send any funds over. The can will be kicked, and we'll be having the same conversations in 6,12 months time. Costs will continue to be cut, budgets and owner funding will get smaller and smaller, whilst we continue to suffer on the pitch. Rinse and repeat.

Why do people refer to this Nixon chap as 'Nicko' like he's some friend of ours? He's just a newspaper hack who sucks in the gullible with his little 'exclusives'. Embarassing.

Fans will simply react to what they see, or don't see, on the pitch.

Thankfully there's no one on this site so stupid to do such a thing....is there? 🤔

It's as plain as day that the 'early bird' was simply a cash grab to help keep the lights on.