Can someone remind me how to put folk on ignore - I can't see how to do it on the dashboard.. Mods...? Help!!

The Championship is a slog and clog from the outset, and what tends to determine altitude is attitude, and as we know, football players' attitude is determined by confidence and confidence itself comes from results. So, following that logic, we desperately need to get some decent results on the board early on in the season, and build from there. As others have eloquently (and empirically) pointed out above, we are certainly somewhat diminished in terms of personnel (numbers, proven quality, experience etc) and are therefore approaching the new season as something of an unknown. Except, of course, we know that some sides have taken steps to strengthen their playing staff (Derby for one will be an interesting watch this coming campaign). Your attitude determines your altitude. Buckle up, and buckle in. But don't Buckle!! Bottle!! VENKYS OUT

Blackburn isn't Manchester, and we are certainly not England's 10th city! Friend of mine (Chelsea fan) says Man City have offered £149 million for one player (Palmer), which they have rejected, but they will take £250 million. The game is corrupted beyond any semblance of decency or morality. So I suppose a player moving from a well supported team in the relative backwaters of the Polish leagues to a second tier shambles for a few Zlotys more is easily explained... And it will, of course, only be a few Zlotys. But as you rightly point out, there is the opportunity to join a far more lucrative gravy train as a result of being in a better shop window. Money. Its a gas.

Never seen so many 'Where's Wallys' in one place at the same time! Perhaps we could play "Where's Rudy' with that crowd? And anyway, if you were that player, why would you swap that set up for ours? Wouldn't make sense in any way shape or form. VENKYS OUT! WHERE'S RUDY?

Yes, I think you are right. Even at 17 or 18, these lads already know what they are about, and want to play football at the highest level possible. A sensible approach is to use them tactically, later on in games where we either need to change things up or are so far in front that to do so poses no threat to the result. I'm sure VI has an eye for a player, and will use his influence to ensure the young bloods are available at the appropriate time and in a way that benefits, not hinders, his plans.

Be like the old days of Garner, Bailey and Hird, with teams constantly on the back foot.. Nowt wrong with that! And yes, Kargbo does seem quite zippy. I hope he is able to get into goal scoring positions very frequently, come the new campaign.

We look like we are hungry for the ball all the time, which is the hallmark of a hard working and likely to get results side. Hard to tell from the stream and the quality of the opposition what that might mean in terms of performance in the Championship, but at least if we have a side that keeps going for 90 minutes and works hard on and off the ball, no-one will be complaining about a lack of Labore. Just need someone to add some Arte and we might have a decent season. Loving the VENKYS OUT banner.

Good. Not going to turn up at Ewood causing irritation and embarrasment to anyone. Good luck to the lad. Moving on. Please can we get a replacement in. VENKYS OUT

Oh for the chutzpah that brought Duncan McKenzie, Ossie Ardiles, Steve Archibald etc to our club... Instead we are desperate to hoover up scraps from clubs who were once well in our shadow.. Oh, the mighty are fallen indeed! McKenzie is still around, mind 😉 VENKYS OUT!

Ooer! Thanks for that delightful internal representation burned into my mind now.. 🤣 I couldn't care less about JE. I think he is a good manager, but I have no idea what he is like as a person. Same for VI - to be fair, certain Scottish historical figures apart, it isn't possible to break into management without having something about you, and a modicum of credibility. Have we made progress this close season? Errrr.... VENKYS OUT!

De rien. Obs.

Thanks, but...Yawn...! Not bothered what the sodding Rams are doing. Just interested in what Rovers are up to (if anything).

Just over 2 and a half weeks now to the start of the new season, away at West Brom. All very quiet on the transfer front, albeit with the players in Spain for a pre-season kickabout and some sun. What is worrying me most as it stands is the prospect of losing any of our key players from here on in, such as Travis, Tronstadt, Brittain (although he has kind of gone already in my mind), or Pickering. Pre-season is important in terms of drilling a playing style and gaining team cohesion, and should we lose anyone key at this point, there will be inevitable impacts on whatever has been achieved during the pre-season run up. That is even before we factor in the challenge of integrating any incoming player(s) into the team. It isn't beyond the wit of our opposition in the league to be delaying their moves in order to derail any momentum we have built up, not withstanding of course that bringing our players into their own set ups would cause similar challenges to those we would face, but hey - maybe they have greater strength in depth and can take the hit, whereas we are paper thin in terms of talent and capacity to accommodate disruption. But don't listen to me - I'm just a crusty old codger, and I worry about all kinds of stuff that younger folk don't even consider real (yet!). I'd rather we got our shopping done, declared ourselves 'complete' and set out our stall accordingly, so that worried old gits like me can look forward to the new campaign, instead of being scared of the shadows that most certainly (to me) appear to stalk our club. COYB! Get ready.

I feel for TD, as it is clear he has been somewhat taken advantage of by our unscrupulous and blinkered so called management, in terms of access to the gravy train that has previously been the de-facto destination for any player capable of consistent performances on the stage we operate from. As I've said previously though, Rovers have decades of experience of allowing those who 'down tools' to exit stage left, without anyone (from Andy Crawford in the early 80s, through Ryan Nyambe and we are led to believe Sammy) actually sinking the ship in the process of jogging on. Granted we made a few quid on Super Sammy, but in the grand scheme of things it didn't mean anything in terms of replacements on the pitch. So, if Mr TD wishes to withdraw his labour, he is entitled to do so, and goes with my thanks for the graft he put in, but also with a little sigh of relied that we will no longer be wondering which TD has turned up each game.. Still apprehensive about our prospects for the coming season. We might well be fitter, but we lack the strength in depth and (crucially) the quality to mount a plausible and sustained campaign. It is going to be very much hand to mouth with the bargain bucket brigade I am afraid. And that says everything we need to know about the state of Blackburn Rovers in our 150th Season as a professional club. Disgraceful! VENKYS OUT! PASHA OUT! RUDY GET YER FINGER OUT!

Agreed. Dennis was away with the fairies, and cost us goals with his careless approach. Woodrow was meh, but you could see he'd been a footballer at some point. But the underlying point is well made - a lack of strength in depth has cost Rovers dearly in each of the past 4 or 5 campaigns, with the post-December dip in form robbing us of any decent chance of progressing upwards. We somehow need to get to a place where every position has back-up, and they can all fit into the manager's preferred style and tactics. Ain't happening, is it? But well done VI and the boys on delivering a decent performance today against a much higher quality (on paper) set of players. Maybe VI is an alchemist, and Rudy is visionary and incisive. Not holding my breath on either count, tbh.

Yes, definitely this. Whatever happens behind the scenes, we don't appear to be 'building a team', but instead are 'assembling a playing staff'. The difference in terms of preparation, outlook, togetherness, awareness of relative strengths (and the ability to play to these), team spirit, coherence and cohesion, compared to a settled side whose core has been unchanged for a couple of seasons and who 'know' how each other play across a wide range of game types and conditions, well that is likely to be a massive gulf, and one that it will be nigh on impossible to bridge. Consider the wet, dark and cold months ahead. How will a bunch of (let's face it) journeyman players, relatively underpaid compared to their opposition and operating in unfamiliar conditions at a level probably higher than they have ever faced before, react when things go against them, as they inevitably will? I'm no expert, and am just a Rovers fan that has seen more or less everything in my 52 years supporting the club, but my feeling is that we are probably heading for consistently underwhelming outcomes on the pitch, accompanied by a growing discontent off it. Not a recipe for a triumphant continuation of form that saw us miss out on the play offs by ten sodding minutes ! Please come back and quote me at various points during the season, regardless of the actual results we chalk up. I would be delighted to be proven wrong, but this approach doesn't fill me with any sense of looking forward to the coming campaign. VENKYS OUT! PASHA GET OUT YOU SNIVELLING ROTBRAIN! RUDY- DO ONE! But, COYB!

A word to the wise... Don't feck with Mercer! He's more of an old codger than I am, and would pull your arms off and spit roast your torso with his keyboard warriorship faster than two black holes merging in deep space.... Just saying..

As if. There are some time thieving ways of wasting one's time on earth, and Instagram is one such abomination. I'd rather drill my eyes out with a blunt speculum.

The Andy Crawford 'smokes his own exhaust' story repeats itself! I always knew it would, one day. Next thing you know, we'll be treated to pictures of Tyrhis 'training alone on the beach'.. Shameful, on the part of the faceless bastards behind the scenes at Rovers.

I ruddy hate click bait. Why can't someone just say that he has gone and where he has gone to. Wankers.

And here we are, back to the 1970s... and our 'Annual Battle Against Promotion'.. VENKYS, PASHA, RUDY, THE WHOLE FECKING LOT OF EM... OUT!!

Been there. Thanks for sparing us your darkest inner thoughts. We share your pain. RIP the Real Rovers!

It's like when David Hargreaves came on trial from Accy Stanley all those years ago, all over again. Hard to be anything other than underwhelmed. Nothing against the lad, but come on, giving trials to lads from the testosterone league??

Hurrah! Mornington Crescent! ☺️

Keep up, dear boy.