Old Codger

He has fecked off to the pub, on a Monday evening ffs! Tells you all you need to know.

If I had been at the club for more than the required time, I'd be seeing them in an employment tribunal and selling my story to the gutter press 😉

It was a hair-brained scheme from the cut. Never alopecia of the jigsaw.

When you've run your eyes over that many duds over the years, it does get somewhat easier to see through the hype, it's true. Most of us can spot a 'player' in the same way that Pasha can't.

I've got the car started, where do I pick him up? Obviously not in any dangerous area, but I guess I could look at the Offside of the car whilst I'm driving about trying to find him..

What is Danny Graham up to these days? I'd wager he could find the net more often than our current set of chumps. Has he stopped harrassing folk in public now?

Fixed that for you Chris.

If he was to sell for £150 million, I'd wager that Suhail Pasha's head might be the next to be nailed on the boardroom wall. I mean, even to a bunch of remote and disengaged halfwits, the sale of an asset for around 13.6% of 'fair market value' might be seen as somewhat cack handed and incompetent... Just think, the Venksters, could have recouped a large slice of their sunk cost in one fell swoop, simply by holding on to a star player, adding a little extra support to a manager clearly capable of cutting it at Premier League level (or at least ambitious enough to take the club to that level again) and waiting for the offers to roll in - who'd a thewt it? And what stopped this alternative universe scenario playing out? Well, apparently there's this shadowy figure at the club who holds the purse strings, but has the imagination of an ant, the football knowledge of the average foot scraping and the business acumen of Mr Magoo. So, come on Liverpool, Barcelona, whoever, make this prick stand out for the fraud that he clearly is (NB, Suhail Pasha, not Saint Adam (I bleed blue and white) Wharton. PASHA and VENKY FOOTBALL SCOURGE OUT!

Well, if VI is complicit in project 'new broom' he will only have himself to blame if the experiment backfires and he and the team bear the brunt of criticism during and after games from our blinkered and easily hoodwinked fanbase. Should a miracle occur and Rovers actually do well this season (we wish!) imagine the impact on all the rest of the teams at this level - bloated squads and overpaid prima-donnas will be jetisoned in favour of lean and hungry teamsheets and cheap makeweights around dressing rooms, with everyone clamouring for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th tier players from overseas... Disruptive innovation, I believe it is called (when it works). Stupidity and asset stripping, I believe it is termed when it all goes tits up... I know where my instinct tells me we are headed (although I'd be delighted to be shown to be an old codger and a buffoon) And yes, the above isn't 'tits up' it is down.

It is perhaps a tad disingenuous, as Mr RTMO8 suggests, but then again, football is a horrible business, full stop. As much as we may feel aggrieved that Adam has matured into his status as a football hot property, it has taken place under Palace's roof, and we never had an icecube in hell's chance of enabling him to develop to the level he has reached, due in spades to the incompetent, short-sighted, non-football savvy and genuinely disinterested in anything that is in the best long term interests of Blackburn Rovers ownership and management arrangements at the club. Palace are just fortunate to have had decent business people who are passionate about football holding the reins for the past 20 years plus, whilst we have been hamstrung by bewlidered, befuddled, remote, retarded owners who know about as much about football as Donald Trump knows about diplomacy and discretion. They didn't steal Adam Wharton - we THEY gave him away cheap.

They are ALL confidence players. When faced with adversity and a run of poor results, heads tend to go down, rather than these pampered primadonnas pulling up their socks and girding their loins. However, such is the nature of the game of association football, it can happen that a team on a downer meets another in an even worse state (e.g. Hull vs Rovers last week) and that can be enough to create a pattern interrupt that begins to spiral upwards, although apparently not in our case, based on yesterday's ragbag result. Anyway, the boss has a couple of weeks solid time with the lads to drill something into them, around whatever the new master plan happens to be. Let's hope that is long enough for some mettle to gel in the ranks. Buckle up Dorothy, Kansas is about to go bye bye...!

More a case of chronic amnesia, puerile blinkered syndrome or simply a huge dose of the WUMps. I get the sentiment, but it disregards the vast amount of life experience (and long history of supporting Rovers) that many posters have, with which they are able to form valid judgements rather than vacillating around unjustified optimism. Bah. Humbug.

He is Alex Da Costa reincarnated, FFS.

We used to have a Kargbo type player in my University team back in the day (about a million years ago) called Alex Da Costa. Alex could run with the ball in any direction you pointed him, and was difficult to dispossess, but as soon as he got anywhere near the penalty area he would go to pieces and start shrieking stuff like, 'And he is in!!, Referee, that man is touching me, it is a clear penall tee' and blaze over the bar. Not joking, in around 30 fixtures over 2 years I never saw him score, and whilst he was always on the team sheet because his pace disrupted the opposition, we always used to groan when he went on any of his runs. In the time honoured 'Beamo' fashion, spectacular failures to score have always been known as Alex Da Costa moments in my household..

Isn't goalkeeper one position though where an emergency loan or unattached player (of which there are several at Premier League level available at the moment) can be added after the window closes? Vague recollection of this being in the rules. However, most things are a bit vague with me these days, so I've probably imagined it..

Hurrah! An actual human being acting like a decent soul! On this message board too! Sir DeeCee of Birthday Drinks Land, I salute you! We have all been there (some of us have the MB bans to show for it) and it takes a decent human being to acknowledge an error and seek to correct it. Yours, Old Codger (a youthful 63, I tell you)

Ok, so here come the Canaries, flapping into fortress dilapidated and dated Ewood for a 3pm showdown with our ragbag of unknown unknowns, 'why is he here' stars, quiet as a mouse muscle-men, and I'll toe the line for £10k a week underperformers, all cobbled together under the vengeful and unhinged watch of Mr Sideline Shadow Dancer, Please sir can I go to the toilet Teaboy, and Cross Me at your Peril eyebrows Ismael. What are the expectations for the afternoon? A glorious reprise of a famous 7-1 demolition? A whingeing crowd murmuring in hollow discontent at the lack of anything to enjoy and an absence of A3 baggage? A salutory reminder of the vagaries of amateur football club management as a substitute for structure and strategy? Hmm..yesterday at lunchtime I was (for about a nanosecond) more optimistic that there might be an actual plan. Pasha, buffoon and clearly in need of a damned good enema, put paid to that (we are told) by taking a last minute.com dump on Harry Leonard's last chance saloon. So, back to square one, as the professional snakes (sic) and ladders player in me likes to revert to in times of great confusion, like the last 14-15 years under the absent shadow snake charmers. Quick question - what would you or I be prepared to do for a £500k per year wage? Rhetorical, of course (East Lancs wages have stagnated since the 1980s) but if someone gave you that much wonga and a script that said simply squeeze costs and say nothing, what would you do? (I'd probably squeeze costs and say nothing, to be fair). I digress. Looking forward to this afternoon (I'm not, of course, don't be silly!) My gut feeling is that the bad egg smell behind the curtain gets up the players' noses and leads to a less than carnival atmosphere for the whole game...('s funny, isn't that where that Pasha bloke stands..?) Canaries in a coalmine - Rovers 3 Norwich 0 Can air y pin drop around Ewood - Rovers 0 Yellowskins 3 Canairdly bring myself to type this - Reverting to tripe Rovers 0 Huffskipuffski yellows 0 COYB! VENKYS OUT! (naturally - they don't give a shit and don't belong here, and are a blight on football) Cowardly deal quashing-career stalling-prospect ruining SHADOW WANKERS OUT!

Amateur hour all round here, Chaddy. The idea is plausible, but the evidence in support of it is not even paper thiiiiiiiiiinnnn! Yet Rovers still need to sign a striker. Enter Tea Boy - Superhero, to the rescue!!!! The tea boy, behind the mask..

I getcha. I do forget sometimes that to the outside world we are just a football club. And yes, I also forget that £10k per week is a half million pounds a year wage, which isn't to be sniffed at (particularly round here, where wages have not kept pace with inflation for the past 30 years). So, fair point. I getcha.

Seriously, this holds true for most conventional clubs, but Batshit Crazy Blackburn Rovers whose reputation is in shitting tatters, whose 'Can Pay - WON'T PAY' philosophy is emblazoned on every decision so far this transfer window, and whose 'senior management' comprises a half-witted shadow dancer taking a massive salary and an over-promoted work experience trainee.... Hmm, come to think of it, Azerbaijan is very pretty in the autumn...cost of living is a fraction of the UK, tax regime is malleable.... Yup.

Fuck me, the bastards have dug Jack up 😞

Bestriding Ewood like a colossal twat in a onesie, Big Suhail shares his football wisdom with all who dare to listen.. COLOSSAL TWATS OUT!!

Only Rovers Pasha & Rudy could mess up a weekend as badly as this. Club's PR department (haha, do we have one?) is a shambolic mess. Recruitment appears to be being done on a whimsical fag packet. Pasha's tantrums, if OssyDave is to be believed (and I'm inclined to do so) are verging on the pathetic - does the bloke actually have a remit to piss people off (I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was being paid to twist the sodding knife). I guess it is a case of 'more fool me' for beginning to think there might actually be a plan and a potential silver lining in the offing, with the mooted approaches for Gudjonsen etc, and the apparently shrewd bit of business to offload Harry Leonard.. but nah. I do keep forgetting we are a basket case, not a sodding football club. PASHA 'I CAN THROW MY TOYS OUT OF THE PRAM IF I WANT' - OUT!! VENKYS OUT! Tools. The lot of ye.

Do they play all their games behind closed doors?

That's the spirit - let's talk about players who might come in, rather than this awful navel-gazing about those who have gone.. As I said, there are some very experienced goalkeepers without clubs, from the top flight. We could benefit from some experience and calm heads / steady hands as back up. No doubt Mr Fruity and Bad Tempered Shadow-Boy are hard at work plotting some unexpected coup in the striking and goalkeeping departments... Not long now till we find out.. Tick Tock!