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Not this season....yet. By the way i think ACD will turn out a lot better than Markanday but we'll see.

Alan Nixon goes out of his way to gaslight Rovers fans whenever an opportunity arises. He's a fud and a dud.

Quite possibly. I know he put his name to the Mcfadz, Batth type signings but there was also Fleck, Dennis etc. A few million straight down the pan.

Dennis is a complete dud and was a panic loan to try and pacify Eustace. Whoever spent that money on guys like him ought to be sacked it's as simple as that.

Maybe he was asked and said no thanks ?

We are owned and run by the insane though so to them all of a sudden it makes sense. The attitude there now clearly is 'why spend this, why do that' when you can do it for much less and just stay in the division. Sat in an office in London or India it might make sense to a foreign conglomerates accountants who are being fed this crap by a Blackburn based grifter. In the real football world at Championship level it's a one way ticket to relegation eventually.

ACD always had something about him it was obvious when he first came here but he lost his way the Championship was too soon for him. He's another year fitter, older, stronger now we'll see this all the time when taking those kinds of loans because WE ARE A DEVELOPMENT club. Just seems maybe more focus is now going on developing our own instead of other peoples. Brighton probably got ACD's loans the wrong way around he should have been in league 1 first but no surprise to me to see him doing well.

He'll sit on the bench on better wages and be brought on when they are 1 nil up on 60 mins i'd assume.

It'll be the price that puts off plenty potential walk ups not the database. Oh and for context i think there was about 1400 Brum fans last time...

It certainly indicates a lack of high intensity football.

The min Travis was brought back by Eustace and proved his worth to Rovers again is the min he should have had good terms slapped in front of him. Iv'e heard that a big reason for Eustace's displeasure behind the scenes from pretty early on is because he wanted contracts for his core players and prospects to be discussed but was outright blanked. In other words he went into bat for his players because they were doing it for him on the pitch, Mowbray and Venus always did similar that's why they loved him. Players never forget that kind of thing nor do they forget being snubbed in the vain hope they might accept something else offered further down the line. It's a Suhail, Waggot, Venky tactic that has failed time and time again..... or has it, from their point of view ..

I can see him being a real problem but his shoot on sight is very erratic, they need to nullify his supply line but there's be no Travis to protect the back 4 now 🤨

Come on he isn't a Rovers fan or Blackburn lad there aren't many Barry Bannons around in reality' He sees the writing on the wall and there is nothing he can do about it after seeing everyone half decent sold or be allowed to leave. He's a late 20's Championship footballer on a modest - by Championship standards - basic wage so he wants security for his future it's perfectly normal. Add in he wants to link up with a gaffer who will use his strengths, a club with an upward ambition and he'll get a contract of 3 or 4 years worth several million in total. This isn't on him it's an the club just like two thirds of the rest we've now lost.

Never takes long with our fickle lot to rewrite the narratives.

Was always going to happen at some point that saturation point was reached. You can't have at this level an academy just churning out players for multiple positions year after year no matter how it's rated or how much it costs. I posted a few years ago there was a danger these idiots would suddenly think or be sold the notion the academy can solve half the problems every season but it seems they are in that mode hook line and sinker. They didn't like the advice against it from experienced people and coaches so one by one they've cut them away and now have a novice puppet running it and his yes man pal in the dugout. I think the recruitment staff are doing their best and have brought in a few who have obvious development potential but trying to blend them with untested kids and getting rid of all the experience and GOALS all at once is mindnumbingly crazy, pure amateur stuff.

Due to ownership finance issues the desperate need to flog players to pay the bills and replace with cheaper wage ones has grown year on year. You'll be familiar with such issues and meltdowns i'm sure but yours were always well documented but ours have been creeping up slowly but surely over the past 3 or 4 years yet nobody outside out modest sized fanbase will be very aware of it. Our league finishes a few times over the past 4 years have belied the situation but the chickens are firmly on their way home to roost now.

The warning signs of over promoting youth and the 30% of the squad pathway laid down by Broughton, obviously on instruction, nearly saw us relegated or certainly made a big contribution to that. They are going back down the same path but with a lesser squad and a load of cheap foreign imports who don't know each other. I mean what could possibly go wrong ? Did no one actually think about this or were they too busy trying to get rid of those who warned against it ( Eustace, Waggot, maybe Lowe and i bet certain players weren't shy of voicing their opinion either ).

That already started the other day along with the bots being busy 'we only get 13k if 25k turned up every game not just Burnley we'd be spending more' F#ckin deluded lunatics they are.

It was the agent who sorted all that lot out i don't know whether he was intent on rubbing fans noses in it even further or just brown nosing them as much as possible. Probably a bit of both but it was more 'bad advice' for them.

It'll be interesting to see how 'busy' the BBE end is after ST hikes and £35 match tickets in there just so they can fleece the Brum lot.

I don't think guys like Ismael need selling an illusion i'm pretty certain that in his case he's been told look we need to sell/let go half the squad and replace with cheaper to develop quickly. We think you are the man for the job and you can decide the profile of the replacements if not the actual player. Here is the contract, here is the bonus structure, insert some release clauses to protect us both. The last 3 head coaches have relaunched their careers here and gone on to big jobs afterwards despite the challenges here. We won't stand in your way if you wish to leave for a club that will pay compensation, do you want to sign ? No brainer.

Iv'e seen nothing really so far that suggests anything other than a loss here they are everything we aren't, bright, vibrant, building, ambitious, i could go on. This is the championship though so anything can happen and everything depends on us going in front instead of behind yet we are back to starting games like we are wading in treacle. Even last season there was little evidence of this energetic pressing/countering style Ismael has banged on about but it's ok cried the usual suspects he'll have to get his own type of players in first, well........ Rovers 1 Tom Brady's 7k Glory Hunters 3 20,787

The pressure on keepers these days to play like sure footed centre halves out and inside their own box is both ridiculous and needless. No wonder the kid ballsed up he should be under instruction on his debut, keep it simple and clear your lines at all times. However as much as i said on Sat and stand by it that WBA would have been out of sight first half if Pears played the opposite is true tonight. If he'd been in goal as he should have been he probably doesn't concede that and it's a different game. Again though don't blame the players it's just piss poor management at team and director level.

If Gestede and Ismael have any brains and backbone between them they'll be telling the chief bean counter we need to sell Gueye and put that with the Travis money and get a proven forward from somewhere, even if yes it's a bloody loan.

Another very strange situation with him. Just finding his feet at non league Chorley several rungs below where even Bradford are then hooked, brought back here and in the squad. Odd and looking increasingly stupid.