Whilst they have been given permission to pay their staff it's not clear how much money they have immediate access to to do that. If further capital is in Abramovich's account that could be tricky

It's far from business as usual at the moment unless things change. Chelsea are not allowed to offer any new contracts or sell any match tickets. They have limits on the amount they can spend on games at £500K for home games and £20K for away travel costs - they are saying that's not enough. There may well be compromises made but right now it's a real problem for them. They can only be sold if it can be guaranteed that none of the proceeds will go to Abramovich.

No Rovers fan can seriously consider the modern local Government boundaries. If they did they would be accepting that Blackburn with Darwen is not in Lancashire.

I was confused about Lenihan's yellow cards as there are several sites supposedly keeping a record that have him on 10. But the Sky coverage on Saturday said it was his 9th. So sad old bloke that I am I checked and he has only had 9, given that he had two in the Forest game and served a 1 match ban for that. Both Lenihan and Travis have been accumulating yellows at about 1 in every 4 games so I guess the odds are that 1 of them will pick up one either tonight or Saturday. Buckley is on 9 as well but he hasn't been playing recently.

He was at Swansea yesterday so presumably he’s fit.

There's only 1 of them playing.

I would expect that there will be some in the Eight Bells by Putney tube station after the game.

The chat further up was expressing surprise that Reading were giving Rovers ST holders an offer. i was just pointing out that Rovers are dong it as well, although no doubt because of the offer to home fans for that game.

Bristol City ST holders can have the same bring a friend for £10/£5 offer that Rovers have offered home ST holders - https://tickets.bristol-sport.co.uk/categories/bristolcityfcaway

They have all had deals offered some time ago but none have signed. They all could choose to sign any time before the end of June.

I have perhaps not minuted that point well. Have a look at the FF thread for a clarification.

Well it's come straight from the horse's mouth and more than once....

Perhaps I have not expressed that correctly. My understanding is that Nyambe's agent has refused to talk to the club for some time now.

Jeez -do you want me to come round and read them to you as well? Just look under the Fans tab.

Very irritatingly having passed on a number of volunteers Sky have now changed their schedule and won't be featuring some Rovers fans at Craven Cottage.

It would have been better if they weren't playing each other - they could both have lost.

I’ve had plenty of volunteers now. Thanks all.

A friend and I were considering whether it was worth swapping Nyambe and Lenihan after Ryan's outstanding centre back game but I guess that's academic now.

To be honest, apart from the pain on the day, i think I would take another 7-0 defeat if we could be guaranteed that we would win 7 and draw 1 of the next 8 again.

That's not what I said rigger, although I suspect that you know that. What I said was that there are no big revelations. Anyway I got the minutes back from the club this morning while I was out. I will be sending them out to Forum members later today and asking the club to put them on the website from tomorrow morning.

I have received a request from Sky Sports for a fan they can film at the Fulham game as below. We're looking to film some confident travelling Blackburn fans that will be attending the away fixture against Fulham this Saturday 05/03/22. Can you let me know if any of your contingency is travelling to Craven Cottage so that we can possibly meet with them? If anyone is interested in doing this please send me a pm.

Well he's picked up 9 in 33 games, so just under 1 in every 4 games....

That would give us a total of 83 points which would only have got us automatic promotion in 2 of the last 10 years. The average you have needed is 85.6.

He did have two yellows for a red but I think they were on top of the 9 single ones he has. Had he not picked up the red he would have been up to 10 already and have had a two game suspension.

Both Lenihan and Buckley are on 9 yellow cards as well. And as a team Rovers have the most yellow cards in the Division.