I don't really follow cricket, but wasn't there a big furore over the Aussie cricket team for bad sportsmanship not so long ago? Unfortunately sport in general is rife with cheating and corruption. Even at amateur level I've seen diving and other cheating...and seriously nepotistic, at best, organisations. FIFA are absolutely vile though.

That's why I'm asking for clarification.

I don't think it's fair at all to say it's in their DNA. Borderline casual racism in fact. Perhaps you meant in their culture?

Can't be too many on here who will recognise the 'cameo' of the black guy who mocks 'life hacks' by doing a much simpler version then gesturing at it with a hilarious expression. I can't remember his name though. A Chilean guy gave a presentation at work the other week. He hasn't been home since before the pandemic. I chatted to him after and asked if he was into football. He said he wasn't into it, didn't know any players etc, but when I asked if he had heard of Ben Brereton, even his eyes lit up a bit and he certainly had heard about it. I suggested he get down to Ewood to make some friends back home jealous but he didn't seem like he was going to take me up on that!

I can't see him getting a season on loan at League One yet. Perhaps as emergency cover, but otherwise I suspect it's League Two at best until he can prove himself there. Which would leave him too far from proving himself for this level any time soon. I expect he will be released when his deal is up tbh. Too many bodies ahead of him in the pecking order.

Yeh I saw some of the games (11) were at Championship level. I know he has 2 in 5 for ROI, but let's be honest...scoring against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan isn't impressing anyone. Ultimately you never know for sure what a player is going to do for you until he plays. Even then it can take years sometimes, like with Brereton.

It's 3 more than our captain has. I'm not judging him as such. I'm not saying he is crap, I'm saying it doesn't inspire any confidence. Like any other player, I would judge him entirely on how he played for us when he arrived, if he ever did come here. It's fair in advance of that to not have any excitement about him coming here with a very poor goal record at a lower level than we play, in a position we need goals. Of course, he could step up the level and start smashing then in, or be a creative fulcrum, it has happened before. At RM in a 4-4-2 in a lower league, I would expect at least 5 goals in that many appearances for that to not be a point of concern. We play our wide players further forward, so you never know. But I don't want a million pound 'you never know' punt in our situation. If it, or a similar deal happens, then so be it and see how it goes. Most of us as fans aren't about to do a full on scouting job, especially on a player we aren't linked with.

Come on BDS. I'm sure he has other attributes to his game that are impressive or you wouldn't be suggesting him and ROI wouldn't have capped him 5 times. But 1 goal in 51 (in 70 if you cover all his spell in England) by age 24 isn't remotely acceptable for anyone playing anywhere on the front line. Poveda has managed that for us whilst barely featuring. Pickering has already managed that and he's a full back. Ayala has scored double that just this season and he is a CB. All these goals a league above where Ogbene scored his one. It's fair for posters to be more than dubious about that record, especially since we have a team reliant on scoring goals due to our leaky defence. Personally I'd need a hell of a lot of convincing to not feel nervous if we were to plonk a million on him like you suggest.

I find it hard to believe anything Waggott says in public, let alone what I hear third hand that he says in a private chat for which he can't be held accountable.

Apart from basically everything.

A new manager is not going to want to inherit a decimated squad, with the feeble recruitment infrastructure and system we have. That's giving themself too much of a difficult start to life here, at what is already known to be a bit of a basket case club. Mowbray doesn't always make poor signings. As long as the summer budget isn't blown it's not the worst thing to try to strengthen. There's a chance 1 or 2 might be good. A place can be found for most good players by most managers.

No, I don't like him because he jumped from his supposed boyhood club at the first chance (ok, that part happens) and then when we were in relegation trouble and beat United at OT, he said it was the worst day of his professional career. The lad was in the 7-1 humping Manure gave us, but losing to his boyhood team was the worst day of his career. I wouldn't say I dislike a player because of their injury record. Fuck him.

This. Put whatever money is being considered for this crock towards signing our assets on.

I don't like the guy, he is injured all the time, we would have to pay a fortune in wages to borrow him for half a season whilst he readjusts to football, and we have loads of players in that position, some of them promising young ones that we actually own. Really rather we didn't. You go spunk your drawers over expensive injured has-beens all you like 😉 I'm not stopping your dreams.

Can't lie, I wouldn't even want Jones here really.

Indeed, but as I said, moron.

Problem is, the moron in the CEO seat will probably just say 'we halved prices but didn't double the attendance, it failed'.

Jesus, paying up 80 percent of the contract for a bunch of experienced players you'll definitely need to replace is hardly saving money. But Anderson et al knew that, they just wanted their tickets to the gravy train. Such a den of snakes. Tbh though if Venkys weren't in some sense complicit, why haven't they sued by now? This charlatan's 'advice' has cost them an absolute fortune.

It's jealousy from our glory days I think. We have been above them for a long time until recently, so we barely shot them a glance, but they resent the big neighbour next door and our time in the sun. I didn't care about them either, but their jumped up fans have began to irritate me in recent years.

LB, CB or RB? Tbh at the moment I'd probably only be interested if he is an RB. We have two recently signed LBs who we need to get the full measure of. We have tons of CBs, most of whom are young like this lad. I'd only want experience in there right now. RB is crying out for a recruit though. Nyambe who gets injured and will be off soon. JRC who isn't solid enough defensively and spends 3/4 of a season injured. After that it's whoever Tony feels like ramming in there when the other two are inevitably injured, and nobody has impressed.

We are Blackburn Rovers. Struggling with your home/away/general form? Just give us a call. Twas ever thus.

No, I don't believe we can. We can look forward to false dawn after false dawn, if history is anything to go by.

No, you lose credibility in an argument. You don't instantly lose the argument. Credit for the result today though, from me at least. I just don't find myself caring very much. Still want him out.

Even if he is fully fit, I don't expect him to be fully sharp yet. Playing against proper pros again for the first time in a year, in a demoralised team, I'm not gonna be surprised or roast him if he has a poor game.

They 1 downed them in the end. Good effort though, they even managed to get an early red.