bluebruce

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.

I wonder if Sheron thinks we were causing them some problems at 3-0 down after 9 minutes?

We would get the same days, the same results? This has literally never happened to this club before in all its proud history, what in the fuck are you talking about you goddamned fossil?!? I just can't get over that not only has it not even occurred to him to apologise to the long suffering fans for a record-breaking defeat, but that he has doubled down on attacking, dividing and patronising them at an extremely sore moment. You can't ever lower my expectations enough that a 7-0 home tonking by a team in the same league becomes remotely acceptable. Any manager who thinks that falls under the bracket of 'same days, the same results' will always be one who needs to fuck off and pleasure himself with an active chainsaw.

There can be no question after this latest display of arrogance and disrespect to the fans, Mowbray is now firmly in Kean territory.

'If we'd got a result we'd have gone 4th in the division' Aww, and we came so close to getting a result, too...

Yes, a big sign, reading 'WE ARE FAR TOO AFRAID TO SERIOUSLY QUESTION THE RUNNING OF THE CLUB'

Dolan probably the only one of that list who has managed a couple of decent efforts there. Only by virtue of being a pain in the ass though, it's clearly not his position and sometimes it shows. All the others have, as far as I can remember, been abject failures in that role in every single time? And yet he keeps trying it. Like his 5 at the back rubbish.

I'm more worrying that he looked relaxed throughout it...because he feels safe as houses.

I'd expect similar yes but I suspect he may go for a little more, maybe up to 18 ish. Depending on his goal tally end of season. A few reasons: He is mostly scoring from out wide..if he ends up with an Armstrongesque tally from there it will be very impressive. He is more of a team player and taller. He is very marketable in Chile. With the right marketing it could probably cover his salary. We paid up to 7 million for him, a big risk at the time, so will probably play a bit harder on negotiating and clubs will inherently understand that. Tiny bit of inflation.

I think excellent is a stretch. He wasn't back to his best yet. Now he has had another ACL and is going to be another year older. I'll be honest, I'm not expecting fireworks from him and it could take months for him to get fully up to speed. I'll also be constantly worried one of his ACLs will go again. Hopefully Mowbray shows sense and takes it slowly with him and maybe we can get the old Dack back. His pace doesn't fully suit our approach though, and could well be reduced further, but no doubting he has quality.

Tbh I'm not surprised, I imagine his confidence is in the toilet. He was flying on his loan last season, got signed on again for just a year...then palmed off on loan again. Think he is one of those players where most of the battle is in their head. Mowbray's treatment of him has always been bizarre. He seems to simultaneously rate him and not rate him, having loaned him, signed him permanently, extended his deal...but never really given him a proper shake of the stick despite showing talent on numerous occasions. Some of the harsher posters on here who don't seem to deal with potential, and don't rate a player unless they force their way into our idiot manager's plans, will likely tell me he just isn't good enough. But I simply don't buy that. There have been times he absolutely should have had a run in the team and no such thing happened. It's incredibly difficult to be undervalued, it makes you question if you're as good as you think, which makes you perform worse and question yourself more. People can say the strongest characters overcome that, and they often do, but there are still people who can play at the top that don't fit that bill of extreme mental strength. They just need things to land for them at the right time and a manager who demonstrates belief in them. Chapman's career with us is clearly over, which just makes it all the more mystifying we signed him on again, just to sign two similar level players in his position on loan and send him off again. For his sake (and the tiny amount of money we might get from future sales if he is a success) I hope he gets it together this season to earn a proper move and get his career back on track. Otherwise I can see him retiring in the next few years. Has plenty of talent.

Well. I don't want to get carried away as he is no such thing. But he may have finally realised blurting out our likely selections and tactics before the game is dumb, whilst fibbing about it can mess with the opposition's tactics.

Was referring to whether Nyambe will play or not.