1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

If Szmodics says he is fine then he stays on. 

It is that much of a problem really?.

Even if the close minutes he was closing down defenders.  Clearly fine. 

If he gets injured or even if he just isn't as fresh for the next game, yes, it's very obviously a problem. I've seen enough times over the years where somebody gets kept on after they've clearly taken an injury and it just gets worse. Sometimes they make it through the whole game and seem fine, only for an injury to be announced a couple of days later. Sometimes they can make it through the next match too but then the injury becomes too severe and they're out for weeks or months. Or sometimes they just carry the injury and play through it for months but their performances clearly drop off.

It was a fucking unnecessary risk because the game was won, end of. Even if we get away with it 100%, that stands. It was stupid.

56 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Cos we wanted him to get his hat trick. 

 

That's not a remotely good enough reason to risk our best player when 4 goals to the good, he's had a knock and we're in a relegation fight.

Anyone got a good explanation for why we have kept Szmodics on the pitch?

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Just enjoy a win for an afternoon, they're few and far between. 

I find it hard to find joy in anything at the club now. In recent years I'd generally have been overjoyed at today, but I find myself feeling little more than 'oh that's nice' and a bit of surprise that we have actually turned it on.

9 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

There's no good reason to leave Sammie or JRC on especially. Szmodics looked in a lot of pain when he went down earlier, but he's the type of lad to play through the pain and regret it later. Even if that hadn't happened he's too important to leave on at 4 nil up. JRC is just made of glass and very good for us. Agree I'd have Gally taken off too.

Or we could just make the least important of those subs, yeh, cool.

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Their CB is literally getting bullied by Gallagher (throwing himself to the ground trying to get Gallagher sent off). 

He needs to have a word with himself, Gallagher is soft as shit. 

Actually the replay was pretty clear Gally got lucky with that one.

7 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Depends who we sell, but if we have roughly the same/equivalent squad no way we should be going down.

I don't see how we keep Szmodics, without him we'd have been relegated already. Eustace hasn't convinced me no matter how today ends. The off the pitch stuff is massively distracting and sabotaging us every transfer window. I'll reassess after the summer but my hopes for next season are very low.

1 minute ago, Blow-in said:

Sammy, JRC and Gally off now!

There's no good reason to leave Sammie or JRC on especially. Szmodics looked in a lot of pain when he went down earlier, but he's the type of lad to play through the pain and regret it later. Even if that hadn't happened he's too important to leave on at 4 nil up. JRC is just made of glass and very good for us. Agree I'd have Gally taken off too.

Great footwork Dolan

Wtf am I seeing here? Turning into a massacre

Think we'll be staying up now. And going down next year.

2 minutes ago, philipl said:

We get 15% of the profit over the 23m 

We really need to negotiate better sell-ons when we sell the silver. If he gets sold on for something very substantial like £73 mill, where it would be 50 mill profit, we would only see a further 7.5 mill. Something ludicrous (but who knows, the way fees inflate in football) like 123 million and our sell on chunk would still only come to 15 mill.

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We're not - we're no longer conceding multiple goals a game.

That said we're probably still going down because we sold our one outstanding player in January and didn't replace him. From a squad that was bereft of quality to begin with. 

One of our two outstanding players.

On 26/03/2024 at 20:25, Norbert Rassragr said:

Might as well not bother and just scout for disguarded 18 year olds.

Tbf, although it's been gutting and not the fees we should have been able to get, £18 million rising to £23 million for Wharton and £2.5 million with rumoured add ons of about another £2.5 million for Phillips are not numbers that make me want to give up the Academy. Not to mention all the current first teamers. The Academy pays its way and then some.

7 hours ago, Polky said:

 

They have deadline day at the end of March? Might as well not have a deadline at all, it's less than a month until their final league game (though obviously the league's playoffs will continue a bit longer).

Don't know anything about him, transfermarkt doesn't even have his age, he doesn't even have a profile on the Rovers U18 page (although he's played 15 games for them and 3 for the U21s...more amateur hour stuff from the website), but best of luck to him. Given the lack of data on him I'm guessing he only broke into the U18s this season so is probably 16, in which case this is an excellent loan opportunity for him to experience men's football nice and early. I don't like when we send 18 or 19 year olds to that level, but if he's as young as I'm guessing it's a good move.

18 minutes ago, tomphil said:

They still need one on the ground here to manage all the takings and outgoings in Blackburn.

The main finance though of player, football operation wages, transfer, debts, funding etc will surely be done direct from India ?

How many finance people does one club need seeing as they already appointed another in India recently.

I don't see any reason to think that would be the case? They've replaced one British finance guy with another British finance guy, I'm not sure why that indicates a move of the finances from here to India. The appointment in India might be more relevant in that regard, I don't know. In the other post you said Babu, but hasn't he been at the club for years now, or is it a different Babu?

1 minute ago, G Somerset Rover said:

They obviously won’t say as much, but any chance he’s our sacrificial lamb that we’ve been waiting for?

'Family reasons' dontcha know...

23 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Charlie Cheston stepping down.

I presume all the finances might be managed in India now with maybe all bills paid directly from there cutting out the need to money transfer.

Not sure if that's possible or how it would impact their situation over there but no doubt it'll turn to shit anyway.

It would also increase the need for more revenue in Blackburn to cover any shortfall in day to day costs here, more price increases on the horizon.

Well he's been immediately replaced by Matt Wright, so I can't imagine it changes a thing in regards to where the finances are managed.

Already being linked with Celtic.

47 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Out for the season.

FFS last thing we need is more injury woes just when most players were back. He doesn't set the world on fire but he knows how to find the back of the net and we have issues with depth. A couple more injuries on the flanks and we'd be a bit buggered. I'm not trusting that the likes of JRC and Gally will make it through the rest of the season, and Dolan and Hedges have been known to have the odd problem.

13 minutes ago, roverandout said:

As good as 

I wish I had £18 million of 'nothing' in my bank account.

15 hours ago, martonrover said:

Surely to God, but knowing us we’ll have forgotten to add a clause in the loan deal forbidding him to play against us!

That wouldn't matter in the slightest. Loan players have been forbidden by the rules of the game from playing against their parent club for years now (in England anyway). Although I gather this can be allowed if the parent club expressly permits it in the loan contract. Hopefully even we weren't that stupid.

34 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

There going nowhere. We have already dipped our toes into league 1, they did nothing then. I think it will just be further cuts if we did go down. 
I feel similar with those league predictions. 

They didn't have the massive hassle of going to court every time they need to send us funds last time we went down. Further cuts would likely leave us struggling to compete in League One and they may even end up with a League Two side on their books. Surely even Venkys would realise they are less than useless to us if they can't send money. Of course, the latest public message from them is highly discouraging. You can never really predict what they'll do.

I don't know why but I have a funny feeling we sneak a win in this one, and that we'll draw if we don't.

I can't really give a logical reason, it really is just a gut feeling (and I'm rarely one for excess optimism, I prefer balance and logic). Closest I can come to rationale is we have some important players back and fresher legs after the break, 2 full weeks for Eustace to finally implement whatever his preferred approach is (no, I don't rate him yet, but still), we are overdue a win and we've yet to lose against the stronger sides we've faced under Eustace. Maybe it suits his game better.

No, it's not enough to predict a win or draw against a side having a much better season and run of form than us. No, I won't be at all surprised if it's a meek 2-0 defeat instead. But nonetheless, it's what my gut thinks is gonna happen.

57 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

I thought he was injured.
Glad to be very wrong on my score predictions. Another draw and I think that's 1 more than most expected!

Glad to be right on mine (well, I said our form suggested a draw or a slim defeat, not the drubbing being predicted by many). I say glad, I'm still not sure if going down would be enough for Venkys to leave considering the financial issues, and my current prediction is we will scrape enough to stay up this season, then go down next season.

On 15/03/2024 at 10:15, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

International call ups are rarely good news. A handy vehicle for managers to tap up players by remote control. “ I see you’re in the international squad for next weeks friendly, have a word with Szmodics will you, see if he fancies a move here next season”. 

I don't think anybody in the Prem would need to find out if he fancied a move there, and if we go down, nobody in the Championship would need to find that out either. Even if we stay up there will be plenty of Championship clubs that will clearly be a better bet for him. The club is also desperate enough to not need much pressure to sell.