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I very nearly said something similar in my post but decided against it. I do rate Leonard a little higher though, mostly because he would actually work and didn't act like he didn't want it. Vale was frequently lazy in a Rovers shirt.

That's Leonard who went Peterborough, that'll be why you thought that.

Cheers, I'd only seen things saying they could replay it or let it stand, none saying we could potentially just do the right thing and finish the match. When do the authorities do the right thing though.

And utterly ignores that we already played 80 minutes of the game and almost had it in the bag with a man and a goal advantage. As I say, finishing the game is the fairest option. The least fair is to punish the team who had worked hard to be in the lead and reward the team who had very likely fucked the game up, and to replay 90 minutes for the sake of 10.

For me, if I take Blackburn Rovers out of the equation and look at it like this... Which is fairer? Telling a team who were 1 nil up against 10 men with 10 minutes plus injury time remaining that they have to do the whole thing again against 11 men and starting at 0-0? Or telling a team who were 1 nil down with 10 men and 10 minutes plus injury time left that they have to accept the defeat they were thoroughly on course for? To me it's very obvious that the second one is vastly fairer. The actual fair outcome would be to have a behind closed doors game to finish the 10 minutes plus injury time with 11 vs 10. Ludicrously, that doesn't seem to be permitted in the rules. And with the way our luck goes I'm sure we will instead be punished by the far less fair outcome of replaying the whole thing.

Crushing blow that.

The u21s exist to create players for the first team, not to be a source of entertainment or win leagues. It makes sense that the u21s would be required to use the same system preferred by the first team manager. That is their best chance of being ready if called upon.

I'm not sure it's ever happened at any club tbh. Let alone the day before a game (when weather reports would also be most accurate). But it's an interesting idea. Do the authorities even allow it at such short notice?

My reaction wouldn't be much different. Phil Jones can get to fuck.

Weird they're only just announcing it. When I posted it already had a photo of him that I thought was of him signing. Waiting for a slow club news day perhaps.

Surely you're tech savvy enough to get yourself a free ticket online Tyrone? You've been at this internet stuff for a good while now!

I was calling him that a couple of months after he joined us 😂

Yep, not like he has earned mega bucks in his career so far. I'd imagine his contract with us will be the most lucrative one he has had so far, and now he's proven himself in this league he'd earn more in his next one (at another club).

Aye, I understood that. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

I don't buy this at all. Who in Norway is going to pay him what he could earn in the Championship at another club? I'd be amazed if he goes back to Norway in the summer.

Not even as squad filler in Duru's case it seems. What's going on there? Not in the matchday squad but in a friendly tells me he isn't injured, unless he has only just come back from one and they're easing him to fitness. Otherwise he has played a whole 2 games for them and then become surplus to requirements. Great for his development. If O'Riordan isn't ready to handle Paul Mullin then I'd suggest he isn't ready for the Championship yet. It could be a good learning experience for him though, but I don't know if I'd be in a hurry to recall him in Jan unless he progresses more by then.

Same as last year.

Depends who lost money...if it was Danny Murphy, as someone alluded to, and let's say Roy Keane and Joey Barton, I'm not sure I'd even be able to finish getting the hankies out before I was done.

You're not making any sense to me either. For starters I literally don't live in East Lancs and haven't since about 2010.

Since there is a pattern, and such a strong one at that, do you accept the club has fallen short in sorting out the contracts?

That doesn't seem to make any sense in response to what I said.

Weird, but you do you I guess. It's just the people who want to bang on like it makes you any less of a fan or is somehow offensive to us that irritate me.

Does it bollocks 'require' him to refer to us that. If we were playing Tranmere or Doncaster, sure, otherwise of course he could refer to us as Rovers if he wanted. Like it's gonna stipulate in his contract he has to call us Blackburn! He calls us whatever he feels like because it doesn't matter for shit. Blackburn, Rovers, we are both. All I agree with is he is a proper Rover and loves the club.

I guess David Dunn must not be a proper Rovers fan since he called us 'Blackburn', according to some strangely obsessed people on here.

All sounds promising. If Mori is a step quicker than Dolan and plays with his head up, composed, and still has skill then he sounds like an upgrade. Gudjohnsen will be riding a high from his goal against France. Hopefully he keeps that momentum.