MarkBRFC

The biggest boycott will be in the summer when season tickets are released.

Only one I have head of there is Hornby, he's an absolute unit, everything Gueye should have been. No chance on him I would suggest.

A £7m bid certainly wouldn't have been rejected here!

Somewhere we never win, 1 win in 36 years at there place I think it is. 3-0 down by half time is my guess. Ismael to come out after the game and say things are urgent and hope to have a striker in place by the end of the week.

Scott Wharton just recently. Before that, Harry Pickering in December 2023.

Especially when we can register and unregister players into that 25 man squad on a game by game basis during this month.

Another great comment from him back in October - "we haven't lost any quality" Page 114/115 of this thread if anyone wants to look back.

Yeah can echo a lot of thoughts in here. My first game as a kid was September 1988 against Oldham at Ewood, first away game was a week later against Stoke. I'd say I have been obsessed with everything Blackburn Rovers from the start of 1990/91 season after the World Cup in Italy caught everyone's imagination. Been at all the key games over the years, Wembley 92, Anfield 95, Deepdale 2001, Cardiff, 2002, Doncaster 2018, plus a lot of low ones too that ended in relegations,all over Europe, cup games at Blyth etc I even stopped playing Sunday mornings in 2010 so I could still watch Rovers as much as possible when my lad was born as couldn't really be out all weekend with a new child. For me the apathy kicked in after the first relegation and it being clear that nobody in charge was bothered about this great club. Remember choosing to give my garden a complete makeover instead of going to the Peterborough game at Ewood in 2013, nipped inside to get a brew at half time and checked the score to see us 3-0 down, I just shook my head and went back outside to carry on, wasn't even angry. Family was just in complete shock that I was doing that instead of being at the game. Kept my season ticket for a few more years but found it very easy to miss a game here and there which would have been unthinkable a few years before. Finally gave it up when Owen Coyle was appointed, genuinely thought someone was taking the piss. However I started to take my lad the season before, and he enjoyed it to a degree without being desperate to go again. During this Coyle season he did ask to go a few more times so we did, and I probably ended up spending as much on match tickets as the ST was worth. Got ST back in league one, a novelty season with winning every week and achieving something at the end of it, and ticking off some new grounds in the process. 6 months into the following season under Mowbray I was at the same stage a few years previous where again, lad was 50/50 into it and when he didn't want to go I just didn't bother, then when covid hit and we had 18 months out I was very close to just not bothering again. Something changed with my lad in that 18 months though, he had just started high school, got into watching football a lot more despite playing it since he was 5, his mates all went to games watching the local teams to where we live (Stoke & Port Vale mostly) and he was itching to go back to games, so we got ST's again and he has been completely obsessed with Rovers ever since, much like I was back at his age and honestly it rejuvenated me to a degree too to have it to share with him, we have probably been to 90% of weekend games since coming back from covid and any midweek's that have fallen in school holidays, his face when we win is priceless and completely worth it to me. Sorry this post has gone on longer than I envisaged, I guess where I am at now is that as long as my lad still wants to go then I am in and will go anywhere with him, if he ever gets fed up with it, or in a couple of years he might go to a university far away or something, then if nothing has changed, which I don't think it ever will, then that will probably see me knock Ewood on the head. I do think I would carry on with a few aways though as I'm lucky to have a really good group of mates that we go with and the days out are always superb win, lose or draw.

I think he will do, I just don't think it will be this season, but think it will be very close. As for recruitment in this window, all they are doing is hoping something falls into there laps for minimal outlay in the last few days of the window.

Two strikers and a left wing back will see us through this season I think, if they are loans then so be it. You can't be worrying about long term prospects in Jan when you are in our position, get the best players possible to see you through the season. Then major surgery AGAIN in the summer. Amazing that every summer always needs an incredible amount of work.

Just another one that O'Rourke has thrown out there, us along with a few other clubs. Which tells me it isn't going to happen.

I don't deny that Mercer's information that contact might have been made, or that there are interested parties out there. The thing I just don't see happening is venkys letting go of this club, ever.

@RoversXtra on X has an "exclusive" that we want Davis Kellor-Dunn.

That appointment for Oxford nails down another relegation spot for me. Leaves one left between us ,Charlton, Portsmouth & Norwich.

He will absolutely take us down before his 3 year deal is up. I think he will get away with it this season by the skin of his teeth, next year though I can see us not being that much better off than Sheffield Wednesday.

Not a chance, he's the next Mowbray. He will be content here whatever happens. Look at some of his horror runs over the years. On that logic we should never enter another competition ever again! Sky have already selected there games for that weekend. All the Championship ones they selected though will be postponed because one of the teams progressed to the next round.

Yet.

Paul Mullin.

Ismael just another taking the fans for fools. Cantwell and Alebiosu new contracts, don't make me laugh. Owners not happy with the pitch, good grief.

Wonder how @Rossy Rover got that Ellie Youan was coming in from that?!

It really doesn't. Any slightly higher crowd than usual at Ewood and this lot play like they have never met before.

Hasn't played a game for a year. Hasn't started a game for two years. This is more likely than Youan, I can see a short term deal until the end of the season happening, before a 2 year deal similar to the Riberio signing this time last year.

Gueye didn't take an ESC slot anyway. One available providing they convert Toth is my understanding.

Ellie Youan has been linked a couple of times. Very quick but doesn't score many, although scored twice last weekend and has played as more of a winger in his career. Out of contract in the summer so probably wouldn't cost much. Not sure I see this one happening.

Ismael has hinted at another acedemy debut in his press conference. My guess is either Powell or Joseph, not sure there are any more that are close currently here?