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Not all of them are, that’s my point (and they are playing in blue and white to boot). So why has it now become accepted history that the Maltese Cross was our first badge, not merely that of some of the schools the players were alumni of?

Why would whoever he appoints not be wanted? I dont recall VI being a universally disliked appointment, just the results up to a week and a half ago…

Maguire’s major issue is that he tries to spread himself too thin with financial ‘insights’ into all clubs. So it’s all very superficial. ‘The Venky’s put in 20 million s year, great owners’ is as far as the ‘analysis’ goes.

Is there confirmed evidence that the club badge of Blackburn Rovers, not a few Old Malverians that played for it was the Maltese Cross?

Revenge of the Fuds.

Seven games between the 21st November and the 13th December will be the tester of the resilience of the squad... and that's before the standard new year meltdown.

If you ever wanted an example to how we ,the fans, are the club then look no further than Ian’s post. The club badge tie wearers and those administering things lower down the chain have the foggiest about Blackburn Rovers, its heritage and traditions.

Ignorant of the history of football too, badges weren’t even a thing on shirts until the 1970s (outside a cup fina), so yeah a white smock with a cross on it, very Blackburn Rovers.

See we have a 🦜 again

Only Venky FC would do a commemorative Blackburn Rovers shirt with no blue and white halves (or quarters, take your pick). Laughable and tragic at the same time, so a fitting microcosm of the last fifteen years.

£90 😬

The club will ship a load out in the summer and bring in a load from all over the place, so the whole midfield could well be different. It’s The Model©️ (the latest one).

But as Toth’s ’added value’ he can now be sold. The Model (the latest one, as we’ve had many).

‘Different era’, ‘different times’. Indeed, I mean Zeefuik was a last minute loan for a club with no intention to achieve anything, whereas now… oh.

Knows the club, though!

Results drive everything Ewood wise, the unfortunate truth is we need to be pretty much marooned for anything to take off at the ground, it will never happen if the team is in a relative position of strength (I.e not 22nd or below). We knock around 15th this season and it will fizzle away… maybe reconvene next season.

This is all very patronising to the clubs themselves. Ask a Celtic fan if they prefer to be appointing those with a connection to the Falls Road or the Catholic Church or if they just want the best candidate for the job before engaging in cod romanticism on here.

Big setback for Belgian-English managers.

Why bother with a long term plan when you can just thumb through your book of Club Legends and pick one of them.

Does it? Or does success just correlate to who presently has the structural advantage up there. I.e Rangers had all the cash in the 90s, Celtic are far richer now on the back of a decade of Champions League. As always, it’s about who has the best players (and manager) and that costs money, ‘knowing the club’ is irrelevant in modern football, even in Glasgow.

Didn’t he?

Generally I think fans give players a bit too much credit re how much they ‘care’. Yes, they are pros and yes they want to do the best the can for the team, but they know it’s a short career and a ruthless industry. The example I always remember was some podcast when an ex-pro was asked if the squad would be fuming if a key player or manager left mid season, he said not in the slightest, in anything they’d be congratulating him. It’s a transient career with folk constantly coming and going and they just get on with it.

They are just doing a job and generally get on with it until the next guy comes in. Like you say confidence is the biggest factor.

Yep, a cast iron rule of football, another lesson this regime has ignored for a decade.

End of the day they don’t sack managers, especially ones that toe the line, regardless of results. So we just have to hope the time he’ll get by default gives him the breathing space to get it right.