JDT had one foot out of the door by January… so even if it was a pure football thing, why let the captain leave in January too if the manager he fell out with was also on the verge of departing?

Just four starts down there, only completed the 90 once. Not exactly ideal for a club captain in his peak years.

Cracking arse covering though as he knows it will go down well with a fair chunk of the fanbase that will blame JDT if the worst happens - not as daft as he sounds.

Have they booked an open top bus? Or maybe just use the coach.

I used them recently and I can vouch for them… however, once again a very small ( in the grand scheme of things), down the road operation. Surely Blackburn Rovers should be aiming to engage bigger fishes? But nah, just spin the Rolodex for the local firms already in the tent.

… a win takes them to the 100 point marker too which champions always love to have as a further bauble.

Exactly. ’The squad’s shit, but I’ll have a go’. Just don’t listen to them if you don’t want to hear banalities.

I’m not talking about right now, as if you noticed I didn’t mention Southgate - but thanks for the correction, Eddie.

QPR, Millwall, Sheff Wed have all had managerial changes that have had an impact, especially when you consider their respective league positions when they went in, the results are plain to see - this fella obviously hasn’t, luckily he had a very handy buffer to fall back on. Though I suppose he has steadied the ship as it hasn’t sank yet, but he couldn’t actually steer it into calm waters like the bosses of those other clubs.

He should be delighted to come back now that fella who wouldn’t pick him has gone.

Yep, we are in a perfect storm ST wise, terrible product on the pitch, terrible mess off it, expensive and far more of the games now available on TV to boot. Any normal club would be offering a bloody good deal this summer to counter said storm… alas we ain’t one.

Manioo because he plays for, err, Man U… that’s as far as an England manager analysis would go.

Stretch bonuses all round! 🥳

If we stay up, it’s been done unconvincingly, but it is job done. End of the day at most clubs he would get to start the new season in charge, be given the benefit of the doubt, but if things go awry in the first half of that campaign, he’d be out, and he would have to be as results would’ve been poor over a sustained period - does anybody seriously think that would be the case here? No ambition, no drive, no standards, no pressure anywhere at the club and you can’t run any team, professional or otherwise, in this manner.

To be fair he gets that every week. Knowing he’s coming up against our ragtag lot is all the motivation he needs.

It was always legally the Premier League, it was just re-branded for sponsorship for a few years.

Perhaps knowing there’s a multi ball system so let’s get on with the game?

Unfortunately they pretty much have, playing in the Championship for a club like Rovers these days is as good as being ‘unknown’.

Had a look at the PNE forum, plenty saying how they are sick of Lowe, crap end to the season etc, but they might as well still get a ST at that price, how it’s still good value even if you miss a few - here it’s crap and expensive, much more of a dilemma.

Fans will be voting with their feet regardless.

End of the day the FF was set up in a simpler time, for a completely different football club, it was for incremental, adjacent type issues - catering, travel etc. It was not set up to take the club to task over the existential place BRFC now finds itself - that is what the bi-annual Supporter Consultation was for, until COVID was used as a neat way of quietly dropping it. If anything does need adding to the FF’s next agenda - it is to ask when the consultations are being brought back, as per EFL mandated requirements https://www.efl.com/supporters/fan-consultation/#

Swag knows full well, but as PNE brought in slightly less in gate receipts than us last season, that’s that. Short term bottom line over the long term re-building and engaging of the fanbase, just so they can show the owners that they’ve hit some arbitrary revenue target, oh and bonuses all round - and why would he care about the long term health of the fanbase when he won’t be here to see it come to fruition. A season to season existence, zero long term planning or strategy.

So behind the goal c£100 cheaper than here, the Tom Finney c£150+ cheaper than the Jack Walker. Obviously something we couldn’t possibly replicate here, though a similarly supported club with no parachutes in the same area.

First day of the League 1 season… ‘Steve Waggott get out of our club’ from a few hundred in NO1, with a response of ‘shut up yer dicks, get behind ‘em FFS’, will be about as far as any mutiny goes.

Oxford getting promoted would probably mean we wouldn’t ‘win’ that particular accolade - another Venky-era milestone .