December is a mad month, but on the flip side in September, October, November and March they get two weeks without a game, August and January is one league game a week all month. There are plenty of other empty midweeks through the season. Yes, there’s cup ties but we usually play an academy side for early rounds anyway. Tell players they’re tired and they’re tired. Though at a professional club there are usually other options in the squad in order to rest a fatigued player as some do have an all action style and do need rotating from time to time, I.e Sammie, but not here so he’s been flogged.

So they re-arrange local government again and they put Darwen in Hyndburn borough (sure some Darreners would welcome that 😀) We now can’t engage kids in Darwen schools as it’s ’Accrington Stanley territory’? What a load of defeatist tripe.

Great Harwood is a Blackburn Rovers town it has been since time immemorial (though a few too many Dingles there for my liking there these days), it is a Blackburn post town, but now they won’t go and engage fans there due to the fact they happen to share a borough with some former non league club they ‘don’t want to upset’? Presumably that’s the same for another Rovers heartland town, Rishton (BB1 postcode no less) that happens to be just on the other side of the arbitrary BwD border? What is going on, they are signing the club’s death warrant, seemingly deliberately.

A lot has been said about the shambles up top, but we are also down to two fit centre halves (one of them looking some way off his best after his long lay off), one left back, one fit right back (with Trav possibly filling in until he’s flogged) and the worst keeper choice I can ever remember. Our time masquerading as a professional Championship level football club must be coming to an end

How about hosting a Blackburn Rovers legends night? We do have them, but maybe the club doesn’t know, they should have a look through that merchandise they’ve dumped at the back of the Riverside for some ideas.

Cc in Gregg too making sure you mention ‘R’ and ‘Goodhart’s law’ and you’d be a shoe in.

Whilst your raising these queries re the club’s batshit decision making, Mike, can you also ask why those superb history timeline murals at either side of the Jack Walker were removed (again around Covid time), we are now left with grey panels as we arrive at the ground, most inspiring. I just can’t fathom what’s been going on (and continues to go on) down there.

Well, on the plus side, I suppose, when this lot finally do feck all at least a new regime will have a blank canvas to work with, literally.

Piss poor do whichever way you slice it. Why would Sodexho care about Rovers merchandise on the wall one way or another? They run the Premier Suite too and they haven’t magnolia-ed that (yet).

He’s done well to get any kind of Premier League gig after his last year plus.

So, we aren’t selling him for £10millon+?

There wasn’t much left to start with. What the fuck is going on down there? A football club that seems to be actively washing its hands of its own supporters and heritage.

Not everything, there’s an odd nod to the club left (which is good of them), but nothing like the wall to wall merchandise it was before.

Markanday, Leonard etc would be on loan right now if this was a normal football club. We wouldn’t be hoping for another piss poor keeper to get back from injury to be our saviour either. What a bloody mess.

The Buckley loan debacle just sums up the muddled, corner cutting, penny pinching thinking that is pervading throughout the club.

He looked to be improving after an iffy start but there were still signs in other games that an error was never far away, then Watford onwards his form/confidence has fallen off a cliff.

They’ll go for another ‘glamour’ appointment, you’d think, Lampard etc. Fools like this deserve to lose millions and go down.

‘Mike Sheron as set piece coach or someone’. You not fancy it, Chadster?

Whipping a cross in ay, dinosaurs.

If the team continues to lose games and prices stay high (which they will) crowds will drop naturally next season as ST sales will decrease in the summer. There will be a hardcore that will always go but it will be minuscule numbers in a 30k stadium. Most fans aren’t like us pouring over every bit of minutiae coming out of Venky Towers on an obscure message board, to them ‘the club’= the team, it’s eleven lads in blue and white running around Ewood once a fortnight, that’s it. A load of fans (followers?) don’t give Rovers much thought outside that, but they will stop bothering going if results are continually shite and it’s a dear do. Indeed if they do think of the wider club at all, they’ve certainly no problem with Venky’s, it’s shit fans and that JDT who are having us struggling. These owners are the only thing stopping us from being Bury, just get behind ‘em FFS!

League 1 standard academy lads will though, so that’s ‘progress’ in the through the looking glass approach to success at BRFC.

Imagine someone saying that this time last month.

And as a bonus there’s another young-ish keeper about to return, signed up to a long term contract, so we can flog him too if he actually manages to stand in the middle of his goal in future.

‘On the (Livesey Branch) Road’

Sure this is not all a ruse and we’ll actually be spending a secret war chest this month, Paul?