So this side is going to be the best cricket team of all time now, not just England like you said yesterday? That’s better than the Windies of the late 70s and 80s? The Aussies of the 90s/early 2000s?! How much you been supping, Gav. 😀

I see it the other way from said esteemed former parishioner; if the club was ticking over nicely, ST sales booming, good sponsorship deals, a well engaged fanbase then he’d be perfectly fine as an affable figurehead overseeing a happy ship, he obviously is well liked by the staff down there and his brew time with individual fans is legendary. However, we desperately need a driven CEO that will shake the commercial operation up as it has been going through the motions for a long, long time. Of course such a driven individual has always been in the gift of the owners, and as we know they aren’t interested in the slightest.

Set piece coach? We won’t see such fripperies any time soon, we’ll have a leccy bill that will need paying…

John Williams was exactly the same, cracking story teller, could work a room… but he was actually good at his job.

There has…

Owned by a conglomerate thousands of miles away who use the club as a vehicle for god knows what, and poor quality, lazy execs with zero affinity with Blackburn Rovers running the place day to day so it’s no surprise that Ewood has been allowed to become the stagnant place it has. Stanley, with just about a four figure number of fans, on a shoestring, show what having passionate people involved can achieve. Yesterday was another example.

As was Batty, gave him a medal after all 😏

I can see Jimmy doing one more year (or at least wanting to), especially with Broad gone. India in the winter but he isn’t going to be expected to take a hatful of wickets out there or play five Tests. He’ll be looking to get through a few economical overs whilst the 2/3 spinners bowl the vast majority of the overs, and then you probably couldn’t ask for a better summer than West Indies and Sri Lanka

Ha obviously, but shows he still hasn’t understood my posts from the other week (no surprise there) as I was giving my full support to a great gesture, but not to let Swag paint say a 3/4k crowd as ‘a failure’ as it would still be an improvement on other Ewood friendlies. In the end it hit 5k, so even better!

Who thought that?

https://www.11v11.com/matches/blackburn-rovers-v-chelsea-15-may-1988-218808/

Best Test side ever? Some way to go to even be the best of the last 15 years. Remember the Strauss side of the late 00s/early 2010s, number 1 ranked side home and away Ashes winners. But looking forward to see what the future brings, though it will be a lot of new players involved by the next home Ashes as the majority of this side will have long gone.

Edun goes, new contact for Leonard… trading club in all its glory 💪

2100, so considerably more than double.

So I can see club employees and players to blame… now who is it that’s missing from your list of shame do we think?

My opinion is that he’s going to leave on the back of his comments. ‘Reading between the lines’ and all that.

This… https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23687797.blackburn-rovers-boss-tomasson-future-transfers/

‘A semblance of a player for a few weeks’ Maybe that says more about JB than anyone else…

This time directive will have disappeared from games by September.

Either it is as bad as we think… so he’ll be off soon enough. Or it does quickly resolve itself (until the next crisis) but his public comments will have presumably put the noses of the execs and owners (and their conduits) out of joint… so he’ll be off soon enough.

Definitely. An eye for a player, constantly in the top 6 on buttons, a cup win and a real swashbuckling team at times. Always came across as a top bloke too. One of the best we’ve had.

Take it the rest of that away end filled up with passionate Clarotts shortly after?

He’ll be in the lounges as usual, he doesn’t lower himself to engage with the plebs in the stands… though he’s usually shooting his mouth off with whoever will listen in there… I wager the cat will have got his tongue today though for some odd reason.

He gives off that impression fairly regularly, a Big Time Charlie on the back of achieving what exactly?

The time keeping clamp down will be forgotten about by September, like a lot of these new season initiatives tend to be…