Mattyblue

Hull were 22nd on appointment, which is what I said, the rest of it are your embellishments. So no Chaddy rabbit hole for me to fall into at half 10 on a school night… nice try though 👍 👌

If you read what I actually posted ‘when he took over’, it wasn’t ‘after he’d had his first game’ Try reading first before you try and be a clever dick.

They were 22nd when he took over… they finished 21st. Survival was obviously the name of the game and they did it, but not exactly some miracle worker.

Cash flow, how else they going to pay the leccy bill for June?

Hang on a minute, Jim, thought you were usually bemoaning ‘nothing southern clubs that have spent most of their time in the third and fourth divisions’ ?

Something to do with ‘stakeholders’, I’d imagine.

Think of the folk we had working there at all levels of decision making roles 25 years ago and compare to now. Who there has a feel for Blackburn Rovers? Its heritage? Its traditions?

The club put effort into 125 as it was a club still in Jack’s image with John Williams and Tom Finn at the fore. They got it as they got the club. 25 years on, just look at the state of the place.

Yep, of course the 150th will have just as much effort put in it as the 125th, I mean, what’s changed?

No women players on the launch this year?

Two opposing things can have an element of truth in them at the same time, novel, I know.

Would Rovers have got a stroke of luck if we’d had got to the FA Cup final without playing a PL club? Of course. Would that make it any less of an achievement? Of course not.

We are Blackburn Rovers, not a big city club, of course 13,000 is a big chunk of the fanbase. The fact the wider fansbase has no issue filling the ground for games like Burnley either shows there isn’t a vast number of folk ‘boycotting’ or morally against Venky’s.

I wouldn’t say c13,000 people as regular match goers is a small minority of the fanbase. Obviously plenty down on what we had in 2010, but it’s still a sizeable sample of people for a club of our size. We need to face facts, away from brfcs the majority of the fanbase just shrug their collective shoulders when it comes to the regime.

They certainly aren’t despised by the vast majority of the Ewood attending fanbase, any conversation on a match day would tell you that…

Not this again. Getting put on the ‘easy’ side of the draw pre kicking a ball is luck/fortune/chance, whatever you want to call it, as you have absolutely no input into it via performance on the pitch, it’s pre-determined. That wasn’t England/Southgate’s problem by the way, as you can only beat (or not) what’s put in front of you, no guarantees, but probabilities wise, it helps.

It was ‘just over 8,000’ a month ago. But at least they’ve got their cash flow in early from the core, bugger trying to actually grow crowds on the back of a decent season.

The support for the side was huge in the Sven era too, and he achieved bugger all. Just think of the atmosphere around the country for the Japan WC and Euro 2004 when Rooney burst on the scene.

He was grafting his arse off in a first round Carabao Cup tie days before getting sold (cup-tieing himself in the process.) No complaints from me.

We’ll sell c8,750, they’ll sell c11,000, but revenue wise it will probably be similar. So shrugged shoulders all round from the powers that be at Ewood.

Maradona, perhaps?

Argentina have won things without a world class player? Interesting take.

Two of your key players with a year left and they haven’t even been offered anything. This club doesn’t now even pretend to be a professional one.

No Im not saying he was some contractual guru, he just happened to be in situ at the time when funds were available, they now aren’t and that’s that.

The fella reckons that older lad that’s been released after spending the season at Chesterfield and Leyton Orient is the better player, so don’t expect a sensible debate.