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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…

Plus Andy Kennedy with that chicken leg celebration 😁

I’m not sure he does know better… bit worrying for a lad of his vintage.

Think you need to get out that Maltese sun for a bit.

We’ve had blue and white halves since the 1870s, I’d say that was pretty traditional…

Can’t be any worse than last season, a shambles to have hardly a shirt in stock post October. But sums up the slapdash operation down there on many fronts.

Outrageous the lengths Russian propaganda goes to, it’s scary shit, totally with you Phil. 💪 They’ve even corrupted some mid level commercial bloke at Rovers and an Italian sportswear company to subliminally add pro-Putin messages to the third kit of an English second division club! MI6 need to find this rogue employee!

This ‘initial batch’ thing is a bit odd but whatever. It’s the running out of the main stock before Christmas or well before the end of the season *every* year that is the big issue. Just doesn’t happen anywhere else and is another symptom of this pathetic commercial operation down there.