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Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Other malt based bedtime drinks are available… -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You can have two mutually exclusive thoughts on Nyambe. Has him and his agent made a bit of a Horlicks of it if he ends up with his tail between his legs on similar/slightly improved money at bloody Wigan? Yes. Has a club with little dosh lost a solid Championship right back, and are now without a recognised one with a week till kick off? Also yes. -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Didn’t you spend all last season doing just that? -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
It will, and as other posters have seen it all before, so need to be convinced that anything has remotely changed at the only executive level that *actually* matters at this club, maybe time will tell that they weren’t ‘hysterical’ at all… -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You’ve answered your question with your last sentence. Lambert mk II. -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I’ll flip it round, why so much confidence, in contrast to ‘hysterical’ other posters, that it will be all hunky dory by the window closing? When did we last bring in a ‘quality’ outfield permanent signing? -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I’m confused, as our ever growing group of brfcs/CEO conduits keep telling us that the hierarchy are delighted as things are *much improved* at the club? -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
It is what it is, a convoluted sign off structure and hardly any transfer budget can only lead to the club chasing its tail. So obviously you have to largely rely on loans when the PL clubs decide to let them go (usually late on). Does this mean relegation? No, because the Championship outside the parachute clubs is much of a muchnesses every season. But with this model we are performing an annual dice rolling and hoping that year’s loans and academy grads will be up to it - one year they may well not be -
Did make me laugh that he is all… ‘I can’t say this’ , ‘I’m not at liberty to say that’, when as you say, it’s just standard stuff that ends up in the FF minutes anyway. Ah well, at least he got to strut around the forum like a peacock the past week pre his verrryyy important meeting. 😁
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Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
233 pages of speculation and hand wringing… and then, as always, a load of loans will come in last minute. -
2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
Mattyblue replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Charming 😁 -
2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
Mattyblue replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I know all that, doesn’t mean they aren’t glory hunters, as they wouldn’t have thousands of fans in every town if they had never got any bigger than Queen’s Park or Partick, whatever the history. -
Celtic v Rovers UEFA Cup tie 2002
Mattyblue replied to BRFCS.com's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Blackburn town centre was a sight, they opened up the Cav before the game… at least there were plenty of places for a sup back then! -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We won’t be throwing 6/7 in, obviously! I’m just responding to JBN’s hypothetical view that he wouldn’t be worried about relegation if we did… I would! -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Of course we should, and will, be blooding more youngsters. But they have to be helped along with experienced pros, that’s just how it is in top level football. For all their ability, a team needs that nous, game management and sometimes physical presence, as some young lads develop physically later, that only experience provides. The fact we are even having this conversation says a lot to how nature abhors a vacuum… -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Maybe because unless a club is in severe financial distress, in administration etc, most clubs don’t start a season in the Championship with the team made up of 6/7 players plucked out the youth team. -
2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
Mattyblue replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Easy enough selling out a 50/60k ground when pretty much every town in Scotland is full of glory hunters in either blue or green and white hooped shirts instead of their local club’s… -
Kit supplier and sponsor from 21/22
Mattyblue replied to alex l's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The only similarity he has with John Williams is that he is a very gregarious character, you can see evidence of that in the way he works the room in the Premier Suite etc. Those that have met him one on one say similar. So I can certainly see how he can send people away feeling positive about the club’s direction… however JW actually had a track record behind the bravado, this fella has overseen one shambles after another and no amount of good natured corporate waffle and bluster can hide that fact. -
Kit supplier and sponsor from 21/22
Mattyblue replied to alex l's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He must put something in the coffee… -
Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?
Mattyblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
‘Venky’s’ is a chicken brand used by the VH Group, a conglomerate owned by the Rao family (Venky’s London Limited being the vehicle owning BRFC). Like saying ‘The WalkersSteels just bought Alan Shearer’ -
2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
Mattyblue replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Damo isn’t, he’s been ranting about that all summer -
Same time next year?
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Ok… 2,000 ST holders won’t buy 1875 so the criteria will drop down to all ST holders.