Mattyblue

Notts County.

No way a 1000+ ST holders/1875 will be buying Bristol City tickets at nearly £30 just after Christmas. It’ll get to open sale next week no problem.

Not knocking him, he wasn’t enough, him, plus some experienced heads is what was needed…

Giles was a young/inexperienced loanee (as was Zeefuik), still wasn’t enough for a team on the verge of the PL, even if he had been as successful as he’d been elsewhere. Those were not signings for a club serious about promotion.

You need quality to get you over the line. Like ‘92 with Cowans, ‘01 with Hughes, Friedel and Berkovic. Likes of Zeefuik and Giles when sitting 2nd and on the verge of something truly transformative for Blackburn Rovers, really?

I see, I thought you actually thought this place was representative… perish the thought! But not sure any other set of fans would be desperate to beat us just because roverboy95 or whoever on an obscure message board was slagging off some manager they are vaguely aware of…

Of course they are. You can’t be expecting to get a real picture of where the support is off a dozen reactionary posters on a message board… or from any messsge board.

*apart from The Sopranos

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23226894.blackburn-rovers-must-see-january-transfer-window-chance-strike/ ‘The January transfer window. A chance to reset and refresh, to signal intentions for the remainder of the season, to plug gaps or deficiencies within the squad, to act early in anticipation of what may happen in the summer, to gain valuable cover for squad showing signs of creaking.’ Can’t argue with that Rich, shame the club didn’t feel that way when in an even better position last season…

Very testy thread this for a side 3rd in the table 😁. Imagine if we were down the bottom…

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They’ve lost 2 in 26, some stretch to see a side that is obviously the best in the league suddenly lose 7 in 20. See Sympathetic Claret had picked up some of Longers’ “we are ever so ‘umble” routine…

The Sage of Brfcs sure knows how to pick ‘em 🤦‍♂️

This fella won’t be protected at all costs, he’s getting more grumbles at Ewood in a few months than Mr Teflon got in five years (though it’s still mild, as you would expect). TM was a one off on that score, JDT will be treated like every other manager by the fans if the results are crap.

1) You mustn’t spend much time at Ewood/in the local area as a handful of posters on this obscure place in no way represents the general thoughts re JDT. 2) You mustn’t spend much time on other forms as they are *all* like this.

A lot of it is psychological. If we’d have drawn a few of those bad defeats, and some of the wins too - so still on pretty much the same points we are on now, I bet the general feeling around the club would be much better. Unlike the charge up the table last November/December, we’ve not put any kind of run together since August, so never really feeling like we are getting some momentum behind us. Every win feeling like it’s followed by a stinking defeat, especially the two shockers to local rivals bookending a mid season break. It’s certainly true that draws don’t really do a lot for your league position, but a nice unbeaten run does a lot of the mood!

But, but don’t they know he just needs a run of games!?

Hyam is already in the side, so obviously not back up, Carter is injured. Ayala is far too important to the side, with the leadership he offers in an inexperienced group to risk an injury in a 3rd round cup tie.

We’ve got an out of form S Wharton and a 17 year old as centre half back up, so yeah cotton wool for Ayala please, JDT.

From me! 👋 First ever ITK-edge! A bid was initially rejected earlier in the summer, but they came back to us asking if we were still interested at the back end of the window as they were desperate for some cash flow.

No the Keano line was when he tried to sign him on loan from us (for Sunderland)… “Sparky gave me permission to give him a call. So I got Robbie’s mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: ‘Hi, it’s Robbie – whazzup!’ like the Budweiser ad. “I never called him back. I thought, ‘I can’t be f***ing signing that’.” 😁

Oh what times we’ve had since…

They can go for it for me, but surely the likes of injury prone Ayala are left up here in bubble wrap?

I’ve no particular issue with actual Scousers supporting their local club (though obviously Everton fans are far more bearable), my issue are the millions of plastic ‘fans’, as per Man Utd. Usually pretty sad people needing some reflective glory in their lives, I’ve found.

How’s that working out?