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If Swansea would’ve scored (we were 7th at the time, by the way, not 17th) he’d have got both barrels, I’m in NO1 and you know when a crowd is about to turn. I never sensed that in the TM era…

Initial remit, certainly. But still treading water by year 3, 4? Don’t think a re-established Championship club (and fanbase) buying teenagers for £7million should’ve been satisfied in mid to lower table every season, but most seemed to be. Don’t disagree that he’d get flak, the ground was very close to turning only a few weeks ago against Swansea. End of the day TM was given a free pass that no manager before or since did/will get.

Interesting how TM was allowed to tread water for five years with little to no fan discontent, yet JDT will be in for it after one season? (And that’s with every chance that in that one season he betters TM’s *best* league finish and far better cup performances). The strange phenomenon of Teflon Tony strikes again…

That’s football, especially in this division when there’s little to separate the non parachute clubs quality wise. The players at this level are inconsistent, that’s why they are in this league. Poor performance, but we’d just won five, that’s the Championship. But now it means he’s under orders from the owners to de-motivate the players to not go up? A title winning player and manager, no less? Doesn’t take much for this palace to re-lose the plot…

All these years watching football and folk are still taking a blind bit of notice of whatever platitudes managers come out with when a microphone is thrust in their faces minutes before KO. If you honestly think a winner and highly competitive professional like JDT is actually de-motivating (a team that had just won 5 on the bounce by the way) his players day in day out by telling them they aren’t up to it… well, not a lot else to really say.

On the flip side, his pre game presser was talking about how we aren’t favourites but of course we’ll be going for it. Which is fair enough. Either way, take it with a pinch of salt. Public interviews mean bugger all.

Emperor’s new clothes, the last fad was how having a load of possession was a sign of what a great side you were…

The XG-isation of football fans these past few years is such a strange phenomenon. So many have lost their ability to use their eyes to judge footballers and teams. We are *bottom* of the XG league as we eye up an outside chance of automatic promotion… say no more.

You will often get a minimal allocation that you can return, but additional you need to pay for up front. Prime example being JW taking the smaller one for Celtic as he didn’t want to risk not selling out the larger one (and thousands ergo missed out).

All forums are obscure (ask most Rovers fans about this place and see what reaction you get!), but it is their main one…

Very optimistic fans considering they’ve been shite all season apart from giving a hiding to a TM side in the midst of a death cycle… https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/307913/stoke-city-blackburn-rovers

So? If the club thought it was a fair price it was a fair price, especially if the player’s head had turned (which it had). *And would there buggery have been ‘demonstrations at Ewood’ 😁

Hmm, a load of Championship cloggers in your side instead of Xavi, Iniesta et al might be a bit of an issue then. Pound Shop Peps all over the place these days…

Loads of PL wins from Scots though, ay @roverandout 😁

Birdy will be putting one on from the Fox & Hounds. I imagine some of the Darwen boozers will be too?

Cracking David Brent corporate away day vibes

Yes, Martin Tyler is on comms (memories thread) saying how Oldham have one of those new fangled under soil heating jobs… don’t want to get that going under plastic 😁

Does it matter if the ‘club would’ve been slated’ by nobodies on social media? In this instance the club themselves obviously thought he was on the way out, so no surprise his contract has started to run down. But generally if the club wants to protect its assets, it should do it, the opinions of roverboi1995 is neither here nor there. Like we did with SG last season (the club did get slated online, but so what) and what we should have done with BB in 2021.

Watford have had as many managers since 2012 (18) as West Ham have had in their entire history…

Yes think it was, the Ray Stubbs narrated 93/94 review VHS is coming back to me…

We did, Tugay scored a cracker. Also a game in the 90s, we played in red and black stripes at Ewood for some reason…

Extended interview (via the EFL podcast) with JDT…

As they only had one season in the PL, I believe they only get two seasons of parachute payments.

‘Value’ is obviously in the eye of the beholder. However, the fact we only have 9,000 ST holders, one of the lowest in the division says that the majority of the fanbase don’t see them as value.

The ‘new’ Riverside is only three years older than the Darwen End… shows how quickly Blackburn Rovers transformed.