One win in five, one draw in five? So happy with relegation then?

That’s me told 😅

No option, in reality.. We threw away a position at the top table at the very worst time, we lost 10k fans and the game has completely transformed since financially. I’ve accepted our fate that non withstanding some miracle, treading water in the second division is the best it’s going to be - looks as if many others still haven’t found my place of zen and actually expect this ‘slow build’ of largely lower league signings and academy players to somehow end up with a ‘sustainable PL club’ as per the latest club strap line.

Slow builds in the Championship lead to you chasing your tail year after year, especially with 6/7/8/9 clubs having some kind of parachute payment, crowds of 20k+ You can get lucky, a season out of nowhere etc. But generally speaking we will be treading water. It’s been a decade now and we are as far away as ever.

Sounds dubious to me. Bigger budgets to when Wolves, Leicester, Southampton, Norwich etc were down there? We certainly got lucky with a poor division, especially when compared to who’s down there now. But an enormous budget? Bigger than anything *ever* seen before at that level? Not sure.

Did we have the ‘biggest budget in L1 history? ‘ How was that measured?

Fair play to you Chadster for listening to Murphy. I either mute or change the channel if he’s speaking.

Welcome to Championship refs.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20897502.you-need-expect-more---jdts-response-adam-wharton-praise/ Good interview with JDT on the young lads… the LT comments then go on an bizarre rant about our horrible fans getting on the back of Keith Andrews. And people think this place is strange 😀

Sky can’t show every night game because of their contract. But it looks like it’s back for the next round of midweeks.

Well there you go, I must’ve gone with a load of mard arses, as I don’t even remember a conversation of potentially going by any other method than a coach from Ewood.

There was a bubble in 2000, no? All Rovers fans had to get coaches from Ewood from what I remember.

I don’t comment through the window, as what’s the point when the big moves happen in the last 10 days. ‘Where’s Broughton?’ Who cares was my view, he had a job to do, I wasn’t interested in his musings on the transfer market on the 28th July or whenever. So what’s clear to me is that we are at the whim of the owners, end of. All this about becoming a trading club, selling assets for big prices and re-investing isn’t the model here. It was something projected by some fans of how they want the club to be, not the reality. The way we’ve approached contracts and offers tells us that. And that’s fine, it’s their club. If they are happy to turn down £15-£20million for Rothwell and BBD in six months alone, then that’s their prerogative. We are now in one of their spells where they look happy to spend on players regardless and with the more professional set up on the playing side, it looks promising and I’m happy to see how it pans out. How long will it last until it all gets ripped up again? Who knows, but I do feel we can have a go this season.

He’s from up there too, be like that episode from Our Friends in the North when they all go back home… except they’ll all be rich.

Good piece from Sharpe and emphasises that the fans at games have supported him throughout his time here, good and bad. Understanding, patient supporters at this club, he’d have been hounded at many others. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20884285.blackburn-rovers-hold-ben-brereton-venkys-refuse-budge-valuation/

‘The floodlights, the bovril, the smell of the grass, yer dad taking you on his shoulders after clocking off from t’pit, err I mean logging off after working from home. Marvellous.’

Could you merge the two, Mods? As there was some good chat post his debut on Saturday. Passing range of Tugay, but can also screen the defence and win the ball back over all the pitch … then starting another attack. Even Duff and Dunn didn’t make a debut like that.

He’d been falling out with the owner throughout the summer by all accounts.

If you are discussing it as an actual goer for a deadline day transfer, of course it needs to be based on some semblance of reality. Or why not, start discussing half the PL? If you are just fantasy football musing how he’d fit in with Travis in the midfield, then fair enough. It can go in the legendary pile with Wilkins, Zidane, Ronaldinho et al.

He was always going to get another Championship gig. Whatever brfcs thought, the wider game (and the wider Rovers fanbase) thought he did a decent job. So of course he’d be in the frame for a club in Sunderland’s position. All that daft talk on here about ‘he’ll never work at this level again’, ‘Hartlepool is the only local job he’d get’ was just that.

He’s been sacked because he’s fallen out with the owner over the transfer budget and was slagging off his players in public after a good hiding. Age old arguments, nowt to do with ‘philosophies’, ‘sporting directors’ and ‘structures’.

Didn’t Pete end up running the club’s soccer schools for a good while?

Florent Sinama-Pongolle

Full stadium, at Middlesbrough?! They get higher crowds than us, but their average gates aren’t vastly higher, but they have generally been a far better run football club, they actually ‘trade’. However, Wolves, they ain’t.

Bang average manager but another example of how parachute money can propel even no marks like Parker to promotion. And it’s why the Dingles will be up there.