Sounds great in theory OEB, but will the club actually get round to the monetising bit of it? They never particularly bothered making the most of the BBD phenomenon…

Narrator: ‘the same mistake was made’

I think O’Rourke is fairly on the ball, simple as that. Whereas ’ITK-ers’ on this board rarely come up trumps, probably due to the dysfunctional nature of the club as much as their contacts being duff, so yes, I’m not going to get excited on brfcs (or Nicko) rumours…

What that Rothwell was about to sign? Well he was, but no journo can forsee the unpredictability of Venky World. He’s far more accurate than most others. Looking forward to you trying to spin this one if he did trap…

Well, O’Rourke’s tweets usually lead to an announcement/signing soon after. So, that was all fun while it lasted…

As John Williams always said it’s a hell of a lot easier keeping a ST holder than trying to get them back, so you do everything you can to keep them in the tent… this shower never bothered learning that key lesson from day one.

So like I said, a better manager might have got us promoted, ergo reducing losses, but it’s not his fault that he was allowed to carry on and on and on by the owners, is it? So I ask again, how the bloody hell is this one employee who could’ve been fired at any time the one that has ‘wasted £100 million?!’

Derbs, like Gally, was developed by the Our Lady & St John PE department, of course! Mr Mooney = super coach.

Despite everything, just one more win would’ve seen us with every chance going into Saturday. Amazing really when you consider how we’ve collapsed and says a lot about how wide open it’s been, with teams falling over themselves not to get in the top 6… what a chance we blew.

Will there? With who? He’s just a second tier run of the mill clogger to me, suppose it shows how little connection I have with players these days, even one that’s come through the academy to be captain.

My main experience isn’t particularly of lapsed fans having any abiding issue with the owners, just the age old issue of once they stop their ST, for whatever reason (and it may well initially have been due to owner decisions), they just drift away and find other things to do with their Saturday, indeed many of them realise just how big a commitment it is to give up half your weekend (and a fair few midweeks) every other week and would now never come back regardless. It has been amplified here by just how many ST holders walked away between 2011 and 2012 (c8,000) and then again in 2016 with Coyle (c2000). We’ve never recovered…

But you are putting those losses solely on the first team manager, they would pretty much the same whoever was in situ in this league, so if your argument is ‘he should’ve got us up to minimise those losses, but he’s crap, so didn’t’, fair enough, but he obviously hasn’t personally ‘burned £100 million’, as he isn’t at fault for the horrendous way they’ve run the club, or for keeping a man you think is so inept and snide on for five years. He’s had mid table budgets for fees and wages and has finished mid table, does that mean he’s a good manager then? Not particularly, as the likes of Luton can show you can make a mockery of your budget in such a competitive league, but he obviously hasn’t ‘burned through £100 million’. VENKY’S have been burning their own cash for some unknown reason for 12 years now…

Every chance we finish 10th, so just another season of oscillating in the second tier - 15th, 11th, 15th, 10th (?) under TM, looking at the squad if he was still here next season, that comfortable home of 15th looked as likely as anything else. So ‘steady’, yes, those final league positions are the epitome of it, but ‘steady progress’, no. (But if thats how you see it, Patrick, then fair enough, you shouldn’t be told to feck off somewhere else just because you doesn’t subscribe to brfcs groupthink.)

To be fair, McTominay is an honorary one with that Lancashire accent of his…

It is absolutely pivotal for the future of the club that the pretty much half of Blackburn that has thus far taken very little interest in BRFC, for a plethora of reasons going back decades, does so going forward. In a way we are pushing against an open door as there is big interest in football within the community, just not, as yet, big interest in the Rovers. More and more of our ST base no longer lives in the town and it is always a challenge to keep a scattered fanbase in the tent, the longer distance fan starts by not making a mid week, that turns into not making an odd weekend game, turns into no ST - we need a solid core of Blues within the town. The community engagement the club has undertaken this past 12 months has certainly had a big impact in social and traditional media, I imagine the social media team are cockahoop with the amount of ‘impressions’, Yasir is certainly earning his corn . Though as J*B says, the proof of the pudding will be in a substantial increase of the Asian community through the gates in the short and medium term. I am certainly seeing more Asian young lads in the Blackburn End, families in the JWL than say, five years ago, but it is an improvement from a very low base. Because as worthy (and essential) as the engagement is, it can’t exist merely so Rovers can help to bring the disparte communities of the town together or for online acclaim, as the social media bandwagon soon moves on to something else. A club’s number one aim is to win matches, as that is what ultimately improves football clubs, and larger Ewood crowds containing Blackburners from every single neighbourhood and walk of life will be a pivotal part of that.

‘Fan backlash’ ? It hadn’t stopped them before (or since)…

Apropos of nothing, assuming Nyambe shortly goes with all the loanees, Ayala will be the only outfield non British & Irish born player on the books (and he’s spent his career in England). That must be a pretty rare occurrence in the top two divisions in the modern game?

Ha, says the fella with half the board on ignore!

Mark Venus. Today’s LT: Mowbray added: “Mark is under contract, he will have a period of time that he has to work for, I would assume. “I can’t talk for Mark. I’ve been with Mark a long time and I’ve left clubs and Mark has stayed on and done a really good job. “At Coventry, Mark was almost running the club, not as a football manager but behind the scenes. “Let’s wait and see what happens.”

So one person saying it’s BBD getting injured’s fault, now it’s the sub keeper having a stinker in a cup tie… Though maybe it was because we weren’t good enough over 46 games? Indeed, maybe we were nowhere near good enough outside a Mid November to mid January purple patch…

Come on be fair, he was proved right in the end… though he did need TM himself to publicly say in a press conference he was going first. Needs a Patreon account like Nicko. 😁

Which is fair enough, that’s football. But the club briefly looked like it had got its act together… and we know what happened next.

… nicely sums up what 12 years of this regime has done to Blackburn Rovers.

Then more fool him if on the verge of one of the biggest achievements of his career, he preferred to sign development players instead of experience with just months of his contract left… though he is conceited enough to have probably thought a new deal was in the bag.

And there’s nearly a week to Birmingham, so not sure why anybody would need pulling out of today’s game…