Narrator: ‘There were actually just two’ (Greer and Wes Brown)

This is his demeanour, his body language, his shoulder shrugging every time we go on a bad run, he’s a thin skinned, petulant bugger. He was a busted flush last season, we went on another horrendous death spiral, his job wasn’t remotely on the line. If he still had a year left on his deal, he’d be here next season, regardless of this disaster since January. The only difference is a new deal has to be offered, which would not be happening at a normal club, but this is Venky World…

TM himself. From the LT article… “I’ve talked through the scenario. The owners are pretty adamant that Joe Rothwell isn’t getting sold. The slight grey area is that we could add two 23 or 24-year-old players who were two really talented players in this league, why wouldn’t we do it now? “Why would we not use the Rothwell money for two 23-year-old footballers who are really good and give them five-year contracts and you’re making the squad better, in place of a lad who wants to go somewhere else. “But at the same time I understand it’s difficult for the owners to accept money for one of our better players while we’re doing so well.” https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19885006.blackburn-rovers-owners-venkys-standing-firm-joe-rothwell/

In what way is his demeanour any different from this time last season?

Well an unexpected away day on the ale around Liverpool is on the cards…

But then we usually win games at the end of the season as they are dead rubbers, TM mind game masterclass!

We all know we need to grow our ST base, the waxing and waning of STs sold directly impacts our crowds. So if you a non ST holder, what’s the offer to watch a mediocre second division side currently at a real low ebb, in the midst of an inflation crisis in a pretty deprived part of the country? £430 to £530, some of the most expensive pricing in the league, certainly at entry point. Absolutely ridiculous, a club completely out of touch with its own fanbase and demographics from the top down. Let’s hope there’s a fanbase left by the time they all finally feck off.

I see the new narrative on their forum is that we were giving it the big ‘un as ‘they were promoted in January’. They obviously don’t actually know any Rovers fans, despite all these Plastics polluting their PR postcodes, as I’m not sure I met a single fan that was particularly confident about top two… but must say that most didn’t expect to finish 12th, mind…

Despite everything surrounding him and his performances since January, he got a very decent reception when warming up down the touch line last Saturday… that ‘negative’ Ewood strikes again.

Personally since the dawn of social media, I’d say St George’s Day now has a bigger profile than ever, it wasn’t a thing, at all, a few years ago, I’m not sure I even knew what date it fell on. But until you make it a bank holiday (like St Andrew’s Day in Scotland) or get it co-opted by one of the world’s biggest drink brands, it will also be quite low key.

It’s took some doing that in less than three months. Bravo 👏 to all involved…

Considering the horror run and the fact it was moved for TV on a Monday night, that’s a decent enough following, I’ve known us take around that on a Saturday before.

Yes, he could get forward, he could actually pass a football.

He must be one of them in the Blackburn End that has an encyclopaedic knowledge of ex Burnley players. ’Booooooo!’ ’Why you booing him?’ ’He played half an hour as a sub on loan there in 2012’ ’Oh’.

Not sure Travis has particularly improved over the past couple of years. He’s now just a spoiler, whereas he used to have a fair bit more to his game.

What is this obsession you have with players wanting away because they are ‘looking to go down south’ ? First Rothwell, a Manc who’s spent a couple of years at most in his life away from the north west. Now Nyambe, who sees himself as a Manc after living there from being about nine years old. They’ll go wherever the big contract is, and it ain’t here.

Dyche has a top reputation in the game, is he buggery going to turn up at a QPR.

Will they? Why? They knew keeping Kean on would collapse sales in the summer of 2012, they kept him on. They knew appointing Coyle would further collapse sales, they appointed him. This is not a normal football club where things like, you know, results and crowds matter.

Why would nobody buying one make them get shut? 12 years of this says they don’t give a flying f*ck what the fans think or do…

Yep, first time I’ve ever received a text from them, real multi platform marketing this… though of course a desperation letter ‘from Dack’ will also be dropping through folks’ letterboxes when the club starts panicking re dismal sales with a few weeks to go.

And I’m part of one contributors family… which is nice.

Disagree on the age thing, plenty of older match going fans are now also very pro Rao, but of course many anti-Venky supporters have walked away leaving a much more subdued core.

What’s 8 years too late? Think you got the wrong end of the stick with my post. My point was that the fans were against these owners pretty much as soon as they came in, and remained so, until L1. It is only since that second relegation that the majority of the fanbase has done a complete 180 on the owners, be that because of the fear of administration, being stuck in L1, BOLTON, who knows why, but it’s now rare to hear any dissenting voices away from brfcs…

Thing is the fans did realise just that a few years ago… then we went down to L1, similar sized clubs like Bolton imploded and the fanbase went in to a collective Stockholm Syndrome with that disinterested lot in Pune. ’We’d be finished without them’, ‘look at Bolton/Bury’, ‘they put in more money than Jack’, ‘who else we gonna get to take on a small club like us?’ The expectations and standards of the fans have dropped markedly post that sorry afternoon at Brentford, and as a result I’d wager that these disgraceful owners have inexplicably never been as popular.

Saw a post on their forum reckoning we’ll still have 4,000 over there, take a zero off they figure and you’d be closer…