Well, obviously . Still a silly opinion to have.

Few on here were delighted when Gestede came in, by the looks of it solely due to scoring a few second tier goals here a decade ago.

The posters on here weren’t being ‘cap doffers’ and ‘hand wringers’, they were ‘bleating’ that ‘it wouldn’t work’, because it wouldn’t work, that’s due to the fact that the Ewood crowd just isn’t up for it - as we’ve seen over 15 sorry years.

Slight overreaction there 😅

Think you are giving Joe Public far too much credit when if comes to critical thinking!

Not really, as some players, a Fleck style free here, a 19 year old from Brighton on loan there, will arrive on deadline day so it will placate them. Even if they don’t arrive, it’s all ‘FFP, though!’, ‘crap crowds’, ‘who’d buy us?’. Where’s the nearest cliff?

Going to be right scrap down the bottom too. Good job we had that six game winning streak…

Sky night game in January at £30+ on a poor run of form against the very much secondary local rival, tough sell this one - though PNE will have 6000+ there so job done for Swag regardless.

A Rovers fan as a professional in a media outlet, does make a difference. Sharpe was much more likely to take the club to task as there’s an underlying passion there.

Yep, seems to be ‘oh it’s January, is it? Comes around quick, best get some feelers out’.

And I actually pay money out of my own pocket to an organisation that sees the set up he heads as a ‘friend’, ergo the only conclusion of such a descriptor is that he’s someone they feel they can work with for the betterment of Blackburn Rovers. More fool them (and more fool me for still paying it).

To be fair to Pep no wonder he’s had a touch of hubris considering the media thinks he’s re-invented the sport and every club down to the Dog & Duck league utilise his methods (badly). English football is now crafted in his image.

I’ve never really gone in for some of the more outlandish theories with this lot. Occam’s Razor and all that - they just don’t give a feck, but are content enough to let a long forgotten impulse purchase half way round the world tick over on their books somewhere, especially now it’s trying to ‘wash its own face’ with a very small flannel. But Masher’s being his usual contrarian self if he’s trying to argue that these owners ever make a decision with an eye on the Premier League.

You shouldn’t be relying on ‘hindsight’ to work out that we fall down the table from Christmas onwards every season. Why does this thing seem to happen ever year? Bit odd, isn’t it? Maybe it’s due to so many games with a small squad. Said squad picks up injuries, doesn’t get reinforced in January, we fall down the table. Repeated ad nauseam.

Always summed up this regime’s priorities that they whipped up gantries on the Riverside in days when it had obviously been decided somewhere to focus the cameras on busier looking stands… yet fifteen years on they can’t assemble a disabled viewing platform.

That’s his media done till the next word salad in August.

Appointed in April 2024, quite a long stretch by their standards…

Oh joy, even more sympathetic Clarets. 🙄

If only!

‘Come wearing your colours for the club’s 150th anniversary’ ‘Right, that’s now on the socials, so 150th done, so moving on when we doing the next Digital Day, Steve?’

Is it possible we go down? Yes. Is it possible we go bust? No. They will keep this club going zombie style for many more years yet…

We’ll see. That’s only a couple of losing play off campaigns. We’ve seen it with other former yo yo clubs, once those parachutes go they are back in the pack.

We’ll see how ‘well run off the field’ they are if they are still in this division in the summer of 2026…

I've said it twice, once being just now. Check your dictionary for 'several' Point being, the Committee do not, and have never balloted the membership for their strategic decisions. Current said strategy being 'critical friends' of the club. So flip it round and they no longer want to be friends, as they are instead asking for Swag's removal, presumably they won't be asking the membership about it first...

They haven't asked for mine when it comes to being 'critical friends'.