Young ‘uns I kind of get it, they’ve only known this shell version of Blackburn Rovers. But for someone like him, who was actually involved with the club at the time we were being pulled up by our bootstraps, the lack of pride in the legacy left in the form of fantastic facilities and the shoulder shrugging to the gutting of infrastructure is something I just can’t get my head around.

The bi-polar nature of social media is a phenomenon of our time. The Screen Grabber (formerly of this parish) has slagged off pretty much every utterance of TM and Waggott for weeks... today : ‘Inveterate gloom purveyors will have to have a night off unless they find out the new Brockhall won’t have any showers but a minibus to Ewood will be laid on after training’ I suppose it’s a calculation on which way the wind is blowing to get those precious serotonin releasing re-tweets....

Crack journo Andy Bayes spent the build up to the Coventry game telling listeners what a great guy he was and how he was back to being ‘much like his old self again’... which is nice.

He’s a rare manager that NEVER takes responsibility for defeats, always something or someone else to blame. A sign of good man management is taking the heat off the players once in a while. Irony is, he’s actually at a club where losing games doesn’t particularly matter, so a few mea culpas would do him no harm with his squad...

I know it’s not your choice, just interested to why this site is now taking ads in a format that other sites have been doing for a long while - I.e. obviously not a blanket overnight change by Google

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19138535.permanent-defensive-signings-rovers-summer-transfer-agenda/ ‘All of the loans will go back, the out of contract players, we’ll have to see whether we can do a deal with any of them, the summer is the summer and we’ll try and keep building the club as I’ve always said.’ Yeah going into my 5th full season, the defenders in the squad will be Lenihan, a crock, a young lad from Crewe as my only full back and academy grads, but I ‘build clubs’

I’m not arsed in their opinion as if he’s sacked on Monday it is immediately the right choice and ‘time for a change’. Better get used to it though as these situations drag on and on and on at this rudderless club.

Some other forums have presented ads like this for a while, any reason why brfcs has suddenly changed to mirror them?

Received an email from the EFL, thought go on then, only to be met with the most apt EFL/ifollow response 😁

“They [the owners] understand. They watch every game. They see which is the best team on any given day and they have to decide what they think is the way forward.” Do they bollocks (to each and every sentence in that quote).

Of course we shouldn’t expect him to walk away from 15 months of a contract. He’ll have no clue when and where his next job will be or for what remuneration. He has to look after himself and his family, like we all would. So he needs to stop coming out with holier than thou platitudes like ‘I’ll walk away if I’m a burden’, as when push comes to shove he has no intention of doing so.

Read the standing orders!

This’ll put a rocket up the arse of the FF. It’s all seemed very cosy for a long time reading through the minutes of previous meetings...

Other comparisons will Hull are available - - Owners that refuse to engage with fans - Manager that oversaw said collapse is still in a a job.

He’s been brought back in to the side after missing out on a Test match central contract because he’s seen as one of our best players of spin.. which is a worry in itself! Though I imagine that’s that for him as a Test player after this, Buttler will be back as wicketkeeper and they will want to focus on Crawley/Pope/Lawrence as up and coming batsmen.

That’s a word for word copy of a Jaquob Crooke tweet from last week

‘People need to be patient, don’t they? Think of all the injuries you’ve had! Not loads of money anymore, surely you should be given more time to finish your journey?’ A Sky ‘journalist’ serving up full tosses that even Neil and Warren might think twice about...

I get the rotation due to bubbles, quarantines and the like, poor Chris Woakes had been in bio secure bubbles in South Africa, Sri Lanka and India since December and hadn’t played a single match of any format! But resting players so they can play IPL? Those that pay the piper call the tune, I suppose, but then you can wave goodbye to winning Test series in India when you have players, with no games under their belt, flying in and out and then chucked in to the side against a top team and expecting them to immediately perform on bloody tough pitches.

“We’re on a journey, but if that journey for me stops, then I want to make sure the club don’t throw it all out and start again with something different.’ Aye, because a McCarthy or a Pearson would carry on with this naive, ineffective ‘progressive football’ that has seen us hurtle down the league...

TM- ‘You can’t fluke your way out of this league’ Also TM-’We don’t have time to do set pieces’ ’I don’t really do formations

Cardiff 4 - Derby 0 Cardiff 27% - Derby 73% Take it Derby get at least a point too?

I stand corrected, looking at this (section 297, page 88) there is a loophole if the club can prove they’ve had planning permission for floodlights rejected. Though to me you are breaking the spirit of said rule if you did have a floodlit pitch and then built houses on it http://thepfsa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Youth-Development-Rules-2018-19.pdf

Just like the floodlights for the JTC already being rejected locally, every chance a two storey building does too...

Real Sky tonight, replays and everything!

1) I have no faith in this lot delivering ‘state of the art’. I just don’t trust the motives of anyone involved. 2) The footprint on the JTC will be much smaller and pitches will be lost. Combining is fine in practice, but not when it means a reduction in facilities. 3) The potential combined site has already had floodlights turned down - ergo loss of Cat 1 academy status 4) There are no classrooms on the plan - so again loss of Cat 1 status as it’s a prerequisite.