‘OH YES, OH YES!’

They were nearly disqualified before they’d even started. The quote from Dyche saying he didn’t know Pieters was suspended so named him in the side until Bournemouth pointed it out, ‘as there’s people at the club who keep an eye on these things and it got away from them’ seemed most odd and unprofessional to me. Bournemouth’s press officer knew, and I imagine a load of Burnley fans did too...

Good job he wears ripped jeans...

Chaddy gets bombarded with questions every time we lose about when he’s changing his mind on Mowbray - 1) why is it so important that one bloke on a message board who doesn’t even watch the matches change his mind? 2) He’s a stubborn bugger who enjoys the attention so will obviously double down on his view. It’s boring as feck to see the Chaddy Show every weekend. As for the rest of your post, you can’t have been here long if you think I believe anything I’ve seen this past decade is acceptable for Blackburn Rovers.

I’ve no particular issue with folk being content that they are still writing the cheques, or that we see funds available for players, the academy etc - the club is obviously not the cesspit it was previously. However it grates massively that we should feel some sort of empathy for owners of an international conglomerate having their pants pulled down. It was their arrogance that saw our downfall and we have all paid the price.

Yes Dack isn’t fit and he hasn’t had the impact we hoped. But TM isn’t helping with his approach of chucking on four subs at once like an international friendly and ending up with about 5 forwards on the pitch, but no discernible shape. Does he have a clue of what to do with him in the post Danny Graham team?

Nobody had fallen out with Chaddy more than me... in fact I think he’s the only person that’s ever put me on ignore 😭 But bloody hell, the forum becomes the Spanish Inquisition every time we lose a game. I personally don’t know why he’s seen as such a barometer that his opinion on TM and when he’s going to change it becomes the main talking point every week, not exactly a sage of the game, is he! ... the fella doesn’t even watch games anymore unless they are on Sky!

Full of talent as you’d expect a guy with a few caps for Germany to have. We’ve certainly seen it at times. But he’s too injury prone and presumably too well enumerated to keep on (and I’m not sure how much he is up for the scrap that is the Championship midfield).

Bangladesh are no mugs at home when the pitch starts spinning and it was a weakened Windies side with a load of their players not travelling. So some win to chase down 400 on a 5th day wicket. Still so much talent in the Caribbean.

I imagine Nixon know Moyes fairly well, both Glaswegians ‘in the industry’ that have lived around Lancs for donkeys years, so he may well have an inside track on who he ‘likes’ player-wise. Doesn’t necessarily mean he thinks he’s good enough for a side with aspirations for the top end of the PL or lead to bids at West Ham, the porn barons have a lot of say when it comes to signings.

Hughes was commenting on talksport last night, never known him so active in the media, obviously wants back in...

I am fully aware that we are totally reliant on them, especially in a covid world, I’m also aware there’s no white knight coming over the hill, Jack was unique (well maybe not if you count Lawrence Cotton, but we’ve certainly used up our luck with fantastic local ownership), but why do I need to ‘forgive and forget’? They have put us back decades off the pitch and on it we are exactly where we’ve been pretty much the last decade (an embarrassing drop to the third division aside). A sign that merely throwing money at a business is a fools errand without employing highly competent people - a decade on and we still see spiv characters like Waggott running things, but I suppose he’s not as odious as Shagnew, so hooray! I accept them, I realise there’s no alternative and I am glad they have carried on pumping the cash in in these uncertain times, but I do not laud them, my beloved club is a shadow of what it was on the day they took over- and as it makes no difference if I start doffing my cap or I don’t, (I’ll leave that to you) I’ll just carry on supporting the club in any way that I can.

Am I? Do you have an example? Just amused me that you think Grooby and Ste B ran some operation of virtue, and J*B is letting down his noble predecessors because he re-named a thread title. 😁

Grooby, Ste B et al were always making ‘humorous’ tweaks to profile descriptions and the like. It’s a football message board not the Court Circular. What a bizarre post. But I reckon you are just doing the brfcs version of the Handforth Parish Council meme, subtle though, I’ll give you that...

We’ve been missing him since he’s returned too...

Surely Bennett will just follow Graham, Mulgrew and Smallwood, key cogs of the promotion team all, in moving on at the end of the season as we look to advance. Which is fair enough, been a good servant, excellent club captain by the sounds of it, but time moves on and as a club you continually should be looking at improving the side.

It feels like we have these conversations every 6 months or so, we all get very excited and outline what we’d like to see, what we should look to implement... then nothing. Is there any actual concrete project plans in place, or is this all from throw away comments from Waggott and a few years old drawings?

I sincerely doubt they are ‘as hurt as we are’, to us it’s a massively important part of our lives, generations of support. To them we are a loss making, far flung part of their conglomerate that I doubt they give must thought to, certainly not of the emotional variety, in any case. We go bust tomorrow, we would be absolutely bereft, they would be embarrassed and financially stung, but I’m sure the share price and poultry/pharmaceutical sales wouldn’t take much of a dent. It’s their pride (and balance sheet) that will have been hurt - which probably explains why they keep on throwing in good money after bad, which is to be thankful of, I suppose...

End of the day this is the model the club chooses. There’s always a good few loans each season and a churn of players, and to be fair decent quality loans do seem to keep arriving. Is it ideal? Probably not, especially in defence as we need to keep pulling rabbits out of the hat (though relationships do seem to have been built with the likes of Man City and Liverpool), but it is still preferable to the days of cheap dross (Greer et al) coming in on free transfers.

Like I said on the Riverside Renovation thread, a version of West Brom’s West Stand would be ideal...

The fact Lineker never received a booking in a 16 year pro career, obviously he wasn’t exactly from the Duncan Ferguson/Mick Hartford school of striker, but still seems such an anachronism now, and he was playing in the 80s up to the mid 90s, not the 1950s...

Out of contract in the summer so I imagine we’ve seen the last of him here...

‘It’s 5pm and this is Sports Report... 🎶 der der der der der... ‘

Data wise, yes, but has there been substantial investment in facilities away from that? The 100 Club had to fund nets, gym equipment, a new canteen and a minibus for the Academy. Pretty basic stuff I wouldn’t expect a fans group to be having to put their hands in their pockets for...

Remember talking to some young lads at Doncaster, probably 17 to 21 year olds. Of course, I was delighted that night, and I enjoyed the season touring around the country on some novel away days, but relieved too that we made a swift exit, didn’t bear thinking about getting stuck in League 1. Those lads weren’t just happy, it was ‘the best day of their life’, that team were absolute heroes to them. Their reaction bemused me initially, but then again success and glory for your football club is all relative.