Kudos to Micah Richards and his agent. Gone from nowhere to everywhere in about 12 months...

Even the leadership of the Rovers Trust are now in lockstep with said minions by the look at their posts on here. Couple that with the ever-acquiescent Fans Forum, who would the club even consult with these days that would give them some actual hard truths and warn them of the idiocy of their policies?

Out of contract in June, be interesting to see if he even gets offered a new deal, as opinions on his actual ability aside, we just don’t get the games out of a player who you imagine is one of our top earners.

‘Wise words’ ’’The club is in safe hands’ ... Are some of the usual top rated comments on the LT following whatever corporate waffle he’s just been spouting.

Going to absolutely piss it down all day tomorrow, let’s hope the pitch can hold up...

Does a ‘damn good deal’ normally lose three quarters of existing buyers?

Bit of a different issue, but what riles me is when you are watching/listening to a sport bulletin on the news/5 Live etc and the presenter, a ‘specialised’ sports presenter at that, can’t even pronounce fairly high profile sport stars/clubs.

Viking origin, I believe, a lot of Lanky dialect comes from then.

‘Stop skriking yer mard arse’

Don’t know skriking? Yon mon’s been out of Lancs too long, obviously!

BRFCS.com Match Thread c2010 chaddyrovers ‘Last minute winner? 3 points? PL top half? Who cares? Load of shit that, was nearly skriking walking up Livesey Branch’

Considering they put them on sale for just two weeks, with a hefty price rise, only days before a local lockdown and then a government announcement of probably no fans allowed until Spring, they’ve done well to sell 2k... (Yep, done well to sell 10% of what we had a decade ago. ‘I’d like to put on record my gratitude to the owners’).

We win a crap game with a scrappy goal off Darragh’s arse - I get a Sunday paper, study the tables, next fixtures, ‘ooo where can we go with a win next week?’ watch Quest, watch the Sky highlights, watch Super Sunday, generally loving life. We lose an ‘entertaining’ game and Quest will be deleted and I’ll try and avoid anything football related till at least Monday.

Winning always comes before ‘good football’, it’s the winning that improves the club. You combine the two? Then even better. But that often isn’t possible if you want to win consistently in the PL on a low budget... so would I feel ‘awful’ after yet another home PL win? Never as I knew what not winning games can lead to for a club of our size, alas too many didn’t...

Indeed, that Souness Promotion side was an absolute juggernaut once we got going in the new year. Full of top quality players for the division. Proven by the core of the side then winning the League Cup and finishing 6th in the PL in subsequent seasons. Anybody thinking our current side is close to that in either quality or standard of football obviously can’t remember 2001- 2003.

Nobody is enjoying these thrashings as much as me (we’ve played 3 league matches, by the way, so it’s a daft discussion), but from this very small sample size, better football than a side containing some of the world’s top players in ‘95? Better than early Souness? Not for me, however those two sides I mentioned had one of, if not the biggest budgets in their league (the Souness promotion team, not his PL team), so this team achieving promotion would probably be a bigger achievement.

Lytham House has just opened, we went last week. You can either do it tapas style with ‘small plates’, or standard a la carte. Thought it was superb; food, drink and atmosphere.

Cheers for embedding it, my phone has stopped doing it recently!

Only a couple of months later from that interview Bill died. Such a shame he never got to see the journey we were about to go on.

https://twitter.com/rovers/status/1310175319308075010?s=21

We are seeing what ‘time’ can mean. ’He needs time’ is that oft repeated phrase, but it’s a tricky balance for clubs at our level. Three and a half years for Owen Coyle and we’d be still playing derbies with Bolton. Three and a half years for TM and we are seeing a playing culture transformed, players and styles phased out whilst evolved methods bed in. Yet, many (not just on here) were turning fast less than a year ago as we laboured against Barnsley - why? Because another relegation wasn’t out of the question if we’d had carried on with that trajectory and League 1 for a second time in 3 years could’ve proved terminal for this club (especially now). The very strange set up at Blackburn Rovers has allowed TM the time and freedom that just doesn’t exist elsewhere in this crackpot league and, early days though it is, I‘ve seem nothing else in the division that says we can’t be up there. Dips will come, especially with a young squad, injuries never seem too far away here, but there’s something stirring (and don’t we all deserve to witness it - well ifollow it). All power to you Mogga.

They’ve now deleted the Dolan thread. Looks like they’ve had a meltdown on there to rival anything on here.

Surely Sky should be picking us for fixtures? Even when we lose, it will be invariably be of the 3-2 variety...

I was a fan of Raya, I thought Walton was a serious downgrade (and wasn’t even ours!) However, it’s been a long time since we’ve had such a composed presence in the goal - which will make a big difference to the defenders in front of him.

You carry on with the piss taking... a look at your forum says you lot are getting worried for the first time in a long while.