Mattyblue

The club are enthusiastically touting he plays for the U23s on Friday, we’ll see if that actually transpires... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18888214.everton-plan-bradley-dack-lights-training/

I would have totally agreed... until recently. Now? There’s been a definite move to actual support and gratitude towards them, not just ‘we have to put up with them, we’ve no alternative’ If you haven’t spotted that shift, fair enough, but it’s happened.

Willem Tomlinson has pitched up at Chorley.

How the hell he gets the main presenting gig for Sky’s EFL coverage, fella’s stiff as a board.

He was also ‘pleased’ when he signed a new contract the year before, as that was also a club decision, so I wouldn’t put much stock in that opinion.

League Starts? I’ve obviously been misreading the stats then. Great stuff if that’s the case and he should be largely available going forward, as we’ll need it with the other two often out.

32 is a good season, his average is 20 odd. You’d wager that’s only going to get worse as gets older, but I suppose Mulgrew came here with an injury prone reputation and we got plenty of games out of him, so perhaps worth the risk given his quality - but it is a crucial position that already contains two players often out of action...

Bit disingenuous, just because he wasn’t deemed ‘injured’, does mean managers thought he was fit to play/can play twice a week. He does well to get over 30 starts a season and it’s often been way below that... https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/daniel-ayala/leistungsdaten/spieler/78966/plus/0?saison=2012 With Williams and Lenihan also being injury prone it’s no surprise Wharton has not been sent on loan.

Yet this is the fella that pays a fortune to Sky ?‍♂️

The 80s were Oldham and City, the rest of old Lancashire were either in the top flight or the fourth division...

Think you are misreading the mood Dreams, like I said on the last page there’s been a real sea change in how they are perceived since League 1. Away from this board, I seldom hear anything negative towards them. Indeed if I aired my views at Ewood these days I’d probably get rounded upon...

Not the case anymore. Been a massive turnaround in their standing post League 1.

The time lag doesn’t matter one bit. Just stay off Twitter until HT/FT and mute any ‘goal alert’ apps for 90 mins.

I was just thinking that. The bloke’s a carpetbagger. John Williams was from nowhere near East Lancs, but he still always referred to ‘Rrrovers’ in his Hampshire burr. But then more fool me for comparing JW with that spiv.

With all the sad news around about football related dementia that occurred to me the other day. Kicked into the long (Brockhall) grass, I’d wager...

Generally a well balanced article, however as for praising the ‘stable management off the field’, I would argue that we are still very poorly run on the commercial side, largely down to a Chief Exec with a tin ear when it comes to the fanbase and local demographics.

‘Rich , the remaining Venkys Out brigade are very much in the minority.’ Generally it’s the standard tripe from that fella, but the quote above I’d say he’s pretty much right. I rarely come across anyone with overly hostile things to say these days - ‘look at Bolton’, ‘they’ve put more money in than Jack ever did’ and, of course - ‘they were badly... ‘

Next four games - Luton, PNE, Barnsley, Millwall. Could be very well placed after those, mess them up and it will in all likelihood be another season of mediocrity.

5 subs back till the end of the season. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54989289

I wouldn’t say negativity, I’d wager most committed Rovers (and football fans generally) just aren’t particularly arsed what England get up to, though folk generally get involved when the tournament comes around. In contrast to rugby and cricket where the England national side is the crux of the sport, the club game in English football just dwarves the international one in terms of interest and fan dedication.

The disdain brfcs members largely feel towards the owners was a widespread view at one time, but I would say we are well in a minority now.

The FA wanted the (relatively) cheap and easy option after spending fortunes on the likes of Capello and then a controversial character like Allardyce. Southgate would also support ‘the pathway’ from the youth squads, justifies St George’s Park etc. It was obviously not because he was a top coach/manager.

‘Blackburn’.

‘Get Real’ 2020 edition... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18876240.david-dunn-venkys-commitment-cant-questioned/

The Premier League of 2010 was a totally different place to 2014, never mind 2020. The TV deals post our relegation began to grow exponentially and the PL has become THE place for investors in world sport. Burnley now have a bigger income than many of Europe’s most renowned clubs. Of course, better suitors than the Rao’s could’ve emerged, if only the Walker’s weren’t so desperate to get shut then and there (they’d have made a shed load more money too).