Mattyblue

The naivety hurts my head. He’d be off like a shot if a PL club comes in. ‘Developing with Mowbray’ in second tier mid table on a second tier wage? Or a chance to play in the top flight, further develop by playing with and against better players and double/treble the wages?

Because it’s not it his interests to. Basic negotiation tactics from AA and his agent to insist on one. He knows he is becoming hot property, the advantage is with him, he can run his existing contract down and get a free transfer and mega wages, ‘so you want us to sign a long term deal to protect your asset? Fine, but there’s a release clause being put in there’ Don’t become an agent, Chaddy!

Why would he sign that?

There will always be the more ambitious L1 owner that will sniff out an opportunity, through promotion bonuses etc. You can’t imagine much of a fair playing field in a year or two if things become a little more ‘normal’. It would be a farce if attempted in the Championship.

Clubs will get round it, especially bigger ones; bonuses, paying family members as ‘consultants’, you name it!

Yeah from memory he was on most games in the Souness era

‘The fans didn’t get behind the club’.

If only we could all be so sanguine about the wrecking ball put to this fantastic football club...

Ended up working at Calderstones hospital for many years as a mental health nurse with my mum, also as Rev says was a regular in the boozers around Pleckgate and Brownhill, as people have said, different times! RIP Stuart.

Steve Kean

I’d say you were right - up to L1 relegation. I’m talking anecdotally, and also look on social media (not here), apart from the standard ‘get him sacked’ after a defeat, LT comments, Twitter and Facebook groups are always at pains to say how we have no right to be challenging, can’t compete, small club, TM is a miracle worker etc. I hear it repeatedly at Ewood and at away games too, but as I say, I can only speak as I find it, it’s not scientific. And it’s certainly not everyone, I am still fiercely ambitious for Blackburn Rovers! Though I am surprised you haven’t picked up on a general lowering of expectations and standards post 2017.

Do they? In the Bowyer era I would say that was the case. Away from this forum I don’t see much ambition in the fanbase anymore, plodding along in mid table and staying out of the third division suffices with many these days, ‘we are a small club’ etc. The expectations we had even as relatively recently as, say, 2015 seem to have long gone...

‘You need to learn the position from Steve Livingstone’

I know he’s not exactly working for The Times, but a bit cringe that tweet, no?

His pal is a big Brentford fan, works at Heathrow.

It’s a shame, and I think people are missing out. We know it’s not exactly top quality in terms of skill level, but it’s without the doubt the best competition in the country, as that crackers last day proved once again.

He’s asked for it now! 21 questions in 30 days incoming!

To be fair to BDS’ mates, it’s not just them that don’t follow the Championship, what’s far worse are the football journalists that are like 19th century explorers when they visit a newly promoted sides’ ground...

It’s called disagreeing with you Joe. You struggle with that, you are very sure of your views, perhaps your data background is to do with that, as shown by the nonsensical view that those that don’t have the same opinion as you on JRC must be ‘biased’, not that they simply see things differently. So obviously you must think someone who doesn’t share your opinion a fair bit (like me) must be on ‘the wind up’, how dare I have the temerity!

Of course, or he’d have been loaned out to this level to make his mistakes. We used to be so strong with keepers that even Shay Given couldn’t get a sniff!

You are an angry bugger aren’t ya when challenged, not sure you’ve got to grips with this place yet. Ok does Raya have poor stats? (That’s golden glove winner David Raya). Stats that make him ‘shit’?

Agreed, very important. So could you clear up why Goode should be avoided at all costs ‘because the data’... yet Raya who has ‘awesome’ data is ‘shit’ and it’s great that he was sold?

Oh. I was hoping for some more bar charts I asked and he delivered ⬇️

It’s rushes of blood to the head that seems to be his biggest problem. Does he get bored? The free kick error only came about because of that kamikaze charge to the halfway line.

‘Shit’, is that what the stats say?