Crawley is a lucky lad to be playing in the era he does. Forty six Tests with an average of just 32. Was the revolving door approach to the batting line up in the 90s the correct one? No, batsmen deserve a chance but surely 46 Tests is long enough to realise this fella will never be consistent and should have to fight for his place.

Ok, I’ll leave it there, Miller, as we’ll end up going round in circles. All I would say is hopefully you will pivot very quickly into campaign mode (which was my original point) post an August 20th that actually led to something, as it doesn’t sound like you will be changing course otherwise.

Now’s not the time for historical references, Herbie 😅

I would bloody well hope so, because MOUs and the like mean the square route of feck all when the club has disappeared down the plug hole. If I can be frank you seem to have got lost in the thick forest of football governance, MOUs, ‘fan led reviews’ and the like and forgotten what you exist for and was indeed set up for back in the first dark age of this ownership - to ensure the survival of Blackburn Rovers.

I used the prospectus as an example, an example of a very worthwhile endeavour, just like fan engagement, ticket pricing initiatives and all the rest of it. But those are for ‘simpler’ times for when a club just needs a bit of TLC and a steer from passionate volunteers - we have gone beyond that and right now surely, surely it’s time to get in to SOS or should I say Save Our Club mode? What on earth are you waiting for?

Yes Miller we are upset because we fielded a weak team in a friendly. Have a read of the transfer thread. Rumours yes, but the jist being Gallagher following Sammie out the door and the owners preparing their exit. What I am after is a warm fuzzy feeling from WATR that there is a line and we are getting very close to it, where it stops being about being a ‘critical friend’ and marketing prospectuses and the like and if you have a plan for when you are looking to pivot to campaign mode to help save this football club.

‘Escalated a bit’ isn’t what you would say if a situation has improved.

As ‘Phase 3’ commences (I.e. the phase where prices have been raised to such a ridiculous figure no fecker is actually going to buy one.

‘Rudy Gestede is an excellent appointment’ had me a click from cancelling my direct debit there and then.

Shearer 1992 until 97 (his first injury at Newcastle, he changed his game to be more of a target man after that) was unreal, had the lot - anybody that thinks there has been a better goal scorer in that era can’t have seen much of him.

Why wouldn’t there be interested parties?

I take it the fence is soon to be clambered down from?

Don’t agree, there are loads round me that still think the issue is our support, that we are a small club, not the owners.

Yep, if he read that post out in most parts of Ewood he’d get a round of applause.

League 1 to the PL in two seasons? Yeah think they may just have a bit of nous down there.

‘It doesn’t matter what we get for him as we won’t see a penny of it anyway’. Yeah the team won’t but the NI and leccy bills will get paid for an extra month or two, they may even be able to stretch to a power washer - so screw Ipswich for every penny!

‘A more senior look’… even the club socials know

Fairly self explanatory, I thought, but here goes - Yes I am happy with good young loans, not so happy with shit ones

‘We’ve had good loans in the past’ answers that question.

We’ve had good loans in the past, we’ve had a load of shite ones too - but as usual you missed the point. If we bring in five players and two of them are young loanees that is nowhere near enough and I think you know that.

Forget about the FF minutes, there isn’t going to be anything but Swag stock answers, just not the group to provide what you want re a forensic grilling of executives. What I want to know is what is the approach of the ‘Critical Friends?’ - you know, the group many of us actually fund to go in to bat in the best interests of Blackburn Rovers? When are we going to see some of the first bit of that tagline, and a bit less of the second?

‘5 or 6 really good players to come in’… so when they don’t? But of course a couple of 20 year old loanees who have never played a game at this level will count as two of those.

He’s probably just a tad extreme the other way, but yes, the majority of the fanbase even now aren’t particularly anti-Venky. ‘Shit support’ will be mentioned more than the owners when it comes to the diagnosis of what’s wrong with BRFC…. The joining of dots seems to go amiss.

Calling the fanbase racist to boot. Do the honours mods for Christ sake.

Forget about hearing ‘Rovers’ again from any player or manager… like with so many things JDT was an outlier.