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It's no better here in France. Went to Lorient Lille this afternoon and the ref was really big club biased. Handed out yellow cards like sweets to Lorient players whilst giving Lille players a talking to. Match ended 1-7 and Lille deserved their win, but even handed the ref definitely wasn't. Oh and the player linked with Rovers last week missed a penalty.

How much do you think Lorient pay?

I'm going to Lorient again on Saturday to watch them play Lille so will see if he plays or not.

Saw him score the first goal on Sunday v 9 man Rennes. Big range guy. Did OK for his goal

Rarely nowadays. I keep trying to walk away but your club is still yours even if you've almost fallen out of love with it.

Very disrespectful to teapots. They probably know more about running a football club than this lot

I'm not really angry with him, but with the whole sorry mess at Ewood that has gone on for so long, since well before I retired and appears likely to still be going on when I'm long gone. So many fans lost, so many who will likely never return.

So where was that support when we protested all those years ago? I remember marching, and I remember others doing a lot, lot more. Most people weren't interested then. They're no more interested now. We are and have been for many years, a basket case of a club. The number of well known media people who basically told us to shut up because Venkys pay our bills was amazing. And still it goes on. A manager nobody hoped for, a captain who wants away, an inability to sign a decent striker so that we actually look like scoring, players leaving for decent sums but no adequate replacements, a fanbase so disenchanted they don't trust anyone, and absentee owners who haven't been seen in over a decade. Don't try to cheer us up. We know what's wrong and also know there doesn't seem to be any way of getting out of the parlour and completely undeserved mess we find ourselves in.

Well, you can always hope provided you don't expect your hopes to come to fruition.

You do know he was a pretty good goalkeeper, don't you?

Frighteningly that sounds very likely as an appointment process.

I'm not saying I don't want him. Just that I can understand why people might think it's an underwhelming appointment. Personally I'm not underwhelmed - just think he'd be mad to take it at this time.

Depends what people want. Young upcoming but raw manager who has links to the club and might excite fans and do well, or wise, experienced old head who knows his way round the Championship, or someone who has done quite a lot elsewhere but isn't Championship experienced.

Good to be back. I've never really been away. Just never post if I haven't seen a match, and since I rarely go to Ewood and rarely watch Rovers on tv as we always lose when I do, I've not had a lot to say