You reckon he knew, yeah?

…but this is an internet forum, the entire concept is based around discussion, speculation and rumour.

“Jon, recruitment are on the phone.” ”Yes.”

Agreed, one of my favourite periods of the year.

No idea why people are getting excited about Cooper, whether he signs or not. Leeds fans call him “League One Liam” because that’s his standard.

Big Ange please.

And it is, of course. Until you consider the huge impact which a successful football club - or at least one we're proud of - has to our small and in places extremely deprived town.

And BRFCS will fund a free to attend Rovers fan celebration at the Ewood Working Mens club.

It won’t happen, but it should. We’ve just had a full year with nobody to bring off the bench. I’ve seen enough of Garrett to confidentially say he will never make it here. Saying that, we’re on such a downhill spiral he probably will. A truly one dimensional footballer with extremely limited ability. Batty gets a chance every pre season and never takes it. He’s quick, that’s about it. Get rid for whatever pennies we can. Duru to my knowledge hasn’t played a season of men’s football. He cannot be considered to be reliable until he’s done that to some success. A loan to a L2 side would be great.

RE Chaddy’s question on squad, this is genuinely what I think we need to be competitive: GK: New, New, Michalski RB: Brittain, New CB: Carter, New, ORoirdon, New LB: New, Pickering, Gent CM: Travis, Tronstad, Buckley, JRC RW: New, Hedges CM: New, New LW: New, Gilsnan CF: New, New, Leonard, Tyjon That’s my 26 man squad. 12 new faces needed. All players with sub 1 year on their deal must be sold: Dolan, Hyam, Gallagher, Sigurdsson. Must be sold whilst value is high: Szmodics Sold to any bidder as proven not good enough: Vale, Markanday, Hilton, Garrett, Pears, Batty.

You’re not answering questions, you’re just saying words.

Great, so to go back to my question: Can you please give me something to be positive about Rovers for?

Th 23 other teams in the league isn’t something Rovers have had any influence on, so I can’t see how that can be linked to a positive relating to Rovers? Perhaps as a fan it’s something you’re excited about, but the only thing you can come up with when I ask “give me something to be positive about” is we’re playing lots of local teams this year - in fixtures we’re likely the underdog in? The start of the season isn’t something under Rovers control. It has absolutely no link to Rovers, therefore you cannot possibly describe it as something to be positive about Rovers for. The kits are great - but the person responsible for designing and implementing them has now left the club. Whilst we don’t know the reason, I would speculate as he’s gone of his own decision he has gone somewhere he thinks is better. Onto your final positive, Eustace “seems” to have a plan. Yet all the noises from media would suggest he won’t have the funds to implement this plan. If it was as simple as “sign 5/6 players” then everyone in the league would be aiming for promotion. We need to sign multiple experienced, high quality players. The signs so far suggest this is not going to happen.

Give me something positive to be about at Blackburn Rovers Bobby.

Of course there’s a pressing need to sell him. The owners can’t fund the club so someone has to. He goes to the highest offer made before the court case.

Taken from Facebook.

That’s the spirit, welcome to BRFCS Bobby.

Hope it happens at 6M - would hopefully be enough to make some of our fans wake up.

League One Liam, as he’s affectionally known by Leeds fans.

Upside Down's post is the same explanation as mine with much more (very good) detail, no? If not, can you clarify where i'm misunderstanding? Perhaps the discrepancy is I say "they're allowed" and UD rightly says the ED previously have fought this, but a judge has allowed it as long as the bond is met. In which case I guess your point is they're not actually allowed unless they get approval from a judge? If so I would argue there's a history of two previous approvals so I would speculate they've probably got a bit of a leg to stand on i.e. it was approved last time so there's precedent. But you're right in principle. And UD is very right.

How often do people go against the government in court and win?

They are allowed to fund us within FFP restrictions (minimal at the moment due to the Wharton and Phillips sales) as long as they put a £1 for £1 security bond into an account owned by the Indian government. This is effectively so they can’t lose the case then declare they don’t have the money to pay. If they lose the court case they will lose the bond. They are choosing not to fund us to the levels we are used to because they don’t want to put the money into the bond.

Bayes can say more as he's with the BBC, who as a public organisation can't be cut off quite as easy at the LET.

If there's anything we can do on this, we're open to it. General thoughts off the top of my head: We can stream it on the forum, social channels (as well as yours to help reach)? We could make a user group, like subscribers, for 'WATR Member' and give people within that group access to a WATR questions/comment submission form? We can send alerts to members with the latest minutes from meetings? There's a lot we could do to help if it was wanted...

This is the crux of the matter. No protests will be successful without someone leading them. Saying that, I thought the match when there was protests against Waggott - can't remember which game it was - where very good. Some clear Waggott out songs, some big banners, he didn't come out from the owners box.