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You realise this makes you sound insane, right?

I’ve no idea why you’re talking about Venice. BRFCS have a great partnership with NordVPN. Make sure you click the link on our website when signing up so that BRFCS gets paid and I can book myself a holiday.

Sheaf and O’Brien will absolutely dominate Forshaw and Garden-Hickman. Game will be won in central midfield. Hyam is right, great recruitment.

One player in this starting 11 I’m comfortable saying is Championship starting quality.

I can’t express how bad things have got if we’re back to considering starting Gueye. The man is a total clown. A jester. Letting the opportunity of a life time pass before him because he’s not intelligent enough to realise what could be.

We have, there’s 13,000 fans not attending due to Venky’s. The 8,000 left will turn up no matter what.

In a list of “who needs to pull their weight a bit more at Ewood Park”, I’ve got “the fans” at the bottom of the list. The way this season is playing out was predictable at the start of the season to anyone willing to take off blue and white tinted glasses. The plan of replacing the experienced leaders with low-cost, in experienced players from Europe simply will not work to anyone that knows this league. There will be a couple of Toth’s, but in the most part, we will end up with a team of Gueye’s, De Neve’s, Henriksson’s and Baradji’s

Seems to be a bit of confusion on attendances and atmosphere here. So to throw my opinion in: The club has lost circa 13K fans due to Venky’s. This is a protest. Fans that used to go, won’t go, because of Venky’s. These fans, in the most part, were the most vocal fans in the stadium. Losing them has massively impacted the atmosphere. The above combined with ticket pricing and Ismael and Rudy’s Rovers being absolutely shite at home, means that so near to Christmas, in rubbish weather, any potential walk ins just say at home. We still get fantastic, vocal away ends because the fans that won’t go to home games go away.

We signed 5 (five) central midfielders this summer and there’s a chance he’s the best of the bunch.

Baradji isn’t good enough. Calling it early.

These cannot be your substitutions if you’re trying to change a game.

King would have been injured. Beckham wouldn’t have got back. Mourinho had it right - he wanted to sign Gerrard and intended to play Gerrard and Lampard as CMs. “They’re good enough to work it out over time”, he said in a later interview. No need to be too clever, play your best 11 players.

You’d expect them to go back for that “Steve Kapuadi” in Poland, given they tried to get him all summer and I assume (?) Toth is now no longer an ESC slot. At any normal club there would be a significant January budget given we’ve not spent anything like we have generated from sales for years now. Alas, I’m sure we have no money.

They’ve always needed time to settle in. But time to adjust? They tend not to when you sign the good ones.

What did you see last season in Dennis that makes you think he’s anything but a complete waste of space, out of interest?

It will end like it does every year when the games come thick and fast and our squad size means we can’t put out a competitive 11.

Just a reminder for anyone else that’s opened this thread and wondered if they’re in the twilight zone: Yes, we’re still 19th in the league. Yes, we’re coming into the most strenuous part of the season for a squad. Yes, we still only have one fit centre back with experience at this level. Yes, despite that, we’re playing 3 centre backs. Yes, our net spend is still hugely in the red. Yes, the club is still controlled by Suhail Pasha and Rudy Gestede. Yes, we are still owned by Venky’s.

That’s a truly horrible kit and whilst club staff continue to read this forum it’s worth hiding before they get any more stupid ideas.

Exactly a Carrick.

Wharton’s far more defensively aware than Scholes. Although worth saying before this is posted somewhere on X, clearly not as good a player.

Pointless thread, won’t be visiting again.

Cant wait for this in the fans forum notes. “SP: If fans want shirts so much why didn’t they buy them last year?”

I came to this thread knowing you’d fall hook, line and sinker for this. Can’t you see what they’re doing to you? They’re manipulating your intelligence through emotion. Rovers lose, the 150th anniversary is a net-failure, so what do they do? Leak a story to a journalist that will play ball that the fans want to hear to get you excited again. It is SO frustrating that fans like yourself fall for this every single time. I can hear you posting it now: “We just need to get to January, three new signings are coming”. I can’t work out what is worse, the way they treat you or the fact you continually fall for it.

I’ve long since accepted this. They get what they deserve.

Alas Rudy, what you cannot accept is the exact reason you will not be successful. It’s our training ground, you are the guest.