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If you’d ever been around even lower league footballers you’d realise the talent and game management of a professional footballer. They might not all be ‘elite’, but they’re certainly top class. It isn’t easy to break down a team like that.

He’s the captain of arguably one of the best modern era football teams. He certainly isn’t dreadful and is a phenomenal leader, the commentators have mentioned how they can hear him screaming “press” every time we are out of possession. It’s very very tough to successfully attack against a team of top class footballers who are happy to sit back and defend. If they win 1-0 it’s a result they’ll talk about for years to come. It will come. We need a successful press and a counter or a piece of individual brilliance. Once that happens it’ll open up more and we could score a few.

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Don’t encourage us, we came very close to selling Christmas Jumpers with BRFCS quotes on them from the past 12 months this year.

I’m assuming the Canadian team would most get work permits based on being in the commonwealth? If so, we should try and sign most of them.

Tournament football is different, you can be crap for 8 games and win the trophy.

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Strange that the fans wearing kits singing behind the goals where the ones that stayed. Almost as if they where paid to be there for the duration?

Not sure where - it’s widely reported to be 10M, which is why Joe Lycett has shredded 10K.

I’ve bet on Gakpo to be the golden boot winner. I can’t work out the standard the Qatar team are playing at, but it’s not high. Perhaps bottom of L2 at a push.

He’s an inch (or two) offside. There’s two players there, both touch the ball. Watch it back.

Narrator: But it turned out that it was in fact, offside.

ALL THE ONES THAT I MAKE!

Couldn’t agree more. A local self made man bought the club, made a huge investment, won the biggest prize available and put a system in place to keep them competitive after his death. Phenomenal. Yep, we bought the League. And the League Cup! And wasn’t it great?!

Yes, but my point is United are a city based northern powerhouse. Much like Arsenal, Newcastle, Spurs, Villa and Liverpool. Huge city clubs with phenomenal economic power. Rovers aren't, weren’t and will never be that and it’s simply down to geography (with a touch of politics and culture - but that’s for WDWY). Comparing us against them is comparing apples with pears. As I posted earlier: Rovers spent more when owned by Jack Walker than any other comparable club whether that’s in transfers, wages or infrastructure. It cannot be denied and should be celebrated. How lucky we where.

Why are you lot getting so worked up? We spent more under Jack than we would have without Jack and won the league. We paid higher transfer fees, more in wages and more on infrastructure than other clubs in the league because we had the money. It should be celebrated, not demonised. What where we meant to do, burn it? Give it to other clubs to beat us with? No wonder they try and use it against it, I’d be incredibly jealous of it to. Just like I am that City get to watch De Bruyne and Haaland, that Chelsea get to watch Havartz and Sterling. Blackburn Rovers are, like most town clubs have the odds set against them by the organisations. We’re not meant to win things.

A fluke based on a combination of a well organised club taking advantage of a weak league that year. It’s exactly how we will get promoted.

Even if we use ours really wisely, it takes those with more to misuse theirs sadly.

Our revenue was 15th in the league last time I checked.

Simply put, because the odds are against us. Our revenue is lower than the majority of the league. Other clubs are earning more and have parachute payments on top. Money wins in football in 95% of cases. For us to go up it takes clubs with more resources to not use them wisely.

Some of these arguments make us look like we’re metaphorically holding on for dear life. Two very similar clubs, with more similarities than differences. Uncle Jack made us much better, Venkys made us much worse. Burnley where lucky that their period in the PL was when it was. They’ve essentially had a rich benefactors worth of investment due to the timing of their recent promotions. As it stands they’ve the better team and infrastructure based on how well Turd looked on TV, although I wasn’t there in the flesh. Ewood hasn’t had the basic levels of maintenance since relegation from the PL. Remember, we don’t own our own training facilities anymore, they do. Rovers fans are incredibly lucky they got to see the successes they did in the 90s and 00s. Despite the PL riches, the way football is run means that it’s more unlikely than ever before that Burnley will see what we’ve been lucky enough to see. If Rovers can somehow manage to fluke a promotion, the playing field will be even once again.

Someone’s job maybe?

To be fair the people reading from Venkys Towers seem to spend more time on each page than anyone else. Whether or not what they read gets reported back is another story.

This ‘club plant’ nonsense is getting boring quick. Whilst there are people at Rovers and Venkys reading this, I can see all of account data, they don’t post.