Morton has had a shocker this 1st half. Needs taking out. Buckley also very poor. 

Dack carrying the team at the moment. SG been sh*t and we have Brereton back. Literally nothing up top at the moment.

JRC yellow. I’m usually half glass full when it comes to Rovers but this is piss poor.

Been terrible. Pitch is fu*ked, Birmingham are sh*t, typical Rovers.

Shit by Morten and Kaminski. Morten’s awful ball caught Kaminiski out of position. He should of done better, terrible shot stopping.

Is this on tv anywhere?

1 minute ago, goozburger said:

JDT is not impressed with the speed of the recruitment at Rovers if his post-match press conference is anything to go by. He seems quite dejected. When asked if he thinks it'll go down to 31st January to get business done: "Yeah, but not 2024, huh? Hmm... Not 2024. Hopefully this year." Without the usual joking and laughing he sometimes does after saying such things.

Will JDT tolerate this every window while we're still in this league?

Talking nonsense. He was saying it in a joking way after been asked a question. Non story.

Ovie Ejaria anyone? Not wanted by Reading- young, lost his way, bags of potential. Fits the mould. I’d be all over this.

3 minutes ago, rover23 said:

Apart from that’s not where Ben lives…

He isn’t going to be living in a sh*thole area so your point is irrelevant.

18 minutes ago, rover23 said:

Outskirts of Burnley or Spain to bring up his child? Hmm… 

Cheshire is actually a nice place to live.

4 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

West Ham and Leeds facing losing out on Diaz to Villarreal - Sources (footballinsider247.com)

Villareal in 'advanced talks' with Rovers for a reported fee of £8m. 

The 'model' would like an apology. 

Wouldn’t be happy with 8 million but it is what it is, can’t really doing anything with both hands tied behind your back.

Can’t see is personally, just become a father, would he really uproot straight away to Spain with a new born? More likely to leave in the summer for free when things have settled down at home abit.

7 minutes ago, briansol said:

Funny you mention Brentford. They spent 6 seasons in the Championship, improving year by year before getting promoted. The way they did it was with a strategy and "project". They put in place great scouting which was highly data-driven and bought young talent they could improve and sell-on. Which they did with a number of players being sold for 9m+ over the years like Mephan, Konsa, Gray, Hogan, Benharama and Watkins. They had a lot of turnover as they don't have an academy, and also bought quite of lot duds, but they were offset with the gems they uncovered.

Another success was that any manager they hired had to adapt to their structure and setup and not to another reboot of style and players. 

 

The Brentford model should sound a bit familiar to what we are trying to achieve here. With a sporting director, great academy and using player trading to up the level of the squad. It might take time, but probably the only long-term solution for the club. 

 

Bang on the money.

This is the only solution for the club.

4 minutes ago, den said:

Are you saying the plan is now different? I haven’t heard that interview. How is it different?

Of course it’s different.

1st year we got relegated we bought players who were established/ high earners. Didn’t get us anywhere with the nameless man in charge.

The donkey from down the road was the same- didn’t focus on youth.

infant I can’t think of a manager we have had since Mowbray/JDT who bought young players with re sale value and developed them.

that’s a clear change in plan.

3 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Honestly, after Rotherham I have finally given up on top 6. We might as well sell Brereton if we get a fairly reasonable offer (I'd say 8-10 mill) and start preparing for the future. Whether we like it or not, it's project time, so we might as well do it properly this time. That means selling assets, especially such rapidly depreciating ones, and reinvesting smartly.

100% agree.

I would sell now and reinvest.

problem being is I think Ben wants a move to Spain and they will get him for free. Don’t think he fancies playing for a potential relegated team in the prem. 

15 minutes ago, den said:

We’ve been working from that plan for 13 years now.

We haven’t, it’s been 4-5 years of an outline of a plan without the correct staff/ systems in place.

4 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

If we do get promoted it will be in spite of the owners, not because of any “plan” they have come up with.

We need to try and capitalise on fortuitous positions we find ourselves in, it was ballsed up last year, looks like it will be again. We shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders and say “project” when our chances of success are pissed away before our eyes.

I don’t think anyone doesn’t want promotion. You can’t just chuck £££ at it though. What happens then if we don’t get promoted? FFP strikes and we and get penalised resulting in transfer embargos and points deductions.

5 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Our club has been systematically plundered and neglected by these owners for twelve years now and people have faith in them over the next few years to deliver a plan or project. It won't happen and despite the rhetoric from Broughton and Tomasson these errant owners are the big stumbling block and the main reason it won't. They are the worst thing that has ever happened to our club and still, unbelievably some think they will come good.

So what’s the solution? Protesting has been done, didn’t have any effect. The owners are not going anywhere so I choose to be positive  and hope that change does occur. It’s either that or stay in a rut of negativity.

2 minutes ago, roverandout said:

4 or 5 years? Ffs we've wasted 10 years already doing NOTHING.  we all know we will be back to square one after a couple of years. When does the cycle end? Some of us are getting on and can't hang around for another '4 or 5 years'. We all know it’s bullshit.  It's just another attempt to steal a living while trying to placate the gullible.  (Not saying u are). It’s reset after reset.  The clubs first aim should be promotion. If tiny clubs like Brentford can achieve it in a small amount of time why is once established club Blackburn rovers putting promotion on the back-burner? The longer we are out of the top flight the harder it will be to get back there. 

My  own thoughts are that we haven’t had any direction for the first 5 years. Only started to get a direction of where we wanted to go when Mowbray came in. He talked all the time about developing players and selling them on, he had the right idea but didn’t have the tools to do it. Since he’s gone and we have recruited the sporting director who has started implementing the “plan” I hope things start to improve both on and off the pitch.

the way I see things playing out. 
 

1st season - they see this as a free hit, no one expects us to get promoted rightly or wrongly.

2nd season - gain the consistency this season has not offered and be in and around the top six.

3rd season - in the playoffs/ promoted.

4 season - same as above. 

JDT will be given time and if he doesn’t reach the targets set in the future, then he needs to be removed and a new coach replaces with the same philosophy and ideas as the plan. 

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

Why because GB says so in interviews? Come on Callum, its just the same stuff any club in this league’s hierarchy comes out with. Means nothing.
 

I’ve got to give him the benefit of the doubt. His words might be hollow but that’s the only thing I/we have to go off currently.

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

How many Premier League goals had Lukaku scored when Chelsea signed him ?

A lot, so that’s goes to show you can do all the scouting in the world but sometimes they just don’t fit. 
 

I’m sure we scouted and got all the data on hirst but for whatever reason he didn’t fit the club/ team - it happens.

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’m pursuing my attempt to win the lottery. It’s a long term goal.

Got to be in it to win it 👍

from what I’m gathering this is a plan over 4-5 years.

2 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

It didn’t take them long to destroy a sustainable premier league club. I wouldn’t get too excited about any supposed plans they have to achieve it again over a decade later.

I’d be amazed if there is anything resembling a plan. It’s just empty words. I’d be astounded if those words had originated from any of those three morons in Pune.

I think there is a plan, don’t think it has come from the owners. They just want to stop leaking money. Only way to do that is to become sustainable. 

5 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Fully staffed by the experts that signed Hirst.

Could say the same when Chelsea bought Lukaku back for 90 million and he’s was terrible.

2 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

It has to be a blend, you can’t get of out of this league with a team full of ‘development players’, it’s as simple as that.

But as GB is in on record saying he won’t bring in experience in midfield, this ‘established PL club’ mantra is just platitudes and not something the club is actually pursuing.

I agree it does need to be a blend. Once the development players get developed they won’t be development players. 
 

The club is actually pursuing it. It’s a long term goal. 

3 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

The minute they’re any good big clubs come in for them, then they’re off and it’s back to square one. Brentford pulled it of because their scouting system is second to none and they could identify replacements. We don’t have that system in place.

that’s when you reinvest the money back into squad. Not all the money but some of it in order to buy equally good young players.

we have the system in place now? The recruitment department is fully staffed. 

1 minute ago, Mattyblue said:

An established Premier League club.

You honestly believe that? 
 

Got to dream big, why not?

we don’t have the cash to buy our way out of the championship, only way to do it is to develop young players thus developing the team and then if you get a big offer re invest some of that money into the team.

Yea the reinvestment part hasn’t happened previously but I’m hoping moving forward, a decent sum from a player will be reinvested back into the squad.