No .. it’s pronounced Smodic 😁😁

Won’t be Style and Bowler , one or the other or none imo .. 3 bids went in for Smodiczs they were rejected , then the enquiry for Bowler went in (Blackpool wanted 3m and rovers were happy with it) at some point between agreeing that figure and talking personal terms with Bowler , something has changed , somebody somewhere has had cold feet and then the sniffing round Styles has begun . I honestly don’t know who’s at fault here and I am in no way an ITK I am just getting bits from Blackpool end and putting it together with what’s in the open I’m just not that confident now we will land any of them

Buckley Travis And Dack

Buckley will find him

Brighton may take a smallish fee (3-4m)fee but with a massive sell on %

it’s a week since I shared here the story about Bowler I didn’t know just how true it was but the message board needed some good news so I shared it anyway and then another poster confirmed it . When I asked the person who told me , a few days ago If there had been any progress , his answer was not good and the atmosphere on this board at that time was pretty downbeat and I didn’t really want to add to that .. since then the bids for Smodizcs have been made public and there is a very strong link to Styles which is making me think Bowler is NOT coming Rovers .. Elliot Jackson’s report is either old OR something has happened Very recently

Just a bit more detail on how it was when I started watching football 1 Gk mad can’t kick a ball straight 2 RB doesn’t cross half way line 3 LB ditto 4 CM headcase that just kicks everyone 5 C/B that’s hard as nails 6 C/B that can actually kick the ball Straight 7 R/W all pace but no end product 8 C/M that can pass the ball 9 C/F but playing second Fiddle to No10 10 C/F main man .. God .. no9 wants this shirt 11 L/W mercurial brilliant one week shit the next all skill no effort

Just watched a video of the lad on YouTube … all left foot very comfortable on the ball good close control and has a bit of a “dig” on him .. can see a midfield 3 with Him left Buckley deep and Travis right

Blackpool fans think he’s. Blackpool fans thinks he’s a £10m player don’t see it myself but hey ho

A few years ago I did one of those walks with Jeff Stelling for prostate cancer , I did the walk from Blackburn to Blackpool got friendly with a couple of Blackpool Fans and one was a member of the Tangerine Knights .. anyway he just text me saying Blackpool have received a £3m offer for Josh Bowler from a championship club reckons it’s us he’s never shared any info like this before so don’t know how accurate it is but if it’s true he must be one from John Parks list , can’t imagine JDT would know so much about him

Ha ha … Diaz lives in Hapton by the way

Clubs still held the players registration, if players moved clubs tribunal would set fee

You saying boycotters would return In their droves at that price ?

Whilst I cannot defend the pricing policy there are literally thousands of fans aren’t there ? who won’t set foot back in Ewood until Venkys leave , so to those fans the price really is irrelevant

Isnt it funny how you can forget these things relatively recently 🫣… must be my age , I can remember all sort stuff from 1990’s rovers teams but anything in the last 10 years And I’m bolloxed 😂😂

Seeing it today it remined me of the 1992/3 season strip , a darker blue , red flashes on the collar small red printed sponsors logo .. it’s growing on me

I see Travis was named captain … something that has been discussed on here .. I wonder can anybody name ( I can’t by the way) the last full time captain of Rovers that wasn’t a product of our youth academy ? I have a feeling it might have been Jordan Rhodes but ????

Looks like Adam Armstrong will be leaving Southampton on loan

That’s why we need signings … JDT and his coaching staff will be saying all the right things publicly “Great Group” Fantastic players” “bought into the project” etc etc but privately he will know that 11 there just isn’t good enough

Not just Burnley .. West Brom and Middlesbrough have done some good business early on too

From someone who worked at Rovers at that time : the 17m clause was put into his contract to deter clubs from buying him , the only club the country at that time who would have paid that much was Man Utd and they had Giggs in his prime , Duff was happy to stay at Rovers but he was/is a Liverpool fan at heart , when Abramovic came with all his money suddenly Chelsea wher the team willing to pay what Liverpool and Arsenal wouldn’t , the fee was reached by Chelsea Liverpool came in with a counter off but couldn’t match Chelsea’s new clout .. Duff wanted to go Liverpool but We sold him to highest bidder

His agent will have final say , not him or his parents … that’s modern football I’m afraid

Good player , not sure he fits into a team with Dack though

Think that’s what they call Deft

Would be nice to think that wouldn’t it , that after all these years owning a football club Venkys eventually do something right , positive forward thinking