This is an interesting idea. Probably fair. Assume the same points per game ratio and forget the play-offs. https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/fa-sent-new-proposal-would-18011122 I don’t quite understand the ‘no relegation’ bit though.

If the PL were made of chocolate... Disgusting organisation. Football family? Don’t make me laugh. A poster child for capitalism. The few taking 80%, the leeches taking the next 19%, and the real people sharing the rest. All that will happen is League Two will get a few more non-league promotees and famous old clubs can go to the wall for all they care. “It’s just business, old boy” ?✌?

That bloke has just show himself up for exactly what he is.

From the Rovers - Norwich game... is that the SAS before they were the SAS...

I can see social distancing being the thing that kills the remainder of this season. Very likely that everything else being cancelled but Liverpool awarded the title. But if they do that then the record books should also show Blackpool as winners in 1939/40. How about a penalty shootout for the remaining fixtures? Send goalkeepers round to teams’ training grounds and face 18 penalties for each team. Squads selected like a normal matchday squad.

I actually cheered!

Cracking win for Rovers v Stoke in the #UltimateQuaranTeamCup 4-3 thriller away from home. Dacky had far more chances than their player. Just shows that I’d enjoy watching Rovers win at a game of Gim Rummy!

Fabulous that, Ian, thanks. Standard of football was dreadful but absolutely fascinating to watch.

It feels now like, whatever happens, Liverpool won’t really have won the title. Even if their name goes in the record books it will have an asterisk next to it. Going back to @arbitro’s point, I think there is a very real possibility that fans will lose interest. Sadly, we don’t have a board capable of any imagination when it comes to attracting lapsed fans. This could impact us quite badly.

I “liked” this post. If I could have “loved” it, I would.

You’ve really earned your stripes! This last ten years has probably been the worst period in history to be a Rovers fan.

There were looms working in Blackburn at the turn of this century. Britannia Mill for one. I used to love the smell of a weaving shed. Sadly we were undercut by Indians and even Egyptians and the company struggled to acclimatise as a distributor/seller from and end-to-end manufacturer.

Hard lines. They’ll have to suck it up and motivate themselves. There is no alternative. Someone has to get relegated or there can be no promotions and no champions.

The material was crap though, it plucked more than a pair of dingles playing banjos..

Surely the break is only because there have been players and staff affected. The isolation period for players should mean they are free of the infection or get treatment. After that point they can play again. Then I would expect it to be closed doors, with TV coverage. (Fans who have bought tickets should be offered free iFollow access). It’s unthinkable that they would cancel the league because fans can’t go to games. The most sensible option is to delay the Euros until next Summer to allow leagues to physically get matches played.

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-gesture-efl-postponement-17922832 Credit where credit’s due. Well done whomever suggested this.

I wonder how we will get on with contracts ending - including loans and no transfer window: Leutwiler, Williams.

This whole forum is going to end up like ICBINF over the next few weeks. As for COVID-19, surely we are all going to get a version of it at some point? Certainly before any fully tested vaccine can be rolled out. More people are at risk from the current climate of fear peddled by a bloodthirsty, 24 hour, minute-by-minute-mortality-reporting media, and the subsequent - unnecessary and wholly socially-engineered - hoarding by selfish people. I can understand trying to avoid large gatherings but not wholesale closing of businesses for months. This could cause many years of hardship for lots of people, a few football matches are nothing in comparison. This may well be our WW2, in the absence of a real conflict, and it’s not a virus we are fighting, it’s our own weakness (as a society) and strength (as a species): selfishness. Lets hope it’s over quickly.

You couldn’t have got a better candidate. Bravo Kenny. Although tbf there is a great team of mods at the minute.

https://www.efl.com/news/2020/march/efl-statement-coronavirus-update2/

Nice ??

By some distance our best away kit. And they didn’t put the one pictured on sale.

Our shirts have been awful for years. Some kind of commercial argument for making them ‘different’. I’m not in marketing but surely it would be more commercially sensible to not make them shit...?

We’ll win this. Now it doesn’t matter. But there are some interesting fixtures... (3) Fulham (64pts) v (4) Brentford (60pts) (10) Rovers (53pts) v (7) Bristol City (55pts) (12) Millwall (54pts) v (8) Derby (51pts) (9) Cardiff (54pts) v (1) Leeds (71pts) This weekend we need Fulham to win, Rovers win, Derby win/draw, Leeds win/draw. And PNE lose, Forest lose. We could finish the weekend as high as 6th or as low as 12th... on the back of one match!