The simple truth about the coming summer transfer-window is that we need more players of sufficient quality than our owners will allow. All the speculation will carry on as usual but that one truth will prevail.

We are in deep shit.

9 hours ago, J*B said:

Sorry folks, while DE is speaking truth here, I added a word filter into the forum about 2 years ago when @chaddyrovers kept turbo posting we should sign "Jay $tansfield" so that every time he said "Jay $tansfield", it automatically changed his post to "Luca Toni". I found it very funny. 

Its like the Horizon scandal all over again!!

51 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

However much ambition an owner might have I don't think it's realistic to imagine that a club in the Championship could match an offer from a Premier League club if that club really wanted the player. There's also the question of the lure of the Premier League which for some players - maybe more their families and representatives - will override considerations of what might be in the best long term interests of the player.

He could have been persuaded tp stay longer maybe, I don't know.

8 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

But if he wouldn't have signed a contract at all without that release clause he could have walked for next to nothing.

It would depend on how much money he was offered and on the ambition of the owners.

1 minute ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

Strange thing - though Kaminski was better than what we have now - he wouldn't be in my top 10 keepers from my time watching Rovers (goes back to Howard Kendall era) - just shows how far we have dropped in the quality of our keepers.

Best we had since Brad. He is heaps better than you suggest.

18 hours ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

If we are trying to position ourselves as a development club for promising youngsters - we can't put too many blockers on players leaving providing our price is met. Where it all fell down is recruitment  - we spent what was big money for us on Kaminski's replacement - showing a reasonable profit overall - how the deficiencies in Leo's game wasn't picked up is down to the scouting (unless he is struggling to settle in this country and ends up a world beater - we can but hope)

Kaminski was't a promising youngster though was he? He was the real deal. If he had been kept we wouldn't be fighting relegation now.

That's how important that bit of business was.

And since we spent "big money"  on a replacement---what did we get? At best---one for the future.

Well the future is now.

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

We thoroughly deserve relegation.

The players do----we don't!

6 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He followed that up by saying “ so sign the best one you can afford “. Maybe we did ! Keep hold of Kaminski and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Yes---and I don't understand the "he wanted to go" crap. He was contracted to us and we should have kept him .

Not his choice to make.

Even if he'd run his contract down, so what? Plenty of others have without the Lunes caring.

I said before the season started "this will come back to haunt us" and it has. Started the season with a No1 keeper who is known to be error prone and no decent back-up.

This decision alone could cost us our place in he Championship.

This is the lowest I've ever felt about Rovers, there seems no hope. Celebrating our 150th in Div 3!

Bit of a difference from the Leeds game! Looked like we had no plan. We'd won at leeds and the job was done. Spineless, tentative, error-strewn and lacking in any confidence from minute one.

Hard to imagine a worse display. Just appalled.

Well I wrote we had another blunder waiting and there it is. Why oh way are we being caught like that?

15 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Why?

Two very poor teams but Wednesday are utter dross.

Lumped on Rovers at 8/5 and also stuck £20 on 3-1 to Rovers at 10/1.

 

You've said it yourself---2 poor teams so either can win.

Just now, moerpho said:

Despite two goals that was an awful half of football. Both teams should be ashamed people are paying good money to watch this dross. Don’t feel like it’s an important game for neither sides. Let’s hope Rovers improve somewhat in the 2nd half and get this season done with.

Its like local league, the ball's in the air most of the time. Our defending is terrible, feel another blunder is just round the corner, thank God we haven't been under much pressure.

7 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Absolutely nothing to beat here.

Three points and safety nailed on

Shudder.

Strange atmosphere. Tension is palpable. We"ve had most of the play but can't string decent passes together.

And our defence looks very rocky.

FFS!

3 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

But failure to beat the worst team at home shouldnt be considered par for the course, it was a terrible result.

I dont doubt that we are not particularly good or that we may very well not win tomorrow. I just think that if we cant at least think such a fixture is winnable and anything other than a win is a huge disappointment, then there is something wrong.

Nobody thinks tomorrow is unwinnable but its a matter of which team turns up, the team that won at Leeds or the team that was massacred at Bristol.

Our home record and our record v bottom teams is terrible. That's a fact.

Draw and we go above Stoke in 17th place and are safe for another season. That's all I care about.

Longer term the prospects look dire and we seem destined to lose more good players in the summer.

Whatever happens tomorrow our future looks grim. If Venkys don't sell we have had it.

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I get what you say about us and Eustace but my point is more that we should be aiming to beat the 2nd worst team in the league at home and not fearing them or saying we would accept a point.

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Well we couldn't bear the worst team at home could we? So why assume we can beat the 2nd worst?

Our record against the poor teams is shocking and our performances at home generally are dreadful.

Luckily results have mostly gone our way and we may already be safe. But I want us to put the issue to bed and we never do.

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

No

But given the desperate two signings in Jan 'they wouldn't be anywhere near Blackburn Rovers in January if they were any good' type statement from GB anything is possible.

Yet another example of a player seemingly bound for us but never arrived.

I think time has gone for that one.

3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

we need to spend a lot this summer imo,4/5 players,new goalkeeper,left sided midfielder,centre midfielder and centre forward,we can`t keep selling our best players and surviving on crap loans and budget players,it will see us relegated next season,sammie is`nt likely to score 30 next season either ,providing we keep him

We won't keep him. At his maximum value right now, no chance that the bean counters at Ewood won't cash in.

We will have way more than 7000 fans at this game so its up to our supporters to shout louder!

Its recognition of what we all know---the Championship is the most exciting League in Britain.

As they say, any team can beat any other on any given day. I get bored to tears with the Premier League 

On 15/04/2024 at 23:38, superniko said:

From what I’ve read the 3pm slot remains blackout so there will only be 7 x 3pm Saturday matches so that means 10 championship clubs each week will NOT be playing in the traditional slot. Absolute madness. 

Worth around £2m extra a year per club? If it’s £60m seasonal uplift with 80% going to the championship (assuming it’s split 24 ways equally).

Now, will Waggott take that money off his ticket prices? (Narrator: He won’t)

 

Players wages will go up (everyone else's that is).

14 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Makes me laugh how modern keepers punch and punch… until defending a lead late on, they then suddenly remember how to catch again (with elaborate falls to the ground wasting thirty seconds) 😅

I remember a game at Ewood where their keeper took an age to take every clearance after they got an early goal.

When we got an equaliser he was suddenly Action Man scrambling behind the goal to get the ball back in play!

Couldn't even wait for the ballboy to do his job. Did we laugh!

12 hours ago, arbitro said:

One of the caveats around the cheaper season tickets was that the income from filling the Darwen End with away fans four or five times a season would offset the losses from the cheaper prices we paid. It worked really well and the initiative served two purposes. I really don't buy the argument about having lots of away fans and giving our opponents some kind of advantage. I'm sure it works the other way whereby any player worth his salt would want to play in a real atmospheric surrounding irrespective of where the noise comes from. 

Worked for us at Leeds?

I can't get interested in this thread, at least not at this point. I want to see us stay up first, that cannot be assumed.

Secondly, with these owners, we can identify whatever targets we like but we will end up with the usual dross or relying on kids from the Academy.