On a light-hearted theme, my favourite QE2 story is: She was chairing a meeting of the Privy Council and actually speaking when a Tory MP's mobile phone rang. She stopped and said "you might like to take that, it could be someone important..!!!" You can imagine him shrivelling up eh?

One of those games where our young players will get knocked around. The more senior players need to step up the aggression without being sent off.

February!

Its a second chance for people who didn't buy one at the start of the season to buy a season ticket now for the rest of the season. It caters for people have been impressed by our start and think it might continue under JDT. As such it should be commended. Had the Club introduced this at a lower cost per game than "full" season tickets there would have been an outcry from existing holders. Let's see how many are shifted. That doesn't close the argument on the cost of season tickets, they are too high but have to be reduced from the start of the season, not now.

Says a lot about us too and about what we are signing.

No,he hasn't signed for anybody including us!

We can sign him again in a year if he wants to. No-one else seems to be interested, to my surprise.

I've heard that a number of times now re Ash. Believe it when it happens. Adam I believe, brother here and all that.

Morton Gamst Pedersen------41 today. Happy Birthday Morton! Not the best player we've ever had but a loyal servant over a long period. EDIT---In all fairness I should add that he was capable of moments of brilliance.

My experience of him is at Ewood. Pitches were always mud heaps in winter then, yet Dobing would walk off at half-time absolutely spotless! The fans in the Enclosure, as it was called then, let him know about it as well. No question he had talent but went missing too often.

We are also due a draw.....

Yes I noticed that. Football definitely coming second!

Your Dad was absolutely right. An under-achiever was Dobing. Played much more consistently in his last years at Stoke. Captain I think?

There should be a 4th option in this thread re "how would you feel?" Astonished

Ok I will! I don't think they are interested.

So given that they haven't come can we assume there isn't the slightest bit of interest?

I worry because we always seem to lose to Wigan, whatever their team contains.

We got £15M for him but never saw any of it. If Brereton hadn't come good we would have ben in real strife. No guarantee at all that money for Brereton would be used to strengthen the squad let alone a hypothetical £20M for Philips. Its all at the whim of the owners.

Like with Armstrong?

Grow the club--by strengthening links with the community ie the wider community, not just Blackburn, increase attendances by reducing prices---16000 at £x can bring in more than 12000 at £y, improve the "Ewood Experience", get more local sponsorship, Improve communication----there must be other suggestions. Oh and get a CEO capable of doing all this and more.

As Matty Blue says ---it won't work. Philips isn't going to hang around for 5 years while various plans for the future by each new manager are announced is he?

We've bought players from Crewe, Lincoln, Peterboro, Coventry, Hibs and Barnsley in recent months and added them to young lads from the Academy. This is not a recipe for promotion and to me, indicates no real intent. Whatever the new coach has been promised he'll reach that same conclusion too, probably before his 3 years are up. In the meantime he'll have to park the bus, we're conceding at an alarming rate.

I suppose most people have read it but, imo, this is a pretty accurate summation of where we are: .https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-transfer-question-concerning-24924766

Yep! All true! Doesn't matter how positive JDT is or even how good a coach he is. He can only work with what he's got.

Roll on the January transfer window then!