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.

1 hour ago, Polky said:

Here’s a hoping it is 10/15% of the future fee rather than profit.

15% would be around £7.5m for a fee of £50m 😄

 

WE developed whims a footballer from the age of 6! And they get the same as us for playing him for a couple of seasons. Absolutely stinks. But better than the nothing we are used to getting, or nearly nothing (Philips).

9 minutes ago, Polky said:

Here’s a hoping it is 10/15% of the future fee rather than profit.

15% would be around £7.5m for a fee of £50m 😄

 

True but we've already received £18M remember. Not saying its overgenerous or anything by the way.

Apparently there is a sell-on clause re Wharton.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/blackburn-rovers-adam-wharton-sell-on-clause-detail-crystal-palace/

9 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Kevin Hird, John Bailey, Colin Hendry - the list goes on and on. But at least we got a season or two out of all of them first !

James Beattie! What a fiasco that was!

Why wasn't Bamford booked for that attempt to elbow the ball into the net late on? 

Once the ball looped over the crossbar he had the cheek to claim his shirt was being pulled and demanded a penalty!

He made 3 seperate penalty claims in extra time!

What an absolute tosser!

10 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Yeah...I am older, but I can trace a line of transfer bereavement..

Newton, Field, Jones, Barker, Shearer, Dunn, Duff, Wharton...

 

Vernon, Pickering---both to Everton where our best managers seemed to end up as well. Mike England to Spurs.

We really are a feeder club.

They've a team of talented youngsters who've had a rough season in the toughest league.

I predict they'll go straight back up with ease.

I'm very envious of them tbh.

4 hours ago, philipl said:

If we beat Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield have to have beaten Swansea AND Birmingham need to have drawn at Rotherham to leave us needing just a point to be safe barring a 9 goal swing in the last two rounds. 

 

As I keep saying we need 4 points to be mathematically safe! As of this minute!

8 hours ago, rigger said:

I like to think so

We guessed!

Nothing to look forward to here. Just looking for loans, cast-offs and freebies I'd imagine and the gradual destruction of a once great club continues.

The only up will be the price of tickets.

6 hours ago, riverholmes said:

I may be wrong, but given our indifferent form and fact that even Wharton was struggling for consistency at times, I suspect we couldn't have realistically got much more for him up front - though, maybe in add-ons. The sensible move would've been to keep him for another season knowing that he has the real potential to become a dominant player for us and command a huge fee - potentially pushing 30m +.

His story, incidentally. is a bit like Steven Nzonzi who was signed from relegated Ligue 2 Amiens, as a relative unknown and turned out to be a silky midfielder for Rovers. Albeit, Wharton had more of a spotlight on him being in England and Nzonzi was signed for something like 650k.

I was a big fan of Nzonzi. We virtually gave him away as well.

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’d be amazed if we weren’t safe with 4 more points.

I agree but I was thinking that would make us mathematically safe.

Knowing us we'll probably lose to Wednesday!

4 points will do it? The Huddersfield--Birmingham clash works in our favour there.

We might not need them but I don't think we could be even mathematically relegated with 53 points?

19 minutes ago, tomphil said:

They need to put some beds in it for midweek away games.

You could well have a point here. 

27 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

 

Thanks---don't know where I got 6000 from!

1 hour ago, Uddersfelt Blue said:

These kinds of results don’t come around very often. I’m glad I and so many Rovers fans were there to witness it. 
 

We need to replicate that next Sunday and in the remaining games. 

Its amazing that there were so many Rovers fans there in the aftermath of that terrible Bristol result.

6000 was it?