Rory Finneran---its started already! They'll be stealing them out of the crib soon! https://the72.co.uk/2023/12/13/premier-league-clubs-have-watched-blackburn-rovers-record-breaking-talent-this-season/

You mean sometimes we get away with it when we should have been in no danger at all.

Its been a feature since JDT arrived. Remember the Burnley game? Its not going to change, he just expects us to get better at it. Its costing us goals and points. We score some real gems and then concede in the most stupid ways possible. Nothing wrong with having a system but it has to be able to be varied according to the circumstances ie when in trouble, don't short pass to someone in even more trouble, if you have to leather it, leather it.

Ronnie Clayton made his debut for Rovers at the age of 15---no subs then! Hope Finneran is half as good.

Leading 2-0 and then one of those stupid fannying around efforts close to our own goal gifted them their chance to get back in the game. Then, with our record of conceding late ones, its all nerves and praying for the final whistle. For God's sake, when in trouble clear your lines and regroup.

Hirst is interesting. He was scoring at Portsmouth before we got him and he's scoring regularly for Ipswich at the top of the League. For us he was utterly useless and didn't score a goal. There has to be some story or other there! So was he a bad signing or a good signing but one that didn't work for us for some reason?

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/dec/10/blueberry-pastries-in-warsaw-80p-samosas-in-blackburn-the-best-things-we-ate-in-2023 Not exactly "restaurants" but close! Blueberry pastries in Warsaw, 80p samosas in Blackburn – the best things we ate in 2023

Yes, I don't get this at all. When it's gone wrong, as it often seems to, why doesn't a defender smash it anywhere far away from our goal as possible? In the back row of the stand if necessary so we can regroup. Must be under orders not to. I think this is JDT insisting on the style he wants to inculcate whether we have the players to do it or not. Instead they keep it going and it leads to a chance or a goal. Madness.

What about our defending then? Was dreadful at times. We'll never win any games while we defend like that.

I hope he proves more than his worth!

I'm well aware of that, still a bloody joke though.

Bloody joke. As is our loss of points.

Blow football!

There's one football site that invariably refers to us as the Riversiders. Can't remember its name. Never heard it before this season. Ludicrous that some outsider can decide to rename our club.

if only.

Now that belongs on the Optimism Thread!

I know this isn't the Optimism Thread but bloody hell!

And McGinn starred! (sob!)

I read it was £90M but, either way, its a lot of money for not much. They will probably take all before them next season in the championship though!

We're at cross purposes here---the away support is superb, both numerically and in terms of passion.

He'll leave for nothing----Blackburn Rovers, the gift that keeps on giving.

Not numerically though. I agree the passion is still there particularly at away games.

He's thick if that's true!

Really bad signing that one from Mowbray. Paid way too much for him and he's never fit for long. I suspect he'll walk for nothing as is our usual practice.

Can't see us getting anything out of this one but we are quite capable of pulling a rabbit out of the hat when we least expect it.