Alongside starting loan players in front of your own which also goes against the increasing squad value theory. Why such an emphasis at this club on developing players first and foremost, then losing them for nothing. When BBD leaves that will be 4 gone and circa 7 million in the minus section of that particular journey. Only balanced out by a similar amount combined from the Armstrong profit and Raya jumping ship. The only real way for a club like this to reset the books and take a step towards becoming a stable Prem club is to go for it and get there in the first place. Then when the inevitable happens after one season reinvest the parachute money wisely and keep the wages in line with that extra income. Otherwise anything else is just pure water treading and we aren't even a sustainable Championship club really yet. That surely has to be the first aim before we can even think about the rest. What a chance was blown last season.

They didn't need to be bully boys at all last night though that is the hardest bit to swallow.

You don't keep leaving a guy like him on the bench when you need goals. It just cannot be a footballing decision and it is taking the piss out of fans now. I pointed out to Sharpe he might want to directly ask JDT just what is really going on there because supporters aren't stupid so don't treat them that way. I'd expect to see a dinosaur walking down the M65 before he dare ask anything like that though. I'd say they are praying someone comes in with 500k for him in January and he's off the books. His agent will no doubt be sounding out any potential interest as we speak.

The worry is that when something finally gives (and it will) it's more likely to be a run of defeats than wins. Teams will work us out same thing happened last season and we were stronger than we are now. It's most annoying because we shooting ourselves in the foot and wasting a lot of the quality we do have. Point me to one player this season whose strengths we play to ?

I'm happy to cut them slack because they try but just don't fit what he seems to want to do Szmodics is chasing shadows and Hirst is just too weak. He's also another big lumbering forward farting about out wide when there is nobody making runs in the middle to get on the end of the odd cross. Basically the pair of them are just pale imitations of Dack and Gallagher both who struggle themselves at times with unbalanced systems. So to expect these two to be better is fanciful, to see them starting before the real pair is plain stupid.

We are looking at starting next season without him, Gallagher and obviously BBD and if the likes of Hirst, Szmodics and similar are the cheaper wage replacement we could be in for a rough old time. Seems to me the 'project' is get rid of all the higher earners.

Lowe, Benson and Johnson are still there so they must be having some input. JDT brought 2 in i think besides himself so that's 6 and that's a big staff but i doubt they are all singing from the same hymn sheet. It's the same old stuff it always was except more emphasis on playing it around and in our own box the rest of the team has no cohesion or balance is is just feeding off scraps. Hirst, Gallagher, Szodics, Dolan etc just can play the type of quick passing and possession he wants they aren't the right types that is obvious. Every now and then a move will come off but largely it's awful and we just give it away first or second pass at most.

Balls to him he's swerved us twice now as far as i'm aware. What JDT needs is a kick up the arse from Greg Broughton and maybe a close look at the coaching staff because all this resembles being stuck between Mowbrays tactics and whatever these overseas coaches are trying to implement. Which seems to be nothing more than putting all the emphasis on pissing around with it at the back.

He can talk about projects all he likes but whatever it is he's trying away from home doesn't work in this league with these players and never will. It's a cop out and an excuse for not having a go then rolling it out when we lose. At the end of the day it is 11 v 11 against a side in lge 1 last season and who our squad is stronger than yet we literally hand the game to them from start to finish. Serious lack of idea and leadership again on and off the park and a real worrying lack of desire and fight to actually get a result. Also just how is persisting with piss weak kids on loan from other clubs in front of our own actually putting value into the squad ? Another bullshit yarn that doesn't stack up when you really look at it. Very angry tonight it was another no show and paying fans deserve better than this tripe, it's ok when we get the win obviously but with another away game coming up it's almost a gimme we'll see the same again.

Injuries, suspensions, poor Jan recruitment and tactical tombola kicked in !

Wow people get down and angry in all directions when we play awful and lose then get elated when we win, who'd have thought that. Must be a unique thing to BRFCS.

I'd forgotten about that Cardiff game must've wiped it from the memory banks but yes if anything showed those scumbags were at it with the betting markets that was it.

Should be 800+ so a decent effort by them and will probably nudge it over the 11.5k mark 🤨

If they are going to give Burnley a 7k allocation or thereabouts they should stick the price all over the ground at 25 quid. Fill the place up and lets have a real derby atmosphere the extra tickets sold cover the extra policing instead of this lazy attitude of limited high price tickets and empty seats. They can still leave plenty segregation in the corners to keep east Lancashire's unwashed at bay if they are getting beat. Remember the cup game at Ewood ? That's the way all these games should be for gods sake we used to have Man U, Liverpool, Newcastle in there every season alongside visits from the likes of Celtic. Everybody coped fine the odd bit of bother aside.

At home to Millwall in the cup under Appleton and absolute travesty of an 'effort' on live tv in what should have been a do or die kind of game. The crowd was paltry but people knew exactly what was coming which says a lot. Numerous games under Kidd and Kean, one being when Peacock and McAteer literally ran into each other leaving a Liverpool player a free run on goal. Think we lost 1-4 but it should have been 0-8 it just summed up how bad we'd become at that point. Away at Brum a few seasons ago under Mowbray a more disinterested weak effort you are never more likely to see it made Cardiff away look positive. Probably quite a few later in Don Mckays tenure but we were really down to the bare bones so as hard as it was it was understandable. You can swallow it when you know we are actually a poor side from a decimated squad but some of the no shows we've had in recent times are hard to stomach.

I'm glad you've said that as when i said similar on a facebook post i got jumped on by 2 or 3 taking it as a dig at Mowbray. The pathetic cult lives on but it wasn't a dig at all i didn't even mention his name. Anyway of course he used to get a few fist team squad members a bit of time in there but there is a marked difference between first teamers coming back from injury, academy players stepping up but still flitting between the two. And established squad members not being picked and having it suggested to them they might want to think about the odd game for the youth. It is definitely a thing with this head coach and his staff to put players in and keep them busy on Saturdays they aren't selected to be on 1st team duty. Of course it makes it easier with the amount of youngsters making up the first team so there are no age issues. Now it seems to be a requirement rather than an option which in my eyes is the right way to go.

Good, Bucko needs some games back in there to find himself again.

We might be starting the season after in league 1 if that's the case and that's a step too far backwards to go forwards again.

I'd actually tipped Benn to win on points i thought he'd might have outworked Eubank. By the sounds of it that might not have been far off no wonder he was so confident against the odds. Cheating little twerp ruined it for everyone and there's no tainted meat excuse with this one.

If there is a way to cock any ticket sales up Rovers will find it.

Its got to be annoying for the managers as well because there are mikes under their nose all the time these days. In house club tv and radio stations, social media channels and accounts on top of all the traditional media stuff. They just end up in their own echo chambers because there is only so much you can spin about the same things over and over again.

It's got like that across the championship more and more in recent years way over tactical. Like the playing side of it you've got a lot of decent but limited young or experienced managers and coaches all trying to be Pep or Klopp.

That's where the lack of trains helps matters as traditionally large groups sticking together travel that way. I think it was the cup game mid 2000s when a group from Blackburn got pulled off a train scheduled to arrive in Burnley AFTER the kick off. Clear what the intentions were there and in a fixture at Ewood, maybe the return leg, Police dragged several hundred Burnley off at Rishton and marched them all the way to Ewood. No trains has a massive bearing on this.

Drink this coffee then look deep into my eyes..... 🤪

Love Souness what an impact he had here and is down in history as one of our best managers. Ok it went sour at the end but he cleaned a mess up when he came in and we had a spectacular few years and he is a great example to ownership. Get the right man and back him and he will deliver, stop backing him and he won't, go for cheaper options and you'll go back to where you started.