Bloody hell, so excited for the first time in Lord knows how long! 

Interesting thread. The whole thing was such a disappointment. I remember, in Ireland, RTE covering the initial Rovers' CL ties but giving up on them before the end of the group stages because they were such drab, non-events.

There was only 20,000 on at Ewood for the first game against Spartak Moscow. I remember David Batty, in his autobiography, saying that was when he knew he wanted out, he was disappointed that a bigger crowd hadn't turned out for a big European night.

But I thought "Roo" was an English folk hero... 

Get him out, for the love of God

Just now, TheRoversReturn said:

I'm more pleased to see us giving that young lad Downing some experience. He might be some real player one day, that one. 

😂

FROM THE LT comments:

Author: No 9

As manager TM will, I imagine. have a list of priorities in his head for BRFC. These will be, in order -
Survival
Debt reduction
Balancing the books

Assuming he can keep some semblance of control on that, the next list will be -
Sell big-profit player(s)
Buy good prospect inexpensive young players
Loan-in players from (probably) NW big clubs who need play-time for their prospects

Finally (for next season) -
Avoid relegation from the Championship

BRFC needs a manager like TM because he can do all the above. He's a survival manager who knows how to work within the budget HE IS GIVEN.

Promotion to the Premiership? He wants it, of course, but BRFC's survival is FAR FAR more important to all genuine Rovers fans. TM knows that.
Ignore the Ivory Tower contributors on here, they're just on here to wind up the real Rovers fans.
Final point. TM is guiding us through extraordinarily difficult times. Now is NOT the time to take a risk on some glamorous spendthrift. Stick with TM.

Come on you Blues!!

Now if that isn't from a club plant I'll be damned!

Absolutely disgraceful - yet again - but what can we do?

Getting rid of Venky's and starting afresh - even be it as a Phoenix club - is the only way we will ever move on from this nightmare. After almost 11 years of this garbage is there anyone who honestly believe they are suddenly going to snap out of their 'confusion' and run the club with a modicum of respect for the fans?

In the words of one of their bootlickers, 'get real'.

I'd be behind any plan which could feasibly get rid of them - but does anyone have one?

1 minute ago, oldjamfan1 said:

No, he had already been told that they were going in the summer (sometime around the Norwich game). 

Ah ok. Thanks.

Time will tell. Here's hoping both are given the boot very soon and the whole Brockhall plan goes out the door along with them. If the latter happened it really would go to show how conniving they have been - not that the LT comments brigade will bat an eyelid.

13 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

All he said yesterday was "its all gone very quiet which in itself is unusual".

He also initially thought that both Waggott and Mowbray were going in the summer but that they are now bringing that forward. I've known this guy for over 40 years and he's not normally one to spread gossip or make things up, so I definitely think that something is happening, but always at Venky pace!!!!

You mean yesterday he was of that opinion, as a result of the silence?

Where is Mercer?

Today would seem to be Mercer's day of reckoning.

He's been on that long walk since 3 pm yesterday, pounding the moors like Heathcliff, head buzzing from all that 'noise' and 1988 Monticello...

2 minutes ago, Displaced Rover said:

 

There's some real idiots on there. So idiotic that I'm convinced they're either club plants or Burnley fans.

24 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Beetlejuice another let thicky. Him and reg rover make a good pair 

There's an annoyingly patronising note of faux-grandiosity about the posts from Reg and Beetlejuice over there.

Morning all.

All set for another day of staring into the abyss, lemon drizzle in hand?

29 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Haven't I posted it in writing!?

Off for a long walk now - pity no pubs open to get a pint or two and a bite to round off the day.

In the words of that oddball who called up 5Live years ago saying he met Steve Kean in Gregg's, and sobbed over the airwaves saying: "I still believe!!", I still believe in you Mercer. And there'll never be an uncorked red to match that when Mowbray gets the heave-ho over the next 24 hours.

Apologies for posting this image of the Evil One

2 minutes ago, PeteJD13 said:

The 3pm stuff was nonsense doesn’t mean the rest is, or if it’s changed overnight 

Maybe it's quarter past?

I'll put the kettle on

There's a car been spotted outside Ewood. Make of this what you will.

Tick tock!

Just now, Roverall said:

What is your source currently telling you? 

Apart from something about "uncorking a magnificent case of Chilean reds."

Just now, RoversClitheroe said:

You know my twitter check yourself, never once claimed to be ITK.

And whilst you do that, check the definition of belittling and reflect on it.

What is your source currently telling you? 

He's not bloody going is he? 3 PM will come and go and we'll all be miserable

Please, let today be the day...

I was thinking about all this last night.

If Venky's truly are as rich as purported, then the money they are putting into the club is the equivalent of an average Joe having a week in Marbella once a year.

By their rationale, keeping the club solvent and staying as owners is likely deemed enough to 'save face' in India. Beyond that - and as all the evidence points to - they simply can't be bothered, and may even take some spiteful pleasure in explicitly NOT doing what the more vocal supporters are demanding. These aren't the type of people who will ever have been dictated to by anyone in their cosseted lives before, much less by a bunch of football supporters - many of whom waved banners decrying them and - lest we forget - threw snowballs at them. We haven't had sight or sound of any them for years at this stage, and I sincerely doubt they'll show up any time in the near future.

Perhaps this awful purgatory is their form of revenge?

3 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Or he could give his biggest fan david dunn the job. Maybe thats why dunn has been backing him so much. Prearranged appointment.  Oik!!

Oh sweet Lord I can see it now...