Giant

Agreed.

Jack Walker’s trust wasn’t watertight enough so his family were able to sell the club despite his wishes.

Danny Graham, the best footballer we’ve got. Great to watch a class player, who the rest of the team appreciate so much, if not all our fans.

In some ways we are lucky that the Venkys didn’t walk away and leave the club in administration. As it is, they are still putting millions into BRFC to keep us going. Surely that alone should mean they are extended some degree of courtesy when a family member visits the club. Personal insults will never get us anywhere in the long road to a better relationship going forward, and no, I’m not an apologist for the Rao family.

This performance is far worse than at PNE.

You can pay cash at the turnstile tonight. Got tkts this am, apparently a lot of fans have made late decision to go to Wigan.

I’ve never understood why anyone should support any team other than their local one. Cockneys supporting Utd and Liverpool is just bizarre.

Your posts are always witty and to the point, Mercer, even though plenty of folk take umbrage at them. I don’t think folk get where you are coming from at times. The first two sentences of your latest offering are factually correct, is the last part of sentence three, while also correct, meant to be sarcastic?

One thing that will happen on Saturday is cheering every time Richie Smallwood gets near the ball. His status has been under question this season, but his effort in goal at West Brom has given him a lot of positive sentiment, and rightly so. I just hope that Reed is played in centre midfield with him.

Brilliant performance today, has to be in central midfield.

This was a game you had to be at to appreciate the effort from both fans and players that went into getting that point. It felt like a win to me, loved it being there.

Derby 2 0 up at WBA after 15 mins!

Please don’t get ahead of yourself again, oh and we ended up looking very, very bad.

We need to figure out a way to play when DG is subbed because we are usually only drawing or leading by 1 goal when he goes off. We don’t know if Brereton can do a job as lone striker because TM never plays him there.

He doesn’t look like someone who has played 50 odd Champioship games, an he looks to me like a player devoid of confidence. It’s a difficult task for TM to sort him out.

Shelf Utd are an excellent footballing team, running Derby ragged at the moment. Really good to watch, all credit to them.

In other news, it’s now ok to break the law and not be subject to criticism from, among others, those who help pay your wages.

A classic, cheeky chappy Cockney. Popular with all and sundry but with no sense of responsibility, and no idea what real friends are, but knows plenty of hangers on. He should be doing this community service in Blackburn Hospice, then he might get a sense of how privileged a lifestyle he leads.

Of the youngsters on show today, Butterworth is head and shoulders the best. A terrific cameo appearance.

The comment that nearly every Rovers fan got/gets wrong is when they sing “ No nae never etc”. It’s been wrong a few times, and hopefully will be again soon!

Danny Graham was excellent today, great flicked headers, laying the ball off and holding it up. I love watching players like him, who really have a football brain. You don’t need to run around like a headless chicken to play this game, clever footballers never do so.

Rodwell is a class player, if anyone can sort him out it’s TM. He could be a fantastic signing.

In reality, both finalists have been involved in one good game each, France v. Argentina in The Round of 16 and Croatia v. England. Hope you enjoy it, Phil, but from a neutral point of view I think both sides will be very cautious, so it won’t be much of a spectacle. There is one world class player on show, Modric, Mbappe is nowhere near that yet. 1 0 to France.

Both teams deserve immense credit for that magnificent effort, gave their all for their countries. In pure football terms, Modric ran that game, a brilliant footballer. Well done England for getting so near.

Pele won 3 world cups, the first as a 17 year old. It would probably have been 4 had he not had a hatchet job done on him in 1966. No player has ever been as good as him, nor is ever likely to be.