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Buying young and developing them will just not work in the Premier League. If that is their policy they will at best be another yo-yo club.

I honestly couldn't see Sunderland winning this match but Sheffield United seemed to go to pieces when Hamer went off injured. Credit to Sunderland for seizing the initiative but the game summed up the Championship to me. A few incidents aside there was very little quality with poor ball retention. I wasn't really bothered who won but good luck to Sunderland - they'll certainly need it. Their dilemma will be whether or not to throw money at it or just to be conservative and consolidate. It's a dilemma I'd love to have for Rovers.

Rovers are on the Big Match Revisited next Saturday at 10.30 am. It's a game against Oldham from August 1975.

I don't believe it will neither. As it stands there seems little chance of them selling which will see us carrying on as we are unless something radical happens. Radical in my view would be proper appointments to run the club.

We took him from Accrington for a small fee. Sadly we are low down in the food chain now and bigger clubs take advantage of this. It really is up to FIFA to clamp down.

I would see him going as another of the cornerstones being removed. If he is removed it will be a victory for the supporters and particularly the coalition and will attract more unwanted media attention. I would love the owners to leave and pray they do but there are no signs that they will so maybe there would have to be a compromise. A start would be employing and listening to people who have the best interests of Rovers at heart including supporters.

The emergence of news about Pasha wanting to control what the owners see on TV doesn't really come as a surprise to many who are capable of thinking. It was said to me that Pasha (with the support of Gestede) told the owners that we didn't need to spend and money in January and this was pretty much the tipping point for Eustace. He is said to be the only direct contact with the Punekars and will throw anybody under the bus to protect himself. And as such he has Carte Blanche to tell them anything. He is in a permanent state of self preservation mode and is a controlling individual. The owners are pretty much untouchable for us so the focus should be on him. He doesn't take criticism well but he will have to bear the brunt of it now Waggott has departed. The trust between him and the owners is the only thing he has left now. Once that is broken he will be gone.

There is definitely more to this than meets the eye. During the PR disaster with Radio Lancashire Swag was talking about events he was organising and involved in to celebrate the 150 year anniversary next season.

Trying to join the dots up and the timing of this and the media furore over the womens debacle I wonder if he has been offered up as the sacrificial lamb. He is an easy hit given his age. A nice fat NDA to enhance his retirement pot too The abrupt statement indicates this has happened really quickly.

Sorry - wrong thread.

That thought crossed my mind too. I don't expect any of them to but it would be refreshing if some of the senior men spoke out. After all it could be them next.

I think Yasir Sufi will be in the frame. A self-serving, subservient yes man will be in the job description and he fits the bill.

That statement is a terse as it gets. Delighted he has gone but the big elephant is still in the room.

I honestly believe this is going to get worse. Redundancies and deliberately relegating the womens team is a mere taster of what is to come. I read this morning that the vast majority of the players affected by this culling won't have the support of the PFA. The BBC article says you have to have played in the WSL to attain membership. Some of these will have nowhere to go for advice and it wouldn't surprise me if the shysters at Ewood took full advantage of this. Shame on the PFA.

Elliott Bennett nails it here. It's something that the Punekars and their cohorts will NEVER understand. FOV.

And too many wannabes try to out football those types.

I was pleased to see Postecoglou sacrifice his principles and methods to win the game by proper defending and not over playing in the wrong areas. It adds weight to my theory that 'Pepball' is on its way out and that there is more than one way to win a game.

Roverstore is closed this afternoon for a 'club event'. It's almost like they want to drive people away. Oh wait a minute............

I prefer to call it Gallows Humour Tony 😂

Adam Murray isn't coming to us. https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/murray-the-man-for-kidderminster-as-new-boss-named-83634

The judge has just said "Right you bastards. Sell Blackburn Rovers, sack the imbeciles who run it, apologise to the fans of that club and be damned in hell for the suffering you have caused". If only Carlsberg did Indian courts.

Unfair and onerous? Sounds like the last fifteen years for Rovers fans.

I'm surprised that Harrison Wood and Zac Stritch have had their extra year triggered particularly Wood. I understand both will be earning a pittance but neither have shown to me that they are anywhere near good enough.t It's another example of the low hanging fruit that Gestede likes to pick.

Shouldn't that job title be Loan Arranger? That would be a better fit given all the other cowboys at the club. 😂

The dilemma when sending players (particularly keepers) out on loan is where they go to actually improve. I saw both Honor and Michalski as loanees last season and the standard of football was poor. I see a lot of NWC and NPL and I don't think the overall standard is very good. I would set as a minimum the NLN for our loan players. Hopefully the under 21's get involved in plenty of competitions again as it seems we will have an abundance of players.