The best analogy I have seen about their reign and people being grateful is that it's like being run over by a negligent driver of a car, being on a life support machine through your injuries and then being grateful to the driver who put you there because he is paying for the electricity to keep you alive. Any yet the 'if it wasn't for Venkys where would we be' line is still trotted out. Unbelievable.

Do you think that had they taken over any other business they would have ripped up the blueprint, sacked extremely competent people and taken that business on a downward trajectory that has cost them millions?

We were eighth in the Premier League when they showeup and had £20m debt throughgood management. Jacks legacy was intact when they came - to say anything else is nonsense.

What about the impact on the local economy? Around 50000 fans would visit Blackburn over a nine month period and the majority wanted food and drink. Local businesses were generally the beneficiaries. Also the number of people employed by the club both full and part time. This badly advised rhetoric has worn thin now. They were told in the letter which is in the public domain that what they were doing was wrong and contravened regulations. This was sent by John Williams, Tom Finn and Martin Goodman. They ignored it and got rid of those three instead. Respect Jack Walkers legacy? They have peed all over it.

A cameo of Joe's ability, strength and work rate from Monday.

Everything at any football club is geared towards the first team and as such Tomasson wanted to give several players game time who needed it because they might be required for the run in. Imagine Rankin-Cancelo getting injured and Brittain struggling to get through games due to a lack of match fitness. We played Arsenal the other week with a full complement of players with first team experience and not a word said.

"See you, I'll cut you first" 😂😂😂

Seven shots on target from a full back. Amazing.

Sadly Bill Bancroft has passed away. He was he Rovers Chairman during some really difficult times and like many from the era sacrificed a lot for the good of the club and in many ways kept the club going helping to give us what we have today. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/april/11/former-chairman-sadly-passes-away/

Just show your season ticket card at the turnstiles as you would for a normal first team match. The only area open is the Family Stand.

I much prefer it with Carter. He has played at right back (so has Travis to be fair) and is far more athletic. Yesterday in the second half we pretty much played with a back three anyway as Joe spent more time all over the pitch.

Rovers are at home to Forest tonight at Ewood in the semi-final of the PL Cup. It's free for season ticket holders too. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/april/11/preview--rovers-under-21s-v-nottingham-forest-under-21s/

Yesterday he actually played all those positions you mention anyway 😂😂. He just pops up everywhere and has been real asset since he came back in December. As someone rightly pointed out yesterday when Joe goes rampaging Carter slips across and covers the right side. Personally I would just leave him he at right back with a licence to roam. One of my friends now calls him Joe Rankin Cancelo 😂😂

We played Bolton in a Friday night live Sky match and the ball was in play for 48 minutes. I think the game unsurprisingly finished 0-0. Time wasting or consuming is an area which has gradually got worse and allowed to fester to such a degree no amount of additional time is surprising. If Collina gets his way (he bloody well should as he's the FIFA Head of Refereeing) it will change. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12830009/one-goal-could-make-a-difference-fifa-head-of-refs-pierluigi-collina-wants-correct-added-time-even-if-score-is-7-0

Dead right. Ball boys are there to get the ball back to the players as quickly as possible, just like the multi ball system. Personally I would do away with them and, as we saw in the World Cup have balls placed on cones around the field. I have done games where the home team is leading and the ball boys have disappeared into the ether, clearly obeying an instruction from above.

He pushed a ball boy who was messing about and wouldn't give him the ball.

I always wore two watches with stop/start features, one a Casio cheap thing and the other a Polar heart date monitor. I regularly stopped Casio one for injuries, cautions etc and when the Polar got to 45 and 90 minutes I had an idea of how long to play by subtracting one from the other. If I try a team were blatantly time wasting I would add a few minutes to that. The trick was though remembering to restart the Casio 😂😂. The additional time announced is the minimum but even during that there are stoppages which, as you say don't always get added on. Timekeeping by the officials is not an exact science and that is why it's so random. It's an area where we could see huge improvement by taking it away from the officials and having an independent time keeper who is in communication with the referee like both codes of rugby. I also think teams would realise there won't be the same latitude given and therefore less likely to be abused. I know it's an area that Collina is keen to improve on as demonstrated in the World Cup.

There can't be retrospective action as the officials saw it and dealt with it.

To be fair the referee used common sense. He simply tapped his temple as if to say to Dolan 'think what you're doing'. I noticed today after about twenty minutes one of the Huddersfield staff taking towels out and giving them to the ball boys. Why after twenty minutes and not the start? My feeling is that if, as the home team you are using towels you have to offer the visitors the same use of them. This has to be agreed before the game. Having come across Warnock many times it's the kind of stroke he would pull along with all the other aspects of gamesmanship Huddersfield showed today.

There appears to be an obsession amongst some posters about 'bulking up' young players. Like Buckley Wharton has terrific balance and can ride challenges so well because of this. He demonstrated against Blackpool that he can tackle too. Tackling is more about timing than steaming in like a bull in a China Shop.

I didn't say we played excellently in the first half, I said we dominated. In the second half we were excellent - do you not agree?

Who knows what to expect over the next few weeks. After the tepid performances against Birmingham and Norwich though today has given me far more cause to be optimistic. Our strengths are all too apparent and if we consistently apply them who knows.

We weren't poor at all. You don't judge a performance on how many saves a goalkeeper has to make do you? We created a few chances and dominated almost every aspect. Are you disappointed that we have come back from two goals down whilst playing excellently?

I haven't a clue what that means.