I got an email from the club yesterday about the Celtic game tonight. For anybody who has bought tickets already please note the bit in bold. It's a really strange one and reads that you won't need photographic identification of you are buying tickets on the night. Only Rovers could come up with something so ambiguous. View this email online HERE https://newsletter.rovers.co.uk/c/0YIQ18tj1Ek/media/CLUB-NEWS-HEADER.jpg NEWS TICKETS SHOP VIDEO https://newsletter.rovers.co.uk/c/XJVzNfTr4sSrK4K-beKzHA/media/EMAIL%20TEMPLATE%20(6).png Our U21s take on Celtic in their final Premier League International Cup group match at the County Ground (Leyland) tomorrow evening (7pm kick-off). Before heading to Leyland, please take time to read the following information to enhance your experience. When travelling to the stadium, supporters are reminded to check public transport notices for any disruption. Train information can be found by clicking here and local traffic updates can be followed by clicking here. For supporters using SatNav directions, please use the following address to locate the County Ground: County Ground, Thurston Rd, Leyland PR25 2LF, United Kingdom. The on-site 12-space car park operates a pay & display system. Supporters who have already purchased tickets for this match MUST bring the digital or paper ticket along with photo identification to be presented on arrival at the turnstile. Additional tickets will be available at the turnstiles at a cost of £5 for adults and £2 for concessions. Please note, payment for tickets on the gate must be paid in cash.

Me neither. The only time I'll relax about them is when they f*** off.

Thanks Parson. It's interesting to note that you have given Pears your man of the match. In my opinion he should be given a start on Monday ahead of Kaminski who has a plethora of key errors on his recent CV. Neil McDonald was summarising on Radio Lancashire and he too was fulsome in his praise of Pears. I do wonder though if Tomasson did actually 'drop' Kaminski after Saturday having started him for the first time this season in a cup game, a game in which I thought he should have done better on both of Birminghams goals.

Last night was the first game where we've been allowed in that I've missed in a long time. I was committed to see my granddaughter singing at the AO Arena as part of Young Voice. I couldn't get a signal so had no real idea what was going on. I got Radio Lancashire commentary coming back and hated it. Not the commentary but not seeing it live. I'm delighted at the win and what seems a decent performance too. And a clean sheet is always welcome.

I would imagine there would need to be medical staff there too along with Ian Sylvester (or similar) to ensure the registration documents and contracts are registered on time. Oh I nearly forgot a functioning fax machine 😁😁

I know who was behind it but I was using that as an example of what can potentially happen. Something as radical as that would throw the journey, project or plan awry. That's what I have been saying all along - there are far too many variables in football and under irrational owners to plan so far ahead.

I didn't expect us to be in a playoff position or anywhere near them. But we are and it's a poor league in which a few key signings can make all the difference. That's my real source of frustration.

I used that as an example to debunk the project myth. I'm certain there are other examples out there too.

I don't disagree about the Academy but let's not forget that had the STC sale gone through and moved to the Academy site there would have been a strong likelihood that the Academy would have been downgraded. There wasn't a long term strategy behind that decision.

I know what the problem is and hopefully everyone else does too but Tomasson and Broughton are complicit by talking about a three Summer transfer window project. That is where my objection is. This is football and there are more variables than any other business making it extremely difficult to make and plans. Unless you are a mega rich Premier League club then I believe it's too difficult to plan for the next few months never mind years.

In what universe are we going to pay Steve Cook a comparable wage to what he is earning at Forest. He is contracted with them until July 2024 so that could perhaps require a few also. And what about blocking the pathway of our youngsters (© Gregg Broughton).

When Steve Cooper took over bottom of the table Forest he set a target of taking each game as it comes and winning it to stay up. They went on a run, signed some decent players in the January window and got promoted. There was no plan for this. Once there the planning started for the Premier League and so far it's working. No mention of plans or projects, it's about the here and now. The rest can take care of itself. It's fantasy in my view to talk about three Summer windows as part of the timescale in the project.

We originally signed Brereton on loan with an obligation to buy him in the January window. In truth though that was because we left it so late (sounds familiar) to do a permanent deal in the Summer window. I would imagine the contribution to O'Briens wages and loan fee will be a stumbling block (if the story is true which I doubt).

It all back of a fag packet stuff, management on the hoof. Projects and plans? There is no plan that anybody with any sense can see. The only plan should be promotion this season and not looking beyond that. But we are hearing that the playoffs are not really part of the project yet. They insult our intelligence and yet expect us to keep turning up, paying our money and put trust in the process. Why on earth do we bother.

I'm already worried for the Summer window. If we can't compete for new signings now then what chance in the Summer? I'm beginning to think what is the point of Blackburn Rovers. Are we just surviving, happy to tread water or is there any semblance of ambition. Two seasons running now we have been in good positions where some investment might have got us over the line. I despise these shysters for the irreparable damage they have caused.

I too take the football serious and go through the whole gamut of emotions during the game and in the aftermath. I hurt too for what has happened to our club through these wretched people but I like the gossip and opinions and welcome them whilst mentally disagreeing with lots of them. Disseminating them might do your health a favour 😂😂.

Isn't that part of a message board function - to speculate, to discuss, to criticise, to praise and many other things. There is no evidence that Tomasson is either happy or unhappy. It's opinion and subject to speculation and discussion. I wouldn't take it so seriously.

Tomasson talked about not wasting a window on Saturday. So far we have signed Thomas for the remainder of the season and effectively lost our leading scorer who I believe will coast in for the rest of the season. I really wonder what vision the new management team were sold by the deadbeats like Waggott, Pasha and the owners. I honestly can't see Tomasson putting up with shambolic and dysfunctional way our club is being run. And who can blame him.

Close to a deal, in the building....... We've heard it all before ad nauseam and still they try and feed us the same old guff. The errant ones have turned off the taps and if this is us for the foreseeable future.

It is but I'm old enough to remember when all FA Cup replays took place the week after. It was only on police insistence (they said they needed ten days to mobilise officers and plans) and this then became the norm. It's only because Sky have all the power and control and they have insisted that our game against Wigan will still be played on Monday. It would have been more sensible in my view to put the Wigan game back to Saturday and play the Brum replay next week as it should have been. I'm at a lose to understand why Sky would want to screen Rovers v Wigan anyway but their grubby prints are once again disrupting our game.

At a match I am more excited when the ball is in the opposition's box more than anywhere else on the pitch but I find this modern way of trying to pass a way to goals tedious. It's risk versus reward and there are very, very few goals scored by playing out from the back. The number of goals conceded by playing this way is massively outnumbers this.

Wrexham v Sheffield United was a really good watch and the most redeeming feature for me was none of this trendy playing out from the back risky football that bores me. Give me the type of football I have seen here any time although the football snobs might turn their noses up at it. Goals from set pieces, long throws and great intensity.

I thought he struggled after Scott Hogan came on. Although Wharton had a height and probably weight advantage on Hogan he seemed to be out muscled and his game went to pieces for the last fifteen minutes.

I'm pretty sure that is the injury Scott Wharton got at Brentford and was out for around thirteen months.

This is what caring and hurting feels like. Venky's and Swag please take note.