We may have some good quality youngsters of our own as well but we'll never find out if they're behind those of City/Liverpool/Everton. If said PL youngsters are getting us promoted, different story.

I was under the impression everyone needed a paper ticket for Saturday as the new turnstile system wasn't fully operational yet. Seemingly I had the option to use my ST from 2 years ago thereafter but tbh I don't know where it is so I requested a new one for when the new batch of cards arrive.

None of above.

Players (like managers) tend to have a healthy estimate of their own ability. Armstrong won't be thinking that if he stays this season that'll be his last chance at the PL gone. He'll be assuming that he'll have another very good season and if he ran his contract down he'd have his pick of Clubs as a free agent. He could hypothetically get a serious injury here but realistically it's far more likely he won't. I wouldn't necessarily be wanting to keep him if we stood to pocket £15 or £20 m from his sale but for a net £7 or £8m it's simply not worth selling imo.

As long as something happens this window the more it drags on the stronger our bargaining position becomes assuming the Club's who are interested are sufficiently desperate for a goalscorer.

One negative yesterday I thought was the pitch. Pretty poor for the first game of the season, there were some bare patches in front of me and it looked like it had only just coped with the recent rain as the ball was running very slowly. I think we'll have major problems with it by winter - Waggott should have asked the owners to fund a new pitch instead of spitting his dummy out after he didn't get his own way over Brockhall.

This is the problem, with loaning youngsters from Prem League Clubs, they have to be given game time and it's no use whatsoever in terms of our long term development. I'd rather see our own youngsters given the chance.

100%. If the offer is only in the order of £12m and we would only get about £8m, absolute no brainer for me, keep him.

I can assure you you didn't! 🙂 Had it been "Uncle Jack's Blue and White Army" you would have!

x 100.

Well done chaddy, you've been waiting a fair while for that haven't you? 🙂

Unless anyone meets our valuation he should be playing.

Wasn't Brereton's fault, Rothwell should have scored. It was quite a narrow angle by the time it reached Ben.

Great 3 points, suspect wins will be like gold dust this season. TBF up until we scored the second that was better than almost anything we saw last season. Whilst you still suspect we'd do better with Dolan out wide and BB and SG central, Dolan's harrying and work rate was phenomenal, I'd have given him MOM despite a few wrong choice of passes and weak shots. After we went 2 up we contrived to make very hard work of the remainder of the game. Terrible sub on 83 mins from Mowbray, Carter for Dolan which pegged us right back. Overall though very enjoyable, and very refreshing seeing the enthusiasm of the young lads instead of dollopers like Evans/Bennett/Trybull etc. Butterworth looked sensational in a couple of bursts he did then looked puffed out after a 50 yard run. Nyambe, what a player. Even with these lads, we'd still do better with another manager.

From Mowbray's comments in the LT he obviously CHOSE not to offer contract extensions for the better players and the owners obviously weren't asked to fund it!!!!! Also given the financial mess we're in do you really have to ask why he wouldn't be given any more money? The only imponderable is why he is still here and hasn't been sacked by now.

No doubt Armstrong's head "won't be in the right place". Tough shit. We're still paying him, Palace aren't. Get him out there.

Great Post, nail on head.

So basically the reason all our top players are going to end up leaving for nothing or less than they're worth is that Mowbray didn't want to upset the dross in the squad much of which he should have previously offloaded anyway. What an absolute arsehole he is. Have said it many times before, he seems to see his duty as being to protect the existing players at the Club to the exclusion of others who may come in and more importantly ahead of his duty to act in the best interests of Blackburn Rovers football Club who pay his considerable wages. He can't be gone soon enough, only 12 months left on his contract or not.

Hardly Shearer is it? Good on loan when he was after a contract, then part of a side which got us relegated, has freely admitted he wasn't professional enough, crap in League 1 then couldn't move for his last couple of seasons here. To be fair the last bit wasn't his fault, it was down to Mowbray giving him a ridiculous new deal.

If you could divulge your husband's name I will let you know what my recollections are of him.

Possibly I suppose. More money spanked away never to be seen again.

Not really. In our current state that's a bit like saying we'd have a 1 in 12 chance if Citeh, Liverpool, Man Ure, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG and Juventus were in for him!

Yet another case of the LT letting Mowbray get away with absolute murder. Our current predicament has nothing to do with the owners financial position vi's a vi's Covid, it's down to Waggott and Mowbray's gross mismanagement of the finances over the last 3 years. Mowbray could say the earth was flat or the sky was green and grass was blue and theT wouldn't challenge him on it.

Don't agree with that at all. He's still our player and we need to win the game.

Is that a piss take? Might as well invite Chris Brown back as well. Home games 2 and 3 Corry Evans (as he'll be injured by then) and Elliott Bennett.