Andy

Tell you something, JRC has a decent sprayed pass on him. And Morton has made 4 tackles this half so far, for those counting 🤣

Just seen the HT stats and it supports this - very even match. I'd suggest we had the 2 better opportunities as well, if you count Travis' (which I do, we should have scored). Some really questionable comments on this thread, in this first half.

I think O'Brien would be the difference in a game like this. Brave enough to get on the ball, drive us forward and make things happen. Exactly what we're missing. That said, we're doing fine so far. Bit perplexed by how excessively negative some people are being.

Ref gave us our 4th or 5th corner (lost count), then changes his mind when the WBA players bully him. Strange decision.

BBD looking bright in this one, let's hope he gets a goal and goes on a little run.

Should be 1-1 - BBD unlucky not to score early on, they should have scored from a corner. Not disappointed at all with that first 20, think we're doing ok considering we're away to an in form team.

Buckley has been awful in the last couple of games, it's a straightforward swap for me. Don't believe the conspiracy theories about financial penalties; it's bollocks.

On the contrary, I’ve heard from people who’ve worked closely with him over the years that he’s incompetent, rude and arrogant. Furthermore, this isn’t the first time this kind of cock up has happened; it’s just the first time we’ve been aware of it (as fans). If he’s at fault here, it’s unfair for GB to take the hit and we should be transparent on where the fault lies. By shuffling it under the carpet, we’re leaving ourselves open for repeat issues in the future.

Agree with all of this. Transfers are only a portion of what GB oversees. And the Sam Smodz attitude I've seen a few times is odd; one minute we complain that we're spending no money / we're skint / Venky's are withholding funds. Then when we spend money on getting a player we want, we've overspent. You can't win with some. Besides, the players brought in under GB so far have been far superior to the majority of shite we've seen in the last 10 years. Think of the Akpans, Taylors, DJ Campbells. Smodz alone is twenty times the player that kind of player will ever be, never mind Hyam, Brittain, Thomas.

Something about that right hand side that I think would work really well. I'm hoping A.Wharton isn't too far away either; he's got qualities that no other player we have has.

We were on the verge of signing the best Championship midfielder in the last few seasons - someone who was absolutely central (along with Sorba) in dragging bloody Huddersfield Town to the play offs. We’d even agreed a £10m fee should we be promoted, which is absolute peanuts in Prem terms. This aspect of the situation is both good business and ambitious; I struggle to find why anyone would (or could) criticise. Finalising the deal, however it failed, is of course a different matter.

As we sit right this second, we’re a point off the play offs with a game in hand. Theres defeatist and then there’s defeatist, holy shit.

I could see them considering the BRIC, as unsuitable the facilities are for anything other than a kickabout with your mates...

But there’s ‘nothing special/unique about Blackburn Rovers’ according to our Marketing/Sales team. Anybody with half a Marketing brain can see the wealth of opportunities right in front of them.

Yeah, he blocked me for politely pointing out a basic error in one of his Rovers ‘stories’. Seems he’s not keen on being proven wrong and his guesswork being made obvious. Today’s piece is a perfect example. Big headline that the appeal has failed, then when probes: ‘well, I’m just saying that it might fail, but it also might not…’

You'd like to think not - and for our club's benefit, I'd hope not.

Yes - if he's released / leaves on a free, the clause expires.

And if we win at WBA, it'll be 5 points from the 3 games - which the vast majority of us would have been happy with.

Completely agree - he started the season well and if we've learned absolutely nothing else about BBD over the last few years, it's that's he's a confidence player. And right now, he's running on empty. That aside, really good result today and the lads put in a real shift. We need to follow it up with a similar performance at WBA next and it'll keep us in the play off discussion, as we have been all season.

Still might. Pears has been steady again, like the look of Thomas already and Trav has been busy. Dack doing Dack stuff and Dolan showing why he’s far better than Vale up top. I also wouldn’t swap either of of current CBs for that Porteous lad, never mind Hyam or Ayala. No loss there at all.

I'd suggest that this is the most likely situation.

It can also go the other way, too. Too many new players too soon often disrupts a side.

He isn’t the first choice RB - Brittain is and, when fit, will start. However JRC will be a useful squad player from now on and has the added bonus of being able to fill a few positions - a manager’s dream to have on the bench. Will JRC like that? Probably not, but he was on of his way out of the club just a few short weeks ago.

If the leaked information is to be believed (albeit we’re likely taking Waggott’s word via Nixon here…), we submitted our paperwork on time. But the EFL’s daft question of ‘ok, £10m if you get promoted. But what about if you get relegated?’ is the crux of the issue. Rovers’ stance was, well, we obviously wouldn’t sign him as we’ve not been promoted. I genuinely think we have half a chance with this one, as (if that was indeed the case), the delay was caused by the EFL asking a stupid and unnecessary question. Forest and O’Brien are also not blameless in this instance, allowing him to leave on deadline day and the player only deciding to join Rovers in the afternoon.

Nah, the league is far too tight and there are too many games left, at this stage. Add our general inconsistency into that and I suspect the season will be live until the last few games.