Andy

I'm not 100%, but I think there was a photoshoot at Ewood today, around lunch time / early afternoon. Couldn't tell you who it was, had assumed the GK.

What a bizarre - and naive - attitude. Genuinely hope you aren’t a people manager, in whatever you do for a living. As has been mentioned already, Broughton will be judged over 4-6 transfer windows, not 6 months into the job.

At £8m, we're probably breaking even on BBD (with wages / bonuses / etc) - as the promotion caveat has not been triggered, Forest will have received £4m-£5m from us (with an add-on from the sale). Still, better than nothing as it would be in the summer and you'd like to think that at least some of that will be reinvested. Though, this Venky's we're talking about... I hope it's true, the time is right for him and it's an amazing opportunity for him to try himself at a higher level. He's the type of player who will be better with better players around him. Surely, SURELY, a decent sell-on has to be part of any deal...

Understand what you mean, I've gone through the cycle a couple of times - when Kean and Shagnew were raping the club, I refused to have anything to do with it. However, I've always gone full circle at some point - I remember just before the nosedive last season, I'd picked up a HST, my little lad was wanting to come to every game and games were a highlight most weekends. In a way, I'm gutted that I was only a kid when we were Prem champions, as I didn't enjoy or appreciate it the same way as I would now. We were the best team in the country, I'd not been alive during any years of hardship and with Jack around, there was no end in sight. I can only imagine how amazing it must have been to have lived through the long period outside of the top flight, then go through the early 90's.

Zero hope or optimism after the last couple. Which means that we'll win 2-0. I'd go with: Kaminski Hedges Wharton Ayala Hyam Pickering Morton Travis Wharton BBD Gallagher Need to start well and not concede early, keep it 0-0 til HT maybe. Then switch to a 4-3-3, with Dack, Dolan and Markanday coming on to insert a bit of quality (Dack) and pace (the other two).

There is absolutely nothing more than sheer good thinking to suggest that this would happen. Things could be a LOT worse than what they are for us, right now.

But they aren’t going to - it’s highly likely that the family’s ownership of the club will outlive the majority of us. Her son has been groomed to take over for some time, spends almost every home game watching from Jack’s old suite. It’s wasted energy calling for the owners to leave; they won’t. What is more pressing is the immediate failing of the team and the lack of spine running through it. And the management team has to taken responsibility for that.

Fuck right off. Rotherham. Literally no excuses, this is pathetic.

As annoyed I am at how spineless we’ve been, I will say that JRC has been pretty good again at right back. Not that much use when you’re 0-2 down against the worst team in the league, but I’ll take any crumb of positive at this stage.

Aside from the fact that this isn’t going to happen, we need more pressing changes.

This is disgraceful.

Plenty of the ball, but it seems the tactic is ‘get it to Dack and hope he produces magic’. Problem with that is, most of the team are not on his wavelength or ability level. I do like Gallagher in general, but he’s been woeful today. Heavier touch than usual and should have buried the 1-on-1. Just bite the bullet, stick Dolan and Markanday on at HT; 3 points is right there for us in this game, Rotherham offer nothing.

To be fair, teams from Lithuania (and the like) qualify for the CL each season too, doesn't make them a necessarily attractive proposition. If Cantwell has any ambition to play at the top level, he'd surely prefer to excel in the Championship than north of the border. I'd take him - he's still young enough, change of scenery would hopefully help him, he's shown that he has excellent ability and we're surely make a chunky profit on him after a couple of seasons.

I mean, you're entitled to have an opinion, obviously. But this is genuinely just baffling...

Really good first half, for me. We've been sharp and positive when in possession; far from perfect but a lot better than some recent performances (Boro 1st half aside). Trav seems to have picked up a bit, all of the defence have been solid, Dack showing his quality again and even before he'd scored, I thought Vale was doing well. I know it's a low bar, but he's light years ahead of Hirst.

To be fair, I don't know anybody who knows what a hard day's eoyy to k is. 😄

This times a hundred. Maybe its overspilling frustration from last season, where we ultimately missed out on a top 6 place, having spent most of the season there. The football has been mostly dire, but we have been churning out results - enough results to see us comfortably 3rd, in January. I couldn't attend whilst Kean was here, I just couldn't trust myself not to run towards the dugout and nut the bald prick. We've had the 'going nowhere' years under the likes of Bowyer and the short term managers (Berg/Appleton/etc). But right now, we have a bright young manager and (seemingly) a proper recruitment process in place. The squad is mostly young and developing and we have an excellent chance for top 6 again this year. To me, talk of potting JDT and heading back into the managerial wastelands of Ainsworth and that ilk is absolute, bonafide madness. I honestly can't comprehend that way of thinking.

Important point. At the moment, JDT is using what he has available to him, to accumulate as many points as he can. It's not always pretty, but we're very organised at the back, which is always the ideal starting position for any new coaching team (start with the defence and build forward). And, as we're sitting pretty comfortably 3rd (and have been for a while), it's hard to argue that it's not effective. He's said all along, judge him after 3 transfer windows. We're just starting the second of those now and if we can get more 'Hyams' in, I'm looking forward to seeing how we develop. But patience is key. I'm still absolutely flabbergasted by anyone genuinely shouting for JDT to go after a few months; I can not see any logic in tearing up the last few months, all of the future plans and starting again with an unknown. Madness.

Agree on JRC, he’s been tidy on the ball, took up some good defensive positions and has been aggressive off the ball. Glad to see the red has been appealed; it’s clearly a ludicrous decisions and if it’s not overturned, the FA have defended the indefensible. I wasn’t wanting to share this, as I hate the ‘I’m not sharing my source’ thing. But I'm not sharing my source for reasons of confidentiality (shared some info a number of years ago on the Rovers site forum and almost got somebody at the club the sack, so I won’t do it again). Feel free to disregard, it genuinely matters not to me. But the Adam Wharton stuff is plainly untrue. He should be playing more, totally, but none of the ‘clash with the manager’ happened.

And yet we’ll still be higher than the other two teams / new managers that were mentioned in the post that I’d replied to. We can’t say, for example, Mowbray has done well to get Sunderland into the top 6 in a few months and criticise our similarly new manager, whilst we sit above them.

And we are sitting third…?

This times a thousand. Shouting for the manager’s head after a few poor results, yet we remain very high in the league, is ludicrous. Performances on the whole haven’t been good, but we can’t ignore the positive performances either. We as a support are better than that.

Wow. 1st half was very good. Conceded early in the second, but the red card is what’s killed us here. I’m pretty sure JDT’s instructions to Buckley at HT wasn’t ‘go and get yourself sent off nice and early lad’.

That is never a red in a million years. The fact that it’ll be overturned immediately will be indication of that. And now 1-2. Such a shame after that good first half.

One of the best moves and phases of play I’ve seen from us this season, lovely.