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Pears - should be grateful to be playing at all Alebiosu - played primarily in Scotland (not for Rangers or Celtic) McLoughlin - Started his career at Cork City Pratt - must be pinching himself he’s not still at Victory Park Miller - From a country where it’s not even the most popular form of football, also Hibs Hedges - Flint, Orient, Stevenage, Yeovil… Gardner Hickman - Unwanted by Birmingham Montgomery - See Pratt Morishita - A possible exception Ohashi - Jumped at the chance to play in England having been in Japan all his career Gudjohnsen - he’s not his father If any of the above can’t properly motivate themselves playing at Ewood Park for Blackburn fucking Rovers then they should just give up.

Absolutely this! Nothing is ever the owners, Suhail, Yasir or Gestede’s fault. Ismael fits right in. Slopey shouldered liars.

There’s a few posts on here that seem to be hinting at the crowd (or lack of) being to blame for our awful home form - a disgraceful insinuation. Lets be honest, a hell of a lot of those who went to PNE did so for an evening out with the football a sideshow - certainly shouldn’t be using that as a benchmark for home support. Quite frankly it’s an absolute miracle we get the attendances we do given we’ve had to put up with 15 years of hell. The powers that be at Ewood hold us all in utter contempt, and shame on any Rovers fan who is buying into this narrative they are none too subtly trying to spin. They don’t give a shit about increasing the attendance or atmosphere, they only care about increasing revenue but are too incompetent to try anything other than milking the few of us that are left. I can take the bad results and performances (I had very low expectations this season), but I’m being pushed to the absolute limit by the owners, Suhail, Gestede, Ismael and Sufi. We are a husk of a club because of those people. The detachment the fanbase are feeling is totally unsurprising, and while terrible results don’t help the problems run much deeper.

Has Ismael blamed the fans yet? They’ve been planting that seed all week.

I don’t know. Forshaw has nearly 100 premier league appearances to his name. Don’t think many other of this cobbled together rag tag bunch have enough quality to do that in their careers.

This seems very reminiscent of when Mola and Garrett were seen as the answer at Turf Moor. Carter spent about 20 minutes on an exercise bike in the tunnel against Derby. Obviously worked a treat. Wonder if Baradji will be subjected to the same.

Even if he does I expect we are on a hiding to nothing with him. He’s been built up in the minds of the supporters, and the words of the Ewood brain trust, to be the answer to all our problems. Unless he’s extremely good he will no doubt divide opinions in the extreme. Half of us will see him as a pointless signing and waste of money, half of us will cling onto any positive shoots he shows and advocate for patience. Pretty desperate for a player who didn’t even have a Wikipedia page til well after we signed him!

Eustace and Waggott wanted Cantwell. Gestede didn’t. Waggott and Eustace met with him early in the window but it didn’t progress due to finances - probably Suhail putting a block on it. It became apparent towards the end of the window that he was available on the cheap - 250-500k - so Waggott went rogue and had talks with Rangers - whoever he was dealing with up there said something along the lines of “Thank god, we’re desperate to get rid of him” so Waggott revised the offer to zero. After about 2 days of wrangling they agreed that it would be zero upfront with a big sell on clause and various appearance/promotion payments. Announced as undisclosed to appease both sets of fans. Getting him on a free allowed Waggott to make the case to Gandhi Babu (circumventing Suhail) to pay the required wages and get the deal signed off by Venky’s, as did claiming he would be worth 7 million if he could rediscover his form. It’s certainly plausible that an appearance trigger is approaching. It’s also plausible that the man who never wanted him in the first place and thinks paying any player more than £10k per week is unnecessary might want rid of him.

Very likely. Remember this deal dragged on for a while when we signed him. We paid nothing at all up front and it was all based around him hitting certain numbers and a hefty sell on clause.

All this comes down to now is their arrogance. They don’t like being told what to do. They sold off our best players rather than put money in a bond that they objected to. Now the requirement for that bond is gone they have no inclination to improve our situation or reinvest any of those funds brought in back into the squad. lets be 100% clear, neither the Indian courts or FFP/P&S rules are preventing investment in Rovers - they just don’t want to.

Shit day. Shit anniversary celebrations. Shit line up. Shit pyrotechnics. Shit players. Shit performance. Shit manager. Shit attendance. Shit staff. Shit owners. Shit club for the last 15 years.

Here’s a little snippet from the programme. The usual amount of care and attention has gone into it I see. Absolute husk of a club.

Someone on Twitter is correct. No prizes for guessing which genius at Rovers made the decision to delay it til after Christmas.

The only people who deserve any boos on the day will be in the directors seats, corporate lounges and in bed in India.

Paul wrote a superb letter outlining the clubs unique achievements and importance to the game of football over the last 150 years. There had been hope/expectation that we would be actually making a big deal of celebrating our anniversary so inviting representatives from the above bodies as guests, or to open exhibitions etc seemed like a good idea.