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Welcome to the biggest club in the Championship, Mr Cashin. A Premier League defender on paper. Brighton rarely sign duds, so he must have some talent. Let's give him a chance. #BeUnique

It came to light last year I think it was, that Pasha is on a salary of £500k a year. He's been here for 10 years, officially. Even if he was on lower than that in the years 2015-2023, he has still accumulated millions by way of salary in over a decade. If we still need around £20m a year from the owners after all these years, as the hierarchy keep alluding to, what is he doing exactly in his role that keeps the owners satisfied with him being their man here?

A poster from America asked a similar question a few years back and got some useful feedback. He managed to put together a good collection of Rovers VHS/DVDs. SanDimas (Rick) may be able to provide you with some pictures. The following links might help. The second one is an article where he writes more about his collection: https://www.brfcs.com/articles/a-love-of-the-tape

Poor Val. You know when you have seen a movie so many times before and you know how it ends? That's the feeling here. Expecting multiple signings before the Hull game? Good luck with that one. If Val or anybody close to him was wondering why we dislike Pasha and this regime, he/they should have a fair idea by now. They will be in no doubt come Feb 1st. "This is the most challenging job I have had" "It's a deep problem, not from yesterday" I wish it was different, Val. As I said previously after JDT and Eustace walked, these people are not Blackburn Rovers. We do not claim them.

Lee Bowyer is the prediction I made a few weeks ago based on certain patterns and I'm sticking with that call. Former Charlton. Former Birmingham. Has Championship experience. He has not long left Montserrat and is out of work. How desperate is he to get back into club management? That's the question. Anybody with any ambition has to be desperate to want to work under this setup, IMO.

Good spot. If it's the same guy, the owner of Best's agency was also Brereton's agent when this lot last spent big on a signing. No chance they spend £5m on this guy. Not that I want the player here anyway.

My first thought upon seeing that Preston looking kit was that somebody, somewhere, was deliberately trying to piss the fans off. I had the same thought when Coyle was appointed. Then again, it is possible that this lot simply failed to notice that the full kit resembled a PNE kit. One word to sum up everything about today, kit included. Embarrassing.

I think we're quite lucky to have Cantwell here and should be more grateful. The state we're in, we may not have another in the Cantwell mould for a while. As others have said, he is surrounded by dross, players who aren't on his wavelength and this is clearly resulting in massive frustration. Like a few on here, I enjoy seeing what experts within the game have to say. An example below of somebody whose football knowledge I rate highly. Posted, what, 7 hours after seeing Rovers hold his beloved Middlesbrough to a 0-0 draw? Fair play. He's not wrong.

It's not that bit I'm bothered about. Former Boro says it all for me. Nothing has changed at this club from day one.

You know what I loved about that game today? Seeing 'big', 'scary' Middlesbrough dumbfounded and being unable to cope with Blackburn Rovers. They had no idea what to do. Even during the worst of times, we've always had your lot's number, Honeyman. Let that sink in. That is the kind of thing we did regularly to teams in the Premier League before the clown show arrived. We will be back when said clown show disappears. A superb performance today where we made Boro look very ordinary. The fact they are currently in 2nd place shows what a huge opportunity we have missed this season and all due to people with no footballing knowledge deciding they want to 'transition' and cut costs. Go and f#*k off and transition somewhere else. Professional football certainly isn't for you. Never mind the play offs, automatic promotion was there for the taking this year. A smidgeon of ambition from that shower would have seen us right in the mix. They aren't winners in any way though. Those who defend these people and use the 70s and 80s as some sort of cover for their own egos are exactly the same. Just imagine where our club would be under normal owners and a normal Board. I was impressed with how we hassled and harried Boro for the majority of that game and with how dangerous we looked on the break. That was more akin to a Premier League showing from us. We just lacked that bite needed in the final third. There were so many counter attacks where we took too long to play the final ball. Despite that, it was fantastic seeing Boro being swamped and they could have had no complaints had we come away with the win. I don't think they'll see a better away performance at the Riverside all season. Big performances from Tronstad, Miller and Pratt in particular today. Baradji is a tank and there's hopefully a lot more to come from him. I think we are a lot better than the League table suggests and I expect things to pick up soon. Just like Ismael keeps saying. He and the team are giving it everything in difficult circumstances. Fair play to the young lads who are stepping in admirably and doing a decent job. Pasha out. Venky's out.

I think we'll have too much for Pompey tomorrow. We look a different team altogether on the road. Baradji is just getting into his stride and if he's paired with Tronstad, I can see us dominating the midfield. Even if he's on the bench, Tronstad and TGH are a good enough pair for tomorrow afternoon. Morishita, Cantwell, Ohashi. There's plenty for Pompey to worry about, I'd say. There's talk about their vociferous crowd from some of the fans and from Val too. They do have good support, true. Their team isn't much cop though. I think this is going to be better than the Deepdale showing. Come on, Moussa. This game is there for you to dominate. Pompey 0-3 Rovers.

He is a proper manager, but just like those before him, he has realised this isn't a proper setup. I agree with the bolded. He absolutely should be insisting on both. It should never be an either/or situation at our level and especially not with so called billionaire owners. The fact he has made such a suggestion is, IMO, quite likely due to the "woe is us, we can't spend, we need to cut costs" kind of vibe around the place. What are the chances that Ismael has been hearing a lot of that lately i.e we've got limited funds, player x, y and z are too expensive to sign, we need to cut the wage bill, yada yada. That lot crying about funds. It would be easy to conclude in that scenario that we can't do both, hence the suggestion he has put forward. It feels like a desperate suggestion from someone who wants the situation resolving quickly, rather than a Mowbray type thing. That's just my view though. It would not happen at any normal club.

His offer to remedy the pitch immediately even if it takes something off the January budget are the words of a man desperate to fix the situation. He is showing more urgency and desire to resolve this than any of the hierarchy are doing. He doesn't want the fans, the players and staff to lose out because of the incompetence and lack of knowhow of bastards like the shadow man. A common theme around this club is the notion "that's too expensive, we can't do that". All he has done is offered a begrudging compromise. I.e take it out of the January budget if you have to, but fix this now! I do not think this is some sort of ploy where he is distancing himself from blame and giving his superiors an easy get out.

I knew it wouldn't be long before Ismael revealed his true feelings. Fair play to him. I'm calling it early...I think Lee Bowyer is going to be our next manager. He has the right connections and he has Championship experience. He has just left Montserrat and is out of work. I'm not saying I want him, but just making an early prediction based on certain patterns.

Ismael is no yes man, his track record should tell us that. I think he has been misunderstood by a few. He has had this 'transition' put upon him in the summer by somebody who knows nothing about the game and who is only interested in saving money. Gestede, Sufi, Talbot, Ismael, they are all taking the flak because of the decisions of one tosser. These people mentioned are not the problem, IMO. IMO, Ismael has gone along with the transition and the project because he believes the end goal at some stage down the line is the Premier League. Remember what Rudy said...we want to bring money into the club through sales first, then we will be in a better position to go for promotion down the line. Does this sound familiar? Despite Val's talk about the Academy, young players, development etc, his frustration has been evident this season as he realises, just the like two managers before him, the chances of the project bearing fruit. The crap we have to bring off the bench is costing us points and it's starting to piss him off. He isn't much different to JDT and Eustace, even though they may be better managers than him. The man wants to win and he knows this setup is shit. Listen to his comment below at 1:43. These are his real feelings, which he has since repeated once more after this: "We are playing to win games, a lot of teams invest a lot of money to make the Championship attractive for the fans, to have some great players. We need better quality. It's as simple as that". That quote says it all. He knows our transfer business isn't good enough. He is telling the hierarchy in clear terms to invest in quality to try and bring some of the fans back. Good on the man for speaking out today on the pitch farce. Valerian Ismael has never been the problem for me. I am backing the man as he knows the score here. I back him just as I backed JDT and Eustace. Sadly, he will be gone just like those two soon from the looks of it. The shadow dweller can f#ck off.