Not sure about the red button. However, there is a stream available for UK viewers on Rovers TV tonight. £10.

From winning the World Cup at Ewood a few Friday's ago to... Fist bumps from their gobshite of a manager, to... A bus parade through Preston to celebrate beating Rovers, to... One win in seven. Sounds about right for that lot. Lowe Out! (Or something like that)

On this day 18 years ago:

21. Mike Newell

It's evident from that clip just how much Bentley enjoyed his time here, and Sav too. Brad, Nelsen, Pedersen, to name a few, have also said similar, all looking back fondly on those days as the best times of their career. Shows what an excellent setup we had. Bentley touches on it at the end there, and I've heard him say it elsewhere too, about his return to Rovers on loan in 2013. Words few in number, but words that resonate deeply: "It just wasn't the same club anymore". Still, he was a heck of a player for us and I'm glad that he regards his happiest playing memories being whilst playing for Rovers.

Exactly. I see some fans of other clubs give us stick about empty seats and they talk about how they would back the team through "thick and thin" and how we have "shit fans" etc. I would like to see how they would fare having to endure 13 years of a Venky circus, where there has not been one ounce of ambition shown from the hierarchy, where a flow of chancers have walked through the doors and where the fans have been taken for fools since minute one of the takeover. Owners ignoring us being inside the top 6 for two consecutive January's. Then the CEO, months after finishing 7th, openly announcing that the aim is to avoid relegation and to develop players. Openly disputing the manager's ambitious view of the 'project'. They'd all put up with that, would they? Look at how the likes of United, Everton and West Ham fans have been rallying against their owners recently. That's after having spent hundreds of millions of pounds on signings. United, over a billion! 13 years of these bastards would finish a lot of those fans off. Never mind PNE, Dingles and the like. It's very easy for them, as outsiders, to give it large when they have no idea what damage has been done to the club and the fan base since 2010. They aren't living it. I fully agree with your last paragraph too. Decent people who care, coupled with a bit of ambition and we could reach 17-18,000. As it stands, we are lucky to still get as much as we do, imo. Fair play to all that still attend regularly.

That is absurd, it really is. This, for a Club that is apparently in need of all the income it can raise, if the talk of the restrictions on the morons in Pune is to be believed. Somebody mentioned the other day how Fielder's vision was to have an empty stadium on match days, with fans watching the match via virtual reality and being able to 'go' wherever they wanted in the ground during the game. I don't think he was alone in having that vision. The way the Riverside has been shut for cup games over the years, the Blackburn End recently and now this, I think the car salesman has the same idea. Fans watching from home using VR headsets and the savings that can be made from an empty stadium, are the stuff of dreams for somebody like him.

Yeah, he would probably do alright for them. I think he's a better manager than Lowe. My 'in for a shock' comment was regarding that PNE poster saying Mowbray doesn't talk bullshit in interviews. It won't take him long at all on that side of it.

It's like I was saying on another thread: Inferiority complex.

Seems like Mowbray's popular over there. A number of them are putting his name forward as their preferred choice. The usual stuff is being trotted out about him being a 'proper' football man, his teams playing attractive football etc. There's one guy saying another plus point is that Mowbray doesn't talk bullshit in his interviews. Hahaha. Deary me. That poster is in for a big shock on that front if Mowbray ends up there.

Along with comments from Broughton such as: 1. "For Blackburn Rovers to be back in the Premier League we have to overachieve". 2. ""So, I think we need to have a definition of what winning looks like for Blackburn Rovers, and for me that's very clear. Clearly, it's just improving our performance every single day and in every single month and every single year". Add to that, the owners failing to spend from a relative position of strength two consecutive January's running, what message does all of that send to everybody at the club? There is absolutely no pressure or expectation on any of them. The only guy who is on our (the fans) wavelength, mentality wise, is JDT. Apparently it was just shite and conspiracy on a forum that none of the hierarchy are arsed about promotion, but when the CEO himself is saying the aim is just to stay in this Division and develop players...it shows the so called moaners have every right to call this out.

Certain Championship games now being written off is awful to see. Once again, this goes back to the morons at the top who couldn't care less about what is happening. Why bother about promotion when we can just develop players? We'll 'lease' players and play the Academy players, that'll save us some money, right, Mrs Desai? It's easier to use FFP and parachute payments as shields when you don't give a shit. Arrogant cowards, the lot of them, from the Board up. The message is simple. If it's too costly for you, Balaji, you know what you and the rest of your family can go and do. The way the Indian Government is moving, we might not be too far away from getting what many of us wish for. Ian Darke (commentator) had it right about us yesterday. He said Rovers have shown a lack of ambition and an inferiority complex from minute one of this game. 'Lack of ambition' and 'inferiority complex'. I think those two descriptions don't just sum up yesterday, but the entire 13 year operation. Very disheartening to see us like that yesterday, not getting anywhere near Championship opposition, and it just having to be accepted.

20. David Bentley

I haven't had a chance to listen to this interview yet, so I don't know what else has been mentioned. However, I do remember that Hughes also wanted to sign Kompany for us along with Zabaleta and Lassana Diarra. Thinking back to the squad we had back then...with a couple of rocks at the back in Nelsen and Samba, plus Bentley, Morten, Tugay, Benni, Roque. Imagine adding Zabaleta, Kompany and Diarra to that squad. To a squad which had just finished 7th. It wasn't to be, but it was not for the want of trying. We've had the opposite of that for 13 years now and that absolutely stinks.

It will be along those very lines. The likes of Duffer, Pires, Ginola, Gillespie etc would be lost if they were playing today.

David Bentley was another who only needed half a yard. The amount of times wide players in general get into crossing positions today, only to then turn back and play it backwards, is incredible and also frustrating to watch.

If only Leeds had to worry about stopping big Al today:

Quick heads up, if anybody can't make it to Ewood . Our game isn't live on Sky tomorrow, but there is a stream available for supporters to buy from Rovers TV for £10. That includes UK based supporters too.

But that's just it, islander. He isn't a Director of Football. He never has been previously. Yet has been put in that role here. A role that is above him, imo. An actual Director of Football comes up with better than Hirst, Telalovic and Ennis, in my view. That's even with our lowly budget.

Thanks for the added info, Glen. My post was in response to those three being used as examples of his signings coming good. The scouting legwork had been done previously, before he arrived. True, he concluded the deals, but I don't think it's right to credit him for those signings. Hill looks a very good signing, as does Moran, so fair play there. But it's truly desperate stuff upfront, imo. Yeah, that's what I read too regarding Brittain. Exactly. The dominant theme of the last 13 years.

Telalovic and Ennis are both desperate signings. Neither are of the standard required for this club. I've seen a few say, Chaddy being one, that a lot of scouting and effort has gone into signing Telalovic. I'm not of that opinion. Telalovic is represented by the same agency as Kaminiski, Wahlstedt and JDT himself. Yet JDT doesn't seem to rate him? Smacks of a last minute panic signing to me. Not one to try and big up Broughton or the recruitment team for looking far and wide.

Something that hasn't been picked up on, from what I can see, is point 9 made by Glen in his update: It was noted that Hyam, Smodzics etc were scouted prior to the new Management set up and have been a success in terms of purchase price, but also the previous recruitment team. Unless I've got it wrong, the credit for signings of Hyam, Brittain and Szmodics can't exactly be put at GB's door. This is the work of the previous recruitment team, that he has seemingly made use of. Broughton, imo, is in above his head, and the signings of Mola, Hirst, Telalovic and Ennis are more reflective of his 'talent' spotting ability.

This is the best thread for it. An outstanding display from Brad against the red rats:

19. Stuart Ripley

Every Rovers goal scored at Maine Road/Etihad since 1993: