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Go on Dack! The one man you want a chance to fall to.

The bit in bold is exactly what we are doing, IMO, by taking on this 'project' and leaving it in the hands of Broughton. I genuinely think we are at risk of a relegation battle next season as things stand, unless some key additions are made either in this window or in the summer. We've done enough this season to avoid the drop, but next season without BBD and with the lacklustre attacking options we currently have, I don't see us being as lucky. The squad is overrated and has shown numerous times this season that it doesn't have the stomach for a fight. Signing up the likes of Travis and Bucko, A.Wharton, Batty etc isn't impressive from an on the field point of view, IMO. Play all of them next season and watch us go down, is my honest opinion. Off the field, it may seem impressive, as it will prevent players walking away for nothing and is seemingly a change from previous policy. Bottom line for me is, we need real additions over these next two windows, or we are in danger of being in League One come August 2024.

Even trickier, pick a favourite goal from this collection. The man didn't do tap ins. It's between the Tottenham and Fulham goals for me, I think. Too close to call. Stunning to witness. Happy days indeed.

A few clinical finishes from Andy Cole in this one, but the main man of the video is the Turkish maestro. Your favourite Tugay assist? I love how he made Gerrard look silly, but my favourite is the lofted pass through to Cole at Loftus Road. Superbly finished by Cole too. Back when football was alive!

I think my lack of interest can be summed up by the fact that, despite having followed every game of ours over the last 10 years, either in person, via stream or by radio, around 90 percent of those games have been erased from my mind. It's not an age thing, as if you were to ask me what happened against Derby in 1996 I'll tell you in detail off the top of my head. Random game, West Brom away 2002? Same. I'll even tell you what night it was on. Huddersfield away in 2018? Nope. Swansea at home in 2019? Nope. I couldn't tell you from memory. It has mostly been forgettable shite for well over 10 years. I'll be honest, the only thing that keeps me interested are the memories of old and the faint hope (at present) that one day we might get back to something like what we were. The true Rovers, before these bastards took over. There isn't much about the last 12 years or the present day Rovers that has had me excited or positive about the future of the club. The hope I retain is that we will start the road to recovery once this lot sell up. The day they sell up, it will feel like a huge weight has been lifted from the club. That day can't come soon enough. The thought of that is keeping me watching, wishing, that somebody might fluke something for us until that point and have us in the Prem before the bastards decide they want out. I don't for one second expect them to shell out Premier League level transfer fees and wages, so hopefully that's the point they will clear off. I believe there will be interest in us as a Premier League club, a lot more than there is at present, IMO. We just need to get there, somehow. To the neutral and the bitter rival it seems as though we are complaining because Uncle Jack is no longer around. I know, as I have had such remarks from them. They have no idea. They say "but you are third" and "but they've spent over £200m", "but they are still paying the bills". What we have lost over the past 12 years and the damage that has been done can't be put into words and goes beyond money. It will never be understood by outsiders. 1995 has nothing to do with the anger that has been felt since this lot turned up and ruined the club. The very heart of the club, everything that made me proud about it has been thrown away in such a disgusting manner by people who have no interest in football and who, IMO, have no right being anywhere near the club. Desperado after desperado appointed in the dugout and in the boardroom, the club reduced to an unrecognisable, hollow shell. Then we have insulting marketing from total losers lucky to be at the club. "We're committed, are you?" Committed to what? Brown nosing the idiots in Pune and telling us how difficult it is to compete? F.O!! Then you have that bastard in Marketing saying "there's nothing special about Blackburn Rovers". He's lucky this isn't Italy. It's making my blood boil just thinking about all of this. The biggest problem for me is the lack of care. Nobody at the club, in a senior position, gives a shit. Excuses are made for mediocrity, excuses are made as to why we can't compete. A winning mentality seems to be frowned upon and expectations are played down in public. How do I then get excited, about what? Selling kids to the big clubs in 3 years time? Again, F.O!! We're constantly being fed bullshit about a project. A journey leading precisely nowhere. Mowbray had five years and wasted them. This lot want three more, and think we can get there with Academy kids. It's a farce. A total farce. I'm sorry, I can't get behind any of it. Nothing against any fellow fan who is being optimistic and positive. That's fair enough, we're all trying to make the best of it, but I personally can't do it, even though I have tried. Not when I perceive the tossers at the top to be taking the piss out of us. I still watch the Premier League, MOTD and all the rest of it, and it hurts to see the likes of Brighton, Brentford etc taking it to the big boys, as that's exactly what we used to do and more. We had it, but it was thrown away by idiots. We can all accept a natural decline, but not this bullshit. What hurts even more, is realising that we aren't a normal club with any real aspirations of getting back there. We're just existing without genuine hope, whilst a new character is wheeled out telling us the owners want promotion. It's only us, the fans, who are truly fiercely ambitious and want the club to get back up. There's a huge void where there should be care, ambition and a board worthy of the name at the club, and that is what has killed and is killing the interest of many.

The gymnastics from Broughton on the definition of 'winning' and what winning means for Blackburn Rovers are something to behold. Have a listen at 35 minutes of the podcast. GB: "We have to have a really good understanding of what winning means to Blackburn Rovers. Does it mean winning at any cost or winning without the cost to other people?". He goes on to add that we are seeing a shift in marginal gains in sport where there is an absolute drive to win at any costs, and that this has led to scandals such as ball tampering in Cricket and "blood gate" in Rugby. He cites these as examples where winning has been put ahead of anything including the welfare of fellow colleagues. What the bleeding 'eck is he going on about? Nobody in the fan base is asking for us to break the rules or to go against moral principles. The length he's going to here to take away any expectation of winning is astounding. He ends this part by saying the following: GB: "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". That is not my definition, nor I suspect many other Rovers fans' definition of winning. Another performance based chump at the helm, spitting out corporate waffle. Great. Funny how Mowbray said he hoped we didn't appoint a "bully" who just wanted to win all the time. Now Broughton is attempting to play down calls for a winning mentality by mentioning scandals in other sports. You can't make this shit up. There's a deeply ingrained losing culture at Rovers, which will not be shifted under this ownership.

Butterworth and McBride too. Exact same rhetoric with those two. Vale will likely end up at a similar level to them.

Not just that either. The line about 'not getting too happy after a win and not getting too down after a defeat' is also straight out of a Tomasson press conference. I heard it for myself a few weeks ago and Broughton has also said similar in that podcast. Original thought? Nah. That's overrated.

Exactly. Yet Gregg thinks the pair of them can play in the Premier League one day. If those two are your established centre mids, you can forget about going up.

A message for you, Jagdish Rao: Keep your stupid ideas for Football Manager on your laptop. It's cheaper and the only hope you have of 'winning' anything. Take a look at where Blackburn Rovers were before you and your family took over, and look at the joke the club is today. That's all on your family. 12 years of embarrassment. Take the hint, some things aren't meant to be. We don't give a damn about your money, or your reputation in India. We only care about our Rovers. Take your money, take your project and F.O!!

I hope you're enjoying the Head Coach/DOF model that you were crying out for. Just like Vinjay crying "takeover, takeover" for years. I hope the pair of you are enjoying it.

The final score, please? We can't be making excuses every game for piss poor showings.

There'll be no accountability, Jim. That prick Broughton thinks this is normal for a young side and that we shouldn't panic. This is repeated by the manager. JDT is under no pressure as the tossers at the top have no idea. A sorry, pathetic situation, where we are stuck once again with dollopers.

One game versus 8 of them?

This project will be the death of this football club. Listen to Broughton talking about Travis and Buckley being able to play in the Premier League. I don't know what dream world, fantasy island he's living on. Those two are seen as 'established' and the two kids are the future, therefore no need to sign quality midfielders as that would be 'expensive'. A shit project, which will only take us one way. Down.

You can be as positive and as balanced as you want on here, it's not going to change the reality. This squad is shit and is going nowhere. A crap project set and operated by chumps. I will not make excuses for this bullshit.

Garrett is no midfield destroyer. We're overhyping a kid because we have been starved of anybody who can put a tackle in for 10 years. Dack our best player so far today. The only real quality we have going forward.

I think we can stick a fork in Chelsea. They are done, IMO. The signs are recognisable and all too familiar, relatively speaking. They can't buy a win, the owner can't get anything right, money being blown all over the show, the embarrassments are piling up, they are already (so quickly) a shadow of what they were, and the new signing who they've shelled out a huge loan fee on gets sent off on his debut. This stuff is right out of Barry's "Owning a Football Club for Dummies" handbook. Project, give him time, building. Yeah, alright. That doesn't wash at clubs that are alive and kicking, and with fans who refuse to accept "this is our level" and "it isn't 2003 anymore". When results go downhill, those clubs act. I think Potter hasn't got long left there, their fans aren't having him and I don't blame them.

Yeah, exactly. That's how almost every other club approaches it. Not Venky owned Rovers though. As soon as Broughton said he didn't want to block the pathway for Wharton and Garrett, and went for the manageable Morton loan move, we should have known what to expect. No quality midfielder will be coming here due to this pathway shit, IMO.

On first viewing, that looks like the signing of a club that doesn't have a pot to piss in.

The centre of midfield is the problem area for me. A lot of the abject defeats we have seen have involved the midfield being bullied and brushed aside. We have the same type of midfielder, in terms of build, style etc. Crap players like Ledson see it and start acting the hard man against us. It gees up the opposition. There was a Boro player, Howson I think, and a Cardiff mid who started putting in aggressive challenges once they realised they were up against Morton and Co. That needs addressing. Even when we win games we struggle to string more than three passes together. It was the same against Norwich in the cup. For me, our options in there aren't good enough and need upgrading. Adam Wharton is the only one, IMO, who has something special about his game but he's having to wait or pull himself together to get back in.

Would have Trybull ahead of all of our current midfielders. An underrated player who has done it before at this level. Very good signing for Blackpool.

I'm not seeing any real links to Benfica anywhere. There's a Benfica fan page on twitter tagging Vetlesen and urging their club to buy him. A few of their fans have been putting his name forward as an ideal signing and a possible replacement for Enzo Fernandez (linked with Chelsea), but that's about it. Benfica are trying their best to sign Andreas Schjelderup and this has led to a few "we want Vetlesen too" posts from some of their fans. Unless Burger has seen something else which confirms Benfica are in for him, it seems to be wishful thinking on their fans part, for now.

I agree with you. The eye test is enough to tell anybody that Gelhardt is nothing like Hirst. One is lively, tricky on the ball and can cause defenders problems, the other is George Hirst. Wigan will be getting a good player there.

I don't know the names, just that, supposedly, one is German and one is Scandinavian. One of the three is an attacking midfielder. If Vetlesen doesn't fit that description, then one of the other two is an attacking mid. It is also being claimed that a midfielder that was being shown around is going to sign. Don't know if that is Hugo or not, it would be quite surprising if it was him. It appears the info is coming from different sources, as they both had slightly different versions of the BBD/Simms-Everton story, and both have separately mentioned Vetlesen, with one alleging he was one of the three that was spoken to. Again, we are going off what a couple of fans have heard, so it could yet turn out to disappoint, but it seems to be the only transfer speculation we have at the moment. If it is true that Vetlesen is one of the trio, then that is encouraging. To make it happen though would be more impressive, that's what most of us want to see.