19 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Looks on paper a really promising signing (if true)based on his recent clubs. 

His latest trial was with Sligo Rovers - mix up with the Rovers' maybe? Way below our first team squad anyway.

35 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Who says he's on £10k a week?

32 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

pasha and gestede are a pair of priks,but even they ar`nt daft enough to sanction paying forshaw 10k a week

These things are very rarely officially released but I remember seeing a few comments about it at the end of the season. 

He was on £15k at Argyl, so wouldn’t be too surprising given he only signed for 6 months with us - he wouldn’t take too much of a pay cut 

49 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

"Forshaw will be squad player starting few games but mainly off the bench he will used" 

 

Does this feel like good use of £10k a week for a team that hasn’t got a pot to piss in / hasn’t got owners who want to piss in the pot???

14 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Absolute nonsense.

If you really want to keep Brittain you pay him what he wants and trim the wage bill elsewhere.

What is Forshaw going to bring to the table for example? The square root of bugger all is the answer. Ditto Hedges.

I wouldn't pay Cantwell in washers based on his performances last season yet he is allegedly our top earner by some margin. Terrible value on the face of it.

Another example is Toth. Allegedly on an eye watering  £10k p.w. considering he was on the bench nearly all last season. I'd rather keep Brittain, flog him and promote a young keeper 

Plenty of ways round it IF they really wanted to keep any of the 3 obvious suspects.

Clearly, they don't - in fact Brittain's replacement has been brought in in advance of his departure.

Sensible in one sense, but not if they aren't on the same level.

I think it was also widely reported Foreshaw was on £10k a week last season!!!

Theres an extra £5k per week that could have given to 2 of Brittain / Travis / Tronstad.

Baffling logic going on at this club  

18 minutes ago, JBiz said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25309580.blackburn-rovers-resigned-losing-callum-brittain/
 

Full quotes on CB. Don’t let that door hit you on the way out pal! 

You’re about as pathetic as the lads running our club. Give your head a shake 

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

No but the delusion that we will sell for £2.5m and spend all that on a replacement is definitely starting.

Where the fuck have they been for the last 15 years? (In a coma it seems)

This is the crux of it. If someone offered us £10m for Pickering I’d almost wonder what’s the point as we would only replace with £500k if we were lucky  

57 minutes ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

I am surprised that a lower Premier league team isn't sniffing around Brittain - and the very least one of the three relegated clubs. Boro, Derby or Wrexham - none are going to offer his true worth - or really offer much career advancement. I suppose it is a limited career, so if they are increasing his salary.

He doesn’t have the physical attributes for the prem, nor the defensive abilities (in my opinion). Some of those wingers would eat him alive. The gulf is huge these days.

He is a solid Championship full back who is good overlapping and getting forward, a player I’d love us to keep.

I’d imagine Boro would offer him at least double what we would, and they’re not a basket case club. He’d be mad not to be interested

Speaking of PNE - christ I hadn't realised just how grim they've had it for so long...

They've been to just 1 cup (FA or League) QF since England won the World Cup, and that was last season! Under Venkys alone we've been to 4 QFs

Hadn't averaged 15k+ attendance since 1972 until they reduced ticket prices (cough wake up Rovers cough)

Haven't played in the top tier since 1961.

They're on a 60+ year decline, it's only the grandparents who go who have seen any sort of good football.

https://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/pne.htm

I can somewhat accept having a 'prem team' if you support / season ticket at Chorley or Darwen, but PNE, they've spent the majority of their history a league or two behind the likes of Liverpool / United, so bizarre.

I remember when Swansea got promoted to the big leagues and 90% of their fans supported Liverpool / United as their 'prem team'

Clearly not even close to anybody new, otherwise we’d have lined it up to the kit announcement. 

2 hours ago, alex l said:

I'd say the relation is easy to see, but each to their own view. 

The relation is “it’s green”.

Had the opportunity to do so much more. It’s a smart shirt but absolutely nothing unique to our 150th anniversary. It’s just a green away kit - oh with a white badge too.

- unique badge, unique sponsor, gold trim, something unique to the Blackburn area in the background, legend player names in the background, trophy cabinet / success years in the background 

All simple things that would elevate a 150th kit to be different to the usual 2nd/3rd strip and it looks like none were done 

5 hours ago, superniko said:

I actually think this could be a beauty - I hope they don’t mess it up.

The bee crest with gold trim on the kit.

I still would have preferred our season home kit to be the anniversary kit - but I guess it’s all about making money now and selling multiple kits 

I should kept my mouth shut, absolutely nothing unique about that shirt at all - it’s just another usual away/3rd kit.

Do we have anybody in a position who actually knows what they’re doing at this club?

I actually think this could be a beauty - I hope they don’t mess it up.

The bee crest with gold trim on the kit.

I still would have preferred our season home kit to be the anniversary kit - but I guess it’s all about making money now and selling multiple kits 

Brentford and Matthew Benham don’t often get things wrong but this certainly feels like a strange one. I’d be surprised if they don’t regress now.

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Surely January and February are the most depressing months of the year, no?

It's a fair argument....February is short, seems to go quickly (albeit depressing as it's when we usually have a death spiral), January perhaps, but there's all that 'new year new me' optimism, everyone's in the same boat.

November is just crap though, clocks have changed, it's starting to get dark, it rains every day, the dread of months of cold, wet, dark days ahead. It has a rubbish International break in the middle of it too.

It all feels a bit 'meh' with no Dingles, Bolton, even Wigan and Blackpool.

PNE away in the middle of the most depressing month of the year.

Two midlands clubs at Easter, Yorkshire and Humber over Christmas. They could be worse trips, but it's still just a bit shit.

I've found the bit where we're on the edge of the playoffs and then implode in February / March across a load of winnable fixtures after not spending anything in January.

6 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

We were relegated from the Premier League in 2012. At the time parachute payments were paid to relegated clubs for the next 4 years so were still being received in 2015 and 2016.

Ah that was in the back of my mind but 1) forgot it was 4 years back then and 2) it’s such a small difference in the grand scheme of parachute payments now.

These muppets really did relegate us at the worst possible time

Found this one baffling….how are we bringing in less broadcasting revenue now compared to 2015 and 2016?

There is a ridiculous amount of matches televised these days and we appear to be none the better for it.

Port Vale releasing a 150th anniversary kit. Looks a beauty. 

15 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Bellingham on his way to Germany, either Eintract Frankfurt, Dortmund or RB Leipzig, who are all interested.

Figured he would have had a crack at the Premier league with Sunderland before moving??

Absolute madness, have they even watched him play? Probably goes for more than Wharton with the ability of his little toe.

Fair play to him though, he should ride that high while he can and get to Dortmund.

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Quite the opposite - that's a fantastic group of players (for this level). 

Wilder should be sacked this evening. 

If you say so, but to me Davies, Cannon, Moore, Diaz, Campbell etc are nothing but mid-table championship standard but probably all picking up £50k+

Hamer the standout man for them, but he’s surrounded by overpaid shite - their wage bill will be ridiculous 

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Absolutely hilarious that Sheff Utd bottled that! 

Bad news for the championship though, as there will now be 4 big spenders in the league.

They had a deduction this season, and I don’t think they’ve sorted their finances since - gambled on another promotion so expect a big regression there, especially given next season is their final parachute payment year as they only get 2.

Sunderland would have spend more, given their likely sale of Bellingham. 

5 minutes ago, Adam C said:

I’d rather have seen Sheffield Utd go up, I’m fed up with them destroying my enjoyment of football. 

I’d love to see their wage bill - so much highly paid dross there. A few troublesome years coming there way now 

Surely we all want Sunderland to win this - Sheffield United have cheated their way through their finances for a few years now - resulting in them signing Anel A ahead of us despite the fact they couldn’t actually pay for him.

About time that all caught up with them