Wonder if we are going to see a few more fans squeeze out of their armchairs, get away from their laptops and get down to Ewood.

This team deserves better support at home than it has received so far this season.

come on boys n girls see Dack in attack, he is worth the effort.

1 hour ago, gumboots said:

I did once pass Jonathan Douglas on the side of the road. 

At first glance I thought you did something rather rude!

7 hours ago, K-Hod said:

Rothwell was outstanding all match.

Nyambe and Evans very good in second half. Bennett improved in second half.

It really was a game of two halves and I’m so glad we didn’t lose tbh, but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating that we’ve gone in 2-0 down at half time and started a game so slowly AGAIN!

We just need lots of bodies in and fast. Particularly if the injuries keep on piling up (especially at this early stage). 

We didn’t start slowly - both Armstrong and Rothwell nearly scored prior to lenihans crazy 20 mins

Actually the first ten minutes were quite good

then Lenihan makes a howler

then we concede from their second attack

then they think they’re Real Madrid and we just well er....

2 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Thinking about turning this off. Horse shit 

Great commitment

Trust Tony ✌️

38 minutes ago, 47er said:

So no other club is willing to pay for potential except us? That can't be right.

More likely they think the fee outweighs the potential.

Or most managers consider that their job is very short term, they need immediate success or they’ll be shifted for somebody else.

i think we are privileged at the moment to have a manager that is looking long term and is targeting appropriate purchases

1 hour ago, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:

If I wasn't a Rovers fan I would still be looking at us as an exciting prospect. 

But you are, so you’ll look on grumbling if we don’t spend money, moan it’s on the wrong players if we do spend money, remember every mistake every young graduate has made and hold it against him for years, always think that other clubs are getting better players in, hell you might even chant 442 when 3-0 up in the premiership!

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

 

We are trying to have a rational discussion about something that is completely irrational but it’s good that people are being civil.

2 hours ago, Stuart said:

 

Some posters are starting to sound like a child trying to convince his parents that he “really needs” an iPhone X for his 11th birthday simply because his dad happened to have a wander round the Apple Store!

Mmmm

The strategy of backing potential I find much more exciting than buying experienced journey men who have reached their peak and will therefore decrease in value.

TM has done that with Raya, Lenihan, Nyambe, Dack. Because he has a nucleus of experience with Charlie, Graham, Benno, Evans and sees filling the rest with young talent.

That works for me, and whilst he should have limits on the price he pays, I can see the logic.

This just could be a very exciting period of time for rovers fans.

Kevin Arnott - I think he was my first loanee legend

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

I'm sure when I glanced through the Telegraph article first thing this morning it said we were hoping for at least 4 more arrivals and has since been changed to at least 3 new arrivals.

Worrying. Seems we're constantly retreating from Mowbray's early hopes and now we're setting the bar at 3 of which a couple will be loans.

To be fair, I’m not sure I believe that you could restrict yourself to just glance anything!

22 hours ago, Tom said:

Fair play to Chaddy, desperately wanted Kent to come to Ewood, when that didn’t happen he went to Kent!

Good job Mark Venus isn’t still playing!

Lansbury is on £45k a week

He ain’t coming to ewood

Blueboy that is a fantastic find, 

good knowledge aha

Partnerships in midfield are most important, like strikers and Central defenders, you work together, over the years, Metcalfe/Parkes, Tugay/Savage, Sherwood/Atko etc were great instances of this!!

Trying to remember who played in centre mid with Kendall, McKenzie was in a more advanced role I think? Help!!

Mickey Speight in our promotion season, enhanced by the majestic Kevin Arnott later in the season - that is if memory isn't playing tricks on me!

I can think of several occasions when Benni has scored that all important goal or tucked away a crucial penalty that has meant a valuable 3 points. I have often said to myself, "Thank you Benni for being so cool under such pressure, you are a class player".

I think you need to remember its easy to look cool when you actually don't give a fook!

I too liked watching Benni parade his skills but he only did it on his terms - it's amazing now that playing for South Africa is now so important to him when he put himself in exile for a number of years - yes we know issues with managers!

He'll score a few for West Ham - if he gets picked and then he'll be drain on their resources for 2 yrs - and to think the dildomen were preaching about previous owners throwing their money about with abandon!

Gotta agree. However, Hughes is a conservative manager and no doubt he is thinking that Henchoz's 'experience' (that favourite of concepts of footy managers) will help us - somehow.

I think Arsene Wenger's philosophy is spot on. I know he has an advantage of having good contacts in France but he seems to always be thinking one step ahead. He's always looking to bring in young players and plan for the future - but without jeopardising the present. On occasions, he seems to have got the balance slightly wrong - but you just have to look at his Carling Cup team to know that Arsenal can look forward to a rosy future - that's without splashing on new signings, which they will do.

I remember in the summer Arsenal were linked with Davids and Dabo and Wenger refuted the rumours by saying that it would send out a negative message to his young hopefuls if he brought in a old stop-gap.

Now, obviously the talent bubbling away below the Rovers first team is less impressive - and we don't have the dosh to splash out on say Walcott but I would like to see Hughes adopt a long-term approach without taking his eye of the short-term.

Perhaps, it's asking for too much as we are one of the clubs that go into a season knowing that relegation is a possibility. Arsenal don't have to worry about that.

...and do you think Wenger and his team of talent spotters get these top youngsters from around the globe for nothing?

If I remember correctly Pennent cost c£2.6m, Denilson c£3m

and that's just a couple I've heard off

So not even considering the wage bill of the Arsenal Youth team / squad, BRFC would require immediate payback on such investment.

Things I reckon.............

Mark Hughes rates him as a player

Mark Hughes appreciates his versatility

Mark Hughes appreciates his leadership capabilities

Mark Hughes will miss him

Also it seems that

Benitez rates him

Curbishley rates him

etc

All the above confirms my own thoughts that he is a highly effective player, very rarely injured and one much underestimated

Also he has shown a great deal of professionalism these last few months when all he seems to be doing is playing the system.

I would say Nonda has lost his chance. I will be suprised if Derbyshire doesn't play at Reading, despite obvious problems with his youth and so on, and absolutely without a doubt Roberts and Jeffers would be playing if they were available.

It's a shame really as Nonda seemed in his first couple of games as if he had something to offer. Now we really look like having to go back out into the transfer market despite bringing in 4 strikers in over the summer.

For mine, Nonda is the best option we have for leading the line - whilst we'd all love to have the local boy become the superstar centre forward I ain't seen that potential yet - be that Derby or Gallagher

I reckon that Nonda's contribution to the team is seriously undervalued and whilst admitting I'd like more from him I cannot for the life of me see any viable alternative within the current squad - injured or not.

What we do need is more from Bentley and Pedersen. Sod the fancy stuff, roll back the years to the directness of Ripley and Wilcox whom used to get half a yard and whip the ball in - 4 good crosses a game from each winger was all Dalglish asked for. Yes they were aiming for Shearer and the like, but at least judge these present day strikers when they've been given the quick and early service.

Completely agree Rover6. Our ability to turn defence into attack makes us easily one of the least effective teams in the league right now and this is mainly due to our distinct lack of pace.

Yeah but, I reckon our ability to turn attack into defence is unrivalled!

Excellent! I'd forgotten quite how fraught a month November was - thank god for Two Tremendous Tugay Thunderbolts otherwise referees and their "assistants" would have taken all the headlines. Mind I quite like the foreign versions - one dodgy penalty given to us vs Basle, one firmer one not given to Feyenoord - we must be a big club in Europe after all!

Bob, I can claim to be the fella that leant you my 'phone and my lass checked that you'd found suitable refreshment later in the evening - if only I'd realised I mixing with such celebrity I'd have had to get drunk - hell I did that, er I mean eat cake - hell I did that too, er enjoy the attentions of one those ladies in the windows, er....................

We ended up with Bobby Ball (or was Joe Pasqualle) singing George Formby songs in some bar at 3.30am - those chaps from Darwen were completely crackers and very good company

probably cause he knows he is leaving along with dickov, gresko, amoruso, gray and co

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No, it was because he didn't touch it, it was a Dunne OG

My thoughts are that the whole document offers nothing to Blackburn Rovers management.

Not one proposal has actually been thought through to a conclusion, all I see is a long list of hopeful rhetoric without anything concrete. I must state here that I went negative on the whole document when I read such lines as “And God forbid if ……..”

I mean slogans like the park and ride scheme are backed with amateurish drivel such as the location being “somewhere near the M65.”

Okay, it may list the reasons for people not coming fairly well. However it doesn’t even acknowledge that whilst attendances are on the decline, the previous attendance levels, given the population where truly remarkable. Leeds United would need a crowd of roughly 175000 every home game to match our attendance/population ratio and that is without considering the relevant hinterland.

That is the crux and unfortunately any local marketing strategies may find that the attendance levels affected are marginal, so marginal that the cost of such strategies could well outstrip the benefit.

I know I will be accused of not offering solutions, and to that I plead guilty, but because I don’t think we have any issues to answer. BRFCs attendances are a function of demography and discounting any major PR disasters, the teams success is the only the thing that will measurably affect it.

Looking from outside I see that “my club” is being run by a fabulous management team, be that at boardroom level, first team level or academy level.

Perhaps that is all that should be voiced – we should stand tall and let it be known that, here at Blackburn rovers, we gain our strengths from our weaknesses i.e. we are a small town in an economically barren area slugging it out with the big city boys and quite frankly doing it rather well!. Such realistic bravado may actually breed ownership of the club into the locals.

Keep the faith, but keep it real. Please don’t fall into the trap of taking yourselves too seriously because the quality of that document does not support such attitudes.

A bit of reflection indicates what a bloody good job Souness did for Rovers. Winning promotion and a cup competition in his 4 and a bit year tenure can surely only be regarded as success at a club of our stature.

Put it this way, if he achieved the same at newcastle he would be winning them their first trophy in nearly 40 years. And they have the nerve to moan about his appointment.

Anyway, I couldn't give flying fk about newcastle, nor whether their new manager is a success or not. The dilemma now is whom is best suited to move my club forward. Whom is capable of stabilising the good ship Blackburn Rovers and all who sail in her ?

Of the usual suspects, the out of workers I actually hope we do not appoint any:

El Tel - baggage and not as good as he thinks

Houllier - Mr Magoo is not for me and just think if he brought pinocchio with him !

Glenda - pass the sick bucket

Strachan - still not convinced that Coventry isn't the real Strachan and that his relative success at Soton was not just a good goalscoring run by Beats

Sturrock - has apparently applied for both rovers job and the nobber job. If he isn't fussy, I am, so pish off!

Sir Bobby - ?

In work:

Hughes - has been my favourite to take over from GS, but probably two years too early

Dowie - shows promise, but his purchases this summer do not inspire, we know that signing players because they are italian is not always an indicator that they are any good.

Worthington - done a very good job but not for me

Moyes - of all those listed would be my choice, but he will not leave Everton yet!

Reid - NO

Thinking of others, once Advocaat was mentioned it reminded me how much of a poor job he did in the summer, whilst recalling how much a great job Rehhegel had done. What is Reheggels situation? Just thinking outside the box for other possibilities.

I think we should just be thankful that the decision making is in the highly capable hands of John Williams.

Just as an aside, would anybody have any knowledge if the trustfund will have any input in the decision?