24 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

I can name most of them. The devil incarnate centre stage with the pipe. A futture Scotland manager and well known businessman in there too 

and Wales' manager for good measure!

5 hours ago, Mercer said:

Think we'll have too much much for Blackpool tonight - they are really, really poor - think they'll struggle to cope with likes of Dolan, Thomas and even Szmodics.

Lumped on at marginally better than evens and gone for £10 each on Thomas and Dolan as anytime scorers at 7/1 and 3/1 respectively.  More quality reds to come!  Tonight's 'quaffer' is a Douro Valley Reserva from Waitrose - highly recommended and terrific value at about £12. 

Another profitable night and another case of fine reds ordered - thanks Rovers!

We are getting some very good results despite a threadbare squad - I really hope we don't come to regret our abysmal window.

Against all the odds, now back up to 4th - where will it all end - can go to bed and dream tonight!

Rovers a very difficult watch at times under JDT but to be 4th when he's got his hands tied behind his back!  I do like the fact he is prepared to leave 'big name' players out.

An Ainsworth inspired QPR is going to be one big test on Saturday - just hope we've something left in the tank.

Think we'll have too much much for Blackpool tonight - they are really, really poor - think they'll struggle to cope with likes of Dolan, Thomas and even Szmodics.

Lumped on at marginally better than evens and gone for £10 each on Thomas and Dolan as anytime scorers at 7/1 and 3/1 respectively.  More quality reds to come!  Tonight's 'quaffer' is a Douro Valley Reserva from Waitrose - highly recommended and terrific value at about £12. 

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Cos it been reported we are. Did you miss that bit? 

Plenty has been reported by 3 different journalists. What more do you want? A minute to minute account with details of everything. 

Of course I will keep believing in my club I support and stakeholder. 

I'll bet you £50 this is all futile nonsense and nothing will come of it.

Loser pays £50 to charity of winner's choice.

Just what have you got to lose given your certainty over the issue?

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Another conspiracy theory Mercer. We wouldn't be pursing this if we thought we didn't have a case. It baffling how quickly you are to write off the club you support and are stakeholder in. 

EFL have been challenge finally and maybe it will change how they run the game finally and actually set up an independent body to oversee transfers and late transfers. 

Btw the lawyers we hired are to fight this case are Centrefields based in Manchester Centrefield LLP | Sport Law | Media Law | Legal Advice

Who says we are pursuing it?

We are almost 3 weeks post transfer window closure and seemingly zilch has been reported.

Btw, when I referred to KC in an earlier post, it referred to 'Kings Counsel' and not a firm of lawyers!

You keep believing Chaddy but, IMO, this one ran out of legs almost before the starting gun was fired!

IMO, not a chance BBD will accept this offer.

In comparison to last season, this season has been moderate and he can't afford a repeat of this season next season otherwise the offers he gets for 2024/25 will be significantly less attractive financially.  If I was Brereton's agent I'd be advising him to strike whilst the iron is relatively hot and secure a big signing on fee and a lucrative contract for 3 years or more.

12 minutes ago, neophox said:

Were are we now in this mess? Any news on the OBrian situation?

IMO, EFL didn't blink and we did because we didn't really have a leg to stand on.

I think all smoke and mirrors in an attempt to placate some of the fans who naively swallow the bullsh1t that I think spews out of Ewood.

Unbelievable.

Just imagine where we'd be if we played well!!!

Off to order my case of reds with the winnings.

Thanks Ayala.

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Given that Rovers are still fighting in and got sports lawyers in and went to keep fighting it suggested we have a very good case and the EFL was at fault. 

Yet don't have proper procedure in place with an independent panel or people to decide them quickly but as always with them nothing is done with speed 

always quick to blame Rovers every time Mercer

Are Rovers still fighting and says who?  EFL will not blink - as custodians / governing body they have to be seen to be strong.

Speed is of the essence in instances such as these.  IF Rovers are serious about this then presumably they will be represented by KC  and the cost for KC is feckin mega bucks (circa £2,000 / hour).

I feckin wish Rovers would start doing things both right and well and I would then be at the front of the queue to praise them.  Sadly, IMO, our club is shambolic and seem to make a dog's breakfast out of most things.

4 hours ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Score draw with Dack to score @ 29/1 feels more exciting 

Back your instinct!

1 hour ago, RoverDom said:

And that's fine if Rovers messed up a crucial part of the transfer I agree there's no one else to blame. But there's a version of events pushed by nixon (or atleast an interpretation)  that the EFL asked for clarification on something that didn't need clarified - it would be like the passport office ringing me up and asking my favourite pizza topping.

Crucially no one knows though so we're owed an explanation of what went on not least because we've all sacrificed 17 days of work to transfer deadline day

Unless we get a blow by blow account, which Broughton has promised!!!!, then we may never know with certainty.

How many transfers do the EFL handle over the course of a season - I'm guessing at 750+

How many transfers do Rovers execute over the course of a season - 10 at most!

I know where my money would be placed re the fault factor.

IMO, the stench from Ewood is nauseating. 

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

how much have you put on at those odds?

Enough to buy a very decent case of red with the winnings!

7 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Beautifully set up so you can absolutely destroy them if they don't win convincingly.😉

 

Give over!

It's what I feel - put my money where my mouth is and lumped on Rovers at 19/10.

A banker home win for me following two creditable draws on the road.

Couldn't think of better opponents for Rovers to face - to me, Swansea are an accident waiting to happen defensively (even more so than Rovers).  Think Martin is vastly overrated and confuses himself as well as his team - another who likes 'to build', "we are 18 months in now - I hope we get a lot longer to keep building it".

3-0 to Rovers - Dack and Brereton twice.

14 hours ago, Upside Down said:

I have no sympathy for Rovers. They are a football club (supposedly) this is what they do.

It's just another basic task that this club can't get right.

As predicted they are now trying to shift the blame onto the EFL.

Fully agree.

Were the EFL to blame for the failure to complete on Brierley?  I think not.  Seemingly, Rovers submitted paperwork which was incomplete and incorrect.

I think Rovers made a dog's breakfast of trying to complete the signings of both O'Brien and Brierley. 

If anyone on this MB applies for a passport, driving licence etc and fails to complete an application form correctly then the application is rejected.  It's that simple and, IMO, Rovers have no one else to blame other than themselves.

Yet again, I think the club is failing to communicate with its fans in any way, shape or form - it's appalling management and further evidence of the contempt with which we are treated.  If any business, other than football, behaved in such a fashion then its doors would soon be closed.  

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Easy with the benefit of hindsight. No-one knew at that stage we were going to amass a decent number of points by November then completely fizzle out making the second half of the season a dead rubber. (again)

No one knew how the season was going to pan out. We might have needed his goals to keep us up or we might have looked to be in a better chance of the play offs than we do right now. Imo it would have been a big mistake to let him go for £8m at that point. £15m obviously would have been a different matter I suppose.

Agree, hindsight is easy and wonderful.

However, successful executive managers all have foresight and judgement and set the agenda rather than waiting for events to consume them!

Sadly, IMO, Waggott and Broughton are just vacuous flounderers  drifting along as the tide ebbs and flows.

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Isn't he on more like 30k a week?

We never got an acceptable bid from anymore in the summer. The offers were poor to be very honest. 

If we had sold him in the summer we don't know where our season or league position would be. Just think about first

I think there is an understanding the best offer was around the £8/9million mark and that is not 'very poor' given the circumstances we were in.  We should have accepted and brought in 3 or 4 good quality players - all round, we would have been much stronger.  Instead, no one at Ewood had the balls to call it.

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I went to see the musical at the Opera House. It was worse than watching Rovers on a bad day. I thought my watch had stopped.

I know what you mean!

Did nothing for me either.

12 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Pretty transparent attempt at trying to pretend it’s all rosy behind the scenes.

A picture paints a thousands words!

IMO, Waggott day dreaming and somewhere else, Pasha 'what am I doing here', Broughton thoroughly pissed-off, Benson 'can't believe my luck' and 'lights on but no one's home' Lowe.

14 hours ago, Mercer said:

Really fear for us tonight.

Wigan get an early goal and could become very toxic.

1 hour ago, Gav said:

You were predicting a Wigan win, a toxic atmosphere and claimed Thomas was disappointing!

Utter bunkum, you make it up as you go along 🤣

The fantasy world belonging to @Gav!!!

There you go again - WHERE did I predict a Wigan win?

By all means comment on my posts but please get your facts right and stop erroneous spinning in order to have a pop at me.

Think the only utter bunkum relates to your delusional obsession with Josh Maja!

Can we drop all this nonsense about we'd have won, and even comfortably, if we'd taken our chances.

Every professional football club have fans, and managers, spurting out if only we'd taken that chance or those chances, if only we'd defended better, if only referees were better.

The league table does not reflect 'IFS' but is the resultant of the cold hard reality of results.

I think at the moment we are a total sh1te football club from top to bottom playing, in the main, uninspiring and boring football on a sh1te pitch in an ageing and tired stadium - luck has played a huge part in us fluking a few results (that we didn't deserve) in the first half of the season.  Just look at our results since the World Cup - we are heading for the bottom half of the league.

We have just failed to beat bottom of the league Wigan at home who had scraped 3 points from their 9 previous games.  It's indefensible.

I think more and more supporters will vote with their feet and anyone who does not think our club is in crisis should wake up and smell the coffee.

2 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i think sorba was pretty shattered in all fairness,think we`ve got ourselves a player,he was excellent

Much improved second half.

Hope he's not done his left hammy - saw him clutching several times.

9 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

So basically you just literally want an absolute tosser in the starting XI for... reasons?

'Absolute tosser' are your words!

For God's sake, look at some of the 'great' teams - Leeds, Reaney, Hunter, Charlton, Giles, Bremer - Forest, Burns, Lloyd, - Liverpool, Smith, Souness - Arsenal, Adams, Keown, Viera, Storey, - Chelsea, Harris, Osgood - Man U, Keane, Scholes.  All players with talent but who knew how to look after themselves, their team and the opposition!

Has the penny dropped?   

9 minutes ago, neophox said:

Would a Steven Gerrard touch this job? Or Frank Lampard?

and why the feck would you want either of those relative managerial failures!?

5 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

For all the angst on here it wasn’t reciprocated in the Blackburn End from what I could see. No banners against the board as we constantly saw at Goodison. 

Too many 'happy clappers'.

You should have been around in the 60's/70's when folk invaded the pitch and remonstrated in front of the directors' box and then did the same in Nuttall street - I did my fair share!  And the buggers listened!