My niece is 11 and has rejected a training contract at Man Utd to sign a proper playing contract at Burnley 🤢 Tell you what though, I played for the school team and was pretty good, but she absolutely has me on toast when play 1-1, she's fantastic.

Miracles, by definition, happen pretty quickly 🙂

Szmodics seems to be a 1 goal in 4 player. Let's hope he hits 10 goals this year then 🙂

Personally believe Rovers should seize the chance here and offer the women's games free as part of a ST. And get the games played at Ewood. We do great things at our club in the name of equality, and we should keep pushing especially while the Stanway/Walsh/Toone spotlight is on us!

I don't think we're holding onto it as such. I think women have just had their cathartic 'fuck you' to the men's game, and hopefully can blossom as a sport in their own right now. It also needs the chauvinists to stfu, and enjoy the sport for what it is.

Given that it was a decision by men to ban them from playing football from the 1920s until the 1970s (and men still regularly shit on women's football), I've no problem with them giving us a bit back. Because of men, women's football in England is barely 50 years old when it should be twice that age.

They genuinely took a legit cultural behemoth and gutted it by not giving it the time it needed. For my money, I actually wouldn't have changed the story much, but they should've let the events of the last episode play over 4 episodes or so. There also should've been a more complete reveal whereby when Jon Snow killed Daenerys, Drogon lights him aflame in rage, but Jon walks out of the fire. Aegon Targeryon. Look at how popular Harry Potter still is, GoT deserved at least that level of relevance.

He plays for Peterborough lad.

Easy solution, do what John Williams did. Fortress Ewood. £250-350 pricing all around the ground. Unreserved Darwen End Lower. Away fans up in the gods, out the way. Also a good way of engineering bookings for any away player that celebrates, as it can always be construed as 'goading home fans'. Happened at least a few times back in 2007-10

I'll hold off judgement on most things til the end of the window, including the Dack situation. I'd have thought JDT's playing career could be exactly what Dack can learn from. Very similar type of player.

This is much better than the men's.

He was much cuter in his battles today despite plenty of provocation. Little pushes, leaving a boot in with his tackles, running into players just after they've cleared the ball. Love that sort of shithousery.

'Project' sounds to me like 'work in progress'. He'll only be as committed as far as he can take us.

I look at it as 'If we'd got that £3m for Rothwell, would we be happy with £2.5m (including add-ons) for Szmodics?' Imo, absolutely.

He also provided the tidy little dink through that led to the corner immediately preceding our goal.

Also felt we were miles behind with the graphics that go alongside the team announcement before the game.

Kaminaki is scary when we have a corner. Practically stood in their half!

Massive Bert vibes from Brittan. He's brilliant. Feel like Vale might be overawed by the occasion of his first proper first team game. Sub is the right decision but needs more chances in the team.

Oh captain, my captain! What a screamer. Goal of the Season competition can end now.

Still think Szmodics and Styles might sign yet.

Looks to me like 4231 Kaminski; Brittan Ayala Wharton Pickering; Buckley Travis; Hedges Vale Brereton; Gallagher.

My Dad has always said that the Blackburn mentality is that if it's not raining today, it will tomorrow.

Assume this means that if an offside player doesn't touch the ball, then they are not offside?

It took him 60 years to walk there?

Asked my Peterborough supporting boss about Szmodics. 'Probably similar to your man Rothwell. Can't judge ability, but very similar in that he likes to get the ball and bomb forward. He probably turns quicker than Rothwell though, I thought the Titanic turned quicker than him.'