That one he smashed against the bar!! 👀💪🏽

Agreed. I saw a player in him….last night he was basically Drogba! 💪🏽🤣

Ahhh Matthew…oh how I’ve missed you. Not. Tbf , there were a few of us who saw it in him. But then we can’t all have an eye for a player can we? @roversfan99 was insistent that JRC was the best right back at the club at the start of the season 😬awksy.

Gone!!

Eustace confirmed as gone……who’s next!?

There’s 100000% a player in Gueye, I saw it in 20 minutes, in his first game at Stockport, where interestingly he missed a boat load of chances but it was obvious that he had an ability to get into the right place at the right time. Added to his size, the use of that size and his link up play, It was obvious he was an upgrade on Gally. The ONLY thing he was missing was a finish. But his finishing seemed so bad that it had to be confidence, rather than ability. He thrives on being the man, the hero, and West Brom away gave him the chance to step up again, feel like it’s ‘all on me now’ and boy, did he step up. In truth, he’s been good for a while after that rocky period following his dismissal at Burnley. As a talismanic presence, I would build the front four around him for this last 14 games. Tell him he’s the man and pray he puts 10+ performances in like last night. If he does, we’ll be in the playoffs. No doubts in my mind. So, for now. I’m just gonna say it….I told you so! 😎

Undwr the circumstances, that was the performance of the season. The keeper, defence and Midfield two, set an incredible base for the front 4 to capitalise. Tbh, of the front 4, plus the subs, Dolan did ok, the rest were average, but Gueye was simply unplayable. 8/10’s for Pears, Brittain, Ribeiro, Batth, Sanderson, Dolan and Bucko. 6&7/10’s for Hedges, Weimann, ACD, and Cantwell. Travis, Hyam and Gueye were MONSTERS. That’s not hype, they genuinely seemed to grow extra inches. Like they’d sat together and said “Fuck Eustace, Waggott, Suhail and Venkys, this is our club, now let’s do it for the fans” If we can keep that base (Keeper, Defence and midfield two) solid and motivated, as it has been for most of the season, then our top 6 hopes rely almost exclusively on what impact the likes of Gueye, Kargbo, Dennis, Ohashi, Woodrow, Cantwell, Dolan et al, can achieve. Final point - there’s been a lot of back and forth this week about what should and should not happen. My take is that we should focus on driving these lads home. Fill the stadium, support the lads and be clear what we think of the owners. Big 14 games coming up, HUGE! RTID.

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I agree to an extent, but a well run club may, have put a holding statement out to say whilst negotiations between JE and Derby were ongoing, X, Y, and Z would be looking after the men’s first team training and team selection. Pending any further updates. That would at least put the fans who are spending money to travel down to West Brom today, some peace of mind, don’t you think?

Yeah, weird that they haven’t announced who is taking the team. Jonty, Lowe and Benson etc have been in training, so I’m assuming them. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if a new manager is announced simultaneously when JE’s departure is confirmed. For this game, I’d keep it simple: Pears Brittain. Batth. Hyam. Beck Trav. Bucko Dolan. Cantwell. Kargbo Gueye Subs - Toth, JRC, Sanderson, Ribeiro, Forshaw, Hedges, Woodrow, Weimann, Dennis Squad is already beginning to look better. Add Ohashi, Carter and Sonny in and let’s go!

Honestly, for THAT job, I’d defo give it to Warnock for the rest of the season.

Yeah, I’m not saying he’s anything special but my overriding feeling is that he was getting a lot out of the Millwall squad and I couldn’t understand him leaving, wasn’t there a disagreement?

What do people think of Neil Harris? I thought he’d done. Good job with Millwall and couldn’t understand his departure?

I fixed it for ya! 🤣🤣🤣

Sadly, I don’t think he’d stay, even IF they said all of that. Actions speak louder than words and there’s no trust. It’s done…I said that their one big job this January was to keep him happy. That’s not rocket science. Look after the lads, spend a bit of money….they blew it! God knows what / who is next as our managed decline continues..

Everyone knows mate. Look how many people we churn out…scouts, analysts, coaches etc. It’s completely dead in there…the reason JE has worked so well is because he demands that everyone look at themselves in the mirror. So you’ve got great lads doing the best for the club and each other. But that only goes so far. At some point the club need to reward the over performance with some quality additions, new contracts, updated equipment at training! There’s nothing! fwiw - No one says Suhail is an arse hole or anything like that. I just think the feeling is that no one cares. We (Blackburn Rovers) are simply a line on a P&L spreadsheet. Zero emotion. Suhails job is to work in the best interest of his employers and they’re happy to keep plodding on. There’s LOADS of money. The Personal Guarantee issue, isn’t an issue! It just means they’re on the hook personally for anything they spend. But £10m is literally pocket change to these guys. My guess, honestly is that they have very little idea, nor do they care really what’s happening. It’s a monthly / quarterly report amongst 10’s of others. And the person who reports it can easily paint this into a positive position! ”Sir / Madam? I write to inform you that I have turned the ship around! Blackburn Rovers are now in a status of profitability, whilst the team heads towards potential promotion. The business is sustainable” 🙈

It’s not his family mate. What he’s doing there is justifying his decision. He’s gone. In his head, he’s gone. They had to ‘talk him into not resigning’ in the summer after they pulled the rug on his budget. Then they ballsed up the January window with us sitting in 5th and £20m in ffp leeway. The underlying feeling amongst the group (players / coaches / staff) is that it’s completely toxic. The whole club is controlled by Suhail, no one’s had a pay rise, no new contracts, the place is falling to bits. JE’s whole ethos is on ‘togetherness’. The reason we’re 5th and not 20th isn’t because we’ve got loads of top players it’s because everyone is bought in. He’s getting the max from everyone, but that relies on give and take. The club keep letting that process down! fwiw - I reckon the Siggy thing was the straw that broke the camels back. It’s clear that JE didn’t think the extra one was coming in and the way we’ve cast Siggy aside is so classless. No one is telling me that wasn’t engineered by Suhail to force Siggy and his considerable wages out into the US market or whatever, after the Jan window closed. The lads wouldn’t have been happy about it, and that weakens JE’s position. For someone with morals, alongside everything else… “Enough is enough”

Tbf - i think there’s a lot of managers who would fancy us. You don’t get sacked, because there’s no internal expectation, other than not to get relegated. Mowbray and JDT’s careers didn’t stall after us, both probably on more money now than they were at Rovers. Eustace has increased his stock and will be on more money too… There’s lots of good managers who would fancy a crack at the job. Doesn’t make life any better for us as fans, mind.

Sorry mate. When JE sat down with Rovers it was days after the fiasco with Duncan Maguire. They talked through that transfer and the money which would now be allocated to the new manager in the summer.

£4-5m?

He’s already gone… When he took the job, he was promised the Maguire money if he kept us up, and then they reneged. To the point he offered his resignation more than once in the summer. They managed to talk him round and the signing of Cantwell probably helped. Then he gets us into 5th in January and we take the piss again. They could offer him £20m in the summer and he wouldn’t believe them. Runs deeper than transfers too. Most of the staff haven’t had a pay rise in years. The players aren’t getting new contracts, the club lacks class. It’s not conducive with Eustace. Trust completely broken down.

You’re completely missing the point mate. You have to think, why…why is a good manager, a good human being with values and morals looking to swap us for a club 16 places below us? Honestly, we’re completely rotten. It’s so sad.

A shame. These championship games are won and lost with fine margins. From our early form, there’s now lots of questions around the team. Why are we suddenly letting in soft goals? The keeper and defence have been magnificent until recently. What’s happened to Cantwell? Can the new boys hit the ground running? When can we get Sonny and Carter back in? More importantly, how quickly can we get Hedges and Dolan out? 2 wins in 11 is on Eustace. He needs to find the answers to those questions and snap us out of this rut, quick!

Soft goal. Predictable misses from our forwards. Getting overrun in midfield, Dolan average and Hedges stinking the place out. Would be Cantwell for Hedges at half time for me. Move Weimann out to the left for 15 mins and give us some more control centrally or we could be 2 or 3 down. Kargbo on for Weimann at 60 mins. They’ve been much better.

No one is saying we / you should be happy, just asking for some perspective…. “Elliot confirmed interest in schlupp, bamford and danns” - And? So what? We probably spoke about 50 players…no one knows how far that got and honestly if you ask the home fans of all those players, they’d probably say they were all shit. “waggott openly told us that ffp isn’t an issue he said there is money to spend and venkys will support that.” Incorrect, I’m pretty sure the slimy git actually said “can” fund us….a play on words and they obviously decided not to. “my big issue is the timing and I’m sorry not for one second am I having it’s hard as a valid excuse.” - Ok, so why is it that 80% + of transfers are done in the last 5 days then? The plan - From what I can see, the plan is to slowly but surely erode owner expenses and get the club paying for itself. If we go up, great. If not, meh 🤷🏽‍♂️ So, as I’ve said…my focus is on Sir John Eustace (as he will be named should he do the unthinkable and actually get us up) continuing to turn sewer water into 100yr old wine. But I genuinely cannot see any reason why he can’t get us in the top 6 now, because he got a us there with a lesser squad of players.