Those end sections were netted off yesterday. Miracles do happen, it would seem.

The only time I've heard him get stick in person was the other week when he couldn't be arsed to chase a ball down the bye line. Other than that, he gets nothing but encouragement, as they all do, and certainly at Ewood.

With the injury to Pickering, unfortunately we have little choice but to play Hedges.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24817128.blackburn-predicted-team-five-changes-sunderland/

An interesting quote from Jackson in his piece, don't you think? 🤔 "Todd Cantwell is far better suited to the number ten role."

Why should they be shameful for merely letting a player go who they presumably didn't rate at the time? Players get released all the time and many forge successful careers at other clubs. That's just football.

I think that after our recent great run, results will start to level out somewhat, especially if as reported, Travis and Pickering are out for a while. Travis will be a big loss whoever replaces him. With Pickering out, we have little option but to move Beck to left back. This is compounded by having to bring Hedges back in, so we lose some attacking threat down the left. 0-2

Get people into the club shop to buy match tickets, and perhaps they'll spend on merchandise at the same time. It'll never catch on....

We saw glimpses of Cozier-Duberry having a go at beating the full back in first half of the Luton game. Players like that cost a lot of money, which is why we are where we are with Hedges.

I was down at the club shop yesterday afternoon. There was a steady stream of folk buying tickets for both Boxing Day and the Dingles. One person in particular bought 11 tickets for Boxing Day!

Why only 1,500 and not the whole tier? What difference does it make? They don't half make some odd decisions down there.

When the next man is appointed, we'll then know the answer to that question.

My original question was asked of Chaddy after reading his statement '...the director of football will pick a head coach who suits what the club philosophy and ethos whether its bringing through young players or playing a certain way or keeping a team'. But anyway, seeing as you've jumped in.... In my opinion, the club has neither a playing ethos nor philosophy. They do have a strategy, which is to penny pinch at every opportunity to cut costs. One which is purely financially driven as you say, but not with any view to improve the club long term. They do not have a playing ethos/philosophy, however, which is what Chaddy was alluding to. If they did, then the playing style introduced under JDT would still exist. The playing style is IMO dictated solely by Eustace based on the players he has. His remit will be to 'make do with what we give you, we don't care about style'. Players aren't recruited based on whether they fit a playing style; rather because they're cheap. So all this talk of 'Directors of football, 'ethos', 'philosophy'... is moot in our case. It does goes to show though, that with the right manager, teams can be successful despite not having this 'modern' DOF claptrap.

You think that Waggott is telling Eustace how to set the team up?

Out of interest, who do you think is currently dictating/defining the 'philosophy' and 'ethos' at BRFC?

Don't tell Chaddy whatever you do! An ex-Dingle in the blue & white halves? He'd never recover!

There's no logical, strategic thinking behind any of their decisions. It's all for the here and now and doing the bare minimum. Any challenge is met with risible excuse making. Jokers.

John Kettley is a weatherman, and so is chaddyrovers 😆

We literally need to sell to survive, so any transfer business will be in the opposite direction. More likely to be a fire sale than any squad strengthening.

We were comfortably beaten by a good side yesterday; I've no problem with that, it's to be expected considering the relative budgets of the two clubs. They were so much more physical; so much quicker; so much more technical ability; they had a game plan, and they have a savvy, albeit dislikeable, manager. They'll go up as champions in my view. What we're seeing now is the culmination of years of non investment and downgrading. Coupled with a safety first manager, who admittedly doesn't have much choice, and it's clear where we're heading. Eustace needs to rediscover a way of nicking a win here and there, otherwise it won;t be long before we're looking over our shoulders again. If we fall too far down the table, I don't think we'd have the ability to get out of it. We've turned from what was a few games ago, a hard tream to beat, into one starting to let in soft goals who can't score for toffee.

Who would you rather have there? Someone who can 'press', or someone who can create and put the ball in the chuffin' net?

Here we go again. 'Nicko says this, Nicko says that'.

Using 'lack of crosses' as a means to excuse his lack of goals, is exactly that; it's excuse making. Yes, he's feeding off scraps, but he needs to counter that with making far more effort. He doesn't put himself about anywhere near enough; that's the top and bottom of it for me.

It's closed on Monday presumably because of lack of footfall. The lack of footfall is presumably because the retail offering is lacking. The retail offering is lacking is because <fill in the blank>...

Barca / Athletico La Liga fixture to be played in Miami. Next stop Premier League? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98y89dwrxro