Old Codger

Got to applaud your optimism there SG194.. This is normally the kind of fixture where VI pulls some rabbit out of the hat and we stagger on for a few more games in the delusion that we have a football team in Rovers' colours giving their all for the cause and that perhaps there is genius at work behind the scenes after all... Except that I don't think there are any rabbits left. All either picked bone clean by the gannets and vultures circling the club, or dead of fan-led myxamotosis. Neither do I detect any evidence of genius, other than the evil hand-wringing type of stuff more associated with Pantomime than Professional Football. Nope, there is more evidence of bottom-bumping nothing left in the tank mumblings of deranged conspirators, the kinds of noises made by those who have suddenly had a dawning realisation that their sad little game is most likely up. As regards Sunday, I don't want JRC to tear us a new one. I really hope Kaminski has a back-breaking return to the hallowed soil. I'm hoping Amaari Bell hasn't matured into a capable and effective defender after his years in the (ahem) wilderness.. But what, you might ask, is the point of hope in the face of so much actual and damning evidence that we are fecked? I guess the best we can hope for is that Charlton turn up having watched the nano-second long 'higlights' of our last two fixtures, full with the incautious optimism that so often results in catastrophe for clubs.. Besides, we know that JRC only produces worldies once every 13.7 hours of game play, that Kaminski holds a candle for us Rovers faithful and that Amaari Bell is reliably unreliable.. so it might work out for us after all, especially if the other 8 players fail to trap for Charlton too. Or, I guess we can just pull the duvet up around our ears and binge watch House, or Stranger Things, or Benjamin Button - all forms of entertainment more likley to produce unanticipated outcomes for the protagonists, and all requiring similar levels of suspension of belief as are needed to stomach this latest version of Venky Shit Storm Rovers. Not hard to call this one: 1) Game off due to frozen playing surface - 2:1 favourite for me 2) Addicks adding addenough vibes to vitriolic and vocal partisan elements: Rovers 0 (no surprise there) Charlton 2 3) Rovers repair rot: Rovers 2 (Yuki's arse, and Miller screamer from half way line via Yuki's arse) Addicks 1 (JRC lob) 4) Don't go there, it's bleak this time of year: Rovers 0 Charlatans 1 (94th minute tap in following defensive howler involving all 11 Rovers players saying, "no, after You" in unison as the ball is punted tamely by Amaari Bell towards Darwen, and fanned goalwards by the collective intake of breath coming from the departing concession stand staff packing up the for display purposes only pie used to taunt punters into thinking they might be admitted to RBH with 2nd degree oral burns for the sky high price of 'sorry we sold out three weeks ago". Not happening in 2026. Promotion to the Prem, I mean.. Not for us, in any case. BENTSTERS OUT! PISH OFF PASSA GERROUT GRUNTY FRENCH GOB but still, COYB!

What are the odds that the game will be called off due to a frozen pitch, I wonder... may well be worth a cheeky punt at this point. Going back to the game yesterday, other than that thunderbolt from Baradji, we looked completely unable to threaten their goal, which got me reflecting upon the various passages of play that we were made to endure. Someone else has already pointed out how Cantwell consistently slows the pace of attacks down, and plays the ball back more often than not, rather than seeking the killer pass (not withstanding there being no-one to pass to, of course). He is capable of so much more, but just doesn't seem interested in contributing anything except petulance and de-minimis effort. The pedestrian pace with which we moved the ball about was in marked contrast to the more penetrative and incisive movement shown by the Wrexham lot, whose passing and holding play were solid throughout. Not saying that Wrexham were any great shakes, though - it just brought me to my main point in writing this: They certainly seemed to have turned up with a plan, whereas Rovers continued where they left off at Hillsborough, which meant more aimless meandering, no meaningful movement off the ball, and a complete lack of coherence - precisely the 'tactics' that failed to work on Monday evening. There is no need for any deep scrutiny to identify the underlying cause of the problem. The question is, what are the club going to do to address it? If, as it seems, there is no intention to plug the obvious gaps (in particular the lack of attacking threat) and simply to wait for injuries to key players from the current crop to clear up, then I don't think anyone can be blamed for wanting to vote with their feet and stay away until there is a full squad to select from, because anything else means you are signalling to the club that it is ok for them to continue their crazy and inept experiment. Why anyone would pay for such 'entertainment' is beyond me (noting of course that many of you are season ticket holders whose trousers were long ago nailed to the floor around your deluded ankles). So, Sunday's game against Charlton? It is not looking like anyone is coming in to address the clear deficiencies, which means an even greater likelihood of further pedestrian slop being served up, which in turn means fewer folk will be motivated to brave the draughty climes of Ewood Park than might otherwise have been inclined to go. I'll wait for the Charlton thread before I post any predictions, but despite the old saying that it is always darkest before the dawn, I'm more and more inclined to think the mothballs piled around the stadium are preparation for the long sleep, rather than anticipation of a spring upswing for the club. How long now till the only thing left of Blackburn Rovers is the BRFCS.COM forum? Bah, bloody humbug to it all. Feck the VENKY Scrooges Feck the faceless shoulder-shrink gaslighting toady wanker Suhail Pasha Feck the guile-less French guttersnip in short kecks with his moron-level plans RG To Hell with them! We are already there... 😞 VENKYS OUT!

I could comfortably outbid the regime at Ewood. A cockroach crawling out of your arse could... VO SPO RGO ad nauseam..

You didn't miss anything. A state of induced coma might be a decent option for consideration in the run down to the end of the season. VENKYS OUT! SUHAIL PASHA OUT! KNOBHEAD WITH SHORT TROUSERS AND ANKLE SOCKS OUT!

Thank you so much Rovers for making WREXHAM look like a decent football team. No-one gets any positives from that shit show today. No-one. Absolutely pathetic. Not fit to wear the shirt. Dreadful.

Unbelievable I know, but we have actually managed to get worse at the start of the second half. WTAF??

Lol. This could be an embarrassing day.

Not at the races today, are we? It is a straight continuation of the largely ineffective rabble-ball that we endured on Monday. Looking very much like a defeat today, unless something quite dramatic happens.... not holding my breath. The kit is horrible too.. But COYBW Get your fingers out FFS 😞

Yes, and with a scratch squad of misfits and ne'er do wells too. Sadly and almost unbelievably, we have contrived to further weaken the available options for Thursday since the Racecourse heroics. It is almost as if the plan was to give Rovers fans some hope that a rabbit might be pulled from the dodgy hat, only for us to find that the rabbit fell out of the magician's bag, there is nothing else to pull out to complete the illusion and we are left now with a magic show bereft of magic and sorely lacking in entertainment value. Who could have thought it? Unless, of course, you are prone to those odd conspiracy theories that bedevil modern life, the ones that dare to suggest that the thinning out / 'leaning' of the squad and lack of any back up plan is another insult from the toady bastards sitting in their chicken shit palaces in Pune, aided and abetted by the short-trousered and shadow-dancing goons left locally to play their games on the life support mechanisms rotting away at Ewood Park. Naahh. That couldn't possibly be anything to do with it... VENKYS OUT!

There are some obvious indicators that suggest Rovers will struggle to get anything from Thursday's game. 1) It's a home game, which despite having laid the hoodoo to rest, still doesn't seem to motivate the players much 2) Rovers are struggling to score goals at the moment, and even though chances are being made our makeshift strikeforce appears more 'deer in the headlights' than 'lion on the Savanah'. Wrexham have battering rams at the ready in contrast. 3) Wrexham are a club on the up-swing. Rovers are a club on the down-swing. History and pedigree count for sod all on the day, especially when your team is a ragbag of jellyjobs and misfits thrown together by a trainee alchemist suffering from delusions of grandeur. 4) Form places us on different trajectories too, with Wrexham on a mini run whilst Rovers are the steady eddie - having said that, their points tally from the last 6 games is only one better than ours (8 vs 7) 5) Their fans are 'living the dream' with big money backers and a clear strategy to move onwards and upwards. Our fans are enduring a 'living nightmare' with billy big balls backers, a back of fag packet plan, and a bunch of scoundrels and chancers driving the club incrementally towards oblivion - NOTHING about Rovers currently suggests any ambition beyond keeping the fucking lights on. No doubt the Hollywood stars down the A55 piss themselves laughing at the contrast in how the clubs are run. Looking forward to Thursday afternoon... Rovers Rinse & Repeat - Rovers 0 Red Dragons 0 Rovers Rue Rotten Restrictions & Referees - Rovers 0 Red Robins 2 Chaddy Cheers Championship Chaos - Rovers 4 Welsh Netflix Wannabes 0 For a change I will probably be there with 2 new recruits & family COYB! FOYV! VENKYS OUT IN 2026!

Two lacklustre sides battling it out for supremacy in the ineffectual stakes this evening. A tallest dwarf competition in all but actual presence of genetically divergent height-compromised individuals. The ingredients of a capable side are there for all to see - a modicum of flair and quality (Cantwell, Baradgi), awareness of the game (Trondstadt, McLoughlin), potential (Pratt, Litherland) and endeavour (Ohashi, and occasionally Hedges). Even old Pearsey can distribute the ball reasonably well... But oh dear, the flaws are there in abundance too - headless chicken syndrome (Hendrikkson, Miller) and a tendency towards arrogance (too many to mention). The main problem glaringly in evidence this evening, is the lack of any cutting edge / battering ram / genius up front. We could have played all week and never threatened their goal in any meaningful way. We need the type of striker who will be in evidence at Ewood on Thursday, another Danny Graham tyoe who thrives on opportunity and works hard enough to create chances. Without that, we will surely be relying upon there being at least three shorter dwarf teams in the league as we meander haphazardly and without a plan towards the end of the season. God we were poor this evening. Mind-bogglingly shit-shudderingly abysmal. Not entertaining. Not really a team. Just a bunch of ragbag ponies hoping to avoid the glue factory.. VENKYS most definitely OUT!

Rovers really being flattered by this Wednesday side so far, but not showing the killer instinct needed to despatch them. Will that be costly? We worry unless we can get our noses in front. Come on you Golds!

The club is run by a shower of twats bathed in their own self aggrandisement and ineptitude up to their moronic eyeballs. I think I've covered most bases with that. FECK EM. VENKYS OUT!

Yes, and my bollocks were painted in titanium by Audrey Hepburn at the same time. Ismael is part of the problem. I don't believe for a nanosecond that he had any meaningful direct dialogue with anyone who might be considered an owner of Blackburn Rovers Football Club Ltd. You might as well consider a corridor conversation with Mr Arse himself (the toady known as Suhail Pasha) as 'speaking to the owners' because it is meaningless drivel, at all levels UNTIL SOMETHING CHANGES. Not sure if you've really noticed Chaddy, but things aren't what they used to be at this club, and the trajectory continues to be DOWN. We ain't looking UP until the cancer is cut out of the club.

For the avoidance of doubt about the standard of refereeing at today's game, I remind you of another 'red card' incident involviing Rovers and Boro.. https://www.skysports.com/football/video/33746/12776496/i-honestly-cant-explain-john-buckley-is-sent-off-with-red-card The tackle by Hackney in today's game can't really be excused as 'late' or clumsy, it is simply and clearly violent conduct. See 1.38 in this - it is unbelievable. The officials shouldn't be involved at this level if they can't apply the laws of the game in such an obvious and basic way. Rovers looked like a team. But Ohasi, oh my word!