Old Codger

Are you completely mad? Gestede will be having a mini-hissy fit because a) there was a definite impact of the boycott at the game on Saturday and that means he will be under scrutiny and b) he definitely reads this forum and his stupid schoolboy ego will want someone to bash to compensate for all the hurtful things people say about his teensy weensy ikkle football brain which we all can see is weak and shrivelled and about as much use as clingfilm would have been in saving the Titanic. Pasha will be chuckling mildly in that clearly slightly unhinged way he exhibits when caught in the limelight, because after all, he knows there is nothing to do because the coffers that he allows small change to be dropped into are now completely empty. Unless you know different, it seems more likely that there will be outgoings rather than incomings, to balance the dodgy 'surface' books (the real accounts being something only those behind the curtains in Madame's smoking parlour in Pune get to pore over). And anyway, hasn't the crazy bumbling frog uttered the magical words, "Players coming back from 'injury' (yeah right)..?" So,don't hold your breath old bean. Call foul instead.

It will end 3-1

Fair play to anyone actively staying away today. It is time that the fans showed some cojones in light of the appalling anti-strategy that has been foisted on the club by the shadow man and his super-light-sidekick / glove puppet (and yes, I believe it entirely possible that Pasha has his hand firmly up that lad's backside working his mealy mouth. Despite it being a boycott game, I suspect most of us will still have a glance at the score and this forum as the afternoon unfolds. It is well beyond any reasonable time for some of the better 'injured' players to be coming back into contention, so with any luck there might be a bit more steel and resolve about our utterly plan-free game plan. That said, if I see TGH holding his hands out in supplication one more time following yet another baffling attempt to put the ball anywhere his team mates aren't, I may well feck the laptop out of the nearest window. Here is to a miraculous change of fortune against the hornets.. (slow tortoise race) Ponderous Rovers 1 Hapless Hornets 0 (the torture goes on) Predictable Rovers 0 Hopeless Hornets 0 (Watford give Rovers WhatFor) Pathetic Rovers 0 Horrible Hornets 3 COYB! PASHA OUT! PUPPET BOY OUT! VENKYS OUT!!

Well I certainly wasn't saying I liked the guy, just that perhaps he was something of a casualty of a very suspect set up behind the scenes at Rovers. Anyway, ancient history, and in comparison actually much better times under his stewardship than under the current set of morons. PASHA OUT! VENKYS OUT! DODGY TEA BOY OUT! Pass me tha cocoa.

Whilst he got his fair share of pelters when he was here, (Gurning Chump etc from me) Mowbray was a manager held in high regard within the game, especially by others from his era (I spoke to both Mark Hughes and Mick McCarthy about Mowbray and both were very complimentary about him and his approach). Like others at the time I couldn't see the pressure he must have been under to conform to 'the model' that is now visible in all of its glory via Pasha and Gestede. On reflection, perhaps TM was just ground down like the rest of us, and his gurning demeanour simply a reflection of his being prevented from doing the things he wanted to do. Perhaps we will never know, but since JDT, Eustace and now (it seems) Ismael have all now complained of the same constraints on their ability to deliver results, I think we can all agree that the success of Blackburn Rovers as a competitive football club is NOT the main objective for whoever is actually driving the club. Ultimately, that space is occupied by the odious absentee owners, whose work appears delegated to the deeply questionable capabilities of Suhail shady boy Pasha (who as we know trousers a healthy salary year in year out and appears accountable to no-one). VENKYS OUT! PASHA OUT!

To be fair, the Hull player should have been sent off too, for a) starting the incident by wrestling Osmajic to the ground, then getting right in his face (literally) when he challenged him. Ref got that only half right. Mind you, sometimes it is good to have something of a psycho on your team, as it gives off an air of unpredictability and an edge, in the way that none of our current squad do. I think Yuki says thank you every time he gets clobbered - Japanese manners and all that..(Samurai he isn't, as Samurai never wore contact lenses, as far as I know).

Oh, and Jorgensen must be pinching himself this evening, thinking how lucky he was to avoid having to turn out against Man Citeh tonight, rather than Swansea Citeh..(current score Bodo Glimt 2 Citehh 0) I mean, there's much less risk in playing alongside cloggers, against cloggers, for a club with a clogged drainage system in a town where folk still routinely wear clogs to visit the Clog and Billycock. Oooh, the glamour must have turned his head.

When is Yuki going to get some consideration from a referee, I wonder. The push at Ipswich was so blatant and obvious it made no sense for the officials to simply blank it. He must wonder what he has done to end up so regularly the target of 'clumsy' (i.e. cynical and intentional) challenges every game, which very rarely result in the game being stopped or anyone being penalised (except of course where the twat in the black gives Yuki the card instead!). Anyway, when I looked at that teamsheet I wondered for a moment if I'd stumbled into the U21s page on the Rovers website, rather than knowing instantaneously which senior pros were turning out for the cause this evening. Hiding to nothing, methinks. Twat em, Rovers. COYG!

Rovers are well and truly in the doldrums at the moment, with confidence up front shot to pieces, confidence in the middle seemingly mired in negativity and showboating, and confidence at the back collapsing with new (and mandatory game time) faces displacing shoe-ins who had been performing well... Even our Talisman (Moses Toth) couldn't keep the floodgates from opening on his return to the fold, despite performing heroics at Ipswich. So a trip to the Swansea.com stadium on a cold tuesday evening holds little scope for optimism for even the most diehard fans of our emasculated club. As others have pointed out, however, Rovers often serve up a surprise when the darkness appears deepest, which means it is not a foregone conclusion that the faithful few will trudge back up the country to a late bed with their tails between their legs and oaths of desperate skullduggery towards the clownpants committee of incompetent morons on their minds. Like many on here, I'm losing the desire to continue having my nose rubbed raw in shit and salt on an ongoing basis, but hey ho - it could be worse... (I'm clearly being ironic here..) Same old, same old.. Swans 2 Rovers Rabble 0 Some signs of salvation... Swans 1 (88, pen) Rovers Recover 1 (Jorgensen 90+2, Shearer style bullet) Send in the Stethescope ... Swans 0 Rovers on Crack Cocaine 4 (Never happening, keep taking the jellies). COYB! FO You Absent VENKY MORONS 😞 DO ONE PASHA - YOU CYNICAL CLUB WRECKING CHAV BEGONE BEELZEBUB BOYSCOUT IN HALF-MAST TROUSERS

Dare I say it, but Jorgenssen has a faint whiff of MGP about him, looking at some of his goals and play on Youtube..

Seriously? Toth is an excellent keeper at this level, and a full international with good experience too. He is also on the ascendancy in his career, unlike Pears who seems to be flatlining. That's why someone will get good money for him (notice I didn't say 'the club', as we know any funds incoming are mysteriously trousered and have no relationship to funds allocated for purchases).

That was a slog. Thank fuck it is over. At least Rovers had the ball in the net during the game, even though neither counted. Dirge.

VI just shuffling around like an urchin looking for a knock off apple.. He's not really 'engaging' with his players, is he?

Wonderful pass straight away from the Moose, but inevitably Hendrikssen off side 😞

Montgomery crocked (shoulder injury on a wet pitch - there's a surprise..) Barajdi on in his place. That might even up things in midfield a bit. COYBambiBaradji!