I've got some idea...

Thank you (NOT!) for that stimulating and pleasant internal representation you just installed in my brain..

The fact is we allowed Big Club at least 5 other clear chances to score, which they fluffed before the law of averages meant one bobbled in. How much real work did John Ruddy actually have to do last night? Not much at all, and if Telalovic had buried that last minute header we would have pulled off an almighty travesty to get a point from what was an abject performance across the board. The writing was on the wall when Pears played their man in, and you could see the veneer of Saturday's confidence evaporating steadily as the game went on. Big Club played with a sense of purpose and appeared to have some kind of system for moving the ball forward and pressuring our back line. We didn't appear to have the means to counter their system, and were fortunate not to be on the wrong end of an embarrassing tubbing. Nobbers at the weekend will be yet another wake up call, as we sleepwalk into footballing oblivion. All thanks to the corruption that permeates the club, its ownership and their penny pinching / pound ignorant approach. VENKY-RAO-DESAI-SKULKING_SHADOW_HIDERS OUT! CRAP-WAGGOTT OUT!

This. The £300K salary that Waggott leaches out of the club is clearly his price for taking the shit from fans, whilst keeping the light off the cockroaches from India. He is a symptom of what is rotten at the club, but the underlying cause is the conditions imposed by the disinterested, disconnected, despicable loons of Pune. They ALL need to go. VENKYS-RAOS-DESAIS-SHADOWSERVANTSATEWOOD OUT! F-WAGGOTT OUT!

Anyone who watched that game will know for sure that there is little or no real quality or capability across the park. Based on that showing, we don't even appear to have a Plan A as things stand, so we seem to have gone backwards even from the tail spin that JDT left us in. All the familiar faults were there to see - Brittain incapable of defending under pressure, suicidal arse-ing about at the back, no pressure on their forward line and allowing 6 clear chances before they finally converted one, no cohesion up front, and a desperate last throw in putting makeweights on as subs, rather than trying to mix things up. Compound all of that with Chrisene who looks like he shits himself every time the ball comes to his feet, Garrett who is clearly still not mature enough in his decision making, and nobody able to play the ball through to the Samster. We are fooked. I think we may be in for a very public humiliation, when the Saudi-Barcode Army comes a calling, later this month. Lock up yer daughters! VENKY-RAO-DESAI-AND SHADOW SERVANTS OUT!! WAGGOTT PUPPET OUT!!

Rovers fail to clear their lines once again, and the inevitable happens. To be fair Big Club have had all the chances and eventually one was going to go in. Bastard!

Chrisene is having a mare. More Andrew Ridgley than wham bam thank you mam. FFS.

Lucky escape there, Roberts should have scored for Big Club then, A lively enough start for both sides. Gurning Chump sitting in the stands... gurning 😉

Chrisene looks like the weak link this evening. 😞

McFadzean looks like an import from a Pleasington Sunday League team. Rough as a bastard file.

Time to move on, JDT gone, now there's a new coach with new ideas, new energy and a new start. If there is any logic to the process the fools in Pune, the secretive stooges at Ewood and the bizarre braniacs in charge at the club, then let's be having it. Let's see what the plan is. Let's give it some air. But I'm not holding my breath that there is a new broom or that anything has really changed. I think we will be back to a disillusioned and desperate coach sniping at the shadows in press conferences well before the end of this season and the start of the next. And, for the record, I'm happy to be proven wrong, for the fans' sake. F-WAGGOTT OUT! SHADY-SUHAIL OUT! LUNESINPUNE (VENKY-RAO-DESAI) OUT!

Banana skin for all the obvious reasons. Let's not delude ourselves into thinking all is well behind the scenes just because we won one home game at a relative canter. Remember the nucleus of this side has form for spectacular capitulation at lower ranked away venues. We will just have to hope for a bit more new manager bounce, and for some steel to have been injected through the arrival of the indestructible McFadzean barking orders and biting legs at the back line. If we make ourselves hard to score against, we have the quality to score goals against most at this level. Big Club won't allow us to rock up and piss on their chips and the Gurning Chump will not want Benson and Co laughing all the way back up the M6. Heart: Big Club 1 Big Blue & White Hearts 3 Head : Big Club 1 Rovers 1 Hell in a handcart : Big Club 3 Blue & White headless chicken brigade 0 COYB!! & VENKY-RAO-DESAI-SHADOWSNAKES OUT!!

Seconded 🙂 Hooray! I've achieved a milestone today!! I've seen eye to eye with Chaddy! VENKY-RAO-DESAI-SHADOWFOLK OUT!!! F-WAGGOTT OUT!!

Fair play to that lad (Sam) for his honest appraisal of Stoke's abysmal effort yesterday. I think we can all identify with the despair and anger that he captures on the Sam Cam. My goodness though - if our players were 'hurt' by chants at F-Waggott, the direct jibes and total vitriol spouted at their entire team by 3100 Stokies yesterday is going to burn their squad to the core 🙂 Rovers got the tactics exactly right on the day, and perhaps we saw first hand how JDT had created the tailspin that had seen us drop like a stone since December. It's been well said above, that football is a results game, and that there needs to be a level of flexibility to adapt when things aren't going well. The changes yesterday were significant and made a massive difference to basically the same group of players. McFadzean is that well drilled, experienced head that every defence needs, Hedges was amazing in terms of his energy and commitment coming straight back into the side where he left off, Dolan showed he knows where the onion bag is, Brittain was good and bad in equal measure and made 2 but nearly cost us 2, and Sammie was well worth the price of admission, Pears looked a safe pair of hands and the Tronstad -JRC pairing worked well, whilst Gally put in a good shift (should have scored when put through, and went the wrong side of the keeper for me). They were my stand-outs . Telalovic looks incapable of breaking his duck though, and surely needs to be off the team sheet for the next while so that other hungrier strikers can chance their arm. We are not out of the woods yet, and had that penalty been converted we might have had a very different outlook this morning. But as it stands it feels like a new broom has swept the corridors already and the self-inflicted cobwebs and constraints of the JDT era are already a memory. Now, let's get to Big Club and give the Gurning Chump a bloody nose, eh? COME ON YOU BLUES! F-WAGGOTT OUT! VENKY-RAO-DESAI-SUHAIL-SHADOWGHOSTS OUT!

Waggott Out top left

Question - If you paint a turd a different colour, is it still a turd?

For me I can't believe the nonsense some have spouted on here about JDT and their view that he wasn't up to the job. Seriously, how can anyone expect anything positive when the man was clearly hoodwinked into taking a job under false pretences, and then constantly undermined to the point where there was hardly any point even trying. I think we will look back on JDT's time at the club with a sense of regret for what might have been, perhaps not too far down the line. You only need to ask yourself, what difference might it have made if he had been properly backed by the faceless morons who appear to have self-sabotaged yet another opportunity for Rovers to regain some pride, make progress back towards the club we were, and to build something worth believing in again after all of the shit we have had to endure. But THEY chose to go a different way, and denied JDT the resources he needed / wanted to build a side to meet his own high standards. I am grateful to JDT for sticking it out for as long as he did - it was great to hear him calling the liars and cheats out, and for him to mercilessly mock the F-Waggott and his stupid diversionary tactics ('best bus in the league...). This mess continues to fester, because the stench comes from those behind the puppets at the front of house. Allardyce has called them out, even the TalkShite presenters can smell the stink around the club. If some of you can't smell the shit, then you are welcome to wallow in it, because that is all that is left. Cheers JDT. Thanks for being true to yourself, for your consistency under pressure (even if you set the players up to fail on purpose) and thank you for not yielding to the scumbags in the shadows. Good luck with your onward and inevitably upward trajectory. VENKYRAODESAI wastrels OUT! F-WAGGOTT OUT!! Starting Now 😞 Get OUT YOU CONNIVING HALFWIT

Well, if I'd had the opportunity to speak my mind to the Fat Waggott, I'd have told it like it is - He is a waste of oxygen, a liability to the good name of Blackburn Rovers and a disgrace to the role he occupies at our once proud club. If I had my way, I'd make him lick out all of the bogs in the Blackburn End, Riverside and Darwen end, then tell him to fuck off for good out of our club.

SECONDED!

It just confirms that these fuckers are hiding in plain sight, wreaking their chaotic and pathetic vengeance on the club because they were hoodwinked into buying something they had no understanding of, and because of a ruddy snowball. And they can do this because NOBODY OUTSIDE THE CLUB IS BOTHERED WHAT HAPPENS TO BLACKBURN ROVERS. VENKYRAOs OUT! FWAGGOTTS OUT!

No, I'm not laughing 😠😡 VENKYRAOs and WAGGOTTS CHUCK OFF!!

Not worried in the least, because we all know that if the fee is anything more than two milk bottle tops and a snog behind the bike shed, these arseholes won't sanction it. So, as far as I'm concerned the fee could be... One hundred billion dollars...

Someone should post a picture of the champagne corks littering Nuttall street.

How Blackburn Rovers’ Duncan McGuire deal fell apart twice By Tom Bogert and Oliver Kay 3h ago Duncan McGuire rushed through JFK airport to make his connecting flight, even as the reason he was taking it seemed to be falling apart. The Orlando City striker, a recent USMNT debutant, had been the subject of transfer interest all winter long from the EFL Championship – England’s second tier, just below the Premier League. Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday were among the interested clubs, but Blackburn had finally come to terms with Orlando around 48 hours before the Feb. 1 transfer deadline. The deal was advanced enough that McGuire was permitted to say his goodbyes to his teammates and depart Orlando’s preseason training camp in Mexico, heading to Manchester with a stop in New York City. But as McGuire sat on that first flight, Blackburn Rovers’ management team was told by the club’s owners in India that they would have to pull out of the deal. The finances, they said, simply weren’t there. It would be the first of two times McGuire’s attempted winter move to Blackburn would be called off. The second came on Tuesday, when the club announced that the striker’s move had been rejected by the English Football League (EFL) due to late transmission of transfer documents. Tuesday’s announcement extends one of the most bizarre sagas of the transfer window, and one that could have a direct impact on the USMNT’s chances at the 2024 Olympics. “All of the necessary paperwork had been completed prior to 10 p.m. on Thursday February 1st,” Blackburn said in a statement, “however due to an administrative error, the the forms were not processed in the prescribed times.” The club added that it is appealing the decision, with the EFL board set to consider the case and bring it to a conclusion on Thursday, Feb. 8. If that appeal fails, Blackburn said McGuire will stay in the UK until the process concludes, and would be allowed to return to Orlando City for the start of the MLS season if the appeal is denied. The club says if that happens, it will extend a pre-contract agreement to McGuire to join the club in the summer. “Detailed discussions with legal representatives and the relevant football authorities have taken place over the last few days to try and reach an urgent resolution on the matter,” the Blackburn statement reads. In fact, discussions among relevant football figures have been ongoing for many days before today’s announcement – a drawn-out deadline-day tale with a young player’s career hanging in the balance. Days before the deadline, with the player yet to land at JFK and Blackburn in the middle of this deal’s first collapse, McGuire was up in the air in more ways than one as Blackburn executives apologized to Orlando City sporting director Luiz Muzzi, technical director Ricardo Moreira and McGuire’s agent Chris Megaloudis. As that unfolded, Megaloudis had a little time and a little hunger to kill before his own connecting flight on his way to meet McGuire in England. He stopped in to P.F. Chang’s, a popular Asian cuisine chain, which accompanies its meals with the traditional fortune cookie. Hoping for some bit of good news from somewhere, Megaloudis opened it. It didn’t say “Duncan McGuire Will Move To Blackburn” as he hoped, but it did say “a small act will bring happiness to the family”. There was happiness, but not for long. This account of the saga is according to multiple sources on both sides of the Atlantic who were either briefed on or directly involved with negotiations. The sources were granted anonymity to protect their relationships within the game. McGuire experienced quite the whirlwind 72 hours before the Feb. 1 transfer deadline – especially considering the player’s whirlwind rise, from collegiate soccer for Creighton University in Nebraska to the U.S. national team in the space of a year. A first-round draft pick by Orlando City, McGuire came in with modest expectations but greatly exceeded them, beating out Austrian international Ercan Kara to be his team’s starting striker and scoring 15 goals in all competitions in his first professional season. He made his USMNT debut in a January friendly against Slovenia, and should be in contention to play with the U.S. at the Olympics this summer. Orlando City did not want to lose McGuire this winter. After all, he was on perhaps the most team-friendly contract in MLS: A paltry $77,360 guaranteed, according to the most recent figures released by the MLS Players’ Association. To put that salary in context: McGuire scored 13 league goals in 2023. The next six players behind him on the league scoring charts each make at least $2 million in guaranteed compensation, according to those same MLSPA figures. Naturally, McGuire’s representation wanted a new contract, but McGuire and Orlando were not especially close to a deal as the club opened negotiations. Blackburn had tracked McGuire during his breakout season in MLS, and saw him as a long-term target rather than a panic buy. Early in the January window, Blackburn made its first forays for McGuire – two loan offers that Orlando rejected. The English side didn’t have the money upfront for a loan or permanent transfer (first payment of a transfer fee or loan fee), which was integral for Orlando so they could have increased freedom to bring in a replacement for McGuire. Sheffield Wednesday had a few offers declined, too, as they looked at McGuire to save their season from relegation. Upon learning of these rejected offers, McGuire visited Muzzi, telling the Orlando sporting director he wanted to go, and he wanted to go now. There was no guarantee another offer would arrive in the summer. He wanted to bet on himself. For Blackburn, circumstances were changing. The club had initially offered a loan deal due to a lack of cash, but Crystal Palace’s interest in Blackburn midfielder Adam Wharton grew serious and a deal was getting closer. Blackburn wanted to use that money to get McGuire. In the days before the close of the transfer window, Wharton’s deal to Crystal Palace for £22 million ($27.8 million) was nearly done. Blackburn returned to Orlando with an offer for a permanent transfer. Negotiations between Blackburn and Orlando intensified to the point where a deal had finally been verbally agreed late Tuesday night U.S. time (early Wednesday U.K. time), with just enough hours left before the deadline for McGuire to travel to England. The sides agreed on an initial fee of just under $4 million (around £3 million) plus add-ons that could see the deal rise north of $6 million (around £5 million). Orlando would retain a sell-on clause, another crucial negotiating point. Wednesday morning, Orlando authorized McGuire to depart the team’s preseason camp in Cancun. He did. Blackburn had booked and paid for his flight. McGuire stepped on board, took off, and things changed yet again: Venky’s, the Indian firm that owns Blackburn, called chief executive Steve Waggott, director of football Gregg Broughton and coach John Dahl Tomasson, telling the group that there was no money to do the deal. Disappointed and apologetic, Broughton called Muzzi and Megaloudis just as McGuire was nearing New York City. The deal, McGuire’s future, Blackburn’s relegation fight and Orlando’s offseason plans all laid in the balance. There were 30 hours until the transfer window closed. As McGuire rushed to catch his flight to Manchester, Muzzi told Megaloudis that the club would welcome the forward back. Orlando tried to contact McGuire directly to tell him to come back as well, but he proved to be unreachable. If McGuire returned to preseason camp, there was no way he could travel to England in time to complete any move. If he didn’t get on that flight to Manchester, it was over. McGuire landed in England on Wednesday evening, with about 24 hours until the window closing. By that point, Sheffield Wednesday had re-opened talks with Orlando. Several other Championship clubs, including Plymouth Argyle and Ipswich Town, also expressed interest in making a deal happen, sources say. Ultimately, though, Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn were the only serious bidders. Megaloudis assumed that Sheffield Wednesday was the most likely destination, so he eventually settled with McGuire at the Mercure Sheffield Kenwood Hall & Spa hotel in Sheffield on Wednesday evening. McGuire was spotted by a reporter in the lobby on Thursday morning, a mere 13 hours before the window closed. A deal still had not been finalized. He sat in a chair in the lobby – a purple one, like the primary color of Orlando City. At this sleek, relaxing hotel and spa, it was difficult to take even momentary breaks from reality. In addition to being a trying time for McGuire, the episode has intensified the focus on Blackburn’s ownership: Venky’s, an Indian poultry and pharmaceutical conglomerate, which had assets seized as part of an Indian government clampdown on investment overseas. Since the turbulence that followed Venky’s’ acquisition of the club in 2010, when they were in the Premier League, Blackburn had found a measure of stability, with investment having helped the club through the difficult years since their relegation from the top flight. However, there are now serious doubts about whether Venky’s, under growing pressure from the Indian government over the past 12 months, can keep funding Blackburn. Last week Blackburn issued a statement insisting that legal proceedings in India “will not impact the day-to-day funding of the club in any way”, adding, “The owners have given assurance to the board and executive of BRFC that they will continue to fully support the club, as they have done since they acquired the club in 2010.” This year, though, Blackburn was struggling to complete deals, even as the sporting staff scrambled to continue pursuing McGuire and other deadline-day targets. One of them, Slovenian international center back David Brekalo, just so happened to be on the verge of a move to Orlando when Blackburn swooped in, creating another messy situation between the two clubs. Orlando City, for its part, certainly wasn’t thrilled to learn Blackburn was trying to hijack the deal, which would have worked in Wednesday’s favor. The Athletic reported on Thursday that Orlando was finalizing a deal to sign Brekalo. Blackburn ultimately signed center back Billy Koumetio on loan from Liverpool on deadline day. Thankfully for Blackburn, funds were coming in – Palace’s deal to sign Wharton was about to get done. Once again, the club’s circumstances had changed. Meanwhile, that picture of McGuire at the hotel in Sheffield made rounds on X, previously known as Twitter. Wednesday fans recognized McGuire, showed up and started asking for autographs. McGuire signed a few, though his future was far from decided. With time ticking and nothing quite set with Wednesday, Megaloudis called Broughton, and asked if Blackburn could come back to the table now that the deal for Wharton was done. It was the first communication between all parties since the previous deal was scrapped. Broughton said they were still interested in a loan. It was a question of whether they could make an offer that would tempt Orlando back to the table. Orlando remained open-minded, if surprised. Blackburn said it could only do a loan, and Orlando said it would only sanction the deal if it included a sizable loan fee and a purchase option higher than the previously agreed deal. After a bit of haggling, Blackburn agreed to pay a $700,000 loan fee (£550,000) with a purchase option near $7 million (around £5.5 million). The purchase option included another $2.5 million add-ons (£2 million), and Orlando would still retain a sell-on percentage. The on-again/off-again hassle had, in effect, netted Orlando a few million more in transfer and loan fees. Yet still, the deal wasn’t done, and Wednesday remained in the picture. Eventually, both Blackburn and Wednesday sent cars to McGuire and Megaloudis’ hotel, hoping theirs would be the one to take the forward to his medical. A decision would come soon and time running out, plans needed to be set. Broughton sent data points to Megaloudis about why Blackburn was a better home for McGuire than Wednesday. They showed that the club created more scoring chances than Wednesday, more clear shots per 90, and far more open play expected goals. And most important of all: Blackburn was eight points clear of relegation, with Wednesday five points below the relegation line. Muzzi ultimately accepted Blackburn’s offer. They called a taxi, spurning both club-sent cars, and began the two-hour drive to Ewood Park. As they traveled across the Peak District, the final agreements were hammered out and contracts drawn up. They arrived around five hours before the window closed for the medical and final steps. Blackburn reimbursed Megaloudis for the cab, offered the contract, and with 100 minutes to go before the deadline, all parties had signed. McGuire was Blackburn’s newest player. The clubs announced at 11 p.m. UK / 6 p.m. ET – The exact time the transfer window shut (or so they thought). The next morning, one Premier League owner told Megaloudis the fact that McGuire got on the plane changed his life. So, too, could Thursday’s EFL board meeting.