That would be my dream scenario - the obvious team spirit and togetherness that JE has harnessed to good effect, comes good as players regain fitness, and we go on another mazy run of ground out good results! Yesss! I can imagine the phone lines from Brockhall to Pune suddenly going white hot with expletives and threats to Waggott's goolies... If I'm honest, that would be my preferred scenario for this season - JE gets to show he is an alchemist of the finest pedigree, the players get the satisfaction of shoving their employer's disdain for them and the fans up their jacksy, and we my friends, get a trip to Wemberlee!! If there are any players reading this, or even the mighty JE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do your best to get and stay fit, give the Venksters and the rag-salesman from Coalville a double digit salute and reap the rewards for being the best bunch of committed caring capable team-mates we have seen for many a year. Luton slogged their way out of the division the season before last - team spirit is alchemy, and if you've got a magic formula - DRINK THE FECK OUT OF IT LADS! COYB!!!

The only relevance is that losing Pears potentially damages team morale and togetherness - it's not like the manager would see any of the money generated trickle back to bring in new players after all, is it? We have seen recently, when things have gone well on the pitch, just how well this group of players has gelled together under JE, and how much each hard earned victory has meant to them. They also show their appreciation to the travelling support and home fans alike, which is definitely an improvement on previous years. So, keeping the core of a functioning squad together is an important outcome from where I see things. It doesn't matter if a sale brings in £2.50 or £10 million, the arseholes won't spend any of it on replenishing the current squad. Venkys OUT! Waggott OUT! Suhail Pasha OUT! Rudy G - GROW A PAIR!

They were looking for Euro 1.2 million, and our best offer was 1 mill, I believe. If it is going to happen, it will depend upon who blinks first in the last hour before deadline.

Aye but it is just the usual piss and wind, as the ITK info about the so called interest from Boro is from gobshite nomark sources. But I 100% acknowledge we are having to consider piss and wind as gospel, due to the painful lack of any actual facts coming from the club (other than there have been no signings made).

Whatever it is, JFGIF (just fookin get it done) FFS..

I'm going to get a load of T shirts printed, with large single letters on the front, which could be used to spell out messages like 'W A G G O T T O U T !' that would be visible from the Jack Walker stand if worn over other clothes on the Riverside. Anyone else got any ideas?

You can see it in JE's eyes, and it is written more and more across his face, the disappointment, disillusion, and despair he is feeling at the complete fuckwittery that is being meted out by the terminally stupid Waggott, the sense-deprived Gestede, and the moronic imbecilic Pasha / Venksters. Look at his eyes in interviews just 4 weeks ago - a man on the upward swing, relaxed and ready to drive on. Now, look at his eyes, his facial expression and his general affect in the past 2 weeks (and I really think he has gone downhill this past week or so) - he looks weary, worn down and resigned to being made to look like a schmuck. What the fucking fuck is WRONG WITH THESE MORONS?? Give JE the resources, and HE WILL DELIVER RESULTS. Fuck with him, and he will go. Cue 2 hard boiled eggs and a packet of half eaten crisps signed as makeweights on Thursday... VENKYS OUT! WAGGOTT OUT!! SUHAIL PASHA OUT!! RUDY GESTEDE - GROW A PAIR AND GET YOUR FINGER OUT!! GRR!! Sorry mods - Oh I know I'm not supposed to shout like that..makes my blood boil...

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Can we hear the Rovers sing? NO-OH! NO-OH 😞

This is very ugly. We look off the pace, short of ideas, lacking creativity and are under the cosh from rash tackling and an over-zealous referee - and those are just the positives 😞 If we can somehow get to half-time without conceding again, there is a chance we might nick something.. but it is a big ask.. Midfield is non-existent, and we don't have anyone capable of taking a game by the scruff of the neck up front..Omens aren't good.

Looks like we are going to be murdered.

Give him some Bolivian Marching Powder half an hour before the game, add some Red Bull or similar, and a couple of double-espressos and watch him GOOOOOOOOOOO! Alternatively, just play him as a last gasp stop gap for a few minutes when other players with legs need a rest.

Can't see past a spanking, Recent form's been manking, We have no teeth, and lost belief Whilst the team's been tanking, Though JE we are thanking, The backroom lot are planking Our Chief Exec - I'd wring his neck The time he wastes just wanking. We have to go and be professional in the face of adversity, uncertainty and instability, in the full knowledge that sadly things are unlikely to improve in the short to medium term. One day at a time, one game at a time, one day we will look back and these troubled times will be a mere blurry blip on the record of our club, and the odious unprofessionals who thieve a living from our beloved Rovers will never be called to mind again. Because we are better, bigger and more invested than any of them, and in the end it is our love for the club that will endure. Today is a big ask for a group of players who are no doubt aware of the shite that rains down around their club. I am sure that JE will gird their loins to produce the best they can from the depleted resources available, and no doubt they will be cheered by the roaring contingent north of 1000 who have braved the conditions to be there today.. Hoping for: Brizzle 0 Rovers 1 Happy Days: Fonz 0 Ritchie Rovers 2 Hard knocks: Grizzly Brizzle 3 Drizzly Rovers 0

Come come now! These Punatics don't do strategy. Hand to mouth, bottom feeding scrap merchants this lot,, but sadly not in the tradition of those who built the club in the glory days many of us all too fondly recall.

We are likely to be outspent by Fleetwood. But we fall for this nonsense every single transfer window, especially when a half decent, capable and seemingly honest manager like JE galvanises some decent results from his ragbag of journeymen and has-beens. Why do we hold out hope of change, when the evidence of our own eyes is the continued and consistent lack of any change of strategy from the people in charge at Ewood. Their behaviour is now 100% predictable and the results also guaranteed. It would take an almighty confluence of luck, amazing team spirit, great tactical nous and ability to work on a shoestring for anything to change, and even then we would merely be looking at a shot at the play-offs, which is no guarantee of success.. Where they can, these shysters continue to nip and tuck to trim costs and rake in windfall cash from opportunistic player sales. By skimping on key appointments (especially scouting) the supply of potentially saleable assets decreases season by season. Wherever you look, ever since that Indian chump took a snowball to the chops, the writing has been on the wall. It is classic sociopathic rage on the part of the Chumpsters, who clearly regard the legacy of Jack Walker as something irrelevant and the people of Blackburn as worse than Dalits. The astounding thing is that it staggers on. And so, because of the irrational nature of football, do we. But FFS, the stench around Ewood after nearly 15 years of these arseholes... pass me the bucket... VENKYS OUT Waggot Chump OUT Shail Pasha - DO ONE! 😞

Actually we need bodies OUT of the building, in order to be able to operate like a normal football club. We know who they are, and that they are wilfully destroying our club and any outside chance of maintaining a push for the play offs. In order of priority, the bodies OUT should be: Suhail Pasha - shady no mark with nothing but vitriol in his veins towards anything of value to real Rovers fans Steve Waggott - a proven liar and apologist, currently thieving close on a thousand pounds A DAY from the club's coffers, for what exactly?? All members of the Rao family associated with Venkys. Venkys OUT! Waggot OUT! Suhail Pasha OUT OUT OUT! COYB!

No, not really any more, like most that makes us smile It's ancient sodding history, we ain't seen for a while While Rovers fans sit patiently, scanning forums for who comes The chancers kill our club each day, moronic chicken bums. We spurn the chance to make new waves, the owners absent stare Destroying, and wrecking dreams, pretending that they care. 's no mystery, but plain in sight, the VenkyWaggot slime Is far too thick to realise, that every single time They mess us up, and spread their lies, our club dies more and more Until they're gone, we might as well forget what football's for And celebrate, however thin when victories are made, Remembering the glory days, as Venkys make them fade. We are the Rovers. Not these clowns. Together WE stand tall Despite these morons, WE will win - COYB our call! COYB! VENKYS OUT! Waggot - PLEASE just SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!

What difference would it make if the Waffling Wally Wobble Wonderfully off I Wonder? No-one would notice, and there'd be £320K more a year to spend on folk who actually make a difference to the club.. Waggott = Wasteofspace. Waggott Out! VENKYS OUT! SUHAIL PASHA OUT!

We're right out of parrots.... we've got a slug..

He's not injured, he's just resting..

Hmm.. Season Over nearly covers it after all 😞 Bah, humbug. Back to the sodding drawing board.

Common sense (which of course I acknowledge is a figment of my imagination) tells us that we are unlikely to win this game, with key players out, a lack of guile and composure in front of goal, a very limited midfield, creative players (Cantwell and Buckley, ACD) missing in action, low firepower and great uncertainty off the pitch to undermine confidence. Sod that though, as we all know that to rely on common sense makes no sense. What we can expect perhaps is a committed rear guard, a dogged display and perhaps a goal or two at either end. A lot will hinge on whether Brittain can reprise any of the recent form and ability to ping dangerous balls into the opposition area, plus of course whether Big Mak is feeling motivated and has his shooting boots on. Games like this have a habit of springing surprises, and like most on here, I think it may well be a nasty one with a bump back to reality for Rovers fans. A defining game for the rest of the season, perhaps? Standard Optimism - Rovers 1 Sky Blues 0 Silly Season - Rovers 4 Coventry sent packing 1 Season over - Rovers 0 Coventry 3 Here's hoping for SILLY SEASON! COYB!

My cousin sent me a WhatsApp photo of Harry Leonard on the train home from the Oxford no show on Saturday evening. I'm not posting it here, as I don't have his permission to use it on the forum, but a photo I have nonetheless..

I know someone who travelled back to the North West with players yesterday, on the train, no less.

Bloody hell, there is so much noise on here, despite the resounding silence down the road at Ewood. C'mon Rovers - give us something to shout about, so we can stop the noise! COYB! F-OFF VENKYPASHAWAGGOT Bullshit purveyors and snake oil slippery hideaway sloping shoulder merchants Sssssshhhhhhhhhhhame on VENKYS!