Went down the tunnel to a chorus of boos from Blackburn End. When he was shown a yellow the BBE chanted "send him off"..

I hope you understand by "markets" that will mean French, German and Belgian lower leagues. We won't be shopping at M&S we'll be shopping the reduced to clear at Farmfoods. Telalovic level rubbish.

Just saw this exchange

Another excellent video there from Rory

Been out all day and just caught up with this. It's all very exciting but I just worry and think everyone needs to be extremely careful. From a legal point of view and also from a credibility point of view. If this stuff is genuine, then that's brilliant that it's in the public sphere and the club will hopefully be panicking. If some bits of this are not quite right, but go viral and the club can easily prove they're not, it helps them derail genuine protest and discontent: "can't take these guys seriously, they believed/stated X" Worst case scenario is that there is deliberate leaks and misinfo, or that it is someone on a massive-windup. All using bits which are just about believable. Let's see. 🤞

Gestede said performances have been improving as well the other day didn't he? 😂 Roll it back. He's also been spouting more guff on SSN about how he's hurt by the criticism. The front on him to come out with that, the conniving little work experience toss-pot. How does he think we feel after 15 years of this nonsense?

Tbf they've got Elliot Jackson on giving the real version events as opposed to the Waghail Saga

Just listening to TalkSport 2 where they are doing the build-up to our game. It's clear, as you would expect, that they only really have half a story about Rovers and as a result they don't really get the issues and what is going on. One very bizarre assertion from Micky Gray is that he is adamant 'people' are talking about Wayne Rooney coming to Ewood Park in the summer. I promise I didn't make any of that up, go back and listen. Where would something bonkers like that have come from? And in whose interest would it be to leak rubbish like that? They've just gone to an ad-break promising to get into our "off the field issues" next... 😂

Maybe next season, to celebrate how pleased we are with 15 years of Venkys, we should find a way to let them now how pleased we are every home game in the 15th minute. Whether that's a turning away from the pitch, going in the concourse, singing a specific song, I don't know. Shouldn't be something illegal obviously but wonder what options there are. Don't know myself, just thinking out loud.

Way before my time so I can't say a lot, but it looks like 4 defeats in the opening 10 league matches. If it goes badly tomorrow will be 5 defeats in opening 6 matches for La Roi Valerien 👎

Ribeiro has signed 👍 I think he has been okay. Better than Pickering but due to age lacks the potential of Beck. See him more as a full-back than a wing-back but at least we have a body guaranteed for next season.

If this was away from home, I would be thinking 2 or 3 nil to The Boro, even though we have beaten them twice already this season under old management.. Because this is at home and because a lot is at stake for them (Boro), it might still be quite cagey. I expect them to start well and if they get the early goal we will fold. However, even if they are well on top early on, but don't get the early goal I think it will become a fraught cagey contest which could go either way, just because of the pressure they'll be feeling as opposed to any quality we offer. I don't know what others think, of course I want Rovers to win and see a good performance, but I'm really not bothered anymore if we don't. It makes no difference this season. If we somehow fluke a win, it will give some sections of the fan base misplaced hope that we can get into the playoffs, which we absolutely will not do. It wil be typical for us to pick up a couple of unexpected wins at this point to make it look like we've 'had a good go' at promotion. On paper they have a better team, on paper they have a better manager, statistically we are the worst team in the division based on recent form. Sadly I see a cagey, poor quality match finishing Rovers 0-1 Boro Looking forward to telling Pasha, Waggott et Al what I think through the medium of song instead.

Another metric of 15 years of failure could be that we're one of only 4 teams out of the 92 who have not played at Wembley since it re-opened in 2008. Some have played there against Spurs, many have made it to cup finals, semi-finals, play-offs etc... BUT NOT US! We're rubbing shoulders with Ipswich (who have had fantastic recent success), Accy and er.. Colchester. https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/every-football-league-team-not-played-new-wembley

He deserves hounding out for that comment alone, nevermind the decade of disaster he has presided over

This was my thought as well. What a stupid comment if that is what he said. There was about 23-24000 home fans on for the B*rnley match. There is no question some of them would love to come back more regularly if they thought there was some ounce of hope and pride in their club.

Not bothered by any of that? Remarkable, maybe you could get a place on the board at Rovers too then

More absolute lunacy on the latest LT article about the sale of the club. Again, just one post in support of the club being sold about about 20 in favour of the owners.

Why do you think Ismael did not get another club before getting the Rovers job? Do you think he applied for other Championship jobs? There have been plenty about. He still obviously wanted to be back managing at this level, so let's assume he did. If he did, I wonder why he didn't get them. Even if he didn't actively apply for any Championship jobs, I wonder whether he was actively approached by any clubs when there was a vacancy. I wonder what actually attracted him to the role at Rovers? Do you think he did any research on the last 15 years at the club (especially the last two seasons)? If he did, why was he still attracted to the role? If he didn't, is he that bothered about the club and the job? It seems to me like we were the only club who would take him on and we look like an easy ride / free lunch for him.

That is a good idea, take some short clips from the long video where they say/promise something and then ask why we would believe this given the last 14/15 years e.g. all our players being out of contract being "exciting times"...

For me personally, the end game would be a statement from the club confirming that we are for sale and that they will consider any sensible approaches. Anything less than that for me is unacceptable at this point and a waste of time. Rearranging deckchairs. Issues about season tickets, playing staff, coaching staff and the rest can all be addressed by a new regime and just distract from the main goal of new owners. Some might say there is a compromise position where we agree to support the current regime subject to certain guarantees, but I'm afraid I could not accept this, given the last 15 years, that track record of failure is too substantial. On how you guys have worked in the last few months, I would have to say well done, it has been very effective. It's jolted the directors out of their smug lull and forced a response and seems to have played out how you hoped and expected, keep going 👌 On the interviews yesterday, there isn't much I can say other than that it was empty platitudes, false promises and highly unconvincing. On a side note, I still cannot understand why so many people still back/trust/ignore the ownership regime and bite back at those who want a fresh start. I don't know what it would take for those people to turn? For us to be in league two? Worse?

Thanks for that 👍 So he was head of international sales in the chicken farming industry, now he's deciding how a professional football club is run...

So, so infuriating. Even if we had maintained 'midtable' type form when we were fifth, that still would have gotten us enough points per game to finish 6th or higher. The drop-off has been mind-blowingly bad

What do we know about Suhail's career/background? There seems to be very little online for someone who is COO of a large organisation. Is it likely he had any interest in football or had ever attended a football match before becoming COO here? Maybe he was successful elsewhere in another industry, but that doesn't guarantee success in this one, just look at Jim Ratcliffe.

Just had to come out of it due to other commitments but I just listened to the Twitter/X space fan forum for the best part of half an hour and we have some brilliant, passionate, articulate fans involved on there that gives me some hope 🤞🔵🌹

I agree that the most focus of discontent must be on Venkys & Suhail Pasha at this point, everything else is rearranging deckchairs on the proverbial. Waggott - incompetent but probably on the way to retirement, whether he goes makes no difference at this point, he probably doesn't care what people say about him or the owners, we've paid him millions of pounds to achieve mediocrity at best in the last few years. Gestede - useless and under qualified, but makes no difference whether he goes at this point Ismael - quickly looking like a dud, but makes no difference whether he stays or goes. The last 15 years has shown that it doesn't really matter who the manager is, we will not win promotion from this division under Venkys. There is too much incompetence and chaos and the financial approach and playing side have been "bargain basement" for several years now.