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Ohashi is getting progressively worse, not sure if it’s confidence, if he’s burnt out or what. He hasn’t always been this poor at finishing but he’s becoming a wasteful liability. Crying out for Gudjohnsen back and Yuki will be a useful sub no doubt, until then we have a problem and no obvious solution, unless of course we actually sign someone….

As empty as it looked, I expected it to be worse. Suppose we’ve become used to it always looking empty now though so not much impact today sadly. Worth a try, not particularly successful though.

Oxford was the same, not that its much consolation as we should be beating both those teams........

Only person I know that's going (and I'm in multiples WhatsApp groups etc) is my dad and FIL with his mates. There's 100% going to be a noticeable difference today. Cue the dingles and other twats on socials saying "iT lOoKs LiKe ThAt EvErY wEek LoL" but it is what it is.....

I actually think we'll win today. We'll have comments about how it helped not having the toxic protesters in the stadium and Val will say "see we've got a few injured players back, we can compete now!". I mean to a certain extent we have missed some of the injured/absent players, mainly Alebiosu and I think we will look a bit better with him back. Realistically we can't get much worse right? 2-1 home win after falling behind early on.

He's essentially given out numbers for Rudy, Suhail and Yasir. Confirmed he's not a Rovers fan but very much anti venkys. He also dropped a hint saying his team was a similar shirt just red and white. Thinking about that comment, Feyenoord immediately springs to mind. This person is clearly an ex employee who hates venkys and their cronies. We have an ex manager who left on bad terms and has Feyenoord links, or am I reading way too much into it? 🤔

He was at a premier league club? Signed for Brondby earlier this month so won’t be returning thankfully.

Of course he was, still is! If you don't agree with that then yes the convo is over. Whilst he pissed a lot of fans off towards the end of his tenure at Ewood, you won't hear anyone in the wider football world speak badly about Tony. A likeable character, an ex defender too, of course clubs were happy to loan young defenders to him. Liverpool were happy to lend him highly rated Harvey Elliott, ask him what he thinks of Mowbray......

I have, have you noticed that we had a well respected manager when THB and Tosin were loaned to is or did it completely pass you by? The club now undoubtedly has less draw than when Mowbray was here and its clear for anyone with a slight interin football to see.

Exactly! In the past! They ain’t gonna entertain dealing with Rudy and the current shit show.

You would have thought we’d have a decent relationship with City given their location. I’m willing to bet they don’t really want their youngsters coming to take part in the Ewood circus though. They invest a lot of time in tracking their progress and have clearly got wind of what a mess we’re stuck in. Brighton seemingly happy to send players up though.

Probably. Can you imagine him even taking a phone call from Rudy serious though?

I agree, it would never be a sensible replacement if RG is picking the next manager (if VI ever goes). The very best we can hope for is a gamble on a cheap, young, up and coming manager and it actually pays off with them being decent. I'm not saying that's what we need, we need an experienced manager who can get the best out of limited resources and boost morale. At this point though, it can't really get much worse than VI given his awful record.....

Past caring now to be honest, probably for the best we go down.

He hasn't played 90 minutes in any champions league games. Most he's played is 69 mins against Sturm Graz but that was in August....he got 20 odd minutes against Dortmund early December. Played 70 odd minutes in a friendly last week days before he signed though.