Simon Garner will be in Blackburn next weekend (20/21 April) to meet Rovers supporters and sign copies of his new book, One Last Shot 📖

On sale now! Only at www.simongarnerbook.co.uk

Hi all - as said earlier in this thread, Simon's got a new book coming out this year. If you want to be among the first to know when it's available to preorder, you can sign up here: Simon Garner Book It'll be a great read for anyone whether you have or haven't read his first book which came out in 2003. More stories and great memories, as well as guest contributions from loads of other players and managers giving their memories of the legend.

I haven’t tried to airbrush anyone away. Rob’s a Rovers fan. I offered to put a piece together about the letter and, as I know what will ‘make’ in the LT, would have angled it along the lines of ‘hundreds/thousands of Rovers fans have signed a letter raising concerns at plans to sell part of Brockhall etc etc etc ...’ They have stated today they are no longer pursuing those plans.

I believe it’s been a positive period for us generally in comparison to the preceding years under Venky’s. Certainly up until the end of January. Pre-lockdown, which let’s face it hasn’t helped the situation over the past year, the club felt more connected to the fans (in my opinion) than at any other period since the takeover. And you can’t exactly blame the chief exec for relegation, signings you’re not happy with or the style of play ...

Was merely offering to help you spread publicity about the letter by putting something together for you to send to the LT. Planned to do it this weekend but now it’s been shelved there’s no story there for them unfortunately.

I would think (as ex-LT reporter myself) they may be more open to a story about ‘[insert number] Rovers fans have signed a petition raising concerns ... etc etc’ rather than publishing the letter itself. Especially if that number becomes quite significant.

Can’t say I agree with the education metaphor as in football there are always two teams, so there’s always gonna be a winner/loser (unless it’s a draw obviously!) but in a classroom you don’t have two sets of people trying to win a game! You put out a very reasoned and fair argument here and I don’t have the energy to continue the debate right now. There’s clearly two sides to this, as with everything, and one argument is not going to change the mind of the other. I came on here today for the first time in years as I was informed I was being slated for my comments on Twitter. I’ve responded to some but I’m going to respectfully sign out for now. What does concern me is the constant tearing down of fellow fans for their differing opinions. We’re all (I assume) Rovers fans here. COYB. Enjoy your Sunday.

I’ll get over it!

Sorry misunderstood. In that case no, yesterday’s result was massively disappointing.

We’ve still got an 11 point cushion but if we do get dragged down there then I would say that’s time for a management change.

Cheers - didn’t have time to look it up

You asked me if I would class not losing in six games an ‘up’. My answer is yes. I didn’t say we were on an unbeaten run.

Not every year. We nearly went down in 91. Plenty of struggles during the 80s.

Who wouldn’t class a six-game unbeaten run as an up?