There's loads to complain about when it comes to Rovers, but come on. The man's been here 4 days. I've got older milk in my fridge.

First thing Dennis did after he came on was scream at Weimann to press, and it was basically the first time all game we'd put pressure on their CBs and they ended up going back to the keeper. I get the sense that Ismael doesn't like to press from today's game, but I thought it was a good sign for Dennis regardless. I thought he was going to be very passive and just be here in body with little interest, but his complaining was because he wanted to win. It definitely wasn't bad attitude.

That stat is a bit disingenuous. It includes 3 stints managing reserves in basically regional football. Even without those, his win percentage is pretty decent at around 45% ish. But he's never managed anywhere for more than one season and has seemingly been let go/not renewed from all his jobs except Barnsley. To never be given a second season anywhere is a bit of a red flag.

He was definitely better positionally and even worse on crosses as you say, probably better with his feet too... But Wahlstedt was way worse than Pears overall. His arms didn't work and he couldn't catch. It was as though he was holding a pair of plastic hands to make his arms longer. The fact we've been unable to bring in a keeper better than Aynsley fucking Pears in 4 windows is criminal.

He's Jekyll and Hyde in that he's either shit or average

Assuming the keeper is any good and we have reasonable luck with injuries, we've had a good window considering we had buttons to spend. But imagine if Venkys cared enough to merely fund the running costs, allowing us to spend £40 million to build a squad. Hell, even £20 million. The mere fact that Wharton was born in Blackburn gave the club "the Brentford model" on a plate, and even then we didn't do anything meaningful with it. All Venkys had to do was only fuck up to the level they've been fucking up for the past 6 years, and they fucked it up.

Definitely happy with where we've ended up given the circumstances, but Mowbray had at least 2 seasons with superior squads to this, maybe more, bowyer had 2 seasons with way better squads too, JDT's first season was probably similar to this one. Go and have a look at the 14/15 or 20/21 squads. Travesties that we couldn't get into the playoffs with those squads

That's a Dingle

This one? Not sure which one of those highlights says he's got pace

As I said when you last posted that... Who cares about Leeds? Their situation is irrelevant to us. We know why we aren't signing players, because Venkys can't or won't put money in so the club has to use the player sales to keep us afloat. Pretending that "sometimes it's just like that" is not balance. It's ignoring the blindingly obvious fact that the club is hamstrung by useless, absent owners who couldn't give two shits about its wellbeing. And people are well within their right to be annoyed by that.

But that's just strawmanning. We know why we will barely spend anything, because Venkys can't or won't put money in so the club has to wash it's own face. Who cares about Leeds?

You poor sod

The only truth that matters is that Blackburn Rovers is owned by people who do not care about the success of the club.

I don't care if we win or not either. I do care about Rovers, much as I don't want to. I've reached the point where I don't care if we're relegated and the thought of Venkys turning up to Wembley if we were to make it via the cup or otherwise makes my blood boil. It's all pointless while they're still here. I'm absolutely certain I'm not alone in feeling that way.

It's the nature of local journalism. Now at least. He's only about 25 years old.

We'd have been exposed to a shit tonne of risk. Probably why we made sure a big sale did happen.

With all due respect, no it isn't. It's risking defaulting on your mortgage when you've got enough in your bank to cover it for a year. It would be wholly unacceptable for a CEO at any company to sign off on doing what you're suggesting. Edit - any CEO of a football club will (rightly) choose relegation over administration. I'd prefer the latter, but then again I'm not employed to stop it from happening

In too deep and keep digging maybe? If they sell they would probably have to write off all the "debt" associated to the holding company that owns the club.

This isn't to get at you in particular, I've read it a lot today, but it's just a completely unreasonable expectation to think we would spend it. And calling it "pocketing the cash" is completely misrepresenting the actual situation. Given our financial issues, I'd say it would probably class as gross negligence on Waggot's behalf if we spent a good chunk of that cash, were Venkys not be able to send money over in summer and then we couldn't cover our costs. He could be held personally liable. It's akin to selling your car when you don't have a job. You aren't going to spend that cash on a new car until you know you've got some stable income coming in. Again, Venkys shit, Waggot commercially incompetent etc etc. But put your annoyance in the right place, getting it wrong makes it easier for people who disagree to say everyone is doing their best and this is all we can be. The issue is Venkys, their position as owners is untenable. This window, in isolation, given the circumstances, was handled about as well as it could have been by those at Ewood (player quality is obviously an unknown at this point).

Just a quick question for those on here who are particularly down about the window, and are lamenting the club for not spending the Wharton money... What did you expect to happen? I'm frankly shocked that we brought anyone in at all yesterday. I fully expected every single penny we got from Wharton to go on running costs. What would you do as GB or Waggot? It's an impossible situation for them, there is no guarantee the club will be able to pay the bills since there's no guarantee Venkys can send money over to cover our costs. We basically have no owners, but can't sell the club. The risk means they had to bring money in. They are never going to want the club to go into admin, that would obviously be a failure of their responsibilities (even if not their fault). This isn't me saying Waggot is doing a great job, very obviously the commercial side of the club is hugely underperforming and a lot of that is on him. I'm not saying GB is doing a perfect job either, though how people can put so much blame on him given the changing budgets and no money is absurd. This is no let off for Venkys either, they are shit owners. They are the reason we are a bog standard second tier club that's going absolutely nowhere. I would have preferred to not sell AW, risk admin, flog him for nothing, get relegated and get rid of Venkys. But if I thought for one second that those at the club wouldn't try to avoid that scenario like the plague, then I'd be a moron and they wouldn't be fit to be employed.

Big? He's 5'8"

It's a pre-poured pint, no pint, or a fresh pint and miss 10 minutes of the football you've paid for. I'd be willing to bet that most would choose the first of those options... It's not like we're talking about choosing a nice IPA or session lager to mull over with mates, the pints taste like crap anyway (and are far too cold), I don't think them being sat out for 30 minutes will make a blind bit of difference.

Just to add another vote for raising the queues issue. If you go down to the concourse when the HT whistle blows, it is a guarantee that you won't be served until after the second half starts. That's in the JW upper. It ruins the atmosphere, people have to head down there on 30/35 mins. Not only that, the club are throwing thousands away every home game (assuming they take a cut). Literally all it will take to resolve it is for someone to be pouring pints during the first half. Or use the 9 tap thing that was just gathering dust at the back of the kiosks. Same issue outside before the game too. Queuing for 15 mins plus is an expectation for me, and has been for years.

I feel exactly the same. Apart from 10 mins after half time, we gave as good as (if not more) than we got. That's no mean feat being a man light for 80 mins or so. Probably our best performance of the season so far for me. Also, how many managers bring two strikers on at 0-0 with 10 men? Or have one of their CBs make lung-busting runs into the opposition box at 1-1? Might have done for us in the end, but it was brilliant to watch. To paraphrase the man himself, they played with real bravery.

IIRC Dunn broke through in the relegation season, but Duff came through the season before and was already first choice on the left by the time Dunn started getting games, with Wilcox moving to LB. On Jones, it was immediately obvious he was destined for the top, until Wharton has proved he can do it against top opposition, there's still a question mark. Signs are good for AW and hopefully he stays long enough to be remembered fondly. Jones left a season too early, but in retrospect he might have known how dodgy his knees were and thought it was too much of a risk not to go when he did.