I’ve never had much time for Elliott from his LT reporting. However, to be fair, this is a really decent podcast in which both contributors don’t hold back and highlight the shit show of the Club’s leadership and the disrespect being shown to Eustace and all Blackburn Rovers fans. Well done Elliott 👏

I understand what you’re saying and to some degree share the frustration that Eustace doesn’t call a spade, a spade or call them out quite as enthusiastically as JDT. However, on balance, I think he is probably going about it the right way, fighting it on the inside, whilst trying to keep morale up and hoping that things change.

If they don’t step up and show the slightest bit of ambition, bringing in some signings that people consider reasonable or stretching it I know, decent or even exciting. Then, I think it will probably be the lowest home fans attendance for this fixture, for many a year.

He is a left back but to be fair to the lad, he has shown more out wide in an offensive sense, especially when chasing games, than Hedges / Dolan or any other ‘winger’ on the books.

Perhaps you can stay at home tomorrow, Mark 🤔 Albeit, If Jim MK2 decides to make the trip, we are doomed anyway 😄

I know we got a good result and are still in the cup but I do think that Eustace made a mistake playing Tronstad at the Riverside. We just couldn’t afford to risk him, so important he is and so poor the options.

Thanks for that, better than I recall then.

Ronnie Hildersley and Paul Shepstone. Ronnie was 5-4 but surprisingly, as I seem to remember him being tiny, Shep reported at 5-8 on wiki !

We have a dreadful record at Ashton Gate, remember last year's fiasco ! Unlikely to get anything and so I would be keeping Travis and others with knocks out in readiness for Knob End, at home, who we also have a terrible record against !

To team up with his fellow Brazilian, Ronaldinhio 😁

If this window goes like we all expect, then it is time to drive this one out of our club.

Not heard anything from Mercer for months, I do hope the lad is ok and happily picking up his big wins and enjoying the fine dining and wines in the Ribble Valley. Very unusual that he hasn’t posted predicting easy wins and I hope he is posting such rubbish again, soon.

Hasn’t Al Hamadi gone to WBA on loan ?

Spot on !

So the 20th January, matches and opportunities to collect points passing by the day/week and still not even a murmur of getting a decent offensive signing into the club. The only thing we really have to mull over, is Unleaded’s confirmation that O’Riordan will be going back to Crewe and that we are trying to get others out the door 🙈 If they don’t bring in decent players to support the HC/ Manager, when somehow he has us in the play off position, like JDT and Mowbray did in recent years, the few thousand of us remaining and the stay aways need to be going over the top and taking our club back.

I’ve never had an employment contract which didn’t allow me to leave with due notice, my guess is that Eustace will probably have a 12 month notice period.

The manager wanted him and rates him, that’s enough for me.

Because the Manager working miracles to have us in the play off places and who has worked with him before, badly wanted him. Dembele has unquestionable talent and pace and Eustace knows what he needs to improve Blackburn Rovers.

The manager wanted Dembele, he was available for next to nothing but he ended up at Oxford United. That really tells us everything about the way this club is still being run !

Yes, that one is definitely on Beck, face the ball and I think he prevents the deflection and the goal.

Bit bizarre as he is probably the quickest we have, perhaps Beck aside. We all know this team is about as slow as can be, been the same for a number of years, crying out for some genuine pace out wide / up front.

I think he got rewarded again with a new contract on promotion last season. If I remember correctly, our reported interest was in summer 2023 when it looked like he was definitely going and it was a surprise when it was announced that he had signed another contract.

We were heavily linked with him before he signed his new contract and then played a key part in their promotion. Would have been a good, well priced buy.

Yep, we need to keep it in perspective as we are somehow still sitting in play off place and even the most optimistic, even Chaddy, wouldn’t have foreseen that. I hope Eustace sticks with us and that they eventually back him, although already 3 weeks late ! It would be more than foolish to lose two good, young, ambitious and aspirational managers that could have delivered a play off place.

If Jim MK2 has travelled, we were on a hiding to nothing 😕