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I had been expecting Gueye to be sold almost immediately. Suggests that either the planning for the window was incomplete or everything has gone tits up on the plans they did have. Probably most realistic assessment is things had been planned but those plans are in the bin following the Pasha trip to Pune and we are signing Akron for £3m.

Would like to see Valentin Joseph get a game.

Having seen a bit of Wolves recently I am going to jinx them by saying they have a chance at staying up. Their problem is the likes of Forest and Bournemouth whom they would need to catch have excellent players and squads. James Hill is playing well at Bournemouth.

The reason I am not pressing to get rid. Having seen is getting sacked by 3 ambitious managers in a decade, it would be impossible to attract the likes of JE and JDT now and indeed Gested and Pasha wouldn't appoint anyone with the personality and clout to do what they did. Ismael is a least worst option who would undoubtedly be replaced by worse

We are down if we start failing to raise our game against the top sides in the division. Based on the season so far we are as likely to get something from the trip to Ipswich as we are to drop points home to Wednesday. There is also the risk now of yet more injuries and suspensions to add to the ten absentees before any of those come back. Overall we are not quite the most obvious fellow travellers in distress with Wednesday but have made ourselves vulnerable to being so. Without the youngsters coming through the way they have which is the unexpected bonus of this season we would have been dead and buried. Getting to 51 points seems a hell of a long way away.

Incidentally I expect Toth tips the header over rather than let it rebound for a tap in as Pears did. Hopefully Toth is back in the FA Cup at Hull then keeps his place.

After two horrendous no energy performances we dramatically improved to mediocre but at least we ran around with purpose. Highlights were two nicely taken goals by Baradji plus none of the youngsters embarrassed themselves. Atchison looked very decent again. Ref was his usual garbage self. We probably should have had a penalty looking at it from a different angle to the one the ref saw it from and equally a different angle camera shows Pickering avoiding contact for the penalty that was given. Another one for Ismael's long list. At least we didn't lose which was the most important requirement of the day.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7fed978f-fcf3-4a99-b0c1-a4f4cd9f44c8 That was the culmination of about 8 years of fighting. A former trustee directly responsible for Rovers also brought and won a case against the Trust over non-payment of fees.

The Walker Family was at war with each and against their advisors in the High Court. Rovers were just a cash absorbing chattel to the family members. Some Trustees. John Williams and Tom Finn were absolute heroes in those sad circumstances but any concept of strategic thinking and planning was totally binned in those black days.

So here we are less than 50 hours from a home game at the end of the New Year holidays and no thread. The Wrexham and Sheffield Wednesday "performances" were so bad the Blackburn jury has rung in sick - or is too apathetic to even pick up the mobile. After showing signs of life, Rovers have turned in two absolute horror shows of no energy rubbish rivalled only by the horror show offered up in the 3-0 defeat at.. Charlton. After being depressed beyond description I ventured to watch the second half of Charlton v Coventry and to depress us even further, Charlton should have got a similar scoreline in their favour as they did against us. Coventry got very lucky as Charlton overran them in the way they did to us at the Valley early in the season. Having said that, Kaminsky was outstanding the couple of times he needed to be involved (twice more than against us), Ama'ari Bell was a rock against Hadji Wright and Sims while MoM and goal scorer was JRC who had the sort of sensational game he used to have for us every so often. Oh boy, are we going to have our transfer dealings rubbed into the Ewood mud on Sunday! Impossible to see anything except a really humiliating defeat.

I have a lot of interaction with India and their confidence and optimism about the country is enormous. In dollar terms Indian GDP is about 10% bigger than the UK now and accelerating away. On purchasing power parity India is 4 times bigger than the UK which in practical terms means over 300 million middle class Indians have a quality of life better than middle class Blackburnians.

They are not going. Pune might be a city of 5 million but in reality it is a village of a few billionaire families who watch each other like hawks with petty jealousy. That is the millieu that matters to our owners. Any embarrassment at relegation or forking out £20m per year is long gone. Instead in Pune and indeed in India they are the only family living there who have outright control of an English football club and in a town where Empire was most visible in causing distress in India. (Why else did Gandhi come to Darwen?). Not being in the Premier League doesn't matter and in fact I am convinced the Premier League was the only sports body ever to call them to account no matter how half heartedly. There would have been hell to pay if Kean hadn't achieved the objective of getting us relegated when he did. The loss of face in divestment of Rovers would be far far more painful for them than the current pergatory.

It is the repeated misjudgements and cock ups which are so draining. I get that he is here for damage limitation for the Raos but he is a one man demolition derby of balls ups. Not fit for purpose for them, for the business, for the football, for the town, for the fans, for anyone.

Oh dear- the lack of energy and drive at Sheffield limped on to today. Surely Toth saves the first Wrexham goal. We are deep in the poo.

Very exposed. The only game kicking off before 3pm anywhere. Lets see if Rovers TV are allowed to show it. Wrexham will force a higher energy performance from us than we put on at Hillsborough- either that or we get utterly humiliated.